American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 36-1

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 36-1
Title American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 36-1 PDF eBook
Author Louay Safi, Youssef J. Carter, Abdullah Al-Shami, Katherine Bullock
Publisher International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Pages 146
Release 2019-01-01
Genre Religion
ISBN

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This issue of AJISS opens with a guest editorial by Louay Safi, who reflects on the relationship between scholarship and social engagement while considering the remarkable career of his friend Sulayman Nyang (d. 2018). The first research article of this issue, Youssef J. Carter’s “Black Mus­limness Mobilized: A Study of West African Sufism in Diaspora,” argues that a powerful sense of diasporic identification and solidarity is cultivated by Mustafawi sufis in South Carolina and Senegal. The second article, Abdullah Al-Shami and Kathrine Bullock’s “Islamic Perspectives on Basic Income,” suggests that, although distinct from Western rationales, Islamic concepts and ethical-legal mechanisms have much in common with basic income programs. A review essay by Charles E. Butterworth contextualizes and considers the educational reform project of an ‘integration of knowledge’. Following the book reviews, Enes Karić’s “Goethe, His Era and Islam” traces the complex relationship between Goethe and Islam, as examined in recent literature in Bosnia and beyond. Finally, closing out this new issue of AJISS, Altaf Hussain’s obituary acts as a tribute to the life and work of Dr. Nyang.

The Making of Islamic Heritage

The Making of Islamic Heritage
Title The Making of Islamic Heritage PDF eBook
Author Trinidad Rico
Publisher Springer
Pages 135
Release 2017-06-13
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9811040710

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Offering key insights into critical debates on the construction, management and destruction of heritage in Muslim contexts, this volume considers how Islamic heritages are constructed through texts and practices which award heritage value. It examines how the monolithic representation of Islamic heritage (as a singular construct) can be enriched by the true diversity of Islamic heritages and how endangerment and vulnerability in this type of heritage construct can be re-conceptualized. Assessing these questions through an interdisciplinary lens including heritage studies, anthropology, history, conservation, religious studies and archaeology, this pivot covers global and local examples including heritage case studies from Indonesia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Jordan, and Pakistan.

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 36-2

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 36-2
Title American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 36-2 PDF eBook
Author Kareem Rosshandler, Abbas Ahsan, Abu Zayd
Publisher International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Pages 131
Release 2019-04-01
Genre Religion
ISBN

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This issue begins with an editorial on humanistic education and Islam by the journal editor, Ovamir Anjum. It then features two research articles: Kareem Rosshandler’s “A Review of Contemporary Arabic Scholarship on the Use of Isrā’īliyyāt for Interpreting the Qur’an” is an important exploration of how modern Arabophone Muslim exegetes employ Israelite narratives in their commentaries. The second article, Abbas Ahsan’s “Quine’s Ontology and the Islamic Tradition,” is a meticulous philosophical treatment of a fundamental point: whether naturalist philosophy, particularly in its Quinean form, is commensurable with an absolutely transcendent notion of God as expressed in certain dominant theological traditions of Islam. A review essay on the second edition of Jonathan Brown's celebrated book Hadith: Muhammad's Legacy in the Medieval and Modern World precedes eight book reviews. Finally, in a refreshing and provocative essay, “Islam in English,” Oludamini Ogunnaike and Mohammed Rustom make a case for new vocabulary that could express, not merely describe, Islam in English.

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 36-3

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 36-3
Title American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 36-3 PDF eBook
Author Robert Hefner, James Edmonds, Meryem Zaman
Publisher International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Pages 118
Release 2019-07-09
Genre Religion
ISBN

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Professor Timothy Daniels and his colleagues, Meryem Zaman, Robert Hefner, and James Edmonds, chose AJISS for the publication of their important and timely research. This issue showcases leading and emerging anthropologists who have come together to address the layers of misrepresentation and marginalization that various Muslim groups experience. Each article has been independently reviewed and are ably introduced by Professor Timothy Daniels. Finally, AJISS' Editorial Team takes this opportunity to invite scholars of Islam as well as those of Muslim societies focused on Islamic thought and Muslim practice to consider submitting their collected papers to AJISS for special issues.

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 29:1

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 29:1
Title American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 29:1 PDF eBook
Author Sultana Afroz
Publisher International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Pages 180
Release 2013-11-11
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The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), established in 1984, is a quarterly, double blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal, published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and distributed worldwide. The journal showcases a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world including subjects such as anthropology, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam.

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 36-4

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 36-4
Title American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 36-4 PDF eBook
Author Nazreen S. Bacchus, Alisa M. Perkins, Timothy Daniels
Publisher International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Pages 168
Release 2019-10-01
Genre Religion
ISBN

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The papers in this special issue and the one preceding it have their roots in a panel titled “Ethnography, Misrepresentations of Islam, and Advocacy,” which Timothy Daniels and Maryem Zaman organized for the 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association.

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 32:1

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 32:1
Title American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 32:1 PDF eBook
Author MD. Mahmudul Hasan
Publisher International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Pages 182
Release 2015-11-17
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The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), established in 1984, is a quarterly, double blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal, published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and distributed worldwide. The journal showcases a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world including subjects such as anthropology, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam.