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Zia H Shah

He is a physician practicing in Upstate New York. He is the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, which has more than 43,000 followers in Twitter. He is also Chair of Religion and Science for the Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication in North America. He has authored more than 400 articles on Islam, Christianity, Secularism and Religion & Science. Follow in Twitter: @The_MuslimTimes

Primordial Covenant as the Basis of Religion: The Qur’ānic Mῑthāq of Alastu According to Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

By Mohd Farid bin Mohd Shahran[farid@ikim.gov.my Abstract In the philosophy of religion, apart from a cogent conception of God, a strong spiritual relation that binds human beings with God is another important element that supplies the raison d’etre to a particular religious tradition. This article evaluates one of the manifestations […]

To Answer Who Created God, We Need to Understand Necessity

Alvin Carl Plantinga[a] (born November 15, 1932) is an American analytic philosopher who works primarily in the fields of philosophy of religion, epistemology (particularly on issues involving epistemic justification), and logic. From 1963 to 1982, Plantinga taught at Calvin University before accepting an appointment as the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.[2] He later returned to […]