In the January 1915 issue of the leading Dutch cultural journal De Gids Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857–1936) published an article under the provocative title “Holy War made in Germany.” The article offered a mixture of cynically worded scholarly analysis of great acuity, which characterizes Snouck Hurgronje’s works, and vehement moral condemnation of the war craze....Read More
Classical Islamic scholarship developed two principal theses on the subject of the origin of language (aṣl al-lugha). The first of these theses, commonly referred to as tawqīf, accentuated the pre-eminent role that divine agency played in the imposition of language; axiomatic within this perspective is the view that words (lafẓ pl. alfāẓ) have been assigned...Read More
The coverage of Islam in Malaysian newspapers is an intricate matter. This paper discusses the concept of Islam and other religions as reflected in the nation’s Malay-language broadsheets. Coverage of Islam in its various manifestations and about Muslims is a daily phenomenon in the Malay press. Owing to Islam being the official religion of the...Read More
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