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 QURA'NIC WISDOM

Committing Zina or Adultery

2
 PROPHETIC INJUNCTION

ABedouin's 23 Questions...

3
 SPECIAL REPORT

A Tale of Two Cases

4

Muslims in West Berngal

6
 SADDAM'S EXECUTION

Height of 'US' Cruel Justice

9

Saddam at the end of a rope

11
 WAR OF IDEAS

Why Assam to be Asom?

12
 COVER STORY

Strategies in the Islamic Funds...

16

Stock Market

20
 WOMEN

"Burn the Burqa" or Send Tasleema...

23

Choose Degree or Nikah

25
 OUR NATION

Gandhiji's Gujarat Still Fertile

26

No Pizza Deliveries in Muslim Areas

29
 GLOBAL ISSUES

Bulgarian Muslims...

30

Italy Mulls Strict Mosque Funding

32
 FEATURES

Make this planet peaceful to live

33

Corporatisation of Politics

36
 HEALTH

Circumcision reduces risk of HIV

41
 HISTORY IN TRANSLATION

Persia and Rome - the rivals of Islam

44
 RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE

Question & Answer

46
 EDITORIAL 48

Eastern Crescent

February 2007

 
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