By LIZ GOOCH / NY Times Some political commentators say the show's popularity reflects the increasing Islamization of this Muslim-majority nation of 28 million.

Categories: Malaysia  Islam  The Ulema  al-Qur'an  Reality TV  

Added: July 29, 2010

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By Asghar Ali Engineer / Institute of Islamic Studies, Mumbai In fact what our ulama call shar'i hudud were fixed by men who considered women as secondary to men and unequal in status due to cultural attitude towards women in the medieval era. The whole fiqh has to be thoroughly revised in keeping with the true spirit of Qur'an.

Categories: Fatwa  Islam  al-Qur'an  The Ulema  Gender  

Added: May 25, 2010

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By Kashif-ul-Huda / TwoCircles.net At least once every year, on a slow news day, some enterprising journalist finds a fatwa that will fit the stereotype about Muslims being backward or Muslim scholars being ignorant or out of touch with the real world or all of the above reasons, and will publish a news story based on this 'prized' fatwa.

Categories: Fatwa  Islam  Muslims  Media  Misconceptions  The Ulema  

Added: May 17, 2010

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By Asghar Ali Engineer /Csss-isla.com These ulama are not allowing even modernizing of madrasas which can also become another valuable vehicle for spreading modern education along with religious education. There is hardly any taker for modernizing of madrasas among the traditional ulama. Thus all the valuable resources of the community stand blocked.

Categories: Zakaah  Islam  The Ulema  Madrasas  Education  

Added: May 14, 2010

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By Farzana Versey /Countercurrents.org What is worse - the Dar-ul Uloom Deoband's decree that a woman's earnings are illegal because according to the Sharia her working among males is wrong or the Allahabad high court ruling that a non-Muslim bride must convert to Islam to marry a Muslim? In both instances Islam is used to denigrate the position of women.

Categories: Islam  Gender  The Ulema  Discrimination  Muslim Women  

Added: May 13, 2010

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By Asghar Ali Engineer /Countercurrents.org Our attention must now shift from ‘jihad' to ‘ijtihad', which means to strive intellectually to comprehend problems facing the Islamic world and find their solutions in keeping with the basic principles and values enshrined in the Quran. Ijtihad has been called by many scholars, including Allama Iqbal, the dynamic spirit of Islam and Islamic law.

Categories: Ijtihad  Jihad  History  The Ulema  Terrorism  

Added: April 27, 2010

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By Maulana Waris Mazhari /Translated from Urdu by Yoginder Sikand/Noor Mohammad Sikand The ulema once provided moral leadership to Muslim society, playing a central role in its formation and reformation. They were meant to be the true guides of the community, in accordance with the well-known saying of the Prophet Muhammad: ‘The ulema are the inheritors of the prophets' (al-ulemao warasat al-anbiya).

Categories: Islam  Faith  Moderation  The Ulema  

Added: April 20, 2010

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