By Souad Adnane The position of women in Morocco is reflective of a society that has gone through many phases of change throughout its history but that has kept its basic patriarchal structure mostly intact. Although the legal framework has evolved in a way to better account for gender equality, cultural practices are still lagging behind.…
17 – 18 March 2014 – Hotel Legacy Ottoman – Istanbul Values and Institutions of a Free Society in mainly Muslim Countries Program 16 March 2014, Sunday 17.00 – 19.00 Registration 19.00 – 19.45 Opening Dinner 19.45 – 20.30 Keynote speech: Syed Kamall, Member of the European Parliament (Video) 17 March 2014, Monday 08.30 – 09.30 …
This year’s conference was hosted by Association for Liberal Thinking based in Turkey in cooperation with Minaret of Freedom Institute. The conference attracted around 100 participants, intellectual entrepreneurs, academics, writers, researchers, think tank activists, businessmen, students from over 17 countries such as Morocco, Pakistan, Malaysia, Palestine, Tunisia, Egypt, Bosnia, and from other European countries. The event took place…
By Amira Fathy El Kady Introduction: • Woman is half the society .she is the inherent part of our society and cannot be neglected due to their less power and authority. They are created as a companion for men and men have to let them share their life journey with them. Women do play a…
Hicham El Moussaoui, Ph.D Trust is the lubricant of trade. It reduces the costs of transactions and uncertainty, which allows it to provide a dual mission : the incentive for individuals to participate in the exchange and coordination of their individual plans. Therefore, without trust no exchange and without exchange no market economy. Adam Smith…
By Edo Omerčević This paper is an empirical analysis of the desire for government control in different segments of life in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The focus is on Bosnian Muslims and on the effect of intensity of religious practice. The data is based on a survey conducted by the author. The findings indicate that Bosnian…
By Prof. Dr. Mustafa Acar It is a generally observed phenomenon that the liberal values such as freedom, plurality, multi- culturalism, openness, limited government, and free market economy are not so welcomed in the Muslim world today. To put it differently, many Muslim intellectuals as well as political authorities and the laymen are either indifferent…
By Murat Aktas The popular uprisings starting from Tunisia in December 2010 and growing like a snowball and spreading quickly to other Arab countries have produced the most dramatic changes in the region since the end of the colonial era in the middle of the 20th century. These revolts against the oppressive regimes in the…
By Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Minaret of Freedom Institute I have noticed that the main opposition to capitalism in the Muslim world, as in the third world in general, is its association with imperialism. This association is unfortunate and has impeded the Muslim world from engaging in the free markets that are its birthright under the Qur’an…
By Assoc. Prof. Hasan Yücel Başdemir – Yildirim Beyazit What is the Trouble in the Muslim World? When we try to depict the Muslim World in terms of political way we’ll see a situation like that: There isn’t any good governance, political stability can’t be provided and violence is dominant. The process which had begun…
By Dzenan Smajic Abstract In this paper, we will try to explain how the idea of a state which is a servant of its individual citizens must be the supreme issue in nowadays Islamic community. The main thing is that we are not here to speak just about rights, responsibilities and obligations of the state…
