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Dynamics of Change in Islamic Law (II): Iftaa, Ijtihad and Social Customs9 comments

Aasem Bakhshi wrote 5 months ago: The “content” of any medium blinds us to the character of the medium. [Marshall McLuhan … more »

Tags: Ilm al Ikhtilaf, Series & Sequels, Sociology of religion, Traditional Islam, Culture, ijtihad, Islamic Law, Philosophy, Pluralism

Dynamics of Change in Islamic Law (I): Normative Pluralism9 comments

Aasem Bakhshi wrote 6 months ago: In my view, the most important crisis that Muslim society miserably failed to handle during Islam … more »

Tags: Ilm al Ikhtilaf, Series & Sequels, Sociology of religion, Traditional Islam, Culture, ijtihad, Islamic Law, Philosophy, Pluralism

Ghamidi's interpretation post - some afterthoughts about hermeneutics29 comments

Aasem Bakhshi wrote 10 months ago: Don’t have much time these days to write at length. Still mulling over some really thought-pr … more »

Tags: Philosophy, Qur'an, Ghamidi, language, Philosophy, Qur'an

Ghamidi's interpretation of Islam: Is it a fad that will fizzle out with time?36 comments

Aasem Bakhshi wrote 1 year ago: I have stopped believing strongly since long that Javed Ahmed Ghamidi’s exposition of Islam, m … more »

Tags: Hadith & Sunnah, Philosophy, Qur'an, scholars, Suspended Judgments, Ghamidi, Qur'an, language, Philosophy

Prophetic Experience of Revelation: Iqbal, Fazlur Rahman and Malik Bennabi5 comments

Aasem Bakhshi wrote 1 year ago: Can we become aware of God as we are aware of other objects? As I contemplate more about the answer … more »

Tags: Iqbaliat, Philosophy, Qur'an, scholars, Bennabi, FazlurRahman, Hadith, Iqbal, Modernity

Is Javed Ghamidi a True Scholar?70 comments

Aasem Bakhshi wrote 1 year ago: Respectfully to a seeker who stumbled upon my blog through the search string: “Is Javed Ahmed … more »

Tags: scholars

Centenary of Some Quixotic Ideas

Aasem Bakhshi wrote 1 year ago: Being the ardent lovers of Urdu verse, this ghazal was automatically retained by our young and imagi … more »

Tags: Iqbaliat

Motive is the Primary Prerequisite10 comments

Aasem Bakhshi wrote 1 year ago: The ever hyped question of evolution of Islamic law has recently been reiterated in one of the lead … more »

Tags: Criticism & Comments, Land of the 'Pure', Traditional Islam

Revisiting Fazlur Rahman's Ordeal8 comments

Aasem Bakhshi wrote 1 year ago: An anonymous commentator has inquired about the ‘backstory’ of banning of Fazlur Rahman … more »

Tags: Debates & Disputes, Land of the 'Pure', scholars

Turning To God

airforceone wrote 1 year ago: Let’s use the parable of an automobile as an example to the human condition. We all know what a ca … more »

Tags: Religion Of Islam, Sufism Nimatullahi Bahasa Malaysia, God vs Evil

Submission1 comment

airforceone wrote 1 year ago: THE WAY OF THE FORCE- SUBMISSION   The first premise of Islam is the acknowledgement of a single en … more »

Tags: Religion Of Islam

'Halal' Biros1 comment

Aasem Bakhshi wrote 2 years ago: Is it competitive advantage on the cost of insinuating inadvertently what is not Islam? … more »

Addendum to 'Cosmopolitan Fiqh' Post3 comments

Aasem Bakhshi wrote 2 years ago: In 1980, the Council of Islamic Ideology of Pakistan initiated the first comprehensive report compri … more »

Tags: Sociology of religion, Ilm al Ikhtilaf, Traditional Islam

Cosmopolitan Fiqh4 comments

Aasem Bakhshi wrote 2 years ago: While traditionalists and reformists continue their indulgence in fiery encounters (all in good fait … more »

Tags: Ilm al Ikhtilaf, Sociology of religion, Traditional Islam

Education and Modernity1 comment

Aasem Bakhshi wrote 2 years ago: These bleary thoughts are by no means a meaningful formulation of one of the most knotty problems de … more »

Tags: Philosophy

In Defense of Abdul Rahman and Truth3 comments

Aasem Bakhshi wrote 2 years ago: By the time I’ll post this entry, Abdul Rahman would have been released and reaching Italy whe … more »

Tags: Debates & Disputes, Sociology of religion, Traditional Islam

Contemplations on Sunnah3 comments

Aasem Bakhshi wrote 2 years ago: The contemporary Muslim scholarship asserts that a new definition [1] of Sunnah is pertinent towards … more »

Tags: Hadith & Sunnah


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