The author is Project Director (HRD), Higher Education Commission (HEC, Pakistan). E-mail: [email protected] His writings for Criterion Quarterly are: Democracy in the Islamic World We Shall Overcome and Yes We Can… First contact of Islam with World movements: The contemporary Roman and Persian Empire
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Shaikh Muhammed Ali* * The author is Project Director (HRD), Higher Education Commission (HEC, Pakistan). E-mail: [email protected] Introduction The conflict between the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius and the Persian King Khusrau Perwiz (Chosroes II) is referred to in the Sura XXX (Rum) of the Holy Quran. It will therefore be convenient now to review very briefly the relations of these
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By Shaikh Muhammad Ali* Preamble The Higher Education Commission (HEC) is an autonomous organization whose mission is “to facilitate institutions of higher learning to serve as an engine of socio-economic development of Pakistan”. The HEC is not attached to the Ministry of Education. The Prime Minister is the Controlling Authority of the HEC. The 18th
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By Shaikh Muhammed Ali* Abstract: In interpreting the rule of law and limited government, classical Muslim scholars always referred to core elements of modern democratic practice. Limited government and the rule of law are the two most legitimate elements of the system of government today. Democracy’s moral power lies in the idea that the citizens
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