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Vortex Ijtihâd : independent thinking, scholarly research
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 | Irshad Manji — A video on her new book, Allah, Liberty and Love: The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom ••• (this was found on page one of the Wall Street Journal, today, May 7, 2011). It seems to me that Irshad is channeling Karl Popper. -leif
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| Irshad Manji, on Liberty — Another video on her new book, Allah, Liberty and Love: The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom •••
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 | Ijtihad — Islam's tradition of independent thinking
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| Irshad Manji, Project Ijtihad •••
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| Ijtihad (pronounced “ij-tee-had”) is Islam’s own tradition of independent thinking. In the early centuries of Islam, thanks to the spirit of ijtihad, 135 schools of thought thrived. Inspired by ijtihad, Muslims gave the world inventions from the astrolabe to the university. So much of what we consider "western" pop culture came from Muslims: the guitar, mocha coffee, even the ultra-Spanish expression "Ole!" (which has its root in the Arabic word for God, "Allah").
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| Ijtihad - Islam's lost tradition of independent thinking ••• (efGlyph 286)
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| "Faith Without Fear": Irshad Manji calls on her fellow Muslims to reform — A PBS America at the Crossroads film •••
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| Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Minaret of Freedom [link]
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| ... the returning Crusaders brought back to Europe the first idea of a gentleman that Europeans had ever had. Until they invaded the Saracens' civilization, they had never known that a strong man need not be brutal. The Saracens were splendid fighters when they fought, but they were not cruel; they did not torture their prisoners, they did not kill the wounded. In their own country, they did not persecute the Christians. They were brave men, but they were gentle. They were honorable, they told the truth, they kept their word. —Rose Wilder Lane
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| Reviewd by By George C. Leef, September 1998 [link]
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| The Directory of Policy Experts on Islamic Studies and Muslim Affairs is a joint project of: the Minaret of Freedom Institute, the Association of Muslim Social Scientists of North America, and the International Institute of Islamic Thought.
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| Gamal al Banna — A call to restore Islam’s golden age
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| 'Mr al Banna is part of a small band of Arab intellectuals who believe that the Islamic world needs to radically change the way it approaches Islam by embracing the values of critical thinking and debate that were a hallmark of the ancient Muslim world. “This is precisely what Muslims did during the time of their renaissance before the door of ijtihad was closed,” he said, referring to the act of revising Sharia law to allow Islam to adapt to contemporary times.' — http://thenational.ae/article/20090221/FOREIGN/747316439/1002
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| Tariq Ramadan, "What you fear is not who I am" ••• — The author requests that journalists and others read what he has written before accepting and repeating what has been said about him.
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 | Dubai Women Establishment
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| January 12, 2010: "Dubai Women Establishment Launches The Second Arab Women Leadership Forum" •••
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| February 3, 2010, a report on the Forum: "Dubai's Young Women: Single and Determined" •••, co-authored by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Lisa Weinert, HarvardBusiness.org
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| Charlemagne, Muhammad, and the Arab Roots of Capitalism, Gene W. Heck, published by Kalima, Abu Dhabi
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| 'Abu Dhabi, 21st November - In a bid to tackle a gap created by one thousand years of limited translation of foreign
writing into Arabic, Kalima, a major translation initiative, launched today and announced its much-anticipated first ever list
of 100 candidate books for translation.
'Kalima (“word” in Arabic), is one of the boldest and most significant cultural initiatives to come out of the Arab world in
years, and is set to widen access to books and knowledge by funding the translation, publication, and distribution of high-
quality works of classic and contemporary writing from other languages into Arabic.' —from a Kalima press release, 21 November 2007
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| The Ornament of the World, María Rosa Menocal — Recommended by Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad
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| 352 Edward Gibbon on Moslem Tolerance - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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| 142 Islam's Historical Tolerance of Religions - Lord Lamont, Hi Pakistan, 15 February 2004, Lecture at Szabist
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| 269 Islam and the Discovery of Freedom, by Rose Wilder Lane - Published by Minaret of Freedom Institute
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| 286 Ijtihad - Islam's lost tradition of independent thinking - Irshad Manji, on an aspect of Islam's greatness
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| Explorers Foundation Investments in Vortex Ijtihad
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| 01/08 — $250 to Minaret of Freedom, toward building a database of market-oriented Islamic resources.
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| 07/07 — $250 to The Minaret of Freedom (Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad)
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| 07/07 — $250 to Project Ijtihad (Irshad Manji)
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| 12/06 — A friend of the Foundation bought and distributed 25 copies of Rose Wilder Lane's Discovery of Freedom, edited and corrected by Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad.
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| Participants in this vortex
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| Leif Smith, Irshad Manji, Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Bill Casey, Robert Haywood, Mark Frazier, Spencer MacCallum
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