By Negar Azimi /NY Times In trying to make Islam relevant to youth, 4Shbab is part of a recent trend that, from Cairo to Kuala Lumpur, has inspired restaurants with Islamic themes, Islamic entertainment centers and even Islamic water parks and beaches.

Categories: Islam  Youth  Egypt  Music  Modernity  

Added: August 13, 2010

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By DAN BILEFSKY / NY Times Turkey's blend of conservative Islam and cosmopolitan democracy is increasingly viewed as a model in the younger generation. Turkish soap operas and films are attaining cult status, while "Made in Turkey" labels near the cachet of Paris or Milan.

Categories: Turkey  Syria  Modernity  Islam  Democracy  

Added: July 26, 2010

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By Philip Lim /AFP Aimed at "cosmopolitan Muslim women" in Asia, a new magazine is focusing on readers' lifestyles rather than religion

Categories: Gender  Lifestyle  Media  Malaysia  Indonesia  Modernity  

Added: June 28, 2010

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By Asma Uddin / altmuslim.com Omid Safi's book Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters digs back into memories of Muhammad, upon whom be peace, in order to revive the larger message of socially conscious action, the traditions constructed around it, and the call to embrace Islam through refined character.

Categories: Book Review  The Prophet Muhammad upon whom be peace  Islam  Pluralism  Modernity  

Added: February 08, 2010

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By Yoginder Sikand / saldwr In this interview with Yoginder Sikand, Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, a well-known Egyptian scholar, speaks about his work and reflects on his efforts to promote a humanistic reading of the Islamic tradition.

Categories: Interview  Islam  al-Qur'an  Ijtihad  Modernity  Islamic Tradition  

Added: January 23, 2010

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By Nadeem F. Paracha / The Dawn Political Islam suffered from its overindulgence in an unpopular and puritanical theological feast that came attached with the patronage it got from conservative Muslim monarchies and dictatorships. By the early 1990s, it was as good as dead

Categories: Pakistan  Politics  Islam  Modernity  Sufism  

Added: January 02, 2010

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By Farish A. Noor Today Muslim women pose and are posing a challenge to the way in which all Muslims view their lives and conduct their religiosity in the public domain. It goes without saying that this process of change was initiated by forces outside our control, and driven as much by the workings of capital and the market as it is part of the historical development of many postcolonial Muslim societies all across Asia and beyond.

Categories: Islam  Modernity  Gender Equality  Civilizations  Malaysia  

Added: November 26, 2009

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By Shahed Amanullah /altmuslim.com Asra Nomani, deserves credit for bringing light to the issue of gender inequity in American mosques. But since there is widespread agreement among Muslim leaders for the need for change, is Nomani's approach the best way to create it?

Categories: Gender  Gender Equality  Mosque  Muslims in the US  Modernity  

Added: June 18, 2009

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By Ibrahim Kalin

Guenon's writings span a wide array of subjects from metaphysics and symbolism to the critique of the modern world and traditional sciences. One of the constant themes of his corpus is the sharp contrast between the traditional worldview shared by various religions of the world and modernism, which he considered to be an anomaly in the history of mankind.

Categories: Islam  Modernity  Muslim Civilization  People  Sufism  Traditional Sceinces  

Added: May 25, 2009

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By Asghar Ali Engineer / Secular Perspective Rethinking Muslim personal law as prevalent in India is certainly not to violate divine injunctions as often maintained by some people but to bring in much closer to divine injunctions i.e. to infuse in them really divine spirit. Well it may not always be possible to achieve complete unanimity but certainly we will attempt to create a broad consensus around codification so that Muslims women really enjoy equal status as they are entitled to according to Qur'anic injunctions and also in accordance to modern laws.

Categories: Islam  Ijtihad  Shariah  Modernity  Muslims in India  

Added: May 02, 2009

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