Renaissance 2000
 
 
 
Section I: Articles
Editorial
Jan 2000
 
The State System
   
Javed Ahmad Ghamidi/ 
Shehzad Saleem
Feb 2000 Religious Tolerance: The Islamic Perspective Dr Khalid Zaheer
Mar 2000  The Democratic Process in The Rightly Guided Caliphate  Javed Ahmad Ghamidi/ 
Shehzad Saleem
Apr 2000 The Message of Death  Dr Khalid Zaheer
May 2000 This Worldly Life: A Trial for Man              "
June 2000 The Call to Eternity              "
July 2000 Rescuing the Near Ones from Hell              "
Aug 2000 Is God an Intellectual Reality              "
Sep 2000 Women’s Rights: Two Extremes              "
Oct 2000 Allahu Akbar              "
Nov 2000 A Believer’s Day             "
Dec 2000  Are Marxism and Islam mutually Compatible?             "

Qur’a#nic Exegesis
 
Jan 2000 Study of the Qur’a#n Dr Mustansir Mir
June 2000  Surah Kawthar Amin Ahsan Islahi/
Shehzad Saleem

 Qur’a#n
Feb 2000 Collection and Transmission of the Qur’an Shehzad Saleem
    Main Text      Appendices
Mar 2000  The Qur’an and Pre-Islamic Arabic Ibn Jarir Tabari/
Dr Mustansir Mir 
Apr 2000  Does the Qur’an Contain Non-Arabic Vocabulary?              "
May 2000 The Qur’an as Literature Dr Mustansir Mir 
July 2000 The Qur’an Oaths : Farahi’s Interpretation              "
Aug 2000 The Amazing Qur’an Gary Miller 
Sep 2000 Pondering on the Qur’an Harun Yahya
Oct 2000 Surah Fatihah Moiz Amjad
Nov 2000 Understanding the Qur’an: A Fundamental Premise Shehzad Saleem

Worship 
Oct 2000 The Prayer: ‘What would I have done without these verses? Dr Rizwan Haider

Reflections 
 
Mar 2000 Living Hajj Dr Rizwan Haider 
Apr 2000  Recommendations for Improving Education in Pakistan Asif Iftikhar
May 2000 Islam and the Future of the World Murad W. Hofmann
Sep 2000 Rise and Fall of Nations: Reinterpreting Ibn Khaldun Ali Salman 
Sep 2000 Extracts of a Letter  Abraham Lincoln

Criticism 
 
Jan 2000 How Merciful is Allah? The Learner
Apr 2000 Is Evil from Satan, Ourselves or from Allah?          "
May 2000 Can the Slander of Chaste Women be Forgiven?          "
June 2000 Inquiry in Paradise          "
July 2000 What was Man Created From?          "
Aug 2000 The Event of the Worship of the Golden Calf          "

Scriptures
 
June 2000 Christian Theology and the Bible Nadir Aqueel Ansari
July 2000 Judging the Authenticity of Biblical Literature              "
Dec 2000  Difference between the Bible and the Qur’an  Dr Gary Miller

News & Views
 
Jan 2000 Islam Enlightens Australia Dr Abdur Rauf 
Apr 2000 Muslim States of South-East Asia             " 
        " The Dilemma of Homeless Muslim Women and Children in the USA  Michelle Al-Nasr
June 2000 Muslim Rule in Iran  Dr Abdur Rauf 
Aug 2000 A Sister’s Dilemma: College or Family Tanseem Jennifer Crooker
Sep 2000 The Status of Women in Morocco  Leila Raffin

Book Review
 
June 2000 Islam  (by Alfred Guillaume Razi Ullah Lone
Sep 2000 Islam: A Concise Introduction (by Dr Neal Robinson) Junaid Bin Jahangir
Oct 2000 Islam 2000 Mustansir Mir
Dec 2000 Islam and the West:
Common Cause or Clash? (by Ralph Braibanti)
Joy Hendrickson

Reader’s Column
 
Dec 2000  From Biblical to General Hermeneutics: 
 A Historical-Thematic Development
Abdul Rahim Afaki

Obituary 
 
Feb 2000  Sayyid Abu’l Hasan ‘Ali Nadwi
The Fragrance of the East Fades Away
Radiance Viewsweekly 

Editor’s Email 
 
Jan 2000  Death of a Noble Scholar: 
Shaykh Na#sir Uddi#n Alba#ni#
Fawaz Ibn Taj Al-afghani 

Rhyme and Reason
Feb 2000 Autumn Sultan Khilji 
Mar 2000 Found Dania Abdullah
Apr 2000 Shall I Compose an Elegy? Javed Ahmad Ghamidi
Aug 2000 My Yearnings Khawar Kazi
Sep 2000 The Rock  Izhar Ahmad
Oct 2000 A Prayer  Khawar Kazi
Dec 2000 The Friend I Want to keep M. Jahangir Hanif
 

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