The Minaret of Freedom Institute is an Islamic policy research institute whose mission is to counter distortions and misconceptions about Islamic beliefs and practice; to demonstrate the Islamic origins of modern values like the rule of law and sciences like market economics; to advance the status of Muslim peoples in the West and in the East; to discover and publish the politico-economic policy implications of Islamic law (shari`ah) and their consequences on the economic well-being of the community; to expose both American and Islamic-world Muslims to free market thought; to educate Islamic religious and community leaders in economics and in the fact that liberty is a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for the achievement of a good society; and to promote the establishment of free trade and justice (an essential common interest of Islam and the West).
