Islamic Insights

In the Name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful    The New Mardin Declaration    All Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds and Peace and Salutations be upon Muhammad, who has been sent as a Mercy unto the Worlds, his family and all of his companions.   A Peace Summit Conference (Mardin: The... read more

  CNN Interview with Shaykh Abdallah Bin Bayyah President of the Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies, UAE   Interviewed by Becky Anderson Translated into English     Question 1: Why are we seeing such extreme violence in Muslim countries?     Shaykh Bin Bayyah:  This question, I believe, is one that is put... read more

WASHINGTON, DC, 5th February, 2017 (WAM) — Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayyah, President of the Forum for Peace in Abu Dhabi, has participated in a roundtable conversation on religious tolerance and understanding with students, faculty, religious scholars and policy experts at Johns Hopkins University Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. During his talk,... read more

We have mentioned in a previous article the general rules and bounds of reason in Islam. In light of widespread debate—both internal and external—about the loss of the value of the mind of the Muslims, we elucidated that there is full harmony and compatibility, especially with regard to reason and faith, wherein the mind is... read more

Western interest in Islamic economics and finance is, in our estimation, due to the following reasons: First, because there is no religious moral economy with credibility today except in Islam. Second, the rationality enjoyed by Islamic economics — even if it has its origins and basic elements in the revelation to the Prophet — is... read more