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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.
Contributors 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
- Dr.
Ahmad delivered a paper to the
Istanbul Liberty Network on "Capitalism and
Imperialism".
- Anwar Ibrahim delivered an address on
The Importance of
Free 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
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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
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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
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Middle East
Conflict
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"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 which
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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.
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| 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