Skip to main content
  • English
  • Deutsch
  • عربي
Qantara.de - Dialog mit der islamischen Welt
  • Home
  • Politics
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Essays
  • Photo Essays
  • Home
  • Politics
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Topics
  • Essays
  • Photo Essays

smartphone menu rubriken

  • Home
  • Politics
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Topics
  • Dialogues
  • Essays
  • Photo Essays
  • Letters to the Editors

Author: Hakan Altinay

rss-iconSubscribe to feed
Pilgrim in Mecca; photo: Ali Mansuri/wikipedia

Peace and justice in Islam

Are we missing something?

Associating progressive social policies with Islam may unsettle some, yet the parallels are there and offer many possibilities. A contribution to the debate on religion and human rights by Hakan AltinayMore

Interview with Turkish theologian Ihsan Eliacik: The Koran and social justicePopular unrest in the Middle East: Who says popular demand for change is off the agenda?Islam and violence: Conservative Muslims refute the violence of ISCombating violent extremism: Could Sufi Islam be the cure-all?
  • All Topics
  • All Authors
  • All Countries
  • ‎‎‎Newest
  • Most Read
  1. Hindu nationalism

    Gandhi's killer – a Hindutva hero

  2. Turkish-Russian relations

    Erdogan's re-election would serve Putin

  3. Women's voices

    Iranian literature in times of uprising

  4. Women’s Rights in Afghanistan

    The Taliban cannot defeat women

  5. Eye-witness on Iran protests

    Exiled artist Forouhar: 'A country in turmoil'

  6. Forced marriage in Turkey

    Turkish state fails child bride in sect marriage

  1. Turkish-Russian relations

    Erdogan's re-election would serve Putin

  2. Sex life in Saudi Arabia

    Lifting the veil

  3. Palestine, Jordan and Syria

    The woman preserving handwoven history

  4. Documentary: "Muezzin" by Sebastian Brameshuber

    Turkey's "Idol" for prayer callers

  5. The Islamic Republicʹs Jewish minority

    Celebrating Sabbath in Iran

  6. Economic crisis on the Nile

    Is Egypt the 'new Lebanon'?

In brief

  • Massive blast rips mosque in Pakistan’s Peshawar, killing dozens

  • Deadly strikes destroy convoy carrying ‘Iranian weapons’ into Syria

  • Blinken on Middle East tour as Israel-Palestinian violence flares

  • Israel hits Gaza as conflict flares after West Bank clashes

More
Social media
and networks
Subscribe to our
newsletter

Most Recent Photo Essay

Goodbye forever? A woman in a burka leaving a university in Kandahar province. She will not be allowed to return. In a government statement in mid-December 2022, the Islamist Taliban instructed all universities – private as well as public – in Afghanistan to ban women from attending. All female students were barred from universities with immediate effect

The Taliban's war on women

Since seizing power in mid-2021, the Taliban have continued to restrict the rights of Afghan women and girls. At the end of 2022, they banned women from attending higher education. By Nele Jensch

  • Home
  • Politics
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Topics
  • Dialogues
  • Essays
  • Photo Essays
  • Letters to the Editors
  • About us
  • Masthead
  • Privacy Policy