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\u201cI went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims;
\nI got back to the East and saw Muslims, but no Islam.\u201d
\n(Mohammad Abduh)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Our Mission<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Our mission is to stimulate peaceful and meaningful reforms in Muslim countries by encouraging effective institutions.<\/h4>\n

Islamicity Indices substantiate Mohammad Abduh\u2019s observation that Western countries better reflect most Islamic institutions than do countries that profess Islam and they provide the compass for renewal and progress in Muslim countries by adopting effective institutions recommended in Islam.<\/h4>\n

Islamicity Indices enable Muslims to focus on the indisputable source of their religion\u2014the Qur\u2019an\u2014and are a continuous performance indicator of their rulers, governments, communities and of themselves. The Indices also provide a simple approach to explain Islam to the non-Muslim world. With a better understanding of Islam in both Muslim and non-Muslim communities, international relations will be improved.<\/h4>\n

Please click below for our videos explaining the Islamicity Indices Project:<\/span>
\nFirst Video – What are Islamicity Indices<\/a><\/span>
\nSecond Video – Which Countries Rank High in Islamicity Indices and Why<\/a><\/span>
\nThird Video – How Muslims Can Support this Program of Reform and Renewal<\/span><\/span><\/a>
\nFourth Video – Governments and Citizens Can Collaborate for Progress and Renewal<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h4>\n

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Islamicity Foundation<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The \u201cIslamicity Foundation\u201d was incorporated in 2018 as a non-profit 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt corporation in the United States. The Foundation has taken ownership of the Islamicity Indices project with the mission of supporting peaceful and positive change in Muslim countries. To this end, the Foundation hopes to develop the organizational structure to better understand the teachings of the Qur\u2019an and support peaceful reforms and more effective institutions. Such an informed and joined global community of Muslims would be in a stronger position than Muslims in a single country to peacefully encourage rulers to build effective institutions and to initiate much-needed reforms to enhance freedom, the rule of law and justice, representative governance, and human and economic development across all Muslim countries.<\/h4>\n

The Foundation will publicize the program, monitor developments along each dimension of the indices, issue occasional reports based on the latest indices focusing on the state of Muslim countries and on areas of progress and shortfall. The Foundation will oversee the updating of the Islamicity Indices, which have been done yearly up to 2024 and will be done less frequently beginning in 2025. Among other initiatives, the Foundation plans in the future to oversee the further development and expansion of the Islamicity website to a new platform to allow interactive capabilities for a connected global network and hopes to eventually initiate a Fellows Program. To achieve its mission, the Foundation hopes to raise the needed endowment. Although the Islamicity Foundation has been organized as a stand-alone entity, in time and if appropriate, it could partner with a world-class\u00a0university or Foundation. This would afford the Islamicity Foundation and its mission more visibility; it would facilitate fundraising activities; and by teaching seminars on Islam, development, and on Islamicity Indices, the Foundation could develop a cadre of young collaborators to better accomplish its mission around the world. Please click here for a Program Summary<\/a><\/u>.<\/span><\/h4>\n

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About Us<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Our founding members were an economist (Hossein Askari), a finance specialist (Hossein Mohammadkhan), an International Affairs specialist (Fara Abbas), a specialist in Islamic Finance (Liza Mydin), and a web specialist (Mostafa Omidi). In 2025, we are three individuals (Hossein Mohammadkhan, Hossein Askari, and Mostafa Omidi) acting in our private capacity to encourage reform in Muslim countries and to promote religious, political, cultural, and economic understanding between Muslims and non-Muslims around the world.<\/h4>\n

We feel that soon after Prophet Mohammad\u2019s death, Islam came under the control of rulers and clerics. This has continued throughout history to the point where today we see clerics, rulers, politicians, terrorists, institutions, organizations, and individuals espousing a religion that bears very little resemblance to the teachings of the Qur\u2019an. In most Muslim countries, the people have little say about the governance of their country and are even prohibited from discussing and discovering their religion. Rulers and clerics have placed themselves as the only legitimate interpreters of Islam and routinely dismiss questions from Muslims as ill-informed and not worthy of discussion. Such a disconnect between the teachings of the Qur\u2019an and its practice has emboldened radicals, opportunists, and terrorists to fill the void and to preach a version of Islam that has perverted the religion, divided humanity, pitted Muslim against Muslim, Muslims against Christians, Muslims are against Jews and is destroying the fellowship of humankind that is at the core of all religions of the Book. We address this disconnect between the teachings of the Qur\u2019an and the practice of Islam in the Muslim World. Our approach is to establish a benchmark (a collection of rules), based on the Qur\u2019an and the life of the Prophet Mohammad, which Muslims can use to assess the governance and policies of their countries to establish effective institutions.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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