| Author: | Asghar Ali Engineer | ISBN: | 9788125046271 |
| Publisher: | Orient BlackSwan | Publication: | February 14, 2012 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Asghar Ali Engineer |
| ISBN: | 9788125046271 |
| Publisher: | Orient BlackSwan |
| Publication: | February 14, 2012 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
The book considers some of the stereotypes regarding Islamic and Quranic injunctions and re-examines them in the light of verses from the Quran and the Sharia. Some of these are Islamic views on non-muslim communities, tolerance, family planning, etc. For most of the seventy-one years of his life, Asghar Ali Engineer has been a tireless soldier to the cause of national integration and communal harmony. Well-known today as a reformist, an activist and Islamic scholar, Asghar Ali Engineer received the Right Livelihood, or the Alternative Nobel, award in 2004 . . . for promoting over many years in South Asia the values of religious and communal co-existence, tolerance and mutual understanding. [Rightlivelihood.org]
The book considers some of the stereotypes regarding Islamic and Quranic injunctions and re-examines them in the light of verses from the Quran and the Sharia. Some of these are Islamic views on non-muslim communities, tolerance, family planning, etc. For most of the seventy-one years of his life, Asghar Ali Engineer has been a tireless soldier to the cause of national integration and communal harmony. Well-known today as a reformist, an activist and Islamic scholar, Asghar Ali Engineer received the Right Livelihood, or the Alternative Nobel, award in 2004 . . . for promoting over many years in South Asia the values of religious and communal co-existence, tolerance and mutual understanding. [Rightlivelihood.org]
