Articles
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Doing Good Deeds
by Oliver Ruebenacker
- Why a lack of good deeds leads to a failure of Muslims and the
Muslim world on many levels, including a failure to even
understand what God the Praised and Most High is telling us in
the Qur'an.
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The Enemies of Islam according to the Qur'an
by Reaz Islam
- A major misconception amongst some Muslims and some non Muslims
is that Islam is at war with all other religions and ways of
life. I wish to challenge this misconception by studying and
identifying the characteristics of the enemies of Islam as
described in the Quran.
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Free and Equal under the Qur'an
by Havva G. Guney-Ruebenacker
- Only with non-apologetic, rational and principled reformist Islamic
thought is it possible to deduce egalitarian and realistic Qur'anic
interpretations.
(Comment: This piece was written originally as an op-ed piece
to be published at the Wall Street Journal, in response to a piece
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali entitled "Unfree Under Islam" on Tuesday,
August 16, 2005. The WSJ, along with other papers, declined to
publish it without giving any reason. Their loss.)
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Islamic Law: An Ever-Evolving Science Under The Light of
Divine Revelation and Human Reason
by Havva G. Guney-Ruebenacker
- It is a matter of fact that each era in human history has its own
predominant logic and rational that manifests itself in the
philosophy, culture, art and law of that era. Islamic law is not
an exception.
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Traditionalist View on Sex Slavery
by Oliver A Ruebenacker
- Are great people immune to mistakes? The traditionalists among
today's Muslims not only believe that there can be no scholar
of Islam greater than those who lived several hundred years
ago, but they also insist that the teachings of the old
scholars need no substantial revisions. How problematic this
view is, becomes manifest in two areas: Slavery and treatment
of women. This article is about an ugly topic where those two
areas overlap: Concubinage or in more modern terms: Sex
slavery.
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What is Progressive Islam?
by Omid Safi
- The various understandings of Islam which fall under the rubric
of `progressive' are both continuations of, and radical
departures from, the hundred and fifty year old tradition of
liberal Islam. Liberal advocates of Islam generally display an
uncritical, almost devotional identification with modernity
[...] Progressive Muslims espouse a critical and
non-apologetic `multiple critique' with respect to both Islam
and modernity. They are undoubtedly postmodern in the sense of
their critical approach to modernity. That double engagement
with the varieties of Islam and modernity, plus an emphasis on
concrete social action and transformation, is the defining
characteristic of progressive Islam today.
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Progressive Chess
by Oliver A
Ruebenacker
- Welcome ot the town of Chessvile, where everything is about
chess. During their Golden Age, the people from Chessvile would
beat everybody in the game of chess. Today, most Chessvillians
do not even know the rules of the game, although they still
love chess more than anything else. This is how it happened,
and which role various movements played, such as
traditionalism, liberalism, libero-traditionalism and
progressivism.
