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		<title>The Nation-State and Social Order in the Perspective of Islam</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human association has had a long history which three institutions had struggled to dominate. The first is the family, which has blood and heredity for bases. The characteristics it engenders in humans are innate and immutable. Indeed, they are constitutive of the relationship. Certainly family-living engenders in humans other characteristics which are acquired through association. These, however, are not necessary. Members born to one family may successfully be brought up as members of another; but the innate characteristics remain unchanged. The family was declared by God an intrinsic order of creation.]]></description>
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		<title>Towards An Islamic Theory of Meta-Religion</title>
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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>The Scholar&#8217;s Pen Is Mightier Than The Assasin&#8217;s Blade</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Faruqis are dead, brutally murdered in their home. The brilliant scholar of Islam and his gifted spouse are both gone, snatched by the icy hand of death. The valiant knight and his lady have fallen, slain not in combat but in ambush. The sneaky blade of a barbarian has smitten them, earning not glory but eternal damnation. The ink of the scholar has mingled with the blood of the martyr, triumphing over both hatred and ignorance. Peace has finally come to the Palestinian expatriate, ending the agony and ignominy of exile. Only the grief of a bereaved Umma continues.]]></description>
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