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Addressing Fundamentalism By Legal And Spiritual Means, Dan Wessner

Human Rights & Human Welfare

A review of:

Religion and Humane Global Governance by Richard A. Falk. New York: Palgrave, 2001. 191 pp.

Gender and Human Rights in Islam and International Law: Equal before Allah, Unequal before Man? by Shaheen Sardar Ali. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2000. 358 pp.

Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women edited by Courtney W. Howland. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999. 326 pp.

The Islamic Quest for Democracy, Pluralism, and Human Rights by Ahmad S. Moussalli. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. 226 pp.

Mormonism And Islam Through The Eyes Of A “Universal Historian”, James K. Lyon

BYU Studies

In 1912 the internationally known German historian Eduard Meyer published a book that ranked as a curiosity among his writings to that point. In it this remarkably prolific scholar, who in the previous thirty years had published a monumental five-volume history of the ancient world and 274 other books, treatises, and articles, explored two topics that were so alien to the mainstream of his previous work that it baffled his learned peers. Those topics were Mormonism and Islam. Entitled Ursprung und Geschichte der Mormonen, mit Exkursen über die Anfänge des Islâms und des Christentums (The origin and history of the …

Medieval Texts For A Modern Audience: The Islamic Translation Series At Byu In Light Of Two Early Antecedents, D. Morgan Davis

BYU Studies

Since the publication of its first volume in 1997, the Islamic Translation Series at Brigham Young University has gained recognition as a significant academic endeavor. From a historical perspective, however, the series, which seeks to make available to a new audience texts from the medieval efflorescence of Islamic civilization, is hardly unprecedented. Indeed, when compared with past undertakings, it is quite modest. This essay traces the outlines of two earlier translation movements, one centered in Baghdad from the mid-eighth to the tenth centuries C.E., the other in Spain during the twelfth century. These movements resulted in the transference and augmentation …

Many Voices, One Umma: Sociopolitical Debate In The Muslim Community, James A. Toronto

BYU Studies

As a religion expands beyond its original setting, it encounters new historical, economic, social, and geopolitical forces. The resulting clash between sacred truth and secular reality created ideological tensions within a religious community that lead its followers to engage in a process of dialogue, reform, and reconciliation. This process of dialectical exchange occurs both between members of the community and between the community and outside forces. Often it gives rise to traumatic, even violent, conflict and frequently leads to schisms and the establishment of break-away religious movements. The history of religion provides abundant evidence that the ability of a nascent …

Trends. Spinning Buddhas, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses the March 2001 destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan by the Taliban.

Aliran Al-Mujbirah [Al-Jabariyyah] Dan Kesan Pemikirannya Di Malaysia, Wan Zailan Kamaruddin Wan Ali

Research Publications (2000 to 2005)

This article as the title indicates is to elaborate the development of al-Mujbirah as one of the earliest Muslim sects and also to analyse the influences and impacts of al-Jabariyyah in the muslim world and in Malaysia.

What Shall We Talk About Today? Righteousness As An Issue Of Christian And Islamic Dialogue, Marko P. Djuric

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Islam På Svenska : Tidskriften Salaam Och Islams Globalisering, Jonas Otterbeck

Books

My PhD dissertation about Islamic discourse in Sweden. It resulted in a few English articles, see below (years around 2000).

Naqshbandiyya In Damascus: Strategies To Establish And Strengthen The Order In A Changing Society, Leif Stenberg

Book Chapters / Conference Papers

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Aliran Al-Maturidi Dan Al-Maturidiyyah Dalam Dunia Islam, Wan Zailan Kamaruddin Wan Ali

Pre-2000

As the title indicates, the aim of this article is to discuss the establishment of al-Maturidi and al-Maturidiyyah sect in the Muslim world. As far as the topics are concerned, they will be in two parts. First part will deal with the background of al-Maturidi and al-Maturidiyyah and their thoughts as compared to al-Ash'ari and al-Asha'irah whereas the second part will stress on its development and impact to the Muslim people in the muslim world.

The Revealed Word And The Struggle For Authority: Interpretation And Use Of Islamic Terminology Among Algerian Islamists, Leif Stenberg

Book Chapters / Conference Papers

No abstract provided.

The Islamization Of Science: Four Muslim Positions Developing An Islamic Modernity, Leif Stenberg

Books

No abstract provided.

Islam: A New Religion In A Traditionally Catholic Slovenia, Drago Ocvirk

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Islam In Russia, Abdurashid Dudaev

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Islamization -- Seed Of Discord Or The Only Way Of Salvation For Albanians?, Anton Kole Berishaj

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Marriage And Divorce: Legal Foundations, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri

Law Faculty Publications

This unique reference is a comprehensive encyclopedia dedicated to the institutions, religion, politics, and culture in Muslim societies throughout the world. Placing particular emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World contains over 750 articles in four volumes on Muslims in the Arab heartland as well as South and Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

An invaluable resource, the Encyclopedia offers extensive comparative and systematic analyses of Islamic beliefs, institutions, movements, practices, and peoples on an international scale. The alphabetically arranged articles range from brief 500-word essays to major interpretive and synthetic treatment …

To The Rijaset (Leadership) Of The Islamic Community In Sarajevo, Franjo Kuharic

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Konsep Wali Allah Dalam Islam : Suatu Kajian Dalam Pemahaman Masyarakat Melayu Di Jajahan Pasir Mas, Kelantan / Karimah Mat Zin, Karimah Mat Zin

Pre-2000 Student Works

No abstract provided.

Peranan Jabatan Agama Islam Johor Dalam Membasmi Ajaran Sesat Di Johor., Y. Siri Nora

Pre-2000 Student Works

No abstract provided.

Pulangan Terhadap Tenaga Kerja Menurut Perspektif Islam / Abdul Ghani Awang, Awang Abdul Ghani

Pre-2000 Student Works

No abstract provided.

Konsep Ibadat Menurut Ilmu Tasawwuf / Abdul Malik Hj Majid., Hj Majid Abdul Malik

Pre-2000 Student Works

No abstract provided.

Bedah Siasat : Penilaian Islam Terhadap Amalannya Di Malaysia / Fakhriani Mohammed Yusof, Mohammed Yusof Fakhriani

Pre-2000 Student Works

No abstract provided.

Islam And The Religions Of The Ancient Orient: A Reappraisal. Part I, Richard S. Tomback

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Collection & Transmission Of The Qur'an: A Critical Survey Of Western Scholarship, David Addleton

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

A brief review of the history of western interest in the Qur'an from Keaton's 1143 C.E. translation to the present and a comparison between the western and traditional views on the Qur'-am's textual history serves to place the western theories on the collection and transmission of the Qur'an in their historical and intellectual context.

The theories of Richard Bell, John Burton, Leone Caetani, Paul Casanova, Arthur Jeffery Alphonse Mingana, Theodor Ntildeke, John Wansbrough and W. Montgomery Watt are given primary consideration; Nabia Abbot, Hartwig Hirschfeld, D.S. Margolicuth, William Muir and Ajmal Khan receive secondary consideration.

The traditional history of the …

Hebrew Prophecy A Unique Divine Bestowal;, W. A. Maier

Concordia Theological Monthly

In his recent book The Hebrew Literary Genius (Princeton University Press, 1933) Duncan Black MacDonald, professor emeritus of the Hartford Theological Seminary, presents a modernized revision of the widely heralded theory which finds in the early Arabic the prototype of Hebrew literature and Old Testament institutions. Dr. MacDonald, a leading Arabist of this generation and an honorary member of the Arab Academy of Damascus, has brought Wellhusen up to date, removed scientific archaisms from Robertson Smith, and in the light of more recent investigations has revised the details of Goldziher and of other professional Islamic studies.