Recently added articles from The Muslim World:
Between Entertainment and Religion: Ibn Taymiyya's Views on Superstition
Jan 01, 2009; ... The French dictionary Larousse du XXe siècle defines superstition as a "deviation of religious sentiment, based on fear or ignorance, which lends a sacred character to vain beliefs, practices, obligations, etc."1 Some 700 years ago, the populations of the sultanate of Egypt and Syria ...
Jesus and Muhammad: new convergences
Jan 01, 2009; ... Apparently echoing the Eighth Commandment, the Prophet urges us to shun the bearing of false witness, qawl al-zür.1 The loudest projections of religion in Muslim and Christian communities today seem sometimes to pay scant heed to this. But the prophetic judgment remains. Qawl al-zür is one of ...
Muslim American College Youth: Attitudes and Responses Five Years After 9/11
Jan 01, 2009; ... It is striking to note that [like Europe] [,] no such fears about Muslim youth are on the minds of Americans. Instead, we are preoccupied with the possible connections between Muslims here and terrorist activities. But such concerns also, inevitably, come back to Muslim youth particularly to the ...
A Contextual Approach to Women's Rights in the Qur'an: Readings of 4:34
Jan 01, 2009; ... The interpretation of sacred texts regarding the rights, role, and status of women is a challenge. In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the patriarchal nature of its religious texts poses a number of hurdles for feminist scholars. For Muslim feminist interpreters of the Qur'an, the problem is ...
The Women's Bay'a in Qur'an and Sira*
Jan 01, 2009; ... This article is about the Muslim woman's Islamic right to active participation in public space. I contend that this right was established by the Qur'anic revelation and practiced in the Prophet's community in Mecca and Medina. Later generations of scripturalist and legal experts downplayed or ...
God as Father-Mother, and More
Jan 01, 2009; ... "My mercy encompasses all things."1 "The Lord is good to all, and His compassion is over all that He has made"2 In his book entitled, The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming, Henri Nouwen presents an extended reflection on Rembrandt's famous painting by the same ...
Qur'anic Hermeutics and Political Hegemony: Reformation of Islamic Thought
Jan 01, 2009; ... Reformation of Islamic Thought is a magisterial reconstruction of reformist thought in contemporary Islam from the 18th to 20th JL . centuries written by the prominent Egyptian scholar Nasr Abu Zayd.1 The connecting thread of the book is a critical discussion of contemporary interpretations of ...
"Demonstrating Islam": the Conflict of Text and the Mudawwana Reform in Morocco
Jan 01, 2009; ... Throughout the twentieth century, the connections between Islamic jurisprudence and the regulation of social relationships (mu'dmaldt), especially kinship, have acquired explicit political connotations. In colonial times, family law was defended by the nationalists and the 'ulama' as a forbidden ...
Towards a new Prophetology: Maulwi 'Abdullah Cakralawi's Ahl al-Qur'an Movement
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Ahl al-Qur'an (the People of the Qur'an) is a movement that originated from Lahore at the turn of the twentieth century under the tutelage of Maulwï 'Abdullah Cakralawi (d. 1916) with the purported aim of proselytizing the supremacy of the Qur'anic text as the only valid and authentic source ...
Islamic Universalism: Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's Salafi Deliberations on the Duration of Hell-Fire
Jan 01, 2009; ... Classical Sunni eschatology maintains that all those who believe that God is one will enter the Garden of Paradise in due time. Some monotheists may first have to endure punishment and purification in the Fire for their sins, but those with even the least grain of belief will eventually enter ...
American Muslims' Civil Liberties and the Challenge to Effectively Avert Xenophobia
Jan 01, 2009; ... Since the events of 9/11, American Muslims have been dealing with issues brought about by rising xenophobia, which can be countered by offering opportunities for engagement with non-Muslims to learn about Muslims and Islam. Muslims who reside in the U.S. are here long-term and many have no ...
Feeling Threatened: Muslim-Christian Relations in Indonesia's New Order
Jan 01, 2009; ... Feeling Threatened: Muslim-Christian Relations in Indonesia's New Order By Mujiburrahman Amsterdam University Press, Leiden, 2006 There have been numerous scholarly studies of the development of Indonesian politics and society in the "New Order" period, particularly in relation to Muslim ...
Illusions of Progress in the Arab World
Jan 01, 2009; ... Illusions of Progress in the Arab World By Galal Amin The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo, 2006 In Illusions of Progress, author Galal Amin delves into the debate between the West and the Arab worlds in which the terms "advanced or progressive" and "backward" are applied to ...
Islam and Muslims: A Guide to Diverse Experience in a Modern World
Jan 01, 2009; ... Islam and Muslims: A Guide to Diverse Experience in a Modern World By Mark Sedgwick Boston and London: Intercultural Press, 2006 Author Mark Sedgwick writes as a sympathetic and perceptive interpreter of Islam and the practices of Muslim peoples. His purpose is to help non-Muslims, ...
The Challenge of Islam: Encounters in Interfaith Dialogue
Jan 01, 2009; ... The Challenge of Islam: Encounters in Interfaith Dialogue By Douglas Pratt Ashgate Publishing, 2005 Moments before I commenced writing this review, I received an e-mail that had obviously gone to many other people before landing on my computer. It recounts a story in which an ...
Ismailis in Medieval Muslim Societies
Jan 01, 2009; ... Ismailis in Medieval Muslim Societies By Farhad Daftary I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Lsmaili Studies, 2005 Ever since the publication of his monumental history The Ismailis in 1990, Farhad Daftary, head of the Department of Academic Research and Publications at the ...
Hermeneutics as Translation: An Assessment of Islamic Translation Trends in America
Oct 01, 2008; ... If we are to understand hermeneutics as translation we must take the time to engage and situate these two significant terms. This article will proceed in two parts: one theoretical, the other historical. In the first half I will locate hermeneutics as an applicable and participatory process ...
Between Tribalism and Pluralism in the U.S. and Britain
Oct 01, 2008; ... The Smithsonian Institution's Freer and Sackler National Galleries of Asian Art on the Mall in Washington D.C. contains an example of cultural exchange from the end of the fifteenth century. In "Portrait of a Painter," an anonymous artist in the court of Mehmet II imitated a painting by Venetian ...
Kemal A. Faruki's Reconstruction of Islam(ic Law): A Modernist Position in Islam(ic Jurisprudence)
Oct 01, 2008; ... At a time when many Muslims are looking for ways to characterize Islam humanely, in a way consistent with fundamental human rights, the work of Kemal A. Faruki constitutes a foundation for their arguments.1 Faruki was Pakistani, an Islamist, and a modernist. Akin to the Islamist revivalists in ...
Pooh-Poohing Pluralism: Ijtihading Hadith to Build a Theology of Exclusion
Oct 01, 2008; ... According to Khaled Abou El Fadl, "one of the core related issues that we Muslim intellectuals must confront is: Do the bin Ladens of the Muslim world actually find justification for the ugliness that they perpetuate in any interpretive tradition in Islam? Does this level of intolerance and ...