Most academic studies of Islam and Islamic theology have not examined the concept of sovereignty in Islam. Giventhe factthat studies on sovereignty are undergoing a mini-renaissance where scholars are returning to the basic concepts of sovereignty of the late 1980s and early 1990s, many Islamic/Muslim scholars are trying to examine and reform the concept of...Read More

Most works dealing with Islam and Africa trace the roots of their connection to the first Hijra when two groups totaling more than 100 Muslims fled persecution in Mecca and arrived in the Kingdom of Axiom (modern-day Ethiopia) in 614 and 615 AD, respectively. A few works would begin with the story of Bilal ibn...Read More

The aim of this paper is to study the present state of democracy in the Islamic world, to discuss factors establishing satisfactory democratic regimes and to speculate on future developments. Countries with at least % 50 of their population belonging to Islam religion may be called Islamic states. This definition does not necessarily refer to...Read More

This paper is based on a larger MA thesis that explores the collective identities of Muslims in Canada, and how their experiences as a religious minority have shaped their collective identity. It also explores attitudes of ‘otherment’, out-group suspicion and how disenfranchisement among certain individuals may result in a distortion of the Islamic religion. For...Read More