Dr. Rashid Shaz is an ISESCO Ambassador for Dialogue of Culture among Civilizations and a professor of English at the Aligarh Muslim University, India. Dr. Shaz is considered as one of the foremost ideologues of living Islam both in India and abroad. He has extensively delivered talks on various aspects of Islam in the Muslim world, Europe and America. Some of his writings have sparked serious debates on … Read More about About the author

REINVENTING THE MUSLIM MIND
Ever since I read Elizabeth Wurtzel’s Prozac Nation and Peter D. Kramer’s, I am wondering if Prozac, Ritalin, Zoloft and the like wonder drugs that help millions of people regain their self-esteem can … Read More about REINVENTING THE MUSLIM MIND
“Whereas spiritual reformation is important for Rashid Shaz, in Creating a Future Islamic Civilization he claims the real revolution is needed within Islam itself. For him, the West has tried to build a man-centered world and it has failed. Collapse is inevitable as anything goes in the New Age, self-help mess of the Age of Unreason. Thus, the time has come for Islam to re-awaken and proclaim that it has more than a spiritual message. To do this, it needs an internal reformation and to get out of its medieval time-wrap to talk to the modern world. A controversial read… his call is important.”
– The Times, London
“Some of his ideas are radical. Shaz places unconventional proposals in the book. It is for the thinking readers now to decide what can be done with them.”
– The Telegraph, Calcutta

Reinterpreting Islam
A post-era feeling has gripped the world of Islam. It appears to many of us that we are living in an age of agonizing boredom when history is wrapping itself up and when momentous events are not … Read More about Reinterpreting Islam