Date: Friday, 6 September 2013 Time: 8-1030PM Venue: Kelab Golf Perkhidmatan Awam, Jalan Damansara, Mont Kiara, Kuala Lumpur Registration: http://muslimbrotherhood.eventbrite.com/ The perennial question has always been: ”Is Islam Compatible with Democracy?” The answer was initially much clearer with the eruption […]

Ulama Iran yang terkenal telah melahirkan rasa terkejut dengan pendirian yang diambil oleh birokrat agama tentang Shia, dan mengingatkan mereka tentang fatwa yang masyhur pada 1959 oleh Mahmud Shaltut dari Universiti al-Azhar Mesir, fatwa yang jelas mengiktiraf Shiah sebagai mazhab […]

A well-known Iranian cleric has expressed surprise at the stand taken by Malaysian religious bureaucrats on Shiism, and reminded them about a famous fatwa in 1959 by the late Mahmud Shaltut from Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, a fatwa which explicitly recognises […]

Negara Demokrasi Sekular: Negara yang adil dan berkebajikan Ahmad Farouk Musa Monash University Abstrak Salah satu daripada tren yang sedang bangkit yang mungkin mempengaruhi arah politik Islam kontemporer adalah penyerbuan aliran Islam Literal. Jelas tren yang membimbangkan ini dapat dilihat […]

Job Description Fellow of the 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 a think tank focusing on […]

One of the emerging trends that may influence the trajectory of contemporary political Islam is the intrusion of Literal Islam. Obviously this worrying trend could be seen more clearly with the Arab Spring although the literalists were not initially at […]

A Lecture by Prof Mohsen Kadivar, Duke University Venue: Senate Room, International Islamic University of Malaysia Date: Wednesday, 21 August, 10AM – 1PM The relationship between revelation and reason is without doubt one of the major epistemological issues faced by […]

A Lecture by Prof Mohsen Kadivar, Duke University Venue: Wawasan Open University, Georgetown, Penang Date: 23 August, 10AM – 12PM The animosity between Shia and Sunni is not new, however today it displays some characteristics that are different from the […]

Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa calls upon the government to stop the intimidation and persecution of Shias and to allow them to practise their faith. We, at the Islamic Renaissance Front, were dismayed and horrified by the statement made by a […]

Date : Saturday, August 24, 2013 Time: 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM (MYT) Venue : Studio R, The Renaissance Hotel, Kuala Lumpur Registration: http://islamandsecularism.eventbrite.com/ Secularism has always been thought to be antithetical to Islam. However if one was to look […]

Setelah fenomena 11 September 2001, stigmatisasi negatif terhadap Islam semakin menguat. “The religion of terror” menjadi jargon para pihak, dengan pelbagai kepentingan. Indonesia sendiri berduka dengan adanya Bom Bali, pada 2002. Mayoritas para sarjana studi Islam dan masyarakat, menyibukkan diri […]

Lingga anakku, aku pernah berkisah tentang seorang perempuan yang luar biasa, perempuan yang mengajarkanku soal ketulusan, yang memberiku semangat untuk terus berkarya. Aku menjadi seorang yang engkau kenal hari ini tidak lepas dari celotehnya, celoteh tentang arti hidup yang tidak […]

The situation in Egypt gives much food for thought to us in Malaysia. Many Egyptians who voted in the recently deposed President Mohamed Morsi last year and thus accepted the prospect of greater Islamisation of government rejected it after they […]

By Farish A. Noor ISLAMIST DEMOCRACY: The Egyptian crisis raises deeper questions about religious politics THE toppling of president Mohamed Morsi and his Freedom and Justice Party in Egypt has raised a host of deep and difficult questions about the […]

By Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa We at the Islamic Renaissance Front were dismayed and horrified by the statement made by a Minister in the Prime Minister Department, Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom that there was no violation of human rights […]

June 17, 2013 The Islamic Renaissance Front observes the protests in Turkey very closely. We believe there is much at stake in how AKP (The Justice and Development Party) will engage with the demonstrators at this point, especially with regards […]

Over the weekend US President Obama’s decision to provide lethal aid to Syrian rebel forces has gained bipartisan support among American lawmakers. But will this move result in an escalation of the conflict or could be a way of bringing […]

Dr Ahmad Farouk Musa Islamic Renaissance Front Hari ini kita akan melihat secara spesifik karya al-Qur’ān Muhammad Asad, iaitu The Message of the Qur’ān. The Message didedikasikan kepada “Kaum Yang Berfikir”. Keseluruhan komentar Muhammad Asad adalah usaha yang luar biasa. […]

Mr Chairman, Prof Abdullah Ahsan, Deputy Dean of ISTAC, honorable guest Prof James Piscatori, our co-organizer Prof Khoo Gaik Cheng of Nottingham University, professors, academicians, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen: Assalamu’alaikum warahmatullah, Let me start by quoting a line from […]

Let me start by quoting a line from the song Sout al-Hurriyah – Song of Freedom, a song from a video produced at the same time of the Arab Uprising in Tahrir Square, Cairo. In the video, the lines of […]