AhlulBayt News Agency

source : IBNA
Saturday

29 December 2012

8:30:00 PM
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Researcher compares Islamic, western patterns for progress

Ali Shirkhani, university lecturer of political sciences and Shi’a jurisprudence, and Fatemeh Mirabbasi are compiling a new volume on Islam’s view on progress compared to that viewed by western thinkers.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Speaking with IBNA, Shirkhani said that the book is almost complete and be being prepared for publication. The work is entitled as Development in Islam and West and offers a proper pattern for progress based on Islamic teachings. The book discusses that in western countries, development is dubbed as piling up wealth and richness and renewing worldly aspects of life while in Islam when there is a mention of progress, one should be after spirituality and justice, and grow in that regard. Shirkhani is author of a number of other books like Women in Political Shi’a Jurisprudence. He has also finished some of the works which are yet to be released like Monitoring Political Shi’a Jurisprudence.End item/ 149