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ISLAH: A Program of Falah through Islah (an unpublished
manuscript) |
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Thus Spoke the Prophet (a
collection of forty short Hadith with brief commentary) |
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Book: Notun Biplober
Pododhoni |
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A Cyber-discussion on Gender
Equality |
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Al-Qur'an and Its Link to
Our Lives |
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America's War against Terrorism vs. War against Islam: The Voice of Amb. Mary Ann
Peters
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Apostasy, Freedom
and Dawah: Full Disclosure in a Business-like
Manner |
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8 |
Are
Rokeya Begums not safe any more? |
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9 |
Art,
Free Speech and the Market of Pornography |
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Basic Needs Approach, Appropriate Technology, and
Institutionalism |
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Being
born as a Muslim: Is there such a thing? |
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12 |
Being Women: Then and Now
- Part I & II |
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13 |
Beyond
the "War on terrorism" |
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14 |
Bouquet:
From the Kazi's Court |
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15 |
Bridge-building
(Shetu-bondhon): The case of Rabindranath and Nazrul |
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Bringing
the Rebel to the Cyberspace |
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Can a spouse wash the deceased
spouse's body? Some illuminating hadiths |
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18 |
Cat's
Eye or Red Rose: What's in a Name? |
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Change
and Continuity: The Dynamics of Institutional Behavior in Islam |
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Civil Liberties and Uncivil Super-Patriotism: The Struggle between the Two
Americas
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21 |
Competence,
Age and Leadership |
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22 |
Complete Muslims:
Awareness-building vs. Theologization |
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23 |
Contemporary
Gender Issues (A Khutbah series) |
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24 |
Cooperation vs.
Confrontation: A Reality Check |
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Destination:
Sense or Non-sense: I-II |
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26 |
Development
Demystified: An Islamic Perspective |
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27 |
Development
Experience of Bangladesh in Gunnar Myrdal's Asian Drama Perspective |
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28 |
Did Hadrat Umar Restrict
Women from Attending Mosques? |
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29 |
Did
the Prophet endorse suicide bombing? Anti-Islamic Propaganda by
"former Muslims" |
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Russian |
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Eid,
Jibrail and Jibanananda Das: He called me BHAI (brother)! |
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31 |
Einstein,
Zionism and Israel: Setting the Record Straight |
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Turkish |
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32 |
Electoral
Reform and the Political Culture |
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33 |
Exploitation,
Profit and The Riba-Interest Reductionism
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34 |
Freedom
and Choice: The First Order Condition of Islam
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Spanish |
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35 |
From
Kamala Das to Dashi: Doing the right thing for wrong
reasons? |
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36 |
From
Vietnam to Iraq: Lesson from Tonkin Gulf Lies
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37 |
Funadamental Challenges
facing the Muslims (a concept paper) |
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38 |
Fundamental
Human Dignity and the Mathematics of Slavery
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Genocide 1971: What does the world
know about it? |
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| 40 |
Global Financial Crisis and the Link Between the
Monetary and Real Sector: Moving Beyond the Asset-Backed Islamic Finance
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41 |
Grace of Allah and Good Deeds |
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42 |
Hadhrat
Umar, the Battle
of Hunayn, etc. |
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43 |
Hail
The Greenback: In God We Trust? |
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44 |
Hajj and the Neglected Legacy
of a Great Woman (an Eid al-Adha Khutbah) |
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French |
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45 |
Half-Marriage and the Debate that
never was |
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46 |
Hard
Economic Choices: Are They Getting Harder? |
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47 |
Hijab
and a revelation that was not
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48 |
Hindu-Muslim Relationship |
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49 |
How are you spending your
charity dollar this year? |
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50 |
Humanity
and People Power: A Tribute to Dr. Ali Shariati |
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Turkish |
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51 |
Humanity,
Universalism and Nazrul
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52 |
In
search of the bottom: Focus on the top |
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Incentive Based Regulation for Islamic Banks
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International
Development: Is There Any Role Model? |
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55 |
Interesting
Numerical Findings in the Qur'an (or a hoax?): A partial examination |
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56 |
Islam
and Democracy: Perceptions and Misperceptions
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57 |
Islam
and Egalitarianism
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58 |
Islam
and Freedom (A Jumuah Khutbah) |
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| 60 |
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Islam
and the History of Science (6 parts) |
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Islam, Race and Justice:
Reconciling the Irreconciliable |
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Islam,
Reform and Stakeholders: Toward a Common-Ground-Seeking Approach
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Islamic
Fiqh (Law) and the Neglected Empirical Foundation |
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Islamic
Law and the Use and Abuse of Hadith |
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66 |
Islamophobia (4
parts) |
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67 |
Jamaat,
1971 and Apology |
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68 |
Kazi Nazrul in His Own
Words |
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Logic,
reason, and the spirit of inquiry |
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| 70 |
Making
and Unmaking of Love [also in Bangla] |
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| 71 |
Masculine
Eid: Half-full or Half-empty? |
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Dutch |
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Maulana
Azad (translation from the original by Syed Mujtaba Ali) |
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Mind-Building:
A Neglected Dimension of the Prophetic Heritage |
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74 |
Mortgage
Financing: Some Second-best Considerations |
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75 |
Moving
Past the Politics of "Family Baggage" |
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76 |
Muhammad (s): His Life and
Teachings in ONE-PAGE |
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Muslim American Dream:
Is There One? |
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78 |
Muslim Unity: A
Business-Like Approach |
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79 |
Muslim
women, how about start riding on your bike! |
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| 80 |
My resolution on
wife-beating! |
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| 81 |
Nazrul:
An Enduring Voice, A Neglected Legacy |
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Nazrul:
The Call for Sportsmanship |
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Nazrul
and Labeling based on fragmented views
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"O Allah! You are my
servant and I am Your Lord!": The Language of Love |
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Spanish |
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85 |
On Accusations against Grameen
Bank |
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86 |
On Illegitimization
of Muslims of Bengal |
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On Overstretched Critique and Mathematization of Islamic Economics |
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On Time Constraint for Jumuah
Prayer |
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Our Special Ummah |
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| 90 |
Paradise Might Not Be
Boring! |
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| 91 |
Partition
of India and the Creation of Pakistan [a multi-part series] |
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Partnership,
Equity-financing and Islamic finance: Whither Profit-Loss-Sharing? |
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| 93 |
Play
the Right Tune, and ... |
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94 |
Praying
for Non-Muslims: Some Post-Tsunami Thoughts |
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Public
vs. Private Sector: Policy Dynamics in an Islamic Perspective |
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Qard Hasan, Wadiah/Amanah and Bank Deposits: Applications and Misapplications of Some Concepts in Islamic Banking |
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Qiyas (Analogical Reasoning) and Commodification of Women: Applying
Commercial Concepts to Marital Relationship in Orthodox Islamic Law
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Qiyas
(Analogical Reasoning) and Some Problematic Issues in Islamic law
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99 |
Rabindranath
Tagore: A Brief Biographical Sketch |
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| 100 |
Ramadan
and Eid in Poetry: The Contributions of Kazi Nazrul Islam
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| 101 |
Ramadan
and fastidious fasts: Some potpourri observations |
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| 102 |
Rape
and Hudood Ordinance: Perversions of Justice in the Name of Islam
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| 103 |
Reality:
The Islamic Touch! |
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Spanish |
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Reflections
on Shetubondhon: |
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Some
Notable Unsubscriptions |
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Carpet
Bombing Approach |
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Nagging
Tale of Four Wives |
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No one
said that it's going to be easy |
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| 105 |
Reflections on a few aspects of Kazi Nazrul Islam |
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Reflections
on Tagore's Gora: Layers of ignorance and voices against prejudice |
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107 |
Reply to "Crazy Idea: Setting Up A World Religion"
(Part I;
Part II;
Part III) |
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108 |
Religious
Denunciations and Takfir: Isn't there enough to go around? |
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Riba,
Interest and Six Hadiths: Do We Have a Definition or a Conundrum? |
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Sahih
as 'Rigorously authenticated' and Hasan as 'Authenticated': Unwarranted
translations and creating misperceptions |
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111 |
Secularism |
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112 |
Self-Interest,
Homo Islamicus and Some Behavioral Assumptions in Islamic Economics and
Finance |
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SHAME:
The first and real one, but we did not listen! |
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| 114 |
Shariah Governance for Islamic Finance: Challenges
and Pragmatic Solutions (co-authored) |
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Shari'ah,
Laws and Islam: Legalism vs. Value-orientation
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Shetubondhon:
Toward a Paradigm of Bridge-Building |
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117 |
Should
you be a Fundamentalist? |
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118 |
Shura (Consultation): A Vital
Islamic Institution and Process |
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119 |
Slavery and Islam |
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120 |
Some
Fundamentals |
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Some
contrasting and juxtaposed ideas from the World of Nazrul [
Watch video] |
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122 |
Sonar
Bangla: Some Reflections |
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Stipulation
of Excess in Understanding and Misunderstanding Riba: Al-Jassas Link
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Taslima
Nasreen: Gone with the wind! |
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Taqwa, Ramadan, and the Qur'an:
The Triangular Link of Our Ethical System |
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| 126 |
The Challenge of Poverty and Mapping Out Solutions: Requisite Paradigm Shift
from a Problem-Solving and Islamic Perspective |
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The Challenge of Poverty and the Poverty of Islamic Economics |
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The
Doctrine of Ijma': Is there a consensus? |
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The
GOLDEN Standard: It's not uncommon! |
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130 |
The Hostage Islam (several underlying topics) |
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Prophet's family foot-race (Part I;
Part II;
Part III) |
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No wife-beating in Islam (Part 1;
Part II;
Part III;
Part IV) |
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131 |
The
Issue of Farakka: An Introduction |
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132 |
The Last Word: A Jumuah
Khutbah |
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The Race in
Exaggeration |
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The Real Sector and Pitfalls of
Financialization |
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135 |
The
Riba-Interest Equation and Islam: Reexamination of the Traditional
Arguments
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The
Riba-Interest Equivalence: Is There Any Ijma (Consensus)?
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The Spirit of Global-Belonging: Perspectives from Some Humanity-Oriented
Icons
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138 |
The
State of Bangladesh Economy: Issues and Concerns |
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The
Uncivil War [a multi-part series] |
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The
Warped Economics of Fatwa: Demand Creates Its OWN Supply |
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Toward
a Dialog between Civilizations: The Qur'an Reading Controversy at UNC |
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Toward
a Marxists-Muslims Dialog: I-V |
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Toward
Defining and Understanding Riba |
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Toward
Political Transformation in Bangladesh: The Demand and the Supply Side of
Healthy Politics |
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Toward
Understanding Muhammad: Some issues in peace and violence
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Toward
Understanding Nazrul: The Rebel and More |
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Tyranny
and the Tyrants: The unlearned lessons of history
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Who
says that good is good? |
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149 |
Women and Divorce
in Bangladesh: An Islamic Perspective |
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Women Scholars
of Islam: They must bloom
again! |
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151 |
Words Not Spoken, Kisses Not
Delivered |
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Indonesian |
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World
Bank: Whose Bank and for Which World? |
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| 153 |
Zionist
Ideology and the Reality of Israel: The Thoughts of Nahum Goldmann |
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154 |
Zionism,
Israel, Racism/Apartheid |
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