Opinion & Features

Strategic Reality: The most damaging and long lasting division among the Islamic Community continues to be the Sunni–Shia schism, which has greatly intensified in bloodshed over the past decade and become entangled with regional and global geo-political agendas. The historical […]

A well-known Iranian cleric has expressed surprise at the stand taken by Malaysian religious bureaucrats on Shiism, and reminded them about a famous fatwa in 1959 by the late Mahmud Shaltut from Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, a fatwa which explicitly recognises […]

Setelah fenomena 11 September 2001, stigmatisasi negatif terhadap Islam semakin menguat. “The religion of terror” menjadi jargon para pihak, dengan pelbagai kepentingan. Indonesia sendiri berduka dengan adanya Bom Bali, pada 2002. Mayoritas para sarjana studi Islam dan masyarakat, menyibukkan diri […]

Lingga anakku, aku pernah berkisah tentang seorang perempuan yang luar biasa, perempuan yang mengajarkanku soal ketulusan, yang memberiku semangat untuk terus berkarya. Aku menjadi seorang yang engkau kenal hari ini tidak lepas dari celotehnya, celoteh tentang arti hidup yang tidak […]

The situation in Egypt gives much food for thought to us in Malaysia. Many Egyptians who voted in the recently deposed President Mohamed Morsi last year and thus accepted the prospect of greater Islamisation of government rejected it after they […]

By Farish A. Noor ISLAMIST DEMOCRACY: The Egyptian crisis raises deeper questions about religious politics THE toppling of president Mohamed Morsi and his Freedom and Justice Party in Egypt has raised a host of deep and difficult questions about the […]

Islam dan Kesejahteraan Sosial Terdapat perdebatan konsep gerakan sejarah seperti yang telah dihuraikan oleh Arnold Toynbee yang hanya memberi fokus penelitian kepada pengaruh alam sekitar tabii sebagai faktor utama yang menerangkan perubahan, begitu juga dihuraikan sebagaian pengaruh lain seperti aliran […]

APPEAL FOR PEACE: From the beginning, the divide has always been political rather than theological THE Muslim world, it must be remembered, does not exist in a vacuum or in a world without Others. Lest we forget, the developments in […]

MUSLIM scholars have differed in their assessment of democracy and constitutionalism from the viewpoint of Islamic principles. The view has gained ground, however, that a democratic system of rule is on the whole acceptable to Islam. This is because democracy […]

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