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Gender equality
The issue of women’s rights in Islam is a key arena of the debate between traditionalists and …
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The nature of law and morality
(Abridged from The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists) The law plays a central role in…
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Islam and science
Science and Islam are intimately linked. Islam not only places a high premium on science but positiv…
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Islam and the West in a post Sept. 11 world
The Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washingto…
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History of Muslims in Britain: from Queen Elizabeth I to George I
The extensive research of Imtiaz Habib into the English archives has revealed tantalizing informatio…
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How the Western mind reads Islam
What does the average person in the West know about Islam? Not a lot! Generally people only know…
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Identity, Muslims and multiculturalism
Issues of identity and belonging have stimulated strong debates, so much that even Gordon Brown has …
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Is religion antithetical to modernity?
At times, I cannot help feeling as if there were something quaint, something vaguely archaic, about …
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Muslim engagement with British society in the 20th Century: the Woking Mosque
In the late 19th Century, a small mosque ‘of considerable beauty’ was built in the small…
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Pluralism and its implications for Muslims
“And indeed We have honoured the children of Adam…” (Quran, 17:70) “If your Lord…
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The significance of a 19th Century Muslim community in Liverpool
In 1887, a Liverpool solicitor converted to Islam after visiting North Africa. William Henry Quillia…
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