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Racism In America And Islam: Remembering Bilal, Muqtedar Khan
Racism In America And Islam: Remembering Bilal, Muqtedar Khan
Muqtedar Khan
This article reflects on Bilal, the African companion of Prophet Muhammad and its relevance to race relations in America.
New Atheists And The Economy Of Outrage, Muqtedar Khan
New Atheists And The Economy Of Outrage, Muqtedar Khan
Muqtedar Khan
This article critiques the assault on Islam by the New Atheists and the economy of outrage that enables them.
The Arab Fall: War Of All Against All, Muqtedar Khan
The Arab Fall: War Of All Against All, Muqtedar Khan
Muqtedar Khan
This article explore the geopolitics of the Arab World with the rise of Daesh - ISIS.
What The Tsarnaevs Didn’T Know: The Untold Story Of Chechen Non-Violence, Rebecca Gould
What The Tsarnaevs Didn’T Know: The Untold Story Of Chechen Non-Violence, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
No abstract provided.
New Atheists And The Same Old Islamophobia, Muqtedar Khan
New Atheists And The Same Old Islamophobia, Muqtedar Khan
Muqtedar Khan
This article exposes the Islamophobia of the New Atheists.
What Is Islamic Democracy? The Three Cs Of Islamic Governance, Muqtedar Khan
What Is Islamic Democracy? The Three Cs Of Islamic Governance, Muqtedar Khan
Muqtedar Khan
This book chapter explores the three Cs of Islamic Governance; Constitution, Consultation and Consent.
Has Modernity Failed The Muslim World?, Muqtedar Khan
Has Modernity Failed The Muslim World?, Muqtedar Khan
Muqtedar Khan
Modernity had come to the Muslim World. But it did not deliver. There is no stability, no freedom, no real democracy and no earned prosperity and no scientific vitality in the Muslim World. Perhaps rather than continuing to ask the old question is Islam compatible with modernity, we need to ask has modernity failed Muslims.
Beyond Anti-Semitism, Rebecca Gould
Beyond Anti-Semitism, Rebecca Gould
Rebecca Gould
Focusing on internal contradictions within the Israeli left, this essay considers the impact of the historical legacy of anti-Semitism on everyday thinking about Israel and the Palestinian territories. Contesting the view that to criticize Israel is to engage in anti-Semitic defamation, it offers an historical account of how Israel's actions in the West Bank have come to be immunized from conscientious criticism. It also documents how progressive media outlets in contemporary Israel have silenced or otherwise marginalized Israel's most active critics.
Review: The Faces Of Terrorism: Social And Psychological Dimensions, By Neil Smelser, Dylan Kissane
Review: The Faces Of Terrorism: Social And Psychological Dimensions, By Neil Smelser, Dylan Kissane
Dylan Kissane
In the decade since the 9/11 terrorist attacks there have been countless books and articles published that have sought to explain Islamist terrorism and explore policy responses to terrorism from the Muslim world. A smaller sector of the literature has sought to place Islamist terror in its international political context, drawing parallels with terrorism in the Basque country, Northern Ireland and domestic groups in the United States. A smaller sector again seeks to explore not only to describe such terrorism and explore policy responses to it but also to dig deeper and uncover the motivations that drive terrorists and those …
Les Musulmans : Un Cauchemar Ou Une Force Pour L’Europe ?, Hichem Karoui, Arno Tausch
Les Musulmans : Un Cauchemar Ou Une Force Pour L’Europe ?, Hichem Karoui, Arno Tausch
Hichem Karoui
This is a comparative study related to European and Global Islam, based on documented- social- anthropological analysis, and quantitative data from the European Social Survey and the World Values Survey. Can we really say that Islam is not faulty as for the exclusion of European Muslims? Or is it only biased European policies toward Islam? How can we explain the radicalization of some European Muslims?
Instrumentalist Use Of Journalism In Imposing The Kemalist Hegemonic Worldview And Educating The Masses In The Early Republican Period, Begum Burak, Ihsan Yilmaz
Instrumentalist Use Of Journalism In Imposing The Kemalist Hegemonic Worldview And Educating The Masses In The Early Republican Period, Begum Burak, Ihsan Yilmaz
Begum Burak
Abstract This paper analyses hegemonic use of the press in the process of top-down Kemalist modernization in the early periods of the Turkish Republic that is characterized by one party rule between early 1920s and 1950. In addition to helping Westernization attempts of the Kemalists, the press in this period also was hegemonically engaged in vilification of the past. Moreover, intolerant attitude towards pluralism and plurality of views was the discursive norm of the Turkish press at that time. The journalism and the press in the early years of the Republic had consistently supported the new regime which was committed …
European Fears: The End Of Secularism, Muqtedar Khan
European Fears: The End Of Secularism, Muqtedar Khan
Muqtedar Khan
This paper argues that the presence of Islam in Europe is generating a fear the secularism is coming to an end.
Islam, Globalization, And Economic Performance In The Middle East, Marcus Noland, Howard Pack
Islam, Globalization, And Economic Performance In The Middle East, Marcus Noland, Howard Pack
Marcus Noland
The Middle East is a demographic time bomb. According to the United Nations De¬velopment Program’s (UNDP) Arab Human Development Report 2002, the population of the Arab region is expected to increase by around 25 percent between 2000 and 2010 and by 50 to 60 percent by 2020—or by perhaps 150 million people, a fig¬ure equivalent to more than two Egypts. Even under the UNDP’s more conserva¬tive scenario, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates will be the only Arab countries in 2020 with median ages above 30. These figures suggest that the region as a whole will experience labor …
American Muslims As Allies In The War On Terrorism, Muqtedar Khan
American Muslims As Allies In The War On Terrorism, Muqtedar Khan
Muqtedar Khan
This chapter argues that rather than threat to America, American Muslims can be strong allies against extremism.
Japan And Transformation Of National Identities In The Imperial Era, Li Narangoa, Robert Cribb
Japan And Transformation Of National Identities In The Imperial Era, Li Narangoa, Robert Cribb
Robert Cribb
Japan's view of the nationality of its Asian neightbours took many forms during the imperial era. In some respects Japan asserted its superiority to those neighbours, in other respects saw them as nations with a standing equal to that of Japan. The working out of these two views reflected Japanese strategic interests.
Shura And Democracy, Muqtedar Khan
The Compact Of Medina: A Constitutional Theory Of The Islamic State, Muqtedar Khan
The Compact Of Medina: A Constitutional Theory Of The Islamic State, Muqtedar Khan
Muqtedar Khan
The essay explores the Compact of Medina as a constitutional basis for a modern Islamic state.
Constructing Identity In "Glocal" Politics, Muqtedar Khan
Constructing Identity In "Glocal" Politics, Muqtedar Khan
Muqtedar Khan
The article describes how Muslim identities are constructed inside out and outside in conditions of glocalization.