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Dynamics of Change in Islamic Law (II): Iftaa, Ijtihad and Social Customs
The “content” of any medium blinds us to the character of the medium. [Marshall McLuhan] In 1913, Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanawi gave his famous juridical response to a British court in India… more »
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Dynamics of Change in Islamic Law (II): Iftaa, Ijtihad and Social Customs
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Aasem Bakhshi wrote 5 months ago: The “content” of any medium blinds us to the character of the medium. [Marshall McLuhan … more »
Dynamics of Change in Islamic Law (I): Normative Pluralism
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Aasem Bakhshi wrote 6 months ago: In my view, the most important crisis that Muslim society miserably failed to handle during Islam … more »
Ghamidi's interpretation post - some afterthoughts about hermeneutics
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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 »
Ghamidi's interpretation of Islam: Is it a fad that will fizzle out with time?
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Aasem Bakhshi wrote 1 year ago: I have stopped believing strongly since long that Javed Ahmed Ghamidi’s exposition of Islam, m … more »
Prophetic Experience of Revelation: Iqbal, Fazlur Rahman and Malik Bennabi
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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 »
Is Javed Ghamidi a True Scholar?
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Aasem Bakhshi wrote 1 year ago: Respectfully to a seeker who stumbled upon my blog through the search string: “Is Javed Ahmed … more »
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 »
Motive is the Primary Prerequisite
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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 »
Revisiting Fazlur Rahman's Ordeal
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Aasem Bakhshi wrote 1 year ago: An anonymous commentator has inquired about the ‘backstory’ of banning of Fazlur Rahman … more »
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 »
Submission
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airforceone wrote 1 year ago: THE WAY OF THE FORCE- SUBMISSION The first premise of Islam is the acknowledgement of a single en … more »
'Halal' Biros
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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' Post
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Aasem Bakhshi wrote 2 years ago: In 1980, the Council of Islamic Ideology of Pakistan initiated the first comprehensive report compri … more »
Cosmopolitan Fiqh
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Aasem Bakhshi wrote 2 years ago: While traditionalists and reformists continue their indulgence in fiery encounters (all in good fait … more »
Education and Modernity
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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 »
In Defense of Abdul Rahman and Truth
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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 »
Contemplations on Sunnah
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Aasem Bakhshi wrote 2 years ago: The contemporary Muslim scholarship asserts that a new definition [1] of Sunnah is pertinent towards … more »
