Introduction Traditionally and historically, Muslim students have been one of the most important agents of distributing Islamic thinking and religious practices in Indonesia. Indonesian Muslim students who studied Islam in the Middle East and
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Islam, Travel, and Learning
A Case Study on Indonesian Muslim Student Diasporas in Saudi Arabia
Sumanto Al Qurtuby
Clothing and Colours in Early Islam
Adornment (Aesthetics), Symbolism and Differentiation
Hadas Hirsch
, life needs, social codes, religious demands and socioeconomic manifestations. By the rise of Islam in the seventh century, the holy scripture of the Koran established and institutionalised its existence economically, politically and religiously
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- Research Article
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- 99–114 (16 total)
Islamic Biopolitics during Pandemics in Russia
Intertextuality of Religious, Medical and Political Discourses
Sofya A. Ragozina
control. Religious discourse had to adapt in order to explain the pandemic. In this article I consider the ‘translation’ of medical and political discourses into the language of Islam in Russia during the spread of COVID-19. I analyse speeches, fatwas
Md Saidul Islam
Contesting the U.S.-centric bias of modern environmentalism, this essay uncovers an “old“ paradigm of environmentalism found in the medieval Islamic tradition, the Islamic Ecological Paradigm (IEP)—which, in many respects, is tantamount to many ideologies of modern environmentalism. According to IEP, human beings are a part of, and not above, nature, and have the responsibility to preserve nature. Many paradigms of modern environmentalism have largely embraced this ideology, though they do not necessarily trace their origin to IEP. This essay also analyzes Muslim environmental activism today by focusing on how its proponents are inspired by modern environmentalism while grounding their activism in IEP. Despite substantial variance and occasional tension, the author argues that both modern environmentalism and IEP can form an ontological alliance, an alliance that is of paramount importance to addressing environmental problems that transcend physical and cultural borders.
In Nature and Culture
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- 01 Mar 2012
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 72–94 (23 total)
The Politics of Islamic Death Rituals in the COVID-19 Era
The Case of Egypt
Nadeem Ahmed Moonakal and Matthew Ryan Sparks
Islamic religious institution of Egypt, as well as the Coptic Orthodox Church, implemented restrictions suspending group prayers and services in all houses of worship throughout the country for two weeks ( Egypt Today 2020 ; Rahouma and Hegazy 2020 ). It
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Jun 2022
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- Research Article
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- 8–27 (20 total)
Enis Sulstarova
-centric, and secular approaches that dominate the way history is taught in the pre-university public education system. By focusing on world and national history textbooks, this study analyses the role assigned to Islam in representations of the self and the
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 17–35 (19 total)
Jeremy F. Walton and Piro Rexhepi
pluralism by offering a fine-grained portrait of institutional pluralization in a specific, fertile context—that of Islam in several of the successor states of former Yugoslavia. In doing so, we contribute to an expanding literature on Islam in socialist and
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 151–167 (17 total)
Islam, Rights, and Ethical Life
The Problem of Political Modernity in the Islamic World
Michael J. Thompson
This paper considers the roots of the dissonance between political modernity and Islamic societies. It argues that primacy has to be given to the analysis of different paradigms of 'ethical life' which are ways in which ethical-political categories are organized within society. A distinction is made between 'nomocentric' and 'rights-based' paradigms of ethical life, the former associated with a system of moral duties and the latter with a system of political and ethical rights accorded to the individual. I argue that the emphasis on a nomocentric paradigm of ethical life has the effect of suppressing the development of a rights-based ethical and political discourse in large enough segments of the society to limit a progressive change toward political modernity. I further analyze the ways in which forces of social and economic modernisation play a role in antagonizing the relation between modernity and the more traditional forms of ethical life which predominate in Islamic society and political/ethical thought.
Michaelle Browers
Anne Norton, On the Muslim Question (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), 288 pp., ISBN: 9781400846351
Alfred Stepan and Charles Taylor, eds., Boundaries of Toleration (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), 328 pp., ISBN: 9780231165679
Mehrzad Boroujerdi, ed., Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and the Theory of Statecraft (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2013), 448 pp., ISBN: 9780815632894
Wael B. Hallaq, The Impossible State: Islam, Politics and Modernity’s Moral Predicament (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013), 272 pp., ISBN: 9780231162579
Ali Mirsepassi and Tadd Graham Fernée, Islam, Democracy and Cosmopolitanism: At Home and in the World (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), 225 pp., ISBN: 9781107053977
Islam and Muslim Cultures in Quebec French-language Textbooks over Three Periods
1980s, 1990s, and the Present Day
Béchir Oueslati, Marie McAndrew, and Denise Helly
This article examines the evolution of the representation of Islam and Muslim cultures in textbooks in Quebec. Results indicate signicant improvements in the new secondary school history textbooks, both quantitatively (for they contain more information about pillars, key concepts, and relations with Christianity and Judaism) and qualitatively (on account of their depth of coverage, fewer negative views than in the 1980s, and fewer factual errors than in the 1990s). The positive role played by Muslim scientists in preserving old knowledge and enriching is also recognized. However, textbooks still view Islam as a religion of submission, proscriptions, and forced conversion, failing to recognize the diversity within Islam and Muslim cultures.
In Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society
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- 01 Mar 2011
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- Research Article
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- 5–24 (20 total)