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The new Issue of Religions Journal would like to explore the correlation between the Qur’an, the word of God that through the Archangel Gabriel was inspired by God to Muhammad in the first half of the...
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Challenging the conservative framers of Islamic law who accorded a lesser status to women, Mohammad Ali Sayyid argues that the Quran and the Hadith—the two primary sources of...
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Conciliation in the Qurʾan addresses an existing imbalanced focus in Islamic Studies on conflict in the Qurʾan, and moves beyond a restrictive approach to ṣulḥ (reconciliation) as a mediation process in...
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