The military acumen of Muslims is explained in all its forms that the prestigiousgenerals had demonstrated. The Quranic commandment inspires the peacetimepreparation for war and accentuates it as the comprehensive pre-requisite ofdeterrence. The maneuvers in regard of direct and indirect military strategies alongwith the traditional and non-traditional methodologies used during the said Muslimeras in the...Read More

ustralian Muslims rarely join the Australian Defence Force.Thereisnoevidencethisstatisticischanging,nosignitislikely to change in the near future, and meanwhile the Australian Muslim population continues to grow faster than the general Australian population. Source: Australian Journal of Islamic Studies Click here to read more.Read More

The term jihad is perhaps the most contentious Arabic word to enter the Englishlanguage in recent decades. In public discourse it has become shorthandfor “holy war” and synonymous with violent Muslim extremism. This scholarlyexamination of jihad and martyrdom by Asma Afsaruddin, a professorof Islamic studies at Indiana University, carefully disentangles their multivalentmeanings within Islamic scholarship...Read More

Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni is a distinguished human rights advocate with anastounding career and publication record that exceeds seventy books (authoredand edited) and 260 articles. The Sharī‘a and Islamic Criminal Justice is yetanother rigorous contribution that should enrich and broaden the scope of thecriminal law debate in the Islamic legal system and its relevance to internationalhumanitarian...Read More