Book Review: Islam and the Challenge of Civilization
Abdelwahab Meddeb’s Islam and the Challenge of Civilization offers newperspectives on and fresh associations among historical…
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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…
Islam, Sexuality, and the “War on Terror”: Luce Irigaray’s Post- Colonial…
This paper explores the reasons why, in the aftermath of 9/11, the interests of Muslim women and Muslim gays have become the…
Turkish Islamism in the Post-gezi Park Era
The Gezi Park protests have stirred serious controversy both inside and outside Turkey on the JDP’s ruling style and ideology. By…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Conception of Society and Its Characteristics from an Islamic Perspective
Islam presents a unique and comprehensive view of the concept of society. For, it perceives it as an association formed in…
Islamic Spirituality Movement and Its Implications on Social and Political…
In the nineteenth century, Islamic religious movements fell into three groups: First, those advocating salvation through…