Book Review: Moving the Mountain: Beyond ground Zero to a New vision of…
Several ... American Muslims have written about the community. For example, James Yee’s For God and Country (2005), Sumbul…
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Book Review: The Essentials of Ibāḍī Islam
When writing about Islamic sectarian diversity, the vast majority of authors pay attention only to Sunni and Shi‘i Islam. Yet…
Book Review: City of Knowledge in Twentieth Century Iran: Shiraz, history,…
Setrag Manoukian’s City of Knowledge in Twentieth Century Iran: Shiraz, History, and Poetry combines the application of Michel…
BOOK REVIEW: Educating Muslim Women: The West African Legacy of Nana Asma’u…
Educating Muslim Women is a unique study of Muslim women told through the story of Nana Asma’u, a nineteenth-century Fulani woman…
BOOK REVIEW: American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism: More…
In American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism: More Than a Prayer, Juliane Hammer traces recent conversations…
BOOK REVIEW: Towards an Islamic Enlightenment: The gülen Movement
M. Hakan Yavuz was one of the early contributors to the literature on the Gülen movement, co-editing a major volume on the…
The Martin Luther of Islam?: Ismail al-Faruqi’s Impact on Contemporary…
John Esposito and John Voll narrate in their Makers of Contemporary Islam a brief story: “An old Christian acquaintance of…
The Future Relations between the Majority and Minority Religious Groups,…
The topic of relations of several religious groups in the world from different perspectives has been a hot issue among…
Western Arabo-Islamophobia: Where and When Will It End?
Islam has been under intensive ongoing crusade for centuries. It has been made into what might be called the cause of all the…
Islamism and Democratization in Indonesia Post-Reformation Era:…
In general, this paper will explore features and patterns of Islamism in Indonesia after the downfall of Suharto’s regime in…
A Foucauldian Theory of American Islamophobia
With the emergence of ISIS andAmerican public furor over allowing Syrian refugees safe haven, Muslim Americans find themselves…
Social and Economic Foundations of Community Education for Peace in Islam
This article highlights and discusses propositions in hadith and the Holy Quran could form social and economic bases of adult…
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…
Aqidah as a Basis of Social Tolerance: The Malaysian Experience
The purpose of Islam is to develop exceptional human beings based on aqidah. Those with faith will have good life and will, in…
The Advocation of Cross-Cultural Dialogue through the Promotion of…
History has presented us the pinnacle of human civilisation in the context of coexistence during the 17th century period in…
Disentangling Religion and Culture: Americanizing Islam as the Price of…
This essay is an exploration into the social inevitabilities of culture shifts within the American Muslim community’s…
Rethinking the ‘Arab Spring’: The Root Causes of the Tunisian Jasmine…
This article reviews the events of 2010-2011 Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions with specific attention to the background of…
Book Review: Sudha Sharma. 2016. The Status of Muslim Women in Medieval…
Sharma obtained her Ph.D. in History from Punjab University and the title of her doctoral thesis was “Changing Status of Muslim…
Religiosity and Conflict Handling Styles: A Study of a Muslim Community
This is a pioneering study to address the Islamic view of conflict and the preference of using conflict handing styles by the…
Inter-Religious Dialogue: The Perspective of Malaysian Contemporary Muslim…
Malaysia is a country that is rich for the diversity of its people. This diversity can be seen from the aspect of faith,…