Resources: Apostasy and Freedom of Faith

 1.   Dr. Jamal Badawi: On Apostasy

2.      Dr. Mohammad Hashim Kamali: Freedom of religion

3.      Dr. Abdullah Saeed: A Fresh Look at Freedom of Belief in Islam

4.      Tariq Ramadan: On Apostasy

5.      Al-Azhar's Sheikh Tantawi: Apostasy

6.      Dr. Hasan Turabi: Interview

7.      Former Indonesian President: Extremism Isn't Islamic Law

8.      Dr. Mohammad Omar Farooq: Apostasy, Freedom and Dawah: Full Disclosure in a Business-like Manner

9.      S. A. Rahman [former Chief Justice of Pakistan]: Punishment of Apostasy in Islam: Chapter I (Qur’an)

10.  S. A. Rahman [former Chief Justice of Pakistan]: Punishment of Apostasy in Islam: Chapter II (Sunnah)

11.  Dr. Mohammad Hashim Kamali: Punishment In Islamic Law: A Critique Of The Hudud Bill Of Kelantan, Malaysia

12.  Dr. Mahmoud Ayoub: Religious Freedom and the Law of Apostasy in Islam

13.  Dr. Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad: On the American Constitution from the Perspective of the Qur'an and the Madinah Covenant

14.  Dr. Abdullah Saeed: Book (intro): Freedom of Religion, Apostasy and Islam

15.  Dr. Louay Safi: The Politics and Morality of Apostasy

16.  MPAC/Dr. Maher Hathout: Apostasy

17.  Dr. M. Cherif Bassiouni: Leaving Islam Is Not a Capital Crime

18.  Dr. Muhammad Khalid Masud: Apostasy and Judicial Separation in British India

19.  Dr. Chandra Muzaffar: From Fiqh to Qur'an: Resolving Apostasy  

20.  CAIR: On Apostasy

21.  Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer: Islam and Punishment for Apostasy  

22.  Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer: Islam and Religious Freedom

23.  Dr. Mohamed Shahrour: Concept of Freedom in Islam

24.  Dr. Irfan Ahmad Khan: Freedom to Change One's Religion

25.  Ibrahim Hooper: Islam and religious freedom

26.  Dr. Ahmad Subhy Mansour: Penalty of Apostasy: A Historical and Fundamental Study

27.  Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa: Are The Scholars The Same As God Himself?

28.  Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa: Converts from Islam: Let God Be the Judge

29.  Dr. Riffat Hassan: On Human Rights and The Qur'anic Perspective

30.  Dr. A. Rashied Omar: The Right to Religious Conversion: Between Apostasy and Proselytization

31.  Imam Farooq Abo-Elzahab: No earthly penalty for converts

32.  Imam Sadullah Khan: Freedom, Tolerance and the Shari’ah

33.  CAIR-FL's Ahmed Bedier: Interview

34.  Dr. Najah Kadhim: Has the Time Come for a Serious Reflective Reassessment of the Fiqh of the Killing of an Apostate?

35.  Dr. Jamal Badawi: Is Apostasy a Capital Crime in Islam?

36.  Dr. Ahmad Shafaat: The Punishment of Apostasy of Islam

37.  Shaikh Ahmad Kutty: Islam and Freedom of Belief

38.  Mirza A. Beg: Apostasy Laws – An Injury To Islam By Muslims

39.  Sherazad Hamit: Apostasy and the Notion of Religious Freedom in Islam

40.  Sisters in Islam: Islam, Apostasy and PAS

41.  Haris Aziz: Affirmation of Freedom of Expression and Belief in the Quran

42.  Shah Abdul Halim: Islam & Pluralism: A Contemporary Approach

43.  Ibrahim Abusharif: The Legal Tradition of Islamic Apostasy

44.  Ibrahim B. Syed: Is Killing An Apostate in the Islamic Law?

45.  BBC News: What Islam says on religious freedom

46.  Anwaar Hussain: In The Name of God

47.  David Forte: Islam's Trajectory

48.  Dr. Frank Griffel: Toleration and exclusion: al-Shafi'ı and al-Ghazalı on the treatment of apostates

49.  Yoginder Sikand: Afghan Convert Controversy: A Counter-Perspective on Apostasy in Islam

50.  "Apostasy: turning away from Islam," in Oil and Water: Two Faiths, One God (Kelowna: Copper House, 2006), pp. 178-180