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The radio, television and cinema are very useful inventions. They can be very good tools for training and education. The tenets of faith and moral values can be propagated through these media....
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It is true that the boys attain the age of responsibility (Baligh) at fifteen and the girls at age nine. This is the age when the juridical norms become mandatory for...
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This ethnography provides a theoretically informed account of the educational journeys of students in girls’ madrasas in...
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I set out to write this book with two goals in mind- first, to introduce the major themes of Islamic philosophy to those unfamiliar with them, and second, to Afdal al-Din Kashani to the list of...
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This article has been developed through the contents of a lecture delivered by Shaykh Saleem Bhimji in Edmonton, Alberta in 2011 to mark the martyrdom of the sons of...
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