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		<title>Appendix: Dialogue On The Nature of Islamic Da&#8217;wah</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Khurshid Ahmad opened the discussion of Dr. al-Faruqi's paper with the following prepared response. Some parts of a background paper he circulated at the consultation have also been incorporated in this final version. ]]></description>
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		<title>Islam and the Problem of Israel: The Emancipation and its Aftermath</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The revelation which came to Muhammad (SAAW) summoned reason to prove the thesis of Islam. It never asserted its truths in defiance of reason, nor did it ever seek to overwhelm the noetic function of the mind. On the contrary, it always sought to convince its audience in harmony and unity with reason. When the Mu'tazilah sought to give reason an edge over revelation, or the Murji'ah to give revelation an edge over reason, the Muslim mind demurred and held its original position tenaciously, namely, that no contradiction between reason and revelation is final; that no disparity between them is beyond overarching and composition by reconsidering the meanings of revelation which might have been misunderstood, or the conclusions of reason which might have gone astray. From al Ma'mun to al Mutawakkil (197-232 A.H./813-847 A.C.), the three decades of Mu'tazilah ascendency, the problem acquired crisis proportions and was then solved forever.]]></description>
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		<title>Islam and the Problem of Israel: Apercu of Jewish History in the Christian West Prior to the Emancipation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Christians understood, or misunderstood, the career of Jesus as one of a god sent down to earth to suffer the most ignominious death as an atonement and oblation for the sins of man. In consequence, they reinterpreted the whole history of the Jews as a propadeutic for this great event. If there is to be a crucifixion of a god, there had to be a historical situation in which a savior-god could be expected, accused to be the false savior, and then crucified. There had to be a religion, Judaism, which develops so as to reach the fossilized state of literal legalism, in which rabbis had plunged their faith in the "fullness of time," and into the context of which the god to be crucified could enact his reform and be prosecuted and condemned in the process. The whole of the Jewish past and present was reduced to the status of an instrument, complex and winding, but still an instrument, for the incarnation and crucifixion of Jesus.]]></description>
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		<title>Towards An Islamic Theory of Meta-Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The relation of Islam to the other religions has been established by God in His revelation, the Qur’an. No Muslim therefore may deny it; since for him the Qur’an is the ultimate religious authority. Muslims regard the Qur’an as God’s own word verbatim, the final and definitive revelation of His will for all space and time, for all mankind. The only kind of contention possible for the Muslim is that of exegetical variation. But in this realm, the scope of variation is limited in two directions. First, continuity of Muslim practice throughout the centuries constitutes an irrefutable testament to the meanings attributed to the Qur’anic verses. Second, the methodology of Muslim orthodoxy in exegesis rests on the principle that Arabic lexicography, grammar, and syntax, which have remained frozen and in perpetual use by the millions ever since their crystallization in the Qur’an leave no contention without solution. These facts explain the universality with which the Qur’anic principles were understood and observed, despite the widest possible variety of ethnic cultures, languages, races, and customs characterizing the Muslim world, from Morocco to Indonesia, and from Russia and the Balkans to the heart of Africa. ]]></description>
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		<title>Why Islam?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within Islam it is both legitimate and right to ask the question: "why Islam?" Every tenet in Islam is subject to analysis and contention. No other religion is willing to subject its basic fundamentals of faith to such questioning. For example, Saint Thomas Aquinas, the most rational of Christian theologians, stopped the use of reason when it came to the basic fundamentals of Christian faith. He then tried to justify faith. So to ask "why Christianity?" is an illegitimate question. However, Allah invites the question as to "why Islam?".]]></description>
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		<title>Review of &#8220;Islam and Other Faiths&#8221; by Isma&#8217;il Raji Al-Faruqi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The very first glimpse of "Islam and other Faiths" by the late Isma'il Raji Faruqi filled me with excitement and curiosity. Here was an outstanding Muslim scholar venturing into a field that is at once virgin and full of intellectual promise. I had read only two books by him before: "Tawhid: Its Relevance for Thought and Life" and "The Islamization of Knowledge". The contents of the former are in tune with the tenor of the papers which comprise the present book, being, inter alia, a philosophical statements of the unity of God and its implications. The Muslims in the western countries are truly in great need of studies such as the present one that would help them deconstruct and subsequently reconstruct the role they should play as minorities.]]></description>
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		<title>Da&#8217;wah in the West: Promise and Trial</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 07:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody who observed the spread of Islam in the non-Muslim World, especially in the West, and still more especially in America, the United Kingdom and Western Europe during the last thirty years, can fail to wonder at the marvel, or to discern the hand of the Almighty (may He be Glorified and Exalted) at work, The configuration of so many diverse forces, arising in such disparate corners of the earth, determined by such varied chains of historical conditions, all focusing upon the aforesaid Western countries is too much for any kind of planning except the divine. The causes of Muslim immigration up to that time are themselves the result of a tremendously complex development within the Muslim World. But, had these causes been restricted to the Muslim World, the Muslims seeking to immigrate world never have arrived in the West. They were inextricably interwoven with the relations those Muslims had with the West (colonialism, studentship and training, tourism, visits to relatives, fortune-seeking) , as well as dependent upon the West's rise as industrial and political world leader, relating itself to the Muslim world in a variety of ways.]]></description>
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