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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, and Civil Society
- MFI
President
Dr.
Imad-ad-Dean 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
- 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 at a
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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 in American
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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
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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