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    Islamic Literature: A Study of the Concept
    Pratidhwani the Echo. 2013.
    This is a study about emergence and development of the notion of ‘al-Adab al-Islami’ or Islamic Literature. The focus is on the conceptual thinking underlying Islamic Literature as a discourse. The term "Islamic Literature" consists of two fundamental components, "Islamic" and "Literature". In order to understand the concept of Islamic Literature, an appropriate understanding of the nature within Islam is inevitable. This study looks at the fundamental question whether Islamic Literature should …Read more
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    Abortion and Protection of the Human Fetus: Religious and Legal Problems in Pakistan
    with Muhammad Ilyas, Habib Ahmad, and Sajid Ul-Ghafoor
    Human Reproduction and Genetic Ethics 15 (2): 55-59. 2010.
    Abortion is the most common and controversial issue in many parts of the world. Approximately 46 million abortions are performed worldwide every year. The world ratio is 26 induced abortions per 100 known pregnancies. Pakistan has an estimated abortion rate of 29 abortions per 1,000 women of reproductive age, despite the procedure being illegal except to save a woman’s life. 890,000 abortions are performed annually in Pakistan. Many government and non-government organizations are working on the …Read more
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    Commodities in Economics: Loving or Hating Complexity
    Economic Thought 5 (1): 1. 2016.
    A review of economic thought since the sixteenth century reveals two streams of economic discourse, dirigisme and laissez-faire. Starting with the mercantilists, dirigiste approaches to economics embrace the real-world complexity of commodities that often differ greatly in attributes that are growth- and rent- augmenting. Most importantly, this means that free trade is likely to be polarising: it concentrates growth- and rent-augmenting commodities in countries that already enjoy a head start in…Read more