Asghar Ali Engineer
A FEW days ago I read in a newspaper based in Lucknow that a Muslim lady, about 50 years old and head of a Muslim...
Published 17 Apr, 2009 12:00am
But first the one in the English-language daily. This report was based on interviews with young madressah-going girl...
Published 03 Apr, 2009 12:00am
Are we heading for a future which turns back the clock on all the progress made in the past millennium? - AFP/File...
Published 03 Apr, 2009 12:00am
ON the occasion of Miladun Nabi recently, the ulema showed their skills of oratory saying that Islam is the solution...
Published 20 Mar, 2009 12:00am
SINCE most Muslim countries have authoritarian governments, it has become part of the academic discourse that Islam...
Published 20 Feb, 2009 12:00am
MANY of our ulema and theologians usually claim that Islam has given the highest position to women, but having said...
Published 30 Jan, 2009 12:00am
The recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai have revived the question as to whether such strikes can be held permissible...
Published 12 Dec, 2008 12:00am
MUSLIMS in India had for long been protesting against the use of the term Islamic terrorists. Now the term Hindu...
Published 15 Nov, 2008 12:00am
WHEN the Indian parliament recently passed a law prescribing punishment for men beating up their women, the ...
Published 14 Nov, 2008 12:00am
THE question of women`s rights in Islam has become more pertinent in our time because literacy and higher education...
Published 31 Oct, 2008 12:00am
THE question of women`s rights in Islam has become more pertinent in our time because literacy and higher education...
Published 31 Oct, 2008 12:00am
THERE is always a big gap between theory and practice, theology and history. Indian constitution, no doubt, is one ...
Published 18 Oct, 2008 12:00am
If someone asks me which is the most gender-just religion in the world, I would unhesitatingly say `Islam`. However,...
Published 05 Sep, 2008 12:00am
