Date: Sabtu, 21 June 2014 Time: 3:30PM-5:30PM Venue: Graha Pemuda, Sri Hartamas, KL Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-session-gagasan-islah-dan-tajdid-muhammadiyah-tickets-11974334557 Gerakan Muhammadiyah diasaskan oleh Kiyai Haji Ahmad Dahlan yang merupakan seorang ulama pembaharu dan pemikir penting yang telah mencetuskan revolusi perjuangan yang besar dalam rangka pembaharuan […]

Tinjauan Ke Atas Perubahan Masyarakat Setiap konsepsi keadilan yang dibentuk oleh para pemikir tidak boleh terpisah daripada struktur dan dinamisme masyarakatnya. Di bahagian ini, kita akan meninjau dengan lebih mendalam perubahan-perubahan yang telah dilalui masyarakat dunia umumnya dalam strukturnya bagi […]

Tafsir Reformasi atas Wacana Humanisme Setelah menghuraikan secara ringkas keterikatan wacana pluralisma agama di dalam al-Qur’an adalah perkara yang asas dalam teks Quran yang dianjurkan, tetapi penafsiran umum ayat-ayat inklusif telah dimatikan menjadi ayat-ayat ekslusif oleh sebahagian golongan tradisionalis .Polemik […]

“Comparing mid-century with earlier times, it is now quite extraordinary to note that there was no figure or text or even discipline which could have claimed continuity with the greats of the past. There were many students of Machiavelli, Hobbes, […]

‘’Without restoring the principle of coexistence, Muslims will not be able to recapture the spirit of early civil society under the prophet. The principle of equals in creation can serve as a cornerstone of a Muslim civil society’’ [Abdulaziz Sachedina: […]

7 May 2014 Friday, May 2 discussion on hudud in Malaysia at the Chinese Assembly Hall remained in the past of the last week but the waves of excitement are still buzzing in the air. The discussion that gathered at […]

Date: Sabtu, 14 Jun 2014 Time: 1130AM – 1PM Venue: Graha Pemuda, Sri Hartamas, KL Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-session-john-rawls-dan-teori-keadilan-liberal-tickets-11894682315 John Rawls merupakan salah seorang filasuf kontemporari dalam tradisi Barat yang telah mencetuskan revolusi dalam falsafah politik kontemporari. Menerusi penerbitan A Theory of Justice […]

Date: Sabtu, 21 Jun 2014 Time: 11AM – 1PM Venue: Conference Room, Global Movement of Moderates Foundation, Level 15 Menara Manulife, Bukit Damansara Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seminar-pemikiran-reformis-siri-i-buya-hamka-tickets-11855138037 Syaikh Abdul Malik bin Abdul Karim Amrullah atau lebih dikenal mesra sebagai Buya Hamka (Februari 17, 1908 […]

Media agenda is such a tricky thing that some issues of not paramount importance always have a chance to become incredibly popular in the public discourse. These distortions indeed have narrowed down the reality to very limited issues. I noticed […]

Date: Sabtu, 7 June 2014 Time: 10AM – 1PM Venue: Hotel Perdana, Kota Bharu, Kelantan Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/perdebatan-tentang-negara-sekular-tickets-11628305575 Sesungguhnya keseluruhan pandangan yang fundamental daripada projek Islamis berakar pada ide tentang kedaulatan Tuhan. Sebarang bentuk kerajaan yang lain asasnya hanya merupa upaya manusia […]

Date: Sunday 18 May 2014 Time: 11AM – 1PM Venue: Conference Room, Global Movement of Moderates Foundation, Level 15 Menara Manulife, Bukit Damansara, Kuala Lumpur Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/forum-on-rethinking-islam-and-liberal-democracy-tickets-11640718703   “If by democracy is meant the liberal model of government prevailing in the West, a system […]

Job Description: Special Officer to the Executive Director of Islamic Renaissance Front (IRF) Introduction Islamic Renaissance Front [IRF] is established and registered as a company limited by guarantee under the Company’s Act 1965 on 30th October 2007. It is an […]

Date: Saturday, 17 May 2014 Time: 0900AM -0600PM Venue: Studio R, Renaissance Hotel, KL Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/colloquium-on-freedom-of-religion-with-dr-anas-at-tikriti-tickets-11535997479 Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) adopted in 1966, mandated freedom of religion and stated that no one […]

Date & Time: Sunday 18 May, 4PM – 6PM Venue: Graha Pemuda, Sri Hartamas, Kuala Lumpur Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/usrah-on-has-political-islam-failed-tickets-11594662949 The “Arab Spring’ that opened a door for Islamists to come to power through ballot boxes posed a serious challenge to the […]

Date: Tuesday 20 May 2014 Time: 11AM – 1PM Venue: Conference Room, Law Faculty, University of Malaya Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/roundtable-discussion-on-has-the-arab-spring-turned-into-islamist-winter-tickets-11594670973 The Arab Spring has given much hope to many Muslims around the world. It somehow signifies a new beginning, a new […]

IRF will organize a colloqium and forum with DR ANAS Altikriti in Kuala Lumpur on the next week from 17-23 May. The following is Dr Anas’s profile for the participants and guests who would like to know more about him: […]

by Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa The Kelantan Deputy Mentri Besar, Datuk Mohd Nik Amar proposal for surgeons to amputate the hands of thieves under hudud laws is simply vile and outrageous. Perhaps Nik Amar did not realize that the universal […]

The topics of democracy, liberalism, human rights are not new in contemporary Malaysia. However, with almost every discussion some  new points are promoted or strengthened at one of the contesting sides. Remarkably, promotion of the debates does not reduce the power with […]

Date: Sunday, 27 April Time: 3:30PM – 5:30PM Venue: Graha Pemuda, Sri Hartamas For his day, the Prophet Muhammad was a feminist. The doctrine he laid out as the revealed word of God considerably improved the status of women in […]

Date: Sunday, 27 April 2014, Time: 11AM – 1PM Venue: Conference Room, Global Movement of Moderates Foundation, Level 15 Menara Manulife, Damansara Heights, KL Registration: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/forum-women-after-the-arab-spring-political-and-social-rights-tickets-11292998663 The Arab Spring had seen the rise of young people who demanded a new kind of […]