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The poets and the feminist

January 4, 2014, marks 47 years since Atiya Fyzee Rahamin's death and her bequest to the Karachi municipal corporation, and 137 years since her birth;

`Other' imperialism

An indictment of the Western Left, which has abandoned Iranian liberals in their fight for freedom and democracy.

An Islamist Jihad member at a news conference in Gaza on January 29 claiming responsibility for a suicide bombing in the Red Sea resort of Eilat, Israel. Egyptian Islamic scholar Yusuf Al Qaradawi's public statements can be construed as justifying suicide bombing against any stronger, unjust state by a weaker minority.-REUTERS/MOHAMMED SALEM

Faith and conflict

An Irish imam's statements on Islamic fundamentalism unleash a storm of controversy among Muslims in that country.

Keith Ellison taking his oath of office using a Koran. The others in the picture are (from left) the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, and Ellison's wife, Kim. The Koran used was once owned by Thomas Jefferson.-WIN MCNAMEE/AFP

Liberal and Muslim

Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, presents to his co-religionists in the U.S. important political and moral realities.

President Pervez Musharraf with Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on December 5 at a women's conference in Islamabad, where he promised more legislation to protect the rights of women.-ANJUM NAVEED/AP

Sex and the state

The euphoria surrounding Pakistan's new law on "protection of women" ignores the fact that the Hudood laws are still intact.

Ingrid Mattson, the new ISNA president.-AFP/HO/HARTFORD SEMINARY

Islam in America

The largest Muslim organisation in North America gets its first woman president, who is also the first convert to occupy the position.

Dutch dilemmas

A thought-provoking account that makes readers question Enlightenment values that are politically tainted.

A WOMAN AND her child as they wait for her release order at a jail in Karachi on July 13.-RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP

Veils and jails

The Hudood Ordinances expose how Generals past and present have used the regulation of female sexuality to their strategic advantage.

SAMAIRA NAZIR WAS stabbed by her brother 18 times.-

Crime & abetment

European Muslims remain silent on horrific crimes within the community citing fear of fuelling Islamophobia as the reason.

Drawing attention to a saying of the Prophet, a Muslim woman in Mumbai on International Women's Day.-PAUL NORONHA

Islam and reform

On the debate that pits critics of Islam against those who seek change from within the faith.

Across cultures

The book suggests moral tools for a new way of ordering ethics in the face of pressing historical and political challenges.

The assimilation sentiment manifests itself in the expatriate Muslim community by the oppressive pressure placed on those that can be most easily controlled, girls and women.-P.V. SIVAKUMAR

Veil and a warning

The mysterious death of Samira Munir, a Norwegian politician, in Oslo comes as a chilling deterrent to Muslim women who speak out about the violence a

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