Islamic Ethics

The American Response to COVID-19 and the Moral Dilemma

Preface The times call for Muslims not only to ‘find a place’ in the society and culture we live in, but to proactively participate in the effort to understand and respond to its crises. We can neither insulate...

Dr. Edward Omar Moad

Taking Account of Tech: Fulfilling Our Personhood in the Smartphone Era

Preface But random reflections on the human condition need, like beads, to be strung on a connecting thread…this thread should be the Islamic concept of Man as God’s Viceroy on this beautiful but transient...

Dr. Zara Khan

In Defense of Faith: Principles and Guidelines for Islamic Apologetics

This essay has been summarized based on an intensive course delivered by Dr. Hatem Al-Haj entitled Islamic apologetics in December 2019 and presented in essay format by Dr. Nazir Khan with additions and...

Dr. Hatem al-Haj

Reviving the Waqf Tradition: Moral Imagination and the Structural Causes of Poverty

Abstract This paper builds on recent research classifying Islamic charitable endowments—the institution of the waqf—into distinct stages of historical and institutional development. It aims to imagine how...

Dr. Zara Khan

There Has Always Been Fake News: Misinformation and Islamic Critical Epistemology

There has always been Fake News World crises are not new to us. In our short lifespans, there have been multiple genocides, such as in Bosnia and Rwanda, and immense droughts and mass starvation, as in Somalia. We have...

Arnold Yasin Mol and Jeroen Vlug

Faithful Activism: A Sunnah Framework

Note Last updated October 30, 2020. Introduction The following document represents instructional notes formulated by Sh. Omar Suleiman, Founder and President of Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research, for a course taught...

Dr. Omar Suleiman

Culture as Contestation: Planting Good Seeds in the Nation’s Soil

Introduction In 1999, the historic Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York City (one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States) hosted Sensation, a collection of works by young British artists. The...

Dr. Zara Khan

More Than Just Law: The Idea of Justice in the Qur’an

Introduction There is an urgent need to revitalize the concept of justice specifically as a virtue since the focus in the Islamic and Western worlds has been more significantly on the juridical and political aspects of...

Dr. Yasien Mohamed

Writ and Wisdom: The Quran’s Moral Narrative

Author’s Note This article has been abridged from the first chapter of The Qur’an and the Just Society (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) by Ramon Harvey, now available in paperback. It presents the...

Dr. Ramon Harvey

Finding Truth in the Age of Fake News: Information Literacy in Islam

Abstract Information literacy is the set of skills needed in the modern age to discover, evaluate, interpret, and use information properly and truthfully. With the worldwide proliferation of misinformation on the...

Anonymous Guest Author

The Idea of Happiness in the Qur’an

Happiness in Qur’anic ethics The desire for happiness is a natural desire, and both the Greek and Islamic philosophers agree that happiness is the final end, but they differ as to what this end is and how it should be...

Dr. Yasien Mohamed

The Technology of Happiness

Introduction “When there is a general change of conditions,” Ibn Khaldun writes, “it is as if the entire creation had changed and the whole world been altered as if it were a new and repeated creation, a world brought...

Dr. Edward Omar Moad

Islamic Ethics

The American Response to COVID-19 and the Moral Dilemma

Taking Account of Tech: Fulfilling Our Personhood in the Smartphone Era

In Defense of Faith: Principles and Guidelines for Islamic Apologetics

Reviving the Waqf Tradition: Moral Imagination and the Structural Causes of Poverty

There Has Always Been Fake News: Misinformation and Islamic Critical Epistemology

Culture as Contestation: Planting Good Seeds in the Nation’s Soil

Writ and Wisdom: The Quran’s Moral Narrative

Finding Truth in the Age of Fake News: Information Literacy in Islam

The Idea of Happiness in the Qur’an

The Technology of Happiness

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