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Let Afghans lead the way out of their own political impasse

Let Afghans lead the way out of their own political impasse
On Oct 15, 2022 the Afghan Taliban ruler, Mulla Hibatullah Akhundzada, sent another message from his headquarters in Kandahar to…
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Taliban reneges on inclusive govt pledge with Sharia decree for Afghanistan

Taliban reneges on inclusive govt pledge with Sharia decree for Afghanistan
On Oct 15, 2022 the Afghan Taliban ruler, Mulla Hibatullah Akhundzada, sent another message from his headquarters in Kandahar to…
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Taliban's Grand Assembly a disappointment

Taliban's Grand Assembly a disappointment
The meeting of some 3,000 religious leaders from across Afghanistan in Kabul on July 1-3 ended with an 11-item resolution that…
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Nuzul Quran an incentive for Muslims to engage in prayer, supplication

Nuzul Quran an incentive for Muslims to engage in prayer, supplication
QURAN (lit. a reader) is the name that occurs in the Holy Book itself (al-Qiyamah, 75:17), but the Quran also…
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The Taliban have not changed

The Taliban have not changed
The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan's ban on secondary education for girls announced on March 23 backtracked their earlier statement on…
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Lack of recognition haunts Taliban

Lack of recognition haunts Taliban
EVENTS are still unfolding but expectations are already dampened by the Taliban's performance in government after four months in power.…
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What Do We Owe to Our Fellow Human Beings: Ihsan

What Do We Owe to Our Fellow Human Beings: Ihsan
Many of Islam’s leading principles are premised on the idea of the responsibility, individual or collective, of the faithful to…
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Islamic history shows how to deal with health threats

Islamic history shows how to deal with health threats
The Quran does not mention any plague (ta'un) by name, but makes references to destructions of bygone people, adding also…
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Unified currency for Muslim countries

Unified currency for Muslim countries
Leaders of Malaysia, Turkey and Iran spoke at the inaugural session of the four-day summit on Dec 19, last year,…
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Fresh interpretation needed

Fresh interpretation needed
It may be said at the outset that in discussing haj related issues, one runs the risk of touching on public…
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Fighting Corruption: An Islamic Perspective

Fighting Corruption: An Islamic Perspective
Due to the numerous forms it can take, corruption escapes the idea of a comprehensive definition. It knows no boundaries, applies…
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Death penalty under criminal law and syariah

Death penalty under criminal law and syariah
Following the United Nations General Assembly’s call in June 2007 for the abolition of the death penalty on the grounds…
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Principles and Philosophy of Punishment in Islamic Law with Special Reference to Malaysia

Principles and Philosophy of Punishment in Islamic Law with Special Reference to Malaysia
This article advances the theme that the conventional fiqhi articulations of the prescribed hudud punishments show inconsistency with the Quran…
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Tayyib and Fitrah: Food and Salvation

Tayyib and Fitrah: Food and Salvation
Tayyib is often used in juxtaposition with halal and often as synonymous with it. But a less well-known aspect of…
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Female genital mutilation forbidden in Islam

Female genital mutilation forbidden in Islam
Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting and female circumcision, is the removal of some or all…
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Was the public caning justified?

Was the public caning justified?
Ever since the Sept 3 news of public caning of two women for lesbianism (musahaqah, also sihaq, tribadism) by the…
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Sustainability from Islamic perspective

Sustainability from Islamic perspective
We know that moderation (wasatiyyah) is a major Islamic principle and way of life by the clear affirmation of the…
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Lets Read the Quran in the language you best understand (in Bahasa Malaysia)

Lets Read the Quran in the language you best understand (in Bahasa Malaysia)
Setiap orang pastinya mengingati pengalaman terawal mereka dengan Al-Quran.  Bagi Prof. Mohammad Hashim, pengalaman terawalnya dengan Al-Quran adalah bersama Allahyarham…
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Al-Azhar stands for moderation of thought

Al-Azhar stands for moderation of thought
AL-AZHAR is the oldest and largest institution of higher learning in the Islamic world with over half a million students…
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Actualisation (Taf’il) of the Higher Purposes (Maqasid) of Shariah

Actualisation (Taf’il) of the Higher Purposes (Maqasid) of Shariah
The higher purposes, or maqasid, of Shariah are applied and actualised through their means (wasail). Since the maqasid are not…
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Human dignity in Islam and its impact on society

Islamic history has witnessed varying patterns of Muslim-non-Muslim relations, and contemporary Muslim societies are also seeing occasional lapses into negative…
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The Shar’iah Purpose of Wealth Preservation in Contracts and Transactions

The Shar’iah Purpose of Wealth Preservation in Contracts and Transactions
This article is presented in two parts, the first of which reviews both the preservation of wealth (hifz al-mal) as…
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Human Benefits: Science and technology in Islam

  Questions have been asked on how Islam relates to science and technology. We respond to this from the perspective…
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Terrorism, Banditry and Hirabah: Advancing New Shariah Perspectives

Terrorism, Banditry and Hirabah: Advancing New Shariah Perspectives
Hirabah is the nearest Shariah legal concept to terrorism. Modern technological change, however, has altered the nature of this crime…
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A Quranic perspective on thinking

The Quran repeatedly invites its readers to think about the signs of God in the universe and within themselves, and…
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Organ, blood donation acts of great merit

The permissibility in Islam of organ and tissue transplant and blood donation is supposed to be a settled issue here…
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International Best Book of the Year Award

Tehran, February 7, 2017- The Middle Path of Moderation in Islam: The Qur’anic Principle of Wasatiyyah was named as the…
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Religion not the root cause of conflicts

Mainstream media tend to associate extremism and terrorism with Islam, but evidence shows otherwise. The root causes of most present-day…
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Islam and sustainable growth

    Sustainable development (SD) gained traction in the 1960s due to heightened apprehensions over crucial issues of human survival.…
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Salafism, Wahhabism and Radical Islam

Salafism, Wahhabism and Radical Islam
Although the term 'Salafism' has sometimes been applied to certain nineteenthto twentieth-century Islamic modernist thinkers, including the Egyptian Grand Mufti…
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Moderation in Fatwa and Ijtihad: Juristic and Historical Perspectives

Moderation in Fatwa and Ijtihad: Juristic and Historical Perspectives
This article jointly explores the various dimensions of fatwa and ijtihad, notwithstanding the former being our main theme. The two…
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Peace in the Islamic Tradition: One Vision, Multiple Pathways

Peace in the Islamic Tradition: One Vision, Multiple Pathways
This article begins by looking at peace as a theological principle, before proceeding to explore peace from various other angles,…
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The Indicators of Wasatiyyah or Moderation in Islam

The Indicators of Wasatiyyah or Moderation in Islam
I will begin by posing a question: Are there any indicators to tell us that Islam anchors itself in the…
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Islam and Sustainable Development

Islam and Sustainable Development
Islam's perspective on sustainable development arises from its vision of a moral economy and society, which may, in turn, be…
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Jurisprudence of Minorities (Fiqh Al-Aqaliyyat) Revisited

Jurisprudence of Minorities (Fiqh Al-Aqaliyyat) Revisited
In an earlier issue of this journal I introduced the jurisprudence of minorities as being in many ways a new…
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Amnesty and Pardon in Islamic Law with Special Reference to Post-Conflict Justice

Amnesty and Pardon in Islamic Law with Special Reference to Post-Conflict Justice
The subject before us has acquired renewed significance in the aftermath of the September 2001 terrorist attacks, the tumult and…
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Women in the Workplace: Shari'ah and Contemporary Perspectives

Women in the Workplace: Shari'ah and Contemporary Perspectives
An attempt is made in the following pages to expound Shari'ah positions on women's right to work and her freedom…
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Shariah Regulations and Contemporary Reforms of Waqf

The paper I have prepared is entitled: ‘Shariah Regulations in Contemporary Reforms of Waqf’ and I have focused mainly on…
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Public Policy in Islam: Exploring Synergies Between Siyasah Shariyyah and Maqasid al-Shari’ah

Siyasah Shar’iyyah is the nearest equivalent of public policy, with one difference perhaps, which is that the Islamic notion of…
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What Everyone Needs to Know about Shariah Featured

The information on Shariah provided in this paper is organized in 52 pages and eight sections, all in question and…
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Extremism, Terrorism and Islam: Juristic and historical perspectives

In this two-part series on 'Extremism, Terrorism and Islam: Juristic and historical perspectives', Mohammad Hashim Kamali, founding CEO of IAIS…
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The Relationship Between Executive and Parliament and the Problem of Constitutional Interpretation and Adjudication During the Karzai Years Featured

This article advances an enquiry into President Hamid Karzai’s (r. 2001-2014) constitutional legacy with special reference to relations between the…
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Interview: Afghanistan's Prospective 'Unity' Government: A Test for the Constitution

The plan for a “unity government” in Afghanistan that includes both of the top presidential candidates will test the integrity…
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The Right to Personal Safety and the Principle of Legality in the Shariah

The Right to Personal Safety and the Principle of Legality in the Shariah
This is a somewhat revised version of a paper presented at the International Conference on Islamic Criminal Judicial Prodecure organized…
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Islam, Rationality and Science

Introduction The debate over the compatibility of Islam and science still continues to invoke responses from basically two opposite camps:…
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Viewpoints: Bribery and Corruption from a Shariah Perspective

Viewpoints: Bribery and Corruption from a Shariah Perspective
 The on-going campaign Malaysia is waging against corruption has gained momentum. Tunku Abdul Aziz called it an “All-Malaysian duty” in…
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Of God's Many names and the Use of 'Allah'

'Allah' is the Arabic equivalent of 'God'. And the two words have been used synonymously by all people throughout the…
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Ethics and Finance: Perspectives of the Sharī'ah and Its Higher Objectives

Ethics and Finance: Perspectives of the Sharī'ah and Its Higher Objectives
Abstract This article begins with the ethical foundations of Islam that are relevant to commercial transactions- much of which strikes…
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VIEWPOINTS: Afghanistan’s Peace Talks Stalling for Lack of Initiative

Introduction In recent months Kabul, Washington and the Taliban have made overtures to work out a negotiated settlement for Afghanistan…
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Viewpoints: Exploring Facets of Islam on Security and Peace: Amnesty and Pardon in Islamic Law

Viewpoints: Exploring Facets of Islam on Security and Peace: Amnesty and Pardon in Islamic Law
Amnesty, pardon, and forgiveness are the means, in Islamic theology and law, as in most other world traditions, of relieving…
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Qiyas (Analogy)

The Encyclopedia of Religion, Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, 1987, Vol 12, pp 128-30.
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Have we Neglected the Shariah Law Doctrine of Maslahah

Islamic Studies, Vol. 27 (1988), pp 287-305.
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The Approved and Disapproved Varieties of Ra'y (Personal Opinion) in Islam

The Approved and Disapproved Varieties of Ra'y (Personal Opinion) in Islam
Abstract While Islam emphasizes confirmity to the direction of the Qur'an and Sunnah, one finds in the same sources a…
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Divorce And Women's Rights: Should Women have Equal Rights

The traditional Islamic law of divorce has undergone considerable change in almost all Muslim countries during twentieth century. These reforms…
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Fiqhi Issues in Commodity Futures

ed. by Munawar Iqbal and Tariqullah Khan, Financial Engineering and Islamic Contracts, NY: Palgraves (2005), pp 20-57.
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