The issue of triple talaq is a very sensitive one. On the one hand are traditionalist Muslim scholars who wrongly regard even the slightest deviation from the opinion of their school as unlawful. On the other hand are thousands of Muslim women whose lives are being destroyed under the evil effects of a particular method…
Recently released census 2011 data shows, Muslim women have a higher divorce rate of 5 per 100 compared to 2-3 per thousand for Hindus, Sikhs and Jains. Christians have the highest rate of unmarried persons of marriageable age. By Subodh Varma Divorce and separation rates are higher among Christians and Buddhists, and lowest among Jains,…
I have lost a good amount of friends because of my efforts in shedding a positive light on Islam and Prophet Muhammad. Fraternity brothers who do not share my political beliefs have de-friended me on Facebook By Craig Considine Never in my wildest imagination did I ever think I would become a scholar focusing on…
Interview: Iranian Sunni Leader Nazir Salaami By Abdul Bari Masoud New Delhi: Asserting that there is no discrimination against Sunnis in Iran, Maulana Nazir Ahmad Salaami, who is the lone Sunni member of the influential religious body ‘Majlis-e- Khabargaan Rehbari’, i.e., Guidance Council, said the majority Shias and the minority Sunnis were living in peace…
Adis Duderija was born in Bosnia in 1977. He is currently lecturing at the University of Malaya, Malaysia. He received his Ph.D. in 2010 from the University of Western Australia in contemporary Islamic hermeneutics. He has written extensively on issues related to Islam and Muslims. He also maintains a blog: adisduderija.blogspot.com In this interview with…
“If I attend an interfaith dialogue with a person of another faith, but in my heart I am convinced (even if I do not say it out loud) that this other person is going to hell and that I must save him or her by converting him to my faith, then I am not engaging…
Interview with Syed Hamid Mohsin By A Staff Writer Salaam Centre was set up by Syed Hamid Mohsin in 2008 in Bangalore. It aimed at taking the message of Islam in plain words to non-Muslims and remove their misgivings. It launched the “Quran for All” campaign soon after it was set up. The campaign was…
Khawaja Ekramuddin, Chairman, NCPUL National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language (NCPUL), an autonomous body under the Union Ministry of Human Resources of Government of India has come a long way ever since it took birth under its former avatar as Taraqqi e Urdu Bureau in 1978. It was in 1997 that it was rechristened…
Founder of the New Delhi-based Centre for Peace and Spirituality, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is one of India’s best-known religious scholars and an active proponent of inter-community dialogue. In this interview with Yoginder Sikand, he reflects on issues to do with ongoing debates about ‘modern’ education and what these mean for our understandings of religion and…
A tete-a-tete with Anna Hazare fails to impress the Urdu scribes in the Capital. By Abdul Bari Masoud New Delhi: Social activist Anna Hazarae miserably failed to impress the Urdu journalists as he was evasive on minority issues. In a bid to garner the support of the Muslim community to his ‘Jan Chetna Morcha’, which…
