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| | Islam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Islam [▶] (Arabic: الإسلام al-islām) "the submission to God" is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, the world's second-largest religion, and the fastest growing religion in the world. | | | As of January 1926, their final ruling on the matter of the origins of the Bahá'í Faith and its relationship to Islam was that the Bahá'í Faith was neither a sect of Islam, nor a religion based on Islam, but a clearly-defined, independently-founded faith. | | | Muslims hold that Islam is essentially the same belief as that of all the messengers sent by God to mankind since Adam, with the Qur'ān (the one definitive text of the Muslim faith) codifying the final revelation of God. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam
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| | Liberal movements within Islam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Liberals generally claim that they are returning to the principles of the early Muslim community, arguing that the medievalists have diverged from true Islam through their focus on the literal word rather than the ethical intent of scripture. | | | The liberal Muslim's focus on individual interpretation and ethics, rather than on the literal word of scripture, may have an antecedent in the Sufi tradition of Islamic mysticism. | | | Most liberal Muslims consequently do not believe in the authority of traditional scholars to issue a fatwa, since they generally favour the individual's ability to interpret Islamic sacred texts on their own. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Islam
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| | Article: "The Silenced Majority" by Radwan Masmoudi in THE JOURNAL OF DEMOCRACY April 2003 - Center for the ... |
| | Liberal Muslims believe that human beings are created free-a concept that is so important to highlight in the Muslim world today-and that if you take away or diminish freedom, you are in fact contradicting human nature as well as divine will. | | | This is in accordance with the basic teaching of the Qur'an that "there can be no compulsion in religion." Forcing religion on people contradicts a basic requirement of religion; that human beings are supposed to come to God of their own free will. | | | Islam has no clergy and no hierarchy, and therefore all Muslims must voice their opinion, in light of the teachings of Islam and the changing needs and priorities of society. |
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http://www.islam-democracy.org/art_jod_april-2003.asp
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| | Why is Islam against ‘Roshan Khayali’? |
| | In fact Islam was the first enlightened religion to appeal to the mind of man. The label enlightened has replaced ‘scientific’, ‘natural’ and ‘liberal’ because of their association with the West through of the works of some 19th century ‘reformist’ (jadeed) Muslim thinkers. | | | It was once called Islam reform, and was rejected, then it was called ‘modern’ Islam, and was rejected; and now ‘liberal’ Islam or ‘enlightened’ Islam is in the process of being rejected by the Muslims.. | | | The 'liberal' secular rejection is delivered on the basis of President Musharraf's 'ambivalence' towards the religious parties and his crypto-fundamentalist army background. |
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http://www.thefridaytimes.com/today1/page8.shtml
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| | Laith Kubba, "Islam and Liberal Democracy: Recognizing Pluralism |
| | Although the meaning of Islam cannot be limited to the perceptions of Muslims or equated with their practices, neither can it be understood separately from these perceptions and practices. | | | Because Muslims often consider the early traditions of Islam to be part of the original message of revelation, they typically look to the way Muslims lived in the past rather than attempt to construct new ways based on both the original teachings of Islam and the realities of modern life. | | | Current controversies among both Muslims and Westerners about the relationship between Islam as a revealed scriptural religion and democracy as a specific form of modern government imply that Islam promotes a specific format for politics and government. |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/kubba.htm
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| | Islam, the Modern World, and the West |
| | Islam in the Modern World Written by the Muslim scholars of ISL Software, this article includes brief discussions of the situation of the Muslim world after the colonial period, Islamic revival, and education and science in the contemporary Muslim world. | | | Return to Islam, Islamic Studies, Arabic, and Religion | | | The political significance of Islam is certainly the most important reason why Islam has been occupying center stage in the world consciousness at the outset of the 21st century. |
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http://www.uga.edu/islam/islamwest.html
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| | Jaringan Islam Liberal |
| | Therefore, liberal Islam is another variant of Islam and an alternative to literal Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, radical Islam, and many others. | | | These activities reflect the mission of JIL which is described as follows: First, to develop liberal interpretations of Islam which correspond to their principles and to disseminate them to the public. | | | Third, publication of books on liberal Islam, pluralism, and inclusivism in religion. |
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http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Indonesian/Islam/JIL-background.htm
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| | In my view liberal Islam means more than tolerant or moderate Islam; that is the reason why I cannot say in good faith that it exists already, or is imminent, somewhere in the Islamic world. | | | Islam, we are told, came to destroy age-old world empires, unjust and corrupt, and replace them with a free, egalitarian, God-fearing community (Umma). | | | It seems therefore that there is indeed a case for claiming that Islam cannot, in theory and in practice, coexist fully, harmoniously, with the laws of a modern nation-state. |
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http://w3fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Bulletin/laroui.htm
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| | Muslim WakeUp! Lily Munir on Indonesian Islamic Liberation Theology |
| | Islam is a universal religion and is not an Arab religion, and hence its appeal transcends a particular culture. | | | We need to distinguish Islam, as a religion of surrender to God and social justice with a universal appeal and message, from Arab culture. | | | This understanding of Islam then helps lead you on to immerse yourself in the struggle for social justice, and you begin to question the ritualistic understandings of Islam that many of us have. |
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http://www.muslimwakeup.com/main/archives/2005/05/lily_munir_on_i.php
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| | Islam, Democracy, and the Rentier State (Print version) |
| | Theological justifications for Islamic liberal democracy are often based on an interpretation of Shari'a, divine law for Muslims, which makes a distinction between the nature of Muhammad's early Meccan teachings and his later Medinan teachings. | | | In contrast, another proponent of liberal Islam, Egyptian Muhammad Khalaf-Allah (1916-1997), does not challenge the traditional Medinan interpretive emphasis but rather maintains that the principle of shura, or consultation, revealed in Mecca and Medina, essentially directs Muslims to practice democracy. | | | In fact, considering the breadth of the Islamic tradition, there is much evidence for the practical compatibility of Islamic principles and principles of liberal democracy. |
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http://www.globalengagement.org/issues/2003/05/democracy-p.htm
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| | The official website of Irshad Manji, author of The Trouble with Islam Today. Islamic reform - progressive Islam. |
| | But what this book hammers home is that only in Islam is literalism mainstream.Which means that when abuse happens under the banner of Islam, most Muslims have no clue how to dissent, debate, revise or reform. | | | Liberal Muslims say that what I'm describing isn't "true" Islam. | | | It shows Muslims how we can re-discover Islam's lost tradition of independent thinking -- a tradition known as "ijtihad" -- and re-discover it precisely to update Islam for the 21st century. |
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http://www.muslim-refusenik.com/thebook.html
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| | Liberal Islam vs Conservative Islam |
| | As for their call for progress and rejection of conservative Islam to advance, such a call is outdated and proven to be a lie by history. | | | That area is still blurred except for the point that the liberalists would welcome any form of western ideas into Islam and those resisting the western interpretation is considered as conservative and stagnant. | | | The ulama has remained faithful to the methodology which originated from the time of the Prophet SAW and had been refined for a period of 1400 years, they argue. |
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http://www.freewebs.com/suaraanum/081201.htm
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| | The fatal complementarity of Islam and the West |
| | Islam is a non-Western religion set on conquering and converting non-Moslems, while liberalism is a Western ideology set on tolerating and including non-Westerners. | | | The fatal complementarity of Islam and the West | | | Just as the Moslems' hard-boiled view of us as the infidel Other stems from their very being and faith as Moslems, liberal Americans' naive view of the Moslems as people "just like us" stems from our very being and faith as liberal Americans. |
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http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/002990.html
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| | FETHULLAH GULEN AND HIS LIBERAL "TURKISH ISLAM" MOVEMENT |
| | The dominant belief was that a truly religious sultan would govern the state according to the principles of justice, equality, and piety. | | | He hopes to re-establish the link between religion and state that existed in the Ottoman era, when leaders were expected to live their private lives based on Islamic regulations. | | | This approach of keeping religion apart from worldly affairs led to a collective memory that regarded Islam as a flexible and tolerant belief system. |
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http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/meria/journal/2000/issue4/jv4n4a4.html
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| | LIBERAL ISLAM: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES |
| | Because liberal Islam shares concerns with Western liberalism, critics claim, it must not be a valid interpretation of the religion-if X is Western, it cannot be Islamic. | | | In the "liberal shari`a" school, Islamic scholars base their arguments on injunctions in the Qur`an and on precedents from the early years of Islam. | | | The "liberal shari`a" argues that the revelations of the Qur'an and the practices of the Prophet command Muslims to follow liberal positions. |
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http://www.biu.ac.il/SOC/besa/meria/journal/1999/issue3/jv3n3a2.html
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| | Liberal Islam: A Source-Book |
| | Charles Kurzman, "Liberal Islam and Its Islamic Context" | | | Among the authors are: `Abdul-Karim Soroush, a leading oppositional figure in Iran; Nurcholish Madjid, a prominent Indonesian intellectual; and `Ali `Abd al-Raziq, an Egyptian religious scholar whose writings on the separation of church and state have been controversial since the 1920s. | | | This collection will be an important resource for scholars and students of Islam, the Middle East, and international affairs, and will also help to redress the imbalance in our perception of the Islamic world. |
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http://www.unc.edu/~kurzman/LiberalIslam.htm
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| | United Press International - International(p) - Eye on Eurasia: Sources for liberal Islam |
| | As such, it would be more appropriate to describe this as "a liberal approach to Islam." But Yemel'yanov says that what people typically call "liberal Islam" is characterized by "openness, tolerance and acceptance of changes taking place in the contemporary world." Moreover, it is neither aggressive nor insistent that Islam is the only true faith. | | | The former see them as the basis for squaring Islam with modernity, while the latter accuse him of seeking to replace genuine Islam with what one writer has called an overly-permissive, even "drunken" Islam. | | | A Russian-language religious information portal, Credo.ru, has tried to introduce some clarity on the issue by offering what it calls "a 'working' definition of liberal Islam" and then discussing the most important Web sites where this idea is discussed. |
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http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20050105-115807-7424r
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Liberal Islam: A Sourcebook |
| | Even when liberal Islam IS considered by academicians, they tend to put it into a Western framework: that is, with the attitude that in order for Muslims to become modern, they must abandon Islamic tradition altogether. | | | This book contends that "Liberal Islam" is not a contradiction in terms, but rather a thriving tradition more than a century old and undergoing a revival within the last generation. | | | The interpretations of Islam in this book, though prevalent throughout the Islamic world, are usually neglected in the spotlight, eclipsed by juicier portrayals of extremists as representative of all Islam. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195116224?v=glance
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| | SikhSpectrum.com Monthly. Civic, Democratic Islam: America’s Desperate Search for the ‘Liberal’ Muslim |
| | They are said to identify a certain ethical core in Islam, which they regard as the essence of the faith, while they consider much of the legal dimension of the Islamic tradition, including certain specific injunctions in the Qur’an itself, as no longer relevant. | | | This onerous task of what she calls ‘religion-building’ entails the invention of what, for all practical purposes, is a completely new religious tradition, one that most Muslims would themselves probably barely recognize. | | | Related to them are the ‘secularists’, who want to impose a strict division between religion and state in the Muslim world in the manner of Western countries, relegating Islam to the private realm. |
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http://www.sikhspectrum.com/082004/islamic_democracy.htm
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| | Weekly Special Report, October 24, 2002 |
| | In explaining the difference between liberal Muslims and radical Muslims, Khan said, "moderate and liberal Muslims believe that the objective of Islam is to enlighten society. | | | There is a need for deep knowledge in the history of Islam in the Western world," she said. | | | Ahmed warned against the impact of some of the "narrow-minded messages coming from the United States," which he said "resonate with narrow-minded people in the Muslim World." Referring to Jerry Falwell's recent controversial remarks about the Prophet Mohammed, he said, "certain non-liberal aspects here transfer to non-liberals over there." |
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http://www.telecom.net.et/~usemb-et/wwwh4212.htm
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| | Jihad Watch: Liberal Islam being marginalised, warns Pakistani academic |
| | We need to recognize that the Islam practiced in North America is a liberalized, declawed version of the religion that's very different from what they learn in Africa, Asia and Europe, and even then there are more traditionalist "radicals" than we like to think. | | | He brushed aside my statements that moderate Muslims need to do more to convert radical Muslims to a more peaceful form of Islam, saying almost in the same breath that it was already being done on a large scale and that it couldn't be done anyway. | | | Waseem also "criticised Western countries and their media for adopting a 'text-based' approach to Islam, instead of making an effort to understand Islamic societies and their ethos. |
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/000210.php
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| | Rasul bats for ‘Liberal Islam’ |
| | This is to combat the "rule of fiefdoms, a legacy of militarization and feudalism" in Muslim communities, said Rasul, who was taught the virtues of tolerance and respect for other faiths even at a young age by her parents, the late Ambassador Abraham Rasul and former Sen. Santanina Rasul. | | | Rasul mentioned the challenge today of Muslims in the world to be under the political control of two minority groups -- the secular extremists, who are in power, and the religious extremists, who are in jail or in hiding. | | | Rasul, who spoke on the topic “Neo-Democracy and the War on Terror” during the Role of Muslim Women in Peace Building and Development held here recently, said that Liberal Islam is combining faith and reason as an alternative in the Philippine setting. |
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http://www.mindanews.com/2004/08/20nws-rasul.html
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| | OhioLINK ETD: Harjanto, Nicolaus |
| | This study shows that JIL’s liberal Islam is the continuation of Islamic renewal projects by Islamic neomodernists. | | | This network is very significant to the development of liberal Islamic ideas and the future of moderation of Islam in predominantly Muslim countries like Indonesia. | | | Islam in Indonesia is acknowledged as moderate, although there are radical Islamic groups that are involved in violent religious conflicts and insist on the implementation of Islamic law in the post-authoritarian Soeharto era. |
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http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1070464571
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| | Political Islam |
| | Ayatullah Morteza Mutahhari, Jihad: The Holy War of Islam and Its Legitimacy in the Quran, Translated by Mohammad Salman Tawhidi, Published by The Islamic Propagation Organization, P.O. Box No. 11365/7318, Islamic Republic of Iran | | | Timur Kuran, "The Genesis of Islamic Economics: A Chapter in the Politics of Muslim Identity, Social Research, Vol. | | | BeliefNet, "Save a Life, Save All Humanity--Take a Life, Kill All Humanity": What the Islamic scriptures really say about jihad and violence." |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/polislam.htm
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| | Liberal Islam Network |
| | Shalat is a stipulation (qath’iy) from God, but the method of performing this ritual and the prayers to recite are a construction of the fuqaha (experts in Islamic canon law). | | | In her latest book, Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an, she closely examines the male oriented interpretations of the Quran and offers an antipatriarchal alternative. | | | The importance of Revitalizing the understanding of Islam |
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http://www.islamlib.com/en/page.php
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| | Jihad Watch: "Afghans will never agree on any secular or liberal system. Islam is the modern system and Afghanistan’s ... |
| | “The Taliban distorted the image and teachings of Islam, otherwise Islam is a very tolerant and progressive religion which co-exists with the international community very well,” he asserted. | | | Islam is the modern system and Afghanistan’s future is tied with Islam,” he said, in an exclusive interview with Adnkronos International (AKI) on Tuesday. | | | Islam is the modern system and Afghanistan’s future is tied with Islam" |
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/09/008212print.html
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| | LP: Islam Dupes Liberal Pacifists |
| | In short, the enemy is anyone not a Muslim who believes the world is destined to be ruled by Islam. | | | Remember, they have those 72 virgins waiting for them in paradise. | | | When the trial begins, the first thing the good terrorist must do is claim to have been tortured. |
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http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=85474
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| | Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding: Master of Arts in Liberal Studies: Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations |
| | Candidates must complete seven courses in the field of Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations and choose three additional courses from this field, other related Liberal Studies fields, or other relevant Georgetown University departmental courses. | | | The Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding established the Master of Arts Degree in Liberal Studies in "Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations" in 1998 to foster a better global understanding of Islam and Muslim-Christian relations. | | | Master of Arts in Liberal Studies: Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations |
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http://www.georgetown.edu/sfs/programs/cmcu/masters.htm
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| | Indonesian Conference: Liberal Islam and Social Justice in Indonesia |
| | Indonesian Conference: Liberal Islam and Social Justice in Indonesia | | | For our April program 'Liberal Islam' and Social Justice in Indonesia, scholars, artists, and activists from Indonesia come together with their counterparts in the U.S. to present a program to educate students, faculty, and community members on the art, religion, law, politics, and ecology of Indonesia today. | | | The conference is organized around four roundtables centering on the themes: 'Liberal Islam' and its Critics; Violence in the Age of Reformasi; Social Justice, Nature, and the Post-Development Order; and Language, Theater, and the Media. |
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http://depts.washington.edu/seac/newsletter2/indoncon.html
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| | Liberal Islam Links |
| | Qalandar: Islam and Interfaith Relations in South Asia: http://www.islaminterfaith.org | | | The term "liberal" has a variety of meanings, to be sure, and its reputation in much of the Islamic world has been tainted by its hypocritical introduction under colonialism. | | | Thus these links, and the Liberal Islam anthology itself, include some authors and activists who may not consider themselves "liberal," though they deal seriously with liberal themes. |
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http://www.unc.edu/~kurzman/LiberalIslamLinks.htm
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| | Politics 101 Malaysia :: Liberal Islam: A Clear And Present Danger :: September :: 2005 |
| | 9.00 - 9:30 : Keynote Address; Liberal Islam - Emerging Trends, Issues and Concerns - Ustaz (Dr.) Muhammad ‘Uthman El-Muhammady | | | 10:15 - 11:00 : Liberal Islam - The Indonesian Experience - Adnin Armas | | | Seminar on Liberal Islam: A Clear And Present Danger |
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http://politics101malaysia.blogsome.com/2005/09/01/liberal-islam-a-clear-and-present-danger
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| | Bukan Islam Liberal |
| | Bukan Islam Liberal is proudly powered by wordpress and Squible. | | | Sebagai mengenangkan pemergian ini, Bukan Islam Liberal tidak akan menyiarkan artikel-artikel baru sehingga hari Isnin depan. | | | Traditional Islam and A Tale of Two Reformations |
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http://www.bukanliberal.org
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| | Islam, Islamism and the West: The Divide Between Ideological Islam and Liberal Democracy |
| | Since September 11, 2001, policymakers in Washington have confronted new and unsettling questions regarding the role of religion in political radicalism emanating from the Middle East and the intellectual principles underpinning militant Islam. | | | Islam, Islamism and the West: The Divide Between Ideological Islam and Liberal Democracy |
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http://www.heritage.org/Press/Events/ev060905b.cfm
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| | NPR : Indonesian Radio Show Promotes 'Liberal Islam' |
| | Morning Edition, August 3, 2004 · Though Indonesia has a secular government, fundamentalists have gained some ground in the world's most populous Muslim country. | | | A group of intellectuals is trying to counter the trend by sponsoring a call-in radio show that promotes what they call "liberal Islam." Kelly McEvers reports. | | | NPR : Indonesian Radio Show Promotes 'Liberal Islam' |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3812299
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| | Table of contents for Rethinking Islam and liberal democracy |
| | Table of contents for Rethinking Islam and liberal democracy : Islamist women in Turkish politics / Yesim Arat. | | | Table of contents for Rethinking Islam and liberal democracy | | | Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0420/2004017001.html
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