User talk:Zeeshanhasan

I have just made the following change to the Islamic law section of the main Islam entry, in order to reflect current debates in various Muslim countries over this issue:

Islamic law

The study of scripture is strongly emphasized, and leads to the modern debate over Islamic law. Since scriptural passages explicitly mention rules concerning slavery, inheritance, polygamy, divorce, women's attire etc. as well as punishments for theft and adultery, a traditional body of Islamic law has developed. This body of knowledge greatly influenced the traditional norms of Muslim societies. However, its application in Muslim nation-states today is far from uniform. Many Muslim majority countries such as Turkey, Indonesia and Bangladesh have mainly secular constitutions with a few religious provisions. However, conservative Muslims view Islamic law as essential to their religious outlook.

Nonviolence

Thanks, Zeeshanhasan, for your well-placed and informative edit to nonviolence. I hope you'll continue to work on the article. There don't seem to be too many Wikipedians with interest or expertise in this topic - Yann is another - so please come back to nonviolence when you're not otherwise pre-occupied.

BTW, you might also be interested in expanding the articles on Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Mubarak Awad if Islam and nonviolence is an area of interest. Awad, of course, is not Islamic, but his work certainly touches on similar questions to those you explore in your paper. Dirtbiscuit 14:49, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Slavery

In these edits you replaced free with prostitute, and however with owever, since I dind't know how the change was done I thought it looked like concealed vandalism, but I suppose the first was intended and the second just a mistake.

I have "reverted" the two words, if you want to use prostitute instead of free, you need to at least also change the following text that don't make sense if you use prostitute without changing it, but should perhaps both free and prostitute be mentioned.

---Dittaeva 19:19, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I've just made some more changes. Hopefully this clarifies things.