Women and their Legal Rights in Monotheistic Religions
Introduction Eve’s fault? Eve’s legacy Shameful daughters Female education Unclean and impure women Bearing witness Vows A wife’s…
Law
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Editorial (Issue 38)
During this time of uncertainty and tension, we should take a moment to remember religion’s central teaching: Do…
What is the spirit, and how does it affect us?
Q: What is the spirit, and how does it affect us? A: There are many worlds, among them those…
Victim Rights in Islam and Western Legal Systems: A Comparative Anlysis
1. Individual and society as victim While it is true that crimes committed against an individual usually affect…
Ma’ruf Al-Karkhi
His full name was Abu Mahfuz Ma’ruf b. Firuz al-Karkhi. According to the Shi’i imam ‘Ali b. Musa…
What a Falling Stone Means
The laws of physics are mathematical expressions of how the universe operates. The events taking place in the…
The World Wide Messianic Mission Attributed To Jesus Christ Toward the End of Time
Some of the first converts to Islam were subjected to the severest persecutions in Makka. They bore them…
International Law Today
In this article, I shall consider the impact on the earliest European writes on international law of al-siyar…
Fighting Terrorism
The principal players involved in terrorism and counter-terrorism are the state, the terrorists and the public. By the…
Human Rights Abuses and Islam
The ideology of Western civilization claims the concept of human rights as its invention. In fact, Islamic Law…
Right to Food
More than a billion human beings on this planet are chronically hungry: every 24 hours some 40,000 die…
Outer space: Mankind’s new frontier
It is barely three and a half decades since the Soviet Sputnik entered orbit in 1957. It was…
The stewardship ethic: A feasible solution for ecological crises
The reason that new and modified legislation to protect the environment fails to deal with the increasing number…
The Necessity of Religion
To understand the world and the spirit of man in it; to understand the nature and the worth…