Minaret of Freedom Institute - Mission

Mission

Its Mission Statement aims for non-Muslims are:

  • "to counter distortions and misconceptions about Islamic beliefs and practice"
  • "to demonstrate the Islamic origins of modern values like the rule of law and sciences like market economics
  • "to advance the status of Muslim peoples maligned by a hostile environment in the West and oppressed by repressive political regimes in the East"

Its Mission Statement aims for Muslims (in concert with Qur'an and the Sunnah obligations) are:

  • "to discover and publish the politico-economic policy implications of Islamic law (shari`ah) and their consequences on the economic well-being of the community"
  • "to expose both American and Islamic-world Muslims to free market thought"
  • "to educate Islamic religious and community leaders in economics and in the fact that liberty is a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for the achievement of a good society"
  • "to promote the establishment of free trade and justice (an essential common interest of Islam and the West)"

It implements these goals through independent scholarly research into policy issues of concern to Muslims; publication of scholarly and popular expositions of such research; translation of appropriate works on the free market into the languages of the Muslim world; and the operation of a scholars exchange program.

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