January 2007

Monthly

 Zil Hajja 1427

ISLAMIC LAW
Hudood Ordinance in Pakistan - Geo TV's Campaign
Geo Television is aiming to provide a platform for debate on issues that concern our society and that have divided our people and their views over many years.

– Do You Agree that above ordinance is Islamic?

ISLAMIC ECONOMICS
Islamic Finance (A book on Islamic finance)
'Musharakah' is a word of Arabic origin, which literally means sharing. In the context of business and trade it means a joint enterprise in which all the partners share the profit or loss of the joint venture.

Islamic Banking Net * Institute of Islamic Banking & Insurance * Islamic banks growth * Islamic banking Glossary * Sharia Supervision

MODERN WORLD
Real Story of Pricey Oil - by - Fareed Zakaria In March 2005, when a young Goldman Sachs analyst, Arjun Murti, predicted a doubling in oil prices to $100 a barrel, some compared the projection with the exaggerated forecasts of the technology era ...

TECHNOLOGY
Why does Muslim World lag in Science? By Aaron Segal
In numerical terms, forty-one predominantly Muslim countries with about 20 percent of the world's total population generate less than 5 percent of its science. Other measures -- annual expenditures on research and development, numbers of research scientists and engineers -- confirm the disparity between populations and scientific research…

LITERATURE
The Modern Science in Holy Quran
The 20th century scientists have observed all these stages of the embryo's development and after a long denial of about 1300 years, the Quranic facts have now been confirmed. It was impossible for a man living in the early 7th century to have expressed such facts, so it is foolish to say that Muhammad ((sallallaho alaihi wasallam)) wrote the Quran. One has to accept that this is the book of God. And God in his very first revelation expressed the creation of man by fertilization (alaq) i.e. by clinging of the male and female cells with each other....

CONVERTS TO ISLAM: Women converts to Islam
How could you, an educated American woman convert to Islam - a religion that oppresses women?" - Blonde-haired blue-eyed, former Christian, Karla, explains how her theological dissatisfaction with the doctrine of Jesus as God and her discovery of the rights given to women in Islam led her to become a Muslim…

PERSONALITY: Dr Muhammad Hamidullah: Great Scholar Simple Man

Dr. Muhammad Hamidullah was born on February 9, 1908, in the state of Hyderabad Deccan in the Indian subcontinent. He was the youngest of 3 brothers and 5 sisters. ...