Essays on Religious Pluralism

The New Project According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word pluralism is defined, “a state of society in which members of diverse ethnic, racial, religious, or social groups maintain and develop their traditional culture or special interest within the confines of a common civilization”. America…

No civilization throughout the course of history has passed without having some dark episodes and Islamic civilization was not any different. Acts of intolerance, discrimination, suppression and sometimes persecution of non-Muslims did occur in some periods of Islamic history. However, looking at the earliest periods…

The New Project The United States of America of the 1950’s was many things; prosperous, family oriented, racially divided, and most importantly for this paper, Christian dominated culture wise. While Christianity is still the most popular religion here by far, other religions have a presence…

Dhimma Dhimma is an Arabic word which means “treaty” or “obligation.” In the Prophetic tradition and Islamic legal literature, the term was used to mean “the obligation of Muslims in general and of Muslim rulers in particular to grant protection to non-Muslims living under their…

Introduction Pluralism is the essence of Islam. Islam has its own concept of pluralism derived from Quran and Sunnah. According to those principles, Islam highly acknowledges the inevitability of cultural and ethnic diversity. Compulsion is forbidden in the matter of faith. Islam believes in showing…

In the Oxford Handbook: Islam and Politics, Khaled Abou El Fadl identified conflicting views of two Arab states on the topic of revolution. The first view comes from Saudi Arabia citing the phenomenon to be un-Islamic, more so goes against the principles of Shari’a, Islamic…