Institute of Islamic Studies and Centre for Study of Society and Secularism

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Asghar Ali Engineer is a rights activist and heads the two organisations, Institute of Islamic Studies and Centre for Study of Society and Secularism. He has authored or edited 44 books on such  issues  as  Islam and communal and ethnic problems in India and South Asia in general. Some of his work is available at http://ecumene.org/IIS/csss.htm

ON RELIGIOUS AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE	CONVERSION AND ATTACKS ON CHRISTIANS	INDO-PAKFRIENDSHIP - A NEW TURN	ISLAM ON THE EVE OF THE 21ST CENTURY
COMPOSITE CULTURE - CELEBRATION OF INDIAN UNITY	POLITICS OF VIOLENCE	THE CONCEPT OF ISLAMIC STATE	ONE YEAR OF THE BJP GOVERNMENT AND THE MINORITIES
KOSOVO AND NATO BOMBING	DEMOCRACY AND ITS PROBLEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES	RECONSTRUCTION OF ISLAMIC THOUGHT	DEMEANING SECULARISM
ISLAM AND SECULARISM	MUSLIM WOMEN AND MAINTENANCE	INDIAN MUSLIMS AND EDUCATION	WHAT I BELIEVE
MEDIA AND MINORITIES	MINORITIESAND KARGIL CONFLICT	ISLAM AND PLURALISM	MEDIA AND MINORITIES
PAKISTAN, JIHAD AND ETHNICITY	THE MINORITIES AND THE COMING ELECTIONS	ON METHODOLOGY OF UNDERSTANDING QUR'AN	ISLAMIC ETHIC
COMMUNALISM AND COMMUNAL VIOLENCE--1999	THE PAKISTANI TEXT BOOKS AND HATRED AGAINST INDIA	THE BJP AND ITS ROOTS IN GUJRAT	SIGHTING OF MOON AND PROBLEMS OF MUSLIM CALENDAR
NATION-BUILDING IN SOUTH ASIA -- PAKISTAN	VIOLENCE IN KASHMIR AND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS	IRAN BETWEEN LIBERALISM AND ORTHODOXY	MEANING OF ISLAMIC WORSHIP
NATION STATE AND IDENTITY POLITICS	THE BJP AND ITS TWENTY YEARS	HUMANKIND'S RELATIONSHIP WITH NATURE	MUSLIMS, MODERNITY AND CHANGE
MUHAMMAD (PBUH) AS LIBERATOR	KASHMIR -- CAN AUTONOMY BE A SOLUTION?	MUSLIM WOMEN'S MAINTENANCE - SOME NEW JUDGEMENTS	WOMEN AND PERSONAL LAW IN IRAN
THE BJP AND THE MUSLIM FACTOR	ISLAM AND SECULARISM	ISLAM AND MUSLIMS IN INDIA- PROBLEMS OF IDENTITY AND EXISTENCEN	KASHMIR  IS PEACE POSSIBLE?
COMMUNAL RIOTS � 2000	TVAJPAYEE'S STATEMENTS AND MEDIEVAL HISTORY	TRAGEDY OF KERBALA AND IMPORTANCE OF MARTYRDOMSS	THE RSS  AN EVALUATION FROM THE MINORITY PERSPECTIVE
ISLAM AND MUSLIMS IN INDIA- PROBLEMS OF IDENTITY AND EXISTENCE	ON ABSENCE OF DEMOCRACY IN MUSLIM WORLD	KANPUR RIOTS  A WAKE UP CALL	ON METHODOLOGY OF UNDERSTANDING QURAN
MUSLIM MIDDLE CLASS AND ITS ROLE	MUSLIM WOMEN AND FAR REACHING CHANGES IN BANGLADESH	INDONESIA  A COUNTRY IN TURMOIL	CAN VEIL BE ENFORCED?
ATTACK ON WORLD TRADE CENTRE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS	ON DEVELOPING THEOLOGY OF PEACE IN ISLAM	MINGLING OF THE TWO OCEANS- HINDUISM AND ISLAM	CLASH OF TERRORS?
PLURALITY OR POLARITY?	ON THE CONCEPT OF COMPASSION IN ISLAM	MALEGAON  RIOTS � A New Era of Violence?	IS CONFEDERATION IN SOUTH ASIA POSSIBLE?
A BRIEF SURVEY OF COMMUNAL SITUATION IN THE POST  BABRI- DEMOLITION PERIOD	ON THE MULTILAYERED CONCEPT OF JIHAD	COMMUNAL RIOTS � 2001	ISLAMIC WORLD AND CRISIS OF MODERNISM
A NEW APPROACH FOR ISLAMIC WORLD NEEDED	THE POLITICAL UNIVERSE OF ISLAM	DEFEAT OF BJP IS DEFEAT OF COMMUNALISM	ON SUFI APPROACH TO ISLAM
BJP'S RIOT - FREE INDIA	MINORITIES CANNOT BE AT THE MERCY OF RSS	THE TRAGEDY OF KARBALA AND ITS IMPLICATIONS	GUJRAT  AN AREA OF DARKNESS
ALL IS NOT LOST IN GUJRAT	MYTHS ABOUT MUSLIMS AND THE GUJRAT CARNAGE	DA'WAH OR DIALOGUE	ROLE OF POLICE IN GUJRAT CARNAGE
COMMUNAL VIOLENCE AND ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY	SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO ISLAM	BOMBAY HIGH COURT JUDGEMENT  A LANDMARK JUDGEMENT ON TALAQ	NO ELECTION IN GUJRAT FOR NOW PLEASE
ISLAM, GLOBALISATION AND FUNDAMENTALISMS	ROLE OF RELIGION IN SECULAR SOCIETY	POLITICS, VALUE-ORIENTED, NOT POWER-ORIENTED	INTELLECTUAL APPROACH TO ISLAM
ISLAM AND THE CONCEPT OF KAFIR	ON ROOTS OF COMMUNAL VIOLENCE	A NEW BEGINNING IN KASHMIR	RECENT RIOTS IN MAHARASHTRA
ISLAM AND NATIONALISM	THE BJP AND GUJRAT ELECTIONS	TRUTH ABOUT GUJRAT CARNAGE -CONCERNED CITIZENS,  TRIBUNALS REPORT ON GUJRAT	SHARI'AH PUNISHMENTS (HUDUD LAWS) AND NATION-STATES
THE BJP SWEEP IN GUJARAT- A MOMENT OF REFLECTION FOR IND	FUNDAMENTALISM AND TERRORISM	RELIGION AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE	AMBEDKAR, MUSLIMS AND PARTITION
COMMUNAL RIOTS -2002	HINDUTVA AND MINORITIES	INDIAN MUSLIMS  -- MYTH AND REALITY	ONE YEAR OF GUJARAT'S SHAME
IS SECULARISM DEAD IN INDIA?	THE ROLE OF ULAMA IN FREEDOM STRUGGLE	AMERICAN AGGRESSION AGAINST IRAQ -- WHO IS TERRORIST?	ON SOCIOLOGY OF COMMUNALISM
NO JUSTICE NANAVATI, WHAT YOU SAY IS NOT CORRECT	RELIGION AND COMMUNALISM	MUSLIM WOMEN ON THE MOVE	JUSTICE ABORTED IN GUJARAT
UNIFORM CIVIL CODE OR LEGAL PLURALISM	FUTURE OF SECULARUSM IN INDIA	ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS AND T

Links:

• http://ecumene.org/IIS/csss.htm
• http://projects.usao.edu/~facshaferi/relren/relren4.htm

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