Aims and Objectives

Aims

Al-Abṣār is an Academic Journal devoted to religious research and scholarship. It is to serve as a forum for scholars to write objectively, analytically, and, wherever necessary, critically on all the fields of religious studies with special reference to Fiqh and Shariah and Islamic economics,  in order to find answers to the question relating to social, political, economic, and moral problems of the fast and drastically changing world of today and to define the religion in terms of its fundamentals in a rational and liberal manner emphasizing, at the same time, the basic religious ideals of universal brotherhood, tolerance, and social justice.

• It aims to develop a close linkage between the intellectuals and the common man of the society with the help of scholarly research, especially in the field of Fiqh and Shariah.
• It brings out the achievements of Muslims in the fields of Humanities, Social and Islamic sciences, especially in the field of Fiqh and Shariah.
• It aims at defining Islam in terms of its fundamentals in a rational and Islamic manner emphasizing, at the same time, the basic Islamic ideals of universal brotherhood, tolerance, and social justice.
• It aims at interpreting the teachings of Islam in such a way as to bring out its dynamic character in the context of the intellectual progress of the modern world.

Objectives

It provides an open forum for a dialogue among the Fundamentalist, Conservative, and Modernist schools of thought among the Muslims aiming at finding a balanced view.

• It endeavors, through dialogue, to find Islamic answers to the question relating to social, political, economic, and moral problems of the fast and drastically changing world of today.
• It endeavors to promote a better understanding of the Islamic World.