Theology - QeRN

The Distilled Essence

From the archive (2017): Abu Hanifa’s five narrations from five thousand — curation as scholarship, the tradition’s own knowledge engineering.

Theology: Quran & Hadith

Uthaymeen, Five Years after the 'Qad Khalat' Debate

From the archive (2016): five years of follow-through on one verse — translation versus commentary, a distinction now critical as AI paraphrases scripture at scale.

Theology: Comparative Religion

Evangelii Gaudium - Pope Francis on Muslims

From the archive (2014): Evangelii Gaudium on Muslims — institutional religious leadership choosing respect, and the depth the other side of the table requires.

Theology: Comparative Religion

The Caliphate Brings Trauma

From QeRN's 2014 caliphate conference: Daniel Pipes' paper, kept as a record of the debate. The live question underneath: institutions, not slogans, build capability.

Theology: Comparative Religion

Discussion: Caliphate as a Political System - Myth or Reality?

From the archive (2014): QeRN’s caliphate conference — subjecting the era’s most dangerous slogan to public scholarship, weeks after ISIS claimed it.

Theology: Jurisprudence

Is Apostasy a Capital Crime in Islam?

From the archive (2014): Badawi on apostasy and conscience — scholarship that now competes with AI-mediated answers, and the pipelines needed to produce more of it.

Theology: Comparative Religion

The Ugly Side of Voltaire

From the archive (2014): Voltaire’s ‘Mahomet’ read whole — admiration and criticism in one act, the mark of built intellectual confidence.

Theology: Comparative Religion

Muslims: Treat Christmas with Due Respect

From the archive (2012): treating Christmas with due respect, grounded in the Quran’s regard for Jesus — counsel that needs only confidence, not updating.

Theology: Jurisprudence

The Veil & Islam

From the archive (2012): a future Chief Justice tests a compulsory-veil resolution against text and law — institutional rigour where slogans were offered.

Theology: Eschatology

Summary of Common Narratives

From the archive (2011): comparative eschatology across the Abrahamic traditions — patient, source-based work of the kind the AI era needs more of.

Theology: Quran & Hadith

Takfeer - the Saturated Business Model

Also published on Chowk [http://www.chowk.com/Religion/Islam/Takfeer-The-Saturated-Business-Model] by Akber Choudhry As Irish bombs are in the media today, instead of AlQaeda bombs, and Muslims are not on the defensive for one whole day, maybe we can sneak in the opportunity about the biggest problem that ails

Theology: Jurisprudence

The Shariah Threat to America

From the archive (2011): the ‘Shariah threat’ panic dissected — a manufactured-panic playbook since reused, and the institutional defence that transfers.

Theology: Jurisprudence

Murderer or Hero?

From the archive (2011): Pakistan divided over a celebrated killing — a fracture only trusted courts, schools, and scholarship can repair.

Theology: Eschatology

The Arrivals - Documentary or Entertainment?

From the archive (2011): ‘The Arrivals’ dissected — source criticism taught from within the community, a skill now survival-grade.

Theology: Quran & Hadith

America's Founding Fathers Prepared to Include Muslims

From the archive (2007): Jefferson’s Qur’an and the founders’ imagination — and the forward claim: belonging is secured by contribution and institutions.

Theology: Comparative Religion

Pope's Visit to Turkey

From the archive (2006): Benedict XVI in Turkey after Regensburg — institutions repairing what individuals damage; machinery, not sentiment.

Theology: Jurisprudence

Muslim Demographics

From the archive (2006): against demographic alarmism — the durable counter is communities legible through their own institutions and data.

Theology: Comparative Religion

Benedict XVI was Testing the Waters

From the archive (2006): Regensburg read as a probe — and the durable outcome: the institutions of Muslim–Christian dialogue it accidentally produced.

Theology: Comparative Religion

Moral Leadership, Disarmament and Latent Racism

Pope Benedict said the following [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/16/upope.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/04/16/ixportaltop.html] today: In a clear reference to Iran, he said: “Concerning the international crises linked to nuclear power, may an honourable solution be

Theology: Comparative Religion

Humiliation for Turkey - possible end of the Attaturk chapter

From the archive (2004): Turkey’s EU rebuff read as the end of borrowed identity — a case study in anchoring identity in one’s own institutions.

Theology: Comparative Religion

Conservative activist says Bush knows "real score" with Islam

From the archive (2004): the gap between presidential language on Islam and the political base — a gap minorities must learn, institutionally, to read.

Theology: Comparative Religion

american frustration

From the archive (2002): the raw anger of the Guantanamo moment — kept as a record, alongside the lesson that patient institutional work outperformed it.

Theology: Comparative Religion

Terrorism since 1492

From the archive (2001): a crowd-sourced ledger of state terror since 1492 — the urge to widen the lens, whose serious form is the discipline of history.