It is only when ordinary Muslims start openly questioning the basic tenets of Islam and modifying or reinterpreting them for the modern era that jihadism will start shrinking.
Criticised for her handshake with a minister in 2016, Rizvana filed complaint against the man who made the allegations. He sought quashing of the case, but HC dismissed his petition.
The 50-year-old wants to take protection under the secular Indian Succession Act, saying Sharia is discriminatory against women when it comes to inheritance.
The diverging paths of legislative interventions in Muslim and Hindu personal laws is a result of the damaging effect that Muslim Personal Law symbolises in Indian politics.
Open-access research paper has proposed a machine learning model, based on inputs from Islamic scholars, to help Muslims decide which cryptocurrencies are Sharia-compliant.
ThePrint uses studies by reputed international researchers to see whether Sharia and personal freedoms are as mutually exclusive as critics make them out to be.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
No offence but the entire Shari’ah-compliant system of haq mahr is a sickening concept. If you study the fiqh (jurisprudence), you realise it is essentially money for s*x and nothing else (e.g. consider the cases in which it should be returned vs not).
Always welcome your activism and enlightened debate.
Would the proposed UCC make it easier?
No offence but the entire Shari’ah-compliant system of haq mahr is a sickening concept. If you study the fiqh (jurisprudence), you realise it is essentially money for s*x and nothing else (e.g. consider the cases in which it should be returned vs not).
Degradation sold as empowerment.