CONTENTS

* Editorial

* Iqbal on Religion and Science:
A Critique.

— Dr. Sobia Tahir

* Demystifying the Orient:
Imperative of Veil and Muslim

Women’s Emanicipation.

— Dr. Hafiz Muhammad

Siddique
— Sadaf Mehmood

* Cultural and Religious
Perspectives on Gender based
Notions of Widowhood in South

Asian Literature.

— Dr. Amna Saeed

—Nafeesa Naz

* Recent QurÉni’c Scholarship: A
Critical Evaluation of Ziauddin

Sardar’s Reading the Qur’Én.

— Dr. Tauseef Ahmad Parray

* Humor of the Prophet (œ): In
Search of a lost Book.

— Prof. Dr. Gabor Korvin

* Book Review.

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