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The 20th Century (January 1st, 1901 to December 31st, 1999) was dominated by a chain of events that heralded significant changes in the World History so as to redefine the era. This paper makes an attempt and its religious and intellectual problems in thought, simple imitation, secularism and atheism becoming considerably more common, collision of intellectual rigidity with the Islamic thoughts, sectarism, splendour of orientalistic thoughts, intolerance and violent inclination, fundamentalism, disconnection in religious thought, social astray, predominance of mind, scantiness of interpretations of Islamic law and our ulama's restoring efforts in the 20th Century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper is an attempt to discuss the holiness or sanctity of the founders of Non-Semitic religions in Muslim thoughts. It has been tried to explore the fatwa literature regarding the sanctity of the founders and holy persons of Hinduism, Buddhism and Zoroastrianism. Mostofthese fatwas are given by the eminent scholars of Indian subcontinent. It is interesting the Muslim scholars are of the view tht the respect of the founders of the non-Semitic religions is also obligatory as it is for the founders of all religions of Ibrahimic tradition. This study helps US to promote tolerance and harmony in the multi-religious and pluralistic global society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present paper aims to analyze the Sirah-writings of a leading Egyptian scholar of twentieth century Khalid Muhammad Khalid (d.1996/1446). He has composed extensive works on diverse area of studies ranging from socio-political, literary to religious and Islamic learning. He had been deeply impressed by the socialist thoughts in his early life and criticized the exploitation of religion for political empowerment. Consequently, he had to face hostility of traditional Muslim scholars of al-Azhar and Ikhwan al-Muslimeen. Later, a shift had been observed in his thoughts and he had significantly withdrawn from his socialistic approach regarding the role of religion in sociopolitical spheres. However, contrary to the religious scholars, he consistently highlighted the ethical and practical dimensions of religion because he asserted that Islam was more than a dogmatic system. In this context, he has written two important books about the life of Prophet Muhammad: Insaniyat Muhammad (Human Values of Muhammad- peace be upon him-) and Ashara Ayyam fi Hayat al-Rasul (Ten Days of the Life of the Prophet). He attempted to present the human values and mercy of the Prophet for all humanity irrespective of their religious regional or racial affiliations. This study elaborates the Sirah themes undertaken by the author in these works. A particular attention will be paid to highlight the methodologies applied by the author for the study of the life of the Prophet who, in his standpoint, is primarily a human being and after that became perfect man because of his endless mercy, love and inspirational services for the humanity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Islamic law has its universal touch. It circles every detailed corner of life. Today's modern life spreads many unfolds of social spheres. As is the case with Intellectual Property Rights (Copy Rights, Patent Rights and Trade Mark). This current issue has different opinions in this modern world. Some of the authentic muslim scholars oppose it, while others favour. The discussable aspect is whether the owner can sale its rights or not? The well known international jurisprudence academies i.e kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bharat and Kuwait argue the hurdels of its comprehensiveness, while the hardliners oppose it with their studying one side of the picture. This paper researches its positive view in this grim and complicated discussion and elaborates its justification.". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]