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Jihad - The Solution?

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Wider than these conferences - it is important for Muslims in the UK to be given the space to speak about jihad at conferences, in the mosques and at demonstrations. There has been much misunderstanding as to its meaning, far too often the concept is mischievously misinterpreted for nefarious purposes. As a concept it is extremely important for Muslims...

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Critical Imagination

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Imagination, I want to argue, is formative of the world in the sense that it is under the auspices of this faculty that the sensory data we each receive is assembled into a picture of the world. Yet were this to be the extent of the role of the imagination in our conceiving of the world we would have to concede such a faculty to animals as well as to humans...

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Mimbar-rising

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Indeed the mosque is more than space alone; it is a place that functions as a building and as an institution. Today, the emptiness and spaciousness of the mosque has become restricted to prayer so that the emptiness is imagined as something that has meaning only in relation to salah and not as an element integral to the vitality of the mosque as an institution.

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