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Articles,
transcripts, and publications
Those listed publications that are not
yet available on-line may be ordered from
the Minaret of Freedom Institute. Order
any three papers for $10. Papers will be
sent by priority mail. (Price subject to
change without notice.)
Freedom, Democracy,Civil Society, &
Rule of Law
- MFI
President
Dr.
Imad-ad-Dean
Ahmad's paper on
"Natural Law and Sharia" has been
accepted for publication in the
proceedings of the 2009 IIIT Summer
Institute on "Contemporary Approaches to
Qur'an and Sunnah.'
- Dr.
Ahmad's article on “Muhammad on
the US Constitution (as Inferred from
the Qur’an and the Medina Covenant)” in
Joshua B. Stein's
Considering the Constitution:
Commentary on the Constitution of
the United States from Plato to
Rousseau. This is a shorter
version of an article
published in the American Journal
of Islamic Social Sciences.
- Dr.
Ahmad's article on “American
and
Muslim Perspectives on Freedom of
Religion,” published in the University
of Pennsylvania Journal of
Constitutional Law.
- MFI Program Assistant Sarah Swick's
award-winning article "Modest Beginning
for a Global Student Movement" imagining
the rise of a student movement for
liberty in the Middle East over the next
four years.
- Dr.
Ahmad's presentation on "Creating
a Productive Discourse on Democracy in
the Muslim World" delivered to the
Center for the Study of Islam and
Democracy.
- Dr.
Ahmad's presentation on public
diplomacy, "Bridging
the
Divide?
The
Role
of
the
American
Muslim
Community
in
U.S.
Relations with the Wider Islamic
World" at the Brookings
Institution.
- MFI board member Antony
Sullivan gave a talk on
"What Every U.S. Government
Representative to the Arab or Islamic
World Needs to Know" at the
Foreign Service Institute.
- MFI President Dr.
Imad-ad-Dean
Ahmad's paper "Reconciling
Secular
Government with Islamic Law" was
delivered at the Center
for the Study of Islam and Democracy's
Sixth Annual Conference.
- Dr. Ahmad's paper "The
Challenge
of Institutional Governance in Islam:
Justice, Democracy, and Shariah" was
delivered at the Center
for the Study of Islam and Democracy's
Fifth Annual Conference.
- Dr. Ahmad's paper
“On the American Constitution from the
Perspective of the Qur’an and the
Madinah Compact,” has been
published in the American Journal of
Islamic Social Sciences 20 #3-4
(Summer/Fall), 105.
- MFI board member Maysam Alfaruqi gave
a talk at the State Department on
"Islam and Democracy: Possibilities,
Challenges, and Risks of Bringing
Democracy to Islamic Nations,
Government, and People".
- MFI President Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad's
article on "The Patriot Act" has been
published in the Nov.-Dec. issue of
American Muslim Magazine.
- MFI has a position paper on "Constitutional
Protection of Private Property in
Iraq".
- Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad's review
of
Noah Feldman's After
Jihad: America and the Struggle for
Islamic Democracy
appears in Middle East Affairs Journal.
- Dr. Othman Ali's presentation on "The
Plight of the Kurds and the Prospects
for Federalism After the War on Iraq"
from our sixth annual dinner is
available in PDF format.
- Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad's article "Just
Like the Rest of the World Iraq Needs
Liberty" appears in the August 2003
issue of Libertarian Party News.
- Dr. Ahmad was interviewed by Reason
magazine's Tim Cavanaugh on "Revealed
Libertarianism."
- Dr. Ahmad's article on "The
Dangers
of Vouchers" published in Islamic
Horizons.
- Dr. Ahmad's article on "The
Anti-Correlation Between Democracy and
Political Violence in the Experience
of the Khulifah Rashidun"
was delivered at conference of the
Center for the Study of Islam and
Democracy.
- The speeches of Sami Al-Arian and
Merve Kavakci on the Threat
of Secular Fundamentalism
from our Fifth Annual Dinner.
- The speeches of Anwar Haddam and
Warith Deen Muhammad on the Importance
of Liberty to Muslims were
delivered at our fourth annual dinner,
- Dr. Ahmad's talk on "Definitions
of Democracy" was published in the
Center for the Study of Islam and
Democracy newsletter, Muslim
Democrat.
- Dr. Ahmad appeared in a Washington
area radio int
 erview
on
his
new
book
Islam
and
the
Discovery of Freedom.
- Islam
and the West: A Dialog book
edited by Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad and Ahmed
Yousef and featuring top Western
analysts of Islam meeting in a round
table discussion with Muslim
intellectuals and activists is now
available for $17.95 postpaid.
Contribuors include: Graham Fuller,
Robert G Neumann, Stephen C. Pelletiere,
Charles E. Butterworth, Michael C. Dunn,
Joyce Davis, Louis Cantori, Antony
T.Sullivan, and I. William
Zartman.
- Dr. Ahmad lectured on "Building
Islamic Civil Society from the Bottom
Up" at the annual meeting of the American
Muslim Social Scientists at
Georgetown University.
- I. A. Ahmad 1994, "Political Economy
of Liberty in the Arab and Islamic
Middle East," Middle East Policy (Fall)
3 #2 (Winter), 118.
- I. A. Ahmad 1993, "Islam and Freedom,"
Religion and Liberty 3 #5 (Sep.-Oct.)
7.
- Dr. Ahmad gave a presentation on "American
Muslim Engagement in Politics" at
the annual conference of the American
Muslims Social Scientists in Leesburg
Virginia on Oct. 29-31.
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Free Markets
- Anwar Ibrahim's address on The Importance of Fee
Markets to Islam and Muslims.
- Dr.
Ahmad paid tribute to the work of
economist Milton Friedman by exploring
the role Islamic civilization played in
establishing non-state schools and
colleges through the civil society
sector and the controversy over such
institutions today in a talk called "Free to Choose Madrassas."
- Dr.
Ahmad's plenary address on "Islam,
Commerce
and
Business Ethics" delivered at the
International
Ecumenical
Conference on The Ethics of Commerce delivered
at the Loyola conference on Business
Ethics and Spirituality was published by
M.M. Scrivener in Nicholas Capaldi’s Business
and Religion: A Clash of
Civilizations?.
- Dr.
Ahmad's report on property rights
in Islam and their implications for
nation-building in Iraq is a two-page
summary of his report to the
International Property Working Rights
Group seeking to establish a system of
property rights in Iraq after the 2003
war.
- Dr. Ahmad's article on Islam
and Markets was the take-off point
for an outstanding article by Jim Rogers
in the April 1998 issue of Worth,
a quality financial news magazine.
- An
Islamic Perspective on the Wealth of
Nations, a paper presented at the
conference on the Comprehensive
Development of Muslim Countries
(Aug. 1-3, 1994) in Subang Jaya,
Malaysia. Aug. 1-3, 1994.
- Islam
and
the Medieval Progenitors of "Austrian"
Economics
- Dr. Ahmad presented a paper on The
Dinar: Indispensability of Hard Money
to the Islamic Monetary Regime for
the Chicago meeting of the American
Muslim Social Scientists on Oct. 30,
1998.
- Riba
and
Interest
- Dr. Ahmad gave a presentation on
"Using Early Muslim Land Tax Practice to
Form an Islamic Theory of Real Property"
at the annual conference of the American
Muslims Social Scientists in Leesburg
Virginia on Oct. 29-31.
- I. A. Ahmad 1996, "Islam, Market
Economy, and the Rule of Law," (Second
International Symposium on Liberalism in
Ankara 18-19 May 1996)
- I. A. Ahmad 1994, "Islam and Economic
Development: Help or Hindrance in Gaza
and Jericho?" talk presented to the
Washington Chapter of the Society for
International Development (Feb. 8, 1994)
at the World Bank, Washington,
D.C.
- I. A. Ahmad 1993, "Islam
and
Hayek," Economic Affairs 13 #3
(Apr.), 17.
- S. Choudhury 1995, "Eyewitness Account
of Beijing Conference," New Trend 17 #9
(Nov. '95) p. 2.
- S. Choudhury 1995, "Reaching Toward
the Horizon: From Beijing to Beyond,"
Muslim Journal 21 #8 12/8/95 p. 6 and 21
#9 12/15/95, p. 6.
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Islamic Society
- A preprint of the final draft of Dr.
Ahmad's paper "Shuratic
Iftaa: the Challenge of Fatwa is
now available.
- The edited transcript of Dr. Esam
Omeish's presentation on The
Muslim
Brotherhood: Past, Present and Future:
Conservatism, Extremism, or Violence?
is now available.
- Islamic
Contributions to Civilization, a
keynote address to an Institute of
Objective Studies conference in India.
- Dr. Ahmad's review of of Graham
Fuller's book The New
Turkish Republic: Turkey as a
Pivotal State in the Muslim World was
published in the Georgetown
Journal of International Affairs.
- Sarah Swick delivered a paper on "Dubbing a Western
Muslim Culture" at the 36th annual
conference of the Association of Muslim
Social Scientists.
- Dr. Ahmad's article "Common
Civilizational Values as Perceived by
an American Muslim" was published
in Intercultural Management Quarterly.
- A review of
Bat Ye'or's Dhimmitude published in the
American
Journal of Islamic Social Sciences.
- A review
of David King's In
Synchrony with the Heazvens: Studies
in Astronomical Timekeeping in
Medieval Islamic Civilization, Volume
One: The Call of the Muezzin.
- Dr. Ahmad's letter
to the editor on hijab is
available.
- Sarah Swick's paper delivered at the
American Muslim Social Scientists
meeting in Philadelphia, "From
London to Andijan: The rising global
influence of Hizb-ut-Tahrir among
Muslim Youth," was accepted for
publication in the journal Islamica.
- Dr. Ahmad's paper on "Islamic
Religion and American Culture" is
available.
- Dr. Ahmad's review
of Noah Feldman's After
Jihad: America and the Struggle
for Islamic Democracy appeared
in Middle East Affairs Journal.
- Dr. Ahmad's review of Caryle
Murphy's
Passion
for Islam appeared in
Middle East Affairs Journal.
- Our article on the Importance
of
Disentangling Culture from Religion
for the AMSS Newsletter.
- Dr. Ahmad's review
of Bernard Lewis' What Went Wrong?
was published in Middle East Affairs
Journal.
- Two articles by Sharmin Ahmad: "Rediscovering
Qur'anic Premises for Relationships
with Non-Muslims" and "Islam:
Conflict
or
Reconciliation?"
deal with Muslim-non-Muslim
relations.
- Dr. Ahmad's lecture on "The
Rise
and Fall of Islamic Science: The
Calendar as a Case Study," a
lecture given at a conference on
Religion and Science at the Al-Ahawayn
University in Ifrane, Morocco is
available as a preprint.
- MFI Vice President Ali Ramadan
Abuzakouk was a particiant in a full
page dialog in Egyptian Al-Ahram
newspaper Arabic on the subject of Muslim
Organizations in America
- Dr. Ahmad gave two lectures as keynote
speaker at the tenth anniversary of the
Center for Faith and Science Exchange: "Islamic Contributions to
Modern Scientific Methods" and "Economy, Technology, and
Environment: The Islamic Middle Way."
The talks were cosponsored by the Boston
Theological; Seminary and the Islamic
Center of Boston. 1999
- MFI President Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad
was interviewed by Caryl Murphy on
Modesty and Modernity (1999-12-09)
- The
Islamic
View
on
Adoption
and
Caring
for
Homeless
Children,
a chapter for the National Council
for Adoption's Fact Book III.
- June 13, 1998 the first annual Minaret
of Freedom Institute dinner was held at
the Ramada Inn in Bethesda, MD. Special
Guest Speaker Prof.
Ali
Mazrui
spoke
on
"Islamic
Dilemmas
Between
Human
Rights
and
the
Right
to
Nuclear Weapons."
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Education
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Dr. Taj Hargey, Prof. Ali Mazrui, and Dr.
Imad-ad- Dean Ahmad were among the
discussants making
plans for a new Islamic Uiversity in America
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Women in Islam
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Prof.
Azizah
al-Hibri of the T.C. Williams School
of Law at the University of Richmond
addresses
the 2000 MFI Annual Dinner on "The
Islamic
Marriage
Contract
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Middle East
Conflict
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The "First
Conference
on Jeruslaem" pictured at left was
convened in Beirut to establish a
new international organization for
the liberation of Jerusalem. MFI
President Imad- ad-Dean Ahmad
addressed the conference on the need
for Muslim goups to speak to the
non-Muslim world with the same
openness and candor with which they
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Terrorism and
Jihad
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Civil Liberties
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Drs.
Sami Al-Arian, Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, and
Merve Kavakci answer questions at the MFI
Fifth Annual Dinner.
Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad spoke out on secret
evidence
laws at the National Libertarian
Convention.
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Other Topics
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Our
1999 Annual Dinner featured a talk
by Omaima Abou-Bakr on 
Dr. Ahmad participated in
a delegation of American Muslims
participating in the 
Dr.
Ahmad gave a lecture on