Center for Studies in the Interpretation of Islam
The Centre’s writing on the interpretation of Islam and its intellectual questions.
Some people intend through their deeds only this immediate abode and worldly life. They confine their concern to it and fix their hearts upon its portions...
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The Council of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy, an organ of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, meeting in its sixteenth session in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, having…
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Rashid al-Ghannushi, leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda Party, wrote “Freedom in Islam”, published on Al Jazeera’s website on 11 October 2007. It revolves around distorting Islam’s concept of freedom,…
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On Saudi Airlines flight 265 returning to Amman on Monday, 27 Shawwal 1402 AH, a crew member gave me issue 42 of Al-Muslimun. An article entitled “Why Islam?”…
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I was saddened and troubled by Dr Abd al-Rahim ibn Sumayl al-Sulami’s published words entitled “Political Despotism.” It is chilling when someone claiming the Sunnah attacks a noble…
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The renowned writer Sayyid Qutb remains a leading figure for Islamic movements worldwide. Despite major differences in concepts and positions, activists continue to treat his books as fundamental…
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Why did God prescribe fasting? What is its reality, aim and purpose? What is the utilitarian interpretation of fasting? Is fasting a means to bodily, psychological and social…
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“The Day I Stopped Praying,” first published in the Saudi newspaper Al-Eqtisadiah, is the best-known article of Saudi writer, media figure and charitable worker Najeeb al-Zamil.
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A religious teacher, preacher or exhorter may make and elaborate a statement with good intentions, without noticing its dangerous results, corrupt implications or harmful effect on listeners.
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This introduction by Shaykh Muhammad Sa‘id al-Tantawi to Muhammad Asad’s “Foundations of Islamic Civilisation: A New Social Contract” is republished from University Mosque Tracts to help trace the…
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I know that saying the charity bazaar conflicts with Islamic creed will shock and seem objectionable to most readers. This transaction belongs to practical legal rulings, so what…
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Shaykh Shaltut said: “Islam was only a religion intended to manage people’s interests, achieve justice and preserve rights. It did not come to demolish everything people had, in…
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