The issues of the use of the first language (L1) in second language (L2) classroomhave been debated among researchers for many years. In other words, there havebeen various shifts to and from the utilization of L1 in Arabic classrooms over thelast decades. Some of the publications reflected views by proponents of thepractices, while others contained...Read More

The aim of this article is to outline the interest in the Arabic language in Europe and the beginnings of teaching Arabic and establishing Arabic studies in Europe before introducing Quranic studies in Austria as such. In this context, it is important to note that unfortunately, neither Arne Ambros, late professor of Arabic studies at...Read More

In her study of Urdu language politics in late colonial India, Kavita SaraswathiDatla traces the rise and eventual demise of an alternative Urdu movement thatenvisioned the language not as a marker of Muslim religious identity, but as ameans to articulate a modern secular nationalism with roots in India’s Islamicpast. By highlighting this largely forgotten moment...Read More

Proponents of the integration of Islam into English literary studiesseek, by way of presenting Islamic worldviews in relation to thelife-worlds that English texts presumably promote, to inform (Muslim)students and practitioners of the subject about possible untowardinfluences in order to help them withstand cultural captivityand lifestyle effects. This is part of the wider concept of integratingIslam...Read More