A survey of Muslim institutes of higher learning finds them lagging behind the rest of world when it comes to providing quality science and tech education. By Dr. Athar Osama and Prof. Nidhal Guessoum It is a well-known fact that 1.6 billion Muslims contribute a disproportionately smaller share to the world’s knowledge. This global community…
The character of faith is to recognise that love of God and fidelity to religion are manifested in kindness towards all humanity. By Shad Saleem Faruqi Differences of religion should not make people fight one another or commit aggression. Rather, people of different faiths should cooperate in doing good and warding off evil. It is…
Every possible effort should be exerted to highlight the true teachings of Islam regarding women rights and they must take precedence over the misogynist customs, patriarchal dominations and widely-spread bias against women. By Varsha Sharma The Qur’an (4:1) states: O mankind! Fear your Lord, who created you from a single soul. He created its mate…
Islam, after its first 100 years of expansion, spread through South Asia, Africa, and Southeast Asia largely through the work of Sufis who fed the poor, educated and inspired the masses. By Kabir Helminski Sufism is primarily a holistic discipline for human development, which has had an immense influence on the intellectual and political life…
It is not at all difficult to see why. ‘Anti-Muslimism’ and ‘Islamophobia’ have much to do with the views, attitudes and behaviour of significant numbers of Muslims themselves, who are themselves a major cause for ‘anti-Muslimism’ and ‘Islamophobia’ across the world today. By Wasim Khan Not long after it was announced that the former Indian…
Congress vastly improves position, yet far from the Mark Slight Rise in Muslim Representation By A Staff Writer Bengaluru: Reputation of the Congress Government in Karnataka took a beating as the BJP won the majority of seats in the Bangalore Mahanagar Palike (Bangalore Municipal Corporation) election held on August 22. The BJP won in 100…
By Mike Ghouse We reproduce below the speech by Mr. Mike Ghouse delivered at the International Conference on ‘Intellectual Crises of the Muslim Ummah: Rethinking Traditional Solutions’ held on April 6-7, 2015 at the Aligarh Muslim University. He sent us the script on request by Islamic Voice Has anything ever happened by itself? No matter…
On 30 April, 2015, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan was awarded the Sayyidina Imam Al Hassan Ibn Ali Peace Award at the Second Annual Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, held at Abu Dhabi. Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah, Chairman of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, presented the award to the Maulana at the…
Postponing social reform and progress in order to keep the millat united does not work in today’s age. By Usama Khalidi The subject of social reform is like a joke about bad weather in the West: Everybody talks about it, but no one does anything to improve it. Unfortunately, we all tend to think that…
New Delhi: Jamia Millia Islamia has been conferred the Visitor’s Award for Central Universities in the categories of ‘Best University’ for Innovation and research for the year 2015, by President of India, Pranab Kumar Mukherjee. The Award was received by Cosmology and Astrophysics Research Group, Centre for Theoretical Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia for path breaking…
