Combined list of my writings

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1 ISLAH: A Program of Falah through Islah (an unpublished manuscript)
2 Thus Spoke the Prophet (a collection of forty short Hadith with brief commentary)
3 Book: Notun Biplober Pododhoni
   
4 A Cyber-discussion on Gender Equality
5 Al-Qur'an and Its Link to Our Lives
6 America's War against Terrorism vs. War against Islam: The Voice of Amb. Mary Ann Peters
7 Apostasy, Freedom and Dawah: Full Disclosure in a Business-like Manner
8 Are Rokeya Begums not safe any more?
9 Art, Free Speech and the Market of Pornography
10 Being born as a Muslim: Is there such a thing?
11 Being Women: Then and Now - Part I & II
12 Beyond the "War on terrorism"
13 Bouquet: From the Kazi's Court
14 Bridge-building (Shetu-bondhon): The case of Rabindranath and Nazrul
15 Bringing the Rebel to the Cyberspace
16 Can a spouse wash the deceased spouse's body? Some illuminating hadith            
17 Cat's Eye or Red Rose: What's in a Name?
18 Change and Continuity: The Dynamics of Institutional Behavior in Islam
19 Civil Liberties and Uncivil Super-Patriotism: The Struggle between the Two Americas  
20 Competence, Age and Leadership
21 Complete Muslims: Awareness-building vs. Theologization
22 Contemporary Gender Issues (A Khutbah series)
23 Cooperation vs. Confrontation: A Reality Check
24 Destination: Sense or Non-sense: I-II
25 Development Demystified: An Islamic Perspective
26 Development Experience of Bangladesh in Gunnar Myrdal's Asian Drama Perspective
27 Did Hadrat Umar Restrict Women from Attending Mosques?
28 Did the Prophet endorse suicide bombing? Anti-Islamic Propaganda by "former Muslims" Russian
29 Eid, Jibrail and Jibanananda Das: He called me BHAI (brother)!
30 Einstein, Zionism and Israel: Setting the Record Straight Turkish
31 Electoral Reform and the Political Culture
32 Exploitation, Profit and The Riba-Interest Reductionism
33 Freedom and Choice: The First Order Condition of Islam   Spanish
34 From Kamala Das to Dashi:  Doing the right thing for wrong  reasons?
35 From Vietnam to Iraq: Lesson from Tonkin Gulf Lies  
36 Funadamental Challenges facing the Muslims (an important concept paper)
37 Fundamental Human Dignity and the Mathematics of Slavery
38 Genocide 1971: What does the world know about it?
39 Islam and Genocide: The Case of Bangladesh in 1971
40 Grace of Allah and Good Deeds
41 Hadhrat Umar, the Battle of Hunayn, etc.
42 Hail The Greenback: In God We Trust?
43 Hajj and the Neglected Legacy of a Great Woman (an Eid al-Adha Khutbah) French
44 Half-Marriage and the Debate that never was
45 Hard Economic Choices: Are They Getting Harder?
46 Hijab and a revelation that was not  
47 Hindu-Muslim Relationship
48 How are you spending your charity dollar this year?
 49 Humanity and People Power: A Tribute to Dr. Ali Shariati Turkish
50 Humanity, Universalism and Nazrul
51 In search of the bottom: Focus on the top
52 International Development: Is There Any Role Model?
53 Interesting Numerical Findings in the Qur'an (or a hoax?): A partial examination 
54 Islam and Democracy: Perceptions and Misperceptions  
55 Islam and Egalitarianism  
56 Islam and Freedom (A Jumuah Khutbah)
57 Islam and the History of Science (6 parts)
58 Islam and Muslims: Lofty Creeds, Pitiable Breeds
59 Islam, Race and Justice: Reconciling the Irreconciliable
60 Islam, Reform and Stakeholders: Toward a Common-Ground-Seeking Approach
61 Islamic Fiqh (Law) and the Neglected Empirical Foundation 
62 Islamic Law and the Use and Abuse of Hadith
63 Islamophobia (4 parts)
64 Jamaat, 1971 and Apology
65 Kazi Nazrul in His Own Words
66 Logic, reason, and the spirit of inquiry
67 Making and Unmaking of Love [also in Bangla]
68 Masculine Eid: Half-full or Half-empty? Dutch
69 Maulana Azad (translation from the original by Syed Mujtaba Ali)
70 Mind-Building: A Neglected Dimension of the Prophetic Heritage
71 Mortgage Financing: Some Second-best Considerations
72 Moving Past the Politics of "Family Baggage"
73 Muhammad (s): His Life and Teachings in ONE-PAGE
74 Muslim American Dream: Is There One?
75 Muslim Unity: A Business-Like Approach
76 Muslim women, how about start riding on your bike!
77 My resolution on wife-beating!
78 Nazrul: An Enduring Voice, A Neglected Legacy 
79 Nazrul: The Call for Sportsmanship
80 Nazrul and Labeling based on fragmented views
81 "O Allah! You are my servant and I am Your Lord!": The Language of Love Spanish
82 On Accusations against Grameen Bank
83 On Illegitimization of Muslims of Bengal
84 On Time Constraint for Jumuah Prayer
85 Our Special Ummah
86 Paradise Might Not Be Boring!
87 Partition of India and the Creation of Pakistan [a multi-part series]
88 Partnership, Equity-financing and Islamic finance: Whither Profit-Loss-Sharing?
89 Play the Right Tune, and  ...
90 Praying for Non-Muslims: Some Post-Tsunami Thoughts
91 Public vs. Private Sector: Policy Dynamics in an Islamic Perspective
92 Qard and Qard al-Hasanah: An Analytical Survey from the Qur'an and Hadith
93 Qiyas (Analogical Reasoning) and Some Problematic Issues in Islamic law
94 Rabindranath Tagore: A Brief Biographical Sketch
95 Ramadan and Eid in Poetry: The Contributions of Kazi Nazrul Islam
96 Ramadan and fastidious fasts: Some potpourri observations
97 Rape and Hudood Ordinance: Perversions of Justice in the Name of Islam
98 Reality: The Islamic Touch! Dutch Turkish Spanish
99 Reflections on Shetubondhon:
          Some Notable Unsubscriptions
            Carpet Bombing Approach
            Nagging Tale of Four Wives
            No one said that it's going to be easy
100 Reflections on Tagore's Gora: Layers of ignorance and voices against prejudice
101 Reflections on a few aspects of Kazi Nazrul Islam 
102 Reply to "Crazy Idea: Setting Up A World Religion" (Part I; Part II; Part III)
103 Religious Denunciations and Takfir: Isn't there enough to go around?
104 Riba, Interest and Six Hadiths: Do We Have a Definition or a Conundrum?
105 Sahih as 'Rigorously authenticated' and Hasan as 'Authenticated': Unwarranted translations and creating misperceptions
106 Secularism
107 Self-Interest, Homo Islamicus and Some Behavioral Assumptions in Islamic Economics and Finance
108 SHAME: The first and real one, but we did not listen!
109 Shari'ah, Laws and Islam: Legalism vs. Value-orientation
110 Shetubondhon: Toward a Paradigm of Bridge-Building
111 Should you be a Fundamentalist?
112 Shura (Consultation): A Vital Islamic Institution and Process
113 Slavery and Islam
114 Some Fundamentals
115 Some contrasting and juxtaposed ideas from the World of Nazrul [animated CD icon, music Watch video]
116 Sonar Bangla: Some Reflections
117 Stipulation of Excess in Understanding and Misunderstanding Riba: Al-Jassas Link
118 Taslima Nasreen: Gone with the wind!
119 Taqwa, Ramadan, and the Qur'an: The Triangular Link of Our Ethical System
120 The Doctrine of Ijma': Is there a consensus?
121 The GOLDEN Standard: It's not uncommon!
122 The Hostage Islam (several underlying topics)
        Prophet's family foot-race (Part I; Part II; Part III)
        No wife-beating in Islam (Part 1; Part II; Part III; Part IV)
123 The Issue of Farakka: An Introduction 
124 The Last Word: A Jumuah Khutbah
125 The Race in Exaggeration
126 The Riba-Interest Equation and Islam: Reexamination of the Traditional Arguments
127 The Riba-Interest Equivalence: Is There Any Ijma (Consensus)?
128 The Spirit of Global-Belonging: Perspectives from Some Humanity-Oriented Icons
129 The State of Bangladesh Economy: Issues and Concerns
130 The Warped Economics of Fatwa: Demand Creates Its OWN Supply
131 The Uncivil War [a multi-part series]
132 Toward a Marxists-Muslims Dialog: I-V
133 Toward Defining and Understanding Riba
134 Toward Political Transformation in Bangladesh: The Demand and the Supply Side of Healthy Politics
135 Toward Understanding Muhammad: Some issues in peace and violence  
136 Toward Understanding Nazrul: The Rebel and More
137 Toward a Dialog between Civilizations: The Qur'an Reading Controversy at UNC
138 Tyranny and the Tyrants: The unlearned lessons of history
139 Who says that good is good?
140 Women and Divorce in Bangladesh: An Islamic Perspective
141 Women Scholars of Islam: They must bloom again! 
142 Words Not Spoken, Kisses Not Delivered Indonesian
143 World Bank: Whose Bank and for Which World?
144 Zionism, Israel, Racism/Apartheid
145  Zionist Ideology and the Reality of Israel: The Thoughts of Nahum Goldmann

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