ENGLISH

Rethinking Issues in Islam

By Asghar Ali Engineer

Book information

Publisher
Orient Longman
Year
1998
ISBN
978 81 250 4627 1
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
840 kB (859896 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2021-06-10 15:16:17

Description

The book considers some of the stereotypes regarding Islamic and Quranic injunctions and re-examines them in the light of verses from the Quran and the Sharia. Some of these are Islamic views on non-muslim communities, tolerance, family planning, etc. For most of the seventy-one years of his life, Asghar Ali Engineer has been a tireless soldier to the cause of national integration and communal harmony. Well-known today as a reformist, an activist and Islamic scholar, Asghar Ali Engineer received the Right Livelihood, or the ‘Alternative Nobel’, award in 2004 ‘. . . for promoting over many years in South Asia the values of religious and communal co-existence, tolerance and mutual understanding’.

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