Oxford Institute for British Islam publishes its pioneering Qur’an-centric research and original scholarly analyses on the burning topics and major matters facing the contemporary British Muslim community. These substantive submissions are concise, cogent, and compelling, in order to clarify pressing present-day religio-social issues on an exclusively scriptural basis, without reliance upon manufactured latter-day interpolations and medieval misinterpretations.

Miscellaneous subjects requiring convincing Qur’anic perspectives and authentic Islamic analyses include, but are not limited to the following pivotal questions (in no particular order):

1. Apostasy
   
2. Blasphemy
   
3. Heresy, takfir, and ex-communication
   
4. Freedom of speech
   
5. Religious liberty
   
6. Gender parity
   
7. Hijab, niqab, and burqah
   
8. Honour killings
   
9. Female genital mutilation
   
10. Beards and facial hair
    
11. Eastern garb and attire
    
12. Child marriage
    
13. Temporary marriage
    
14. Interfaith marriage
    
15. Instant divorce
    
16. Custody of children
    
17. Female discrimination and sexist chauvinism
    
18. Social intermingling
    
19. Halal food
    
20. Racism, xenophobia, and bigotry
    
21. Alcohol, intoxicants, and drugs
    
22. Hadith (alleged prophetic sayings)
    
23. Sunnah (reputed prophetic practices)
    
24. Shari’ah (medieval theological opinion)
    
25. Ijtihad (critical, independent reasoning)
    
26. Mahram (tribal male guardianship)
    
27. Integration vs assimilation
    
28. Homosexuality and same-sex relations
    
29. Gender self-identity
    
30. Polygamy and polygyny
    
31. Concubinage
    
32. Wife-beating and domestic violence
    
33. Misogyny and sexism
    
34. Music and song
    
35. Art and sculpture
    
36. Literalism vs metaphor in the Qur’an
    
37. Taqiyah and kitman (dissimulation)
    
38. Violent jihad and bloody terrorism
    
39. ‘Sword’ verses and other ‘problematic’ passages
    
40. Jizyah (poll taxes and tributary levies)
    
41. Universal Qur’an values and perennial ethics
    
42. Theologial self-empowerment and religious literacy
    
43. Human rights and democracy
    
44. Capital punishment
    
45. Interfaith cooperation and trans-communal harmony
    
46. Free will and predestination
    
47. Stoning to death
    
48. Orthodoxy and heterodoxy, sunni vs shi’ah sectarianism
    
49. Interest and usury
    
50. Economic systems (capitalism, communism, Marxism, socialism, etc.)
    
51. Assisted dying and euthanasia
    
52. IVF and artificial insemination

New and pertinent topics will be added here, on a regular basis, to this evolving list of original and objective research studies to be undertaken by OIBI academics and scholars.