The African Roots and Transnational Nature of Islam
Most works dealing with Islam and Africa trace the roots of their connection to the first Hijra when two groups totaling more…
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TheLife of Abū Manṣūr Al-Māturīdī and the Socio-Political and Theological…
Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdi is one of the most influential theologians in the Muslim World. He emerged in the tenth century in Central…
The Islamic Marketing and Branding in Europe
The Islamic markets, labelled “Halal Markets”, are nowadays experiencing an active, an amplified and a wide spread which drawa…
Book Review: The Burqa Affair across Europe: Between Public and Private…
This edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal contextswithin which the “burqa affair” is located across…
Book Review: The Middle East and Brazil: Perspectives on the New Global…
The title at hand is a valuable and timely edited volume that sheds light onthe economic, political, literary, social, cultural,…
Book Review: Islamic Fashion and Anti-Fashion: New Perspectives from Europe…
This volume of scholarship surrounding Islamic fashion presents a counternarrativeto a dominant story: that Muslim women in the…
Book Review: The Walking Qur’an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and…
With the introduction of new educational systems in the Muslim world duringthe late-eighteenth through the early-twentieth…
Book Review: Taking to the Streets: The Transformation of Arab Activism
This edited volume consists of ten case studies framed by an introductionwritten by the two editors and a postscript written by…
Teaching about Islam in Africa: A Cultural-Functional Perspective
Commission on Education for the Twenty-first Century focusedon this question in its report to the premier United Nations agencyin…
Book Review: British Asian Muslim Women, Multiple Spatialities, and…
This book is a valuable contribution to the growing body of research on theexperiences and identities of British Muslim women.…
Book Review: Islam in the Hinterlands: Muslim Cultural Politics in Canada
There have been few studies on Islam in Canada. Hence this publication is awelcome addition to the list. Its ten chapters,…
Book Review: Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia: Women’s Rights Movements,…
Emerging from a 2005 conference at the University of Passau (Germany),Susanne Schroter’s edited volume brings together an…
Book Review: The Arab Awakening: Islam and the New Middle East, Tariq…
This book discusses the current situations in the Middle East and how the changes affected the people and the future of the…
Education during the Arab Renaissance and Its Path to the West
Islam was at the origin of schools, during the Umayyad and Abbasid periods, as every Moslem had to know how to read the Koran.…
Middle East Studies in Taiwan since 1957
Taiwan’s Middle East Studies discipline was founded by Taipei’s Republic of China (ROC) government in National Chengchi…
Islamophobia, the First Crusade and the Expansion of Christendom to Islamic…
The impact of the First Crusade proclaimed by Pope Urban II in 1095 during his sermon at Clermont, France goes beyond the…
The Exploitation of Women in Northern Africa: The Case of Morocco
In this article, we propose to carry out, first, an analysis of the effects the Family Code, or al-mudawwana, has on social…
Preliminary Thoughts Upon The Policies of The Ottoman State In the 16…
This article aims to sketch concisely about the relationships between the Ottomans and the Portuguese pertaining to the…
Complying Quality Management System ISO 9000 Requirements Within Higher…
Malaysia is acknowledged by other Muslim countries and referred to as being the most developed and progressive Muslim country…
Qur’an and Archeological Discoveries: Evidence from the Near East
This paper examines the archeological remains and historical events that took place in the ancient Near East and compares them…