To understand Islam, we need to understand its major divisions, Sunni and Shiite. One way to start is to grasp the dueling significances of a major Islamic holiday, Ashura, coming up next Saturday ...

ISLAM its MEANING and MESSAGE by KHURSHID AHMAD Professor Khurshid Ahmad, Chairman of the Islamic Foundation, U.K. and the Institute of Policy Studies, Islamabad, Pakistan, holds a Masters in ...

The literature demonstrates that while Islam's initial orientation was markedly egalitarian in both religious and social terms, the social aspect of this egalitarianism was soon undermined in the ...