Moon Sighting and Calculations-1 Sticky

Topic: 
Islamic Calendar
Author: 
Dr. Muneer Fareed

In his paper An Islamic Legal Analysis of the Astronomical Determination of the Beginning of Ramadan Dr. Mukhtar Maghraoui succinctly does the following: 1-analyzes the various interpretations of the scriptural material pertinent to moon sighting; 2-analyzes the juridical arguments on moon-sighting; 3-and presents his own understanding of moon sighting in light of the overall objectives of Islamic law.[1] For the most part Maghraoui’s is a compelling argument against what he himself calls ‘unconditional astronomical calculation of the beginning of Ramadan’...

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The Astronomical Calculations: A Valid Method of Ramadan Affirmation Sticky

Topic: 
Islamic Calendar
Author: 
Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah

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People have landed upon the Moon and Muslims are still fighting about the moon sighting. Islamic Shari’ah is not static. It responds to people of all times and differing circumstances. Actual moon sighting is a mean to determine Ramadan and not an objective in itself. Islam requires certainty regarding the sacred timings...

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Prohibition of Dead Body's Transportation

Topic: 
Islamic Rulings: Fataawah
Author: 
Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah

The Prophet (SAW) never moved a dead body from one location to another; he buried the person in the graveyard of the locality where the person died. He never transported the dead bodies to Makkah or Madinah even if the person/persons passed away just a few miles away from these holy places. This was the practical model followed by the Sahabah (RA) during the time of the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs.

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Influence of Islamic Thought on Some Founding Fathers of America

Topic: 
Comparative Religion
Social Issues
Author: 
Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah

Islamic thought and sources have contributed both to the radical Enlightenment and early American Revolution. There is crystal clear historical evidence that many of the Founding Fathers of America were either “deists” or “Unitarians”. Both of these Enlightenment ideologies were directly influenced by Islamic thought through figures like Michael Servetus, Henry Stubbe, John Toland, Stephen Nye, John Biddle, Charles Blount, and movements such as Socinians. Some of the leading Founding Fathers were directly influenced by English thinkers such as John Lock, Isaac Newton and Thomas Hobbes who were in turn influenced by Islamic sciences, philosophy theology, political thinking and morality.

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The Quranic Concepts on Gender Relations

Topic: 
General Fiqh
Social Issues
Author: 
Dr. Zainab Alwani

The essence of the Islamic paradigm is grounded in the concept of tawhid, the Oneness and Uniqueness of God. The coherence of the central belief system in Islam is based on the relationship between the act of submission (to God) and its consequences in a state of peace. At the core of this relationship is the concept of tawhid (oneness of God), by virtue of which submission is transformed into a dynamic and ongoing act. That is the meaning of ‘ibada (devotion or worship[1]).

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Praises for the Book

Topic: 
Comparative Religion
Author: 
Dr. Zulfiqar Ali Shah

Scripture and God in the Judeo Christian and Islamic Traditions: A Study of Anthropomorphism is a masterful, thought-provoking, and insightful study by Zulfiqar Ali Shah of anthropomorphism in the conceptions of God in the Bible and the Quran that will be welcomed by scholars and students and all who are interested in the Abrahamic traditions.

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