Despite concerns over the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the Middle East, little attention has been devoted to the growing number of Muslim scholars, academics, and intelle...
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https://selfscholar.wordpress.com/2013/03/24/nuclear-weapons-in-iranian-religious-discourse/
Please read the new and updated version of this report, published in February 2014 with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. I remember when I wanted to start the application process, m...
ويكره للنساء الحرائر الشباب أن يكون سكناهن في الغرف الشارعات، ويكره لهن تعلم الكتابة، وقراءة الكتب It is hated f...
https://selfscholar.wordpress.com/2013/02/08/female-education-a-view-from-early-islam/
Blasphemy is the perceived reproach, insult, or degradation — whether verbally, written, or through art — of God, or historical religious figures. In the Middle East, a complex legal web exis...
https://selfscholar.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/blasphemy-laws-in-the-middle-east/
As far as religion goes, I am more attached to Islam and deep in myself, I feel the need to follow the laws that God sent the Prophet Muhammad…but in a way I am more moderate. I accept everyone...
https://selfscholar.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/islam-tolerance-and-globalization/
While the contentions between Islamic law, tolerance and pluralism, and human rights are debated today — these questions have never been absent from Muslim scholarship or consciousness. Indeed...
https://selfscholar.wordpress.com/2012/11/19/a-fiqh-of-tolerance-readings-from-the-hanafi-madhab/
This post sets out of prove that — contrary to some popular assertions — according to the Hanafi school of Islamic law, women are not obligated to cover their faces in public, and there is ...
https://selfscholar.wordpress.com/2012/11/12/reflections-on-the-hijab-in-islamic-law/
While Libya is in the midst of drafting a new constitution, and therefore the State’s posture towards religion and freedom of belief is not yet known — Libya’s penal code, incepted under Ki...
https://selfscholar.wordpress.com/2012/10/12/libyas-blasphemy-law/
While Qatar made positive headlines in 2008 with the opening of its first officially sanctioned church, freedom of worship for religious minorities, and expatriate or guest worker communities, is...
https://selfscholar.wordpress.com/2012/10/04/religious-freedom-in-qatar/