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Hashem Aghajari

From Monkey to Man: a call for Islamic Protestantism

Salbiah Ahmad

The freedom of religion impasse and powers of the High Court, First published in INSAF, the journal of the Malaysian Bar at (2003) XXXII No. 3, 60.

Syed Mohiuddin Ahmed, MD

Pluralism: A Model for Society, Not an Excuse for Ambiguity

Javeed Akhter

Pluralism: Essential for Civil Society

Syed Hashim Ali, Formerly Vice-Chancellor of Osmania and Aligarh Muslim Universities

Islam and Pluralism

Asma Afsaruddin, Associate professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Department of Classics, University of Notre Dame

Tolerance and Diversity in Islam

Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America (AMJA)

Communique concerning the issue of the Islamic dress code (Hijab) in France, Islamonline website

Muhammad Zakir Khan Azmi

Article from Qalandar (www.islaminterfaith.org ). Reproduced with kind permission of, and thanks to Yoginder Sikand, editor, Qalandar.

Dialogue Between Shias and Sunnis

Helen Bielefeldt and Mohammad Saeed Bahamanpour

The politics of social justice: religion versus human rights?

Religion, Secularism and Human Rights, Responses to Heiner Bielefeldt and Mohammad Saeed Bahmanpour

Khaled Abou El Fadl , Law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles

The Place of Tolerance in Islam: On reading the Qur'an and misreading it

Inam-ul-Haq

Race Relations: An Islamic Perspective

Journal of Democracy, 7.2, April 1996; section on Islam and Democracy

Kubba Laith, Recognizing Pluralism

Bernard Haykel, Assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies at New York University

Islam and the struggle within,Media Monitors Network, August 31, 2003

Prof. Metin Heper, Bilkent University, Ankara

The Justice and Development Party: Towards a Reconciliation of Islam and Democracy in Turkey?, 2003 Annual Georges A. Kaller Lecture, Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University

Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ISESCO)

Human Rights in Islamic Teachings

Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam

Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Liberal Islam: Prospects and Challenges, Meria, Vol 3, No 3, September 1999

Abdallah Laroui, Fulbright 50th Anniversary Distinguished Fellow

Western Orientalism and Liberal Islam: Mutual Distrust, Lecture delivered at the Middle East Studies Association annual meeting in Providence, RI)

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights

Islam and Justice: Debating the Future of Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa

Hadayai Majeed, The Milli Gazette

Muslim Women: The Gatekeepers of Our Own Oppression

Chibli Mallat, Jean Monnet Chair of European Law and Director of the Centre for the Study of the European Union at the University of Saint Joseph, Beirut



Introduction: On Islam and Democracy. In Chibli Mallat, editor, Islamic Public Law: Classical and Contemporary studies, London ; Boston : Graham & Trotman, 1993.

S. Parvez Manzoor, Islam 21 Project, The International Forum for Islamic Dialogue

Islam and Human Rights: A Modernist Guide

Freedom of Expression and Islam

The Message Online, Selected Issues

Islam for Peace & Justice, June-July 2001

Ebrahim Moosa, Associate Research Professor, Department of Religion, and Co-director of the Center for the Study of Muslim Networks, Duke University, North Carolina

The Dilemma of Islamic Rights Schemes. Journal of Law and Religion, V. 15, N. 1& 2, 2002-2001

Fathi Osman

"Islam Should be Recognized as Dynamic, Flexible Religion" , Al-Hewar Center, The Center for Arab Culture and Dialogue,

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

Tolerance in Islam, Abridged Version of 1927 lecture

Louay M. Safi, Director, International Institute of Islamic Thought, Herndon, VA, USA

Understanding Islam: Challenges to Democracy and Diversity

Habeeb Salloum

Islamic Tolerance in Al-Andalu, ,

Ali Salman

Human Rights and Islam: Some Points of Convergence and Divergence

Bobby Sayyid, Islam 21 Project, The International Forum for Islamic Dialogue

Democracy and Islamism.



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