Centre for Study of Society and Secularism Author: Dr. Sofia Mehboob Dr. Mehboob has a PhD in Religious Paradigm of Human Rights and is a lecturer at a private university in Pakistan. She is an alumnus of Islam & Liberty Residential Workshop. On 3rd November 2020 Centre for Study of Society and Secularism organized webinar…
Islam & Liberty Summer Workshop Tunisia 17-19 July 2019 Report Tunisia is the only ‘Arab Spring’ country which has graduated from the tumultuous revolution to a more stable democracy and its recent experience suggests that Islam and democracy are compatible, provided political leadership demonstrates a pluralist approach. It is also a country which is facing…
Islam and Liberty Summer University Iran Islam and Liberty Network (ILN) organized a 5-day long regional resident workshop, Islam and Liberty Summer University 2018 (ILSU), between 16th and 20th July 2018 at the Mofid University, Qom, near Tehran, which is one of the leading centres of Islamic Economics in Iran. It featured guest speakers giving…
6th International Islam and Liberty Conference Building Islamic Foundations for Open Markets Ali Salman Islam & Liberty Network organized its 6th international conference “Building an Islamic Case for Open Markets” in Islamabad with the support from the Iqbal Institute for Research & Dialogue (IRD) Islamabad. This article is based on the papers presented in this…
Seeking Equality for Women in Islam KUALA LUMPUR: “I think one of the most profound challenges we as Muslim face today is the search for ways to live our faith in a world where human rights, women’s rights and democracy constitutes the dominant ethical paradigm of the modern world. In the 21st century, there cannot…
Is Liberty an Islamic Value? KUALA LUMPUR: “Freedom, in my view, is central to Islam. It is actually within Islam’s DNA. A full commitment to being a Muslim really demands you to accept the concept of freedom. To deny or reject freedom is really to fundamentally, I think, misread the core message and…
Pathways to Reform in the Islamic World NEW YORK: “Liberal democracy has emerged from the era of Reformation and Enlightenment. These movements also nurtured other ideas like tolerance, diversity, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, equality before law, rule of law, free markets, right to private property, enterprise and so on so forth” said…
Istanbul Network 5th International Conference Democratic Transitions in the Muslim World Istanbul Network for Liberty held its fifth annual conference in collaboration with International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS) Malaysia on the 27th and 28th of November 2017. A special thanks to CIPE, Atlas Network and IDEAS for their sponsorship of the conference. This…
28th February to 2nd March 2nd , 2013, – Marriott Hotel – Islamabad Islam and the Institutions of a Free Society. 28th February 2013 Arrivals Evening Dinner ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 1st March 2013 0815 Registration 0900 Opening : Opening remarks: Dr Azhar Aslam Welcome on behalf of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation: Olaf Kellerhoff First session: Chair: …
This was the first event of the Istanbul Network for Liberty which was founded in October 2011 by a group of classical liberals intellectuals who were mainly Muslims, or from mainly Muslin countries and the topic was the Istanbul Network (InfoL) mission “To Explore the Principles and Practise of a Free Society within a Muslim…