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Decadent Orientalisms: The Decay Of Colonial Modernity [Table Of Contents], David Fieni

Literature

Decadent Orientalisms presents a sustained critique of the ways Orientalism and decadence have formed a joint discursive mode of the imperial imagination. Attentive to historical and literary configurations of language, race, religion, and power, Fieni shows the importance of understanding Western discourses of Eastern decline and obsolescence together with Arab and Islamic responses in which the language of decadence returns as a characteristic of the West.

Taking seriously Edward Said’s claim that Orientalism is a “style of having power,” Fieni works historically through the aesthetic and ideological effects of Orientalist style, showing how it is at once comparative, descriptive, and …

القِراءَاتُ القرآنية وَأَثَرُهَا فِي تَفْسِيرِ: "أَحْكَامِ القرآن" للإمام أَبِي بَكْرٍ الجَصَّاصِ Quranic Readings And Their Impact On The Interpretation Of The Provisions Of The Quran By Imam Abu Bakr Al-Jassas, Nizar Atallah Ahmad

Jordan Journal of Islamic Studies

This study is based on the study of the method ofal Jassas in the introduction of the Qur'anic readings and their effect on the jurisprudential rule and the interpretative meaning of the Qur'anic verse. This study came in two sections in addition to an introduction, an prefaceand a conclusion. Where the researcher dealt in the first topic of al- Jassas method in the introduction of Quranic readings. As for the second topic, the researcher showed the effect of theQur'anic Readings on the jurisprudential judgment and the interpretative meaning. The research ended with a number of results, including the recitation of …

2020 Children's Story Cards, Tsos

TSOS Interview Gallery

Arif: "I like being in school again."

Norina: "We laugh a lot but I also worry."

Nooda: "I came on a boat. It was a big boat!"

Madina: "I just want to live in a safe place..."

Shurangez: "Sometimes we didn't feel safe at school."

Alex: "I'm from Nigeria. Coming to Italy was very difficult-very, very difficult, a real struggle."

Danial: "I want to be a useful person and follow my dreams."

Firoz: "I am 13 years old and I am worried about my family."

Ali: "Ali lived in Afghanistan. One day while walking to school a bomb exploded near …

Dignity: An Islamic Perspective, Zeki Saritoprak

2020 Faculty Bibliography

No abstract provided.

The Parables In The Holy Qur'an: Their Benefits And Objectives., Dr. Ali Abdul Aziz Sayour

Faculty Peer-Reviewed Papers | بحوث هيئة التدريس المحكمة

The Qur’an is a book of guidance in a graphic style, and the diversity of the Qur’anic method for expressing meanings is not hidden. Among these methods is the proverbial one.The Qur’an gave an area of care to the proverb, as it used this type of graphic method in more than fifty examples, and varied for us in the way it uses these proverbs between explicit, latent and compound, which leads the researcher to the necessity of standing on them to reveal the purposes of the proverb and its aims and objectives. The scholars, in the past and present, have …

The Relationship Between The Name Of The Surah And Its Themes And Its Impact On Interpretation: Surah Al-Kahf As A Case Study, Dr. Ali Abdul Aziz Sayour

Faculty Peer-Reviewed Papers | بحوث هيئة التدريس المحكمة

The research deals with the question of the originality and application of the subject. The question is the mechanism of determining the axis of Sura, because it has a significant impact on the interpretation of the surah in general. And also because of their impact in determining the most likely of the implications of meanings meanings on the word Koran. The study took the Surah Al-Kahf as a procession of the applied side to show that the difference in determining the axis of the sura led to a difference between the interpreters in defining the axes and sections of the …

On Taqlīd: Ibn Al Qayyim's Critique Of Authority In Islamic Law, Walid Ghali

Faculty & Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Lost & Found: New Harvest, Owen Gottlieb, Ian Schreiber

Presentations and other scholarship

Lost & Found is a strategy card-to-mobile game series that teaches medieval religious legal systems with attention to period accuracy and cultural and historical context.

Set in Fustat (Old Cairo) in the 12th century, a great crossroads of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. The Lost & Found games project seeks to expand the discourse around religious legal systems, to enrich public conversations in a variety of communities, and to promote greater understanding of the religious traditions that build the fabric of the United States. Comparative religious literacy can build bridges between and within communities and prepare learners to be responsible citizens …

Rawah, Rawah, Brandi Kilmer

TSOS Interview Gallery

No abstract provided.

Tolerance, Prejudice, And The Ornament Of The World, Elijah Zane

History - Master of Arts in Teaching

I. Synthesis Essay…………………………....3

II. Primary Documents and Headnotes…….32

III. Textbook Critique………………………....38

IV. New Textbook Entry………………………42

V. Bibliography………………………………..52

Penjanaan Ekonomi Masjid Menerusi Aktiviti Perniagaan: Kajian Di Masjid-Masjid Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Adnan Amru Alhaz

Student Works (2020-2029)

Hubungan di antara masjid dan ekonomi amat berkait rapat mengambil kira sebahagian fungsi asalnya sebagai pusat perkembangan ekonomi masyarakat Islam. Namun begitu kebergantungan institusi masjid kepada sumber pendapatan tradisi mengakibatkan institusi masjid tidak mampu melaksanakan fungsinya secara menyeluruh. Oleh yang demikian, penjanaan ekonomi masjid menerusi aktiviti perniagaan merupakan alternatif terbaik dalam memastikan kelestarian sumber pendapatannya. Justeru kajian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis sumber pendapatan, aktiviti serta faktor kejayaan perniagaan masjid-masjid kariah di Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur (WPKL). Dalam kajian ini, data-data penyata kewangan tahunan rasmi selama tiga tahun (2014-2016) bagi dua belas buah masjid yang mewakili enam buah pusat pentadbiran zon …

Political Religious Extremism And Its Impact On Social Security: A Study At Gaza Strip, Palestine, Abumarzouq Mona J.M

Student Works (2020-2029)

This study, named 'political religious extremism and its impact on societal security: A Study at Gaza Strip, Palestine ', approaches its types, causes, manifestations, effects, attitude of interpreters and how university students in Gaza Strip perceive its reality and impact. Moreover, the role of lecturers in approaching it, and detecting of statistical differences in how the sample’s individuals realize reality of the phenomenon, attributed to the variables: (gender - university - governorate). The researcher follows the descriptive, applied, analytical approach, by extrapolating texts related to the topic comprehensively, extracting a base from contemporary interpretations, an applied study that combines interviews …

Acts Of Meaning, Resource Diagrams, And Essential Learning Behaviors: The Design Evolution Of Lost & Found, Owen Gottlieb, Ian Schreiber

Articles

Lost & Found is a tabletop-to-mobile game series designed for teaching medieval religious legal systems. The long-term goals of the project are to change the discourse around religious laws, such as foregrounding the prosocial aspects of religious law such as collaboration, cooperation, and communal sustainability. This design case focuses on the evolution of the design of the mechanics and core systems in the first two tabletop games in the series, informed by over three and a half years’ worth of design notes, playable prototypes, outside design consultations, internal design reviews, playtests, and interviews.

Islam, Emad Hamdeh

Publications

Islam, the religion of 1.2 billion people around the world, provides its followers guidance on how to live according to God’s teachings. The word “Islam” means submission, and in this context, refers to voluntary submission to will and teachings of God. The word Islam stems from the same root word as “peace” salām, by submitting to God one finds inner peace in this world and eternal peace and happiness in the next.

Persistence Of Jewish-Muslim Reconciliatory Activism In The Face Of Threats And “Terrorism” (Real And Perceived) From All Sides, Micah B.D.C. Naziri

Antioch University Dissertations & Theses

This dissertation concerns how Jewish-Muslim and Israel-Palestine grassroots activism can persist in the face of threats to the safety, freedom, lives, or even simply the income and employment of those engaged in acts of sustained resistance. At the heart of the study are the experiences of participants in the Hashlamah Project, an inter-religious collaboration project, involving Jews and Muslims. Across chapters and even nations, chapters of this organization faced similar threats and found universally-applicable solutions emerging for confronting those threats and persisting in the face of them. This raised the question of whether revolutionaries and activists in general can persevere …

Tradition As Flow: Decolonial Currents In The Muslim Atlantic, Jason Sparkes

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

This study contributes a decolonial critique of the world-system from the longue durée perspective of the Muslim Atlantic. It connects contemporary Traditionalist Islamic discourse in North America to human networks developed since the long sixteenth century. Traditionalist Islam can be described as a discourse about traditional Islam. Genealogically, it draws upon many sources. Two important ones are (1) the oeuvre of French metaphysician and Sufi René Guénon, and (2) the Shâdhilî school of Sufism born in North Africa. Traditionalist Islam distinguishes itself from what it depicts as fundamentalist (or Salafist) and modernist (or progressive) currents, representing two extremes of …

Actual Development Trends Of Religious Studies In Uzbekistan, Makhfuza Alimova

The Light of Islam

The paper highlights actual problems, major directions and development trends of the field of Religious Studies in Uzbekistan. It is clear that the youths have become the main target of different destructive ideas in the period of globalization. The paper focuses on the prevention of these threats and formation of a spiritual immunity against them as well as on the improvement of healthy lifestyle and respect towards national and universal values in souls and minds of the youths in order to prevent a gap to be appeared in their spiritual world.

National and religious values have developed for better in …

Source Studies Analysis Of Manuscripts Of “Muqaddimatu-Ladab” In Foreign Archival Funds, Zohidjon Islomov

The Light of Islam

Mahmud Zamakhshari’s scientific heritage are consist of about 70 works on linguistics and literary studies. The work of “Muqaddamatu-l-adab” has a special place in the scientific heritage of the scholar. This work, originally recognized as a multilingual dictionary, contains Arabic-Persian-Turkish trilingual, Arabic-Persian-Turkic-Mongolian in four languages. The work consists of five parts, in the first part presented words of noun, the second part is devoted to the verb and the words from it. The third part consists of auxiliary words, the fourth part is the formation of names and the fifth part is grammatical rules regarding the formation of verbs. There …

Features Of Industrial Development Of The Tashkent Region, Nilufar Batirova

The Light of Islam

The article describes the features of the industrial development of the Tashkent region. Within one region, an industrial complex was analyzed. Some views of theorists on regional development are given. The opinions of these scientists on the factors affecting the development of industry in the region are analyzed. The economic potential and geographical location of the regions can lead to a clear division of the individual territories in industrial production. The economic and industrial potential of the Tashkent region was evaluated. It also analyzes the economic potential of the region. The role of regional sectors of the economy in the …

Features Of Formation Of The Concept Of The National Innovation System, Gulnora Gulyamova Phd

The Light of Islam

The article examines the formation of the concept of national innovation systems, its importance in modern economic theory and the history of the introduction of national innovation systems in economic theory and practice. The author analyzes different views on the national innovation system. The stages of development of the concept of a national innovation system are highlighted.

The issues of improving state measures to form the institutional basis of innovation policy are considered as an important tool to increase the effectiveness of the national innovation system. Based on the analysis of various views on the national innovation system, the author …

Features Of Formation Of The Competitive Environment In Small Business In The Conditions Of Development Of Innovative Economy, Rano Sadikova Phd

The Light of Islam

In a market economy, small business is the leading sector that determines the rate of economic growth, the composition and quality of the gross national product. The development and expansion of the sphere of production and services of small businesses in the Republic will eventually lead to an increase in employment and the development of the country’s economy as a whole.

Further enhancement of the role of small business in the national economy and further improvement of its participation in economic growth largely depends on the state of the competitive environment in this area. It is connected with creation of …

Directions Of National Tourism Development And The Role Of International Experiences, Zokir Sodikov

The Light of Islam

Measures are constantly being taken so as to develop tourism in the country as one of the strategic sectors that will contribute to the diversification of the economy, accelerated development of the regions, job creation, rise in incomes and living standards of the population, and improvementbusiness conditions in the national market. Therefore, liberalization of the visa regime, simplification of the registration procedure for foreigners, provision of privileges and preferences for the development of the tourism sector provide the opportunity to effectively promote the national tourism potential in the domestic and foreign markets.

The prior task is to create favorable conditions …

The Role Of Information And Communication Technologies In The Development Of Religious And Educational Programs On Islamic Subjects, Alimjon Dadamuhamedov

The Light of Islam

Modern information technologies make a significant contribution to the development of religious and educational programs. The electronization of the Qur’an, Hadith and historical manuscript sources remains relevant today. The software was created in order to present to the world the ancient works of our ancestors and present them to the next generation in their original form. These software packages can be used in Islamic educational institutions and courses. Modern programming languages, such as Php, WordPress, the Yii2 framework, Joomla, Visual Basic, C ++, were used in the development of Islamic sources. This article is devoted to the analysis of modern …

Conditions Of Ensuring The Information-Psychological Security Of The Person, Baxriddin Umarov

The Light of Islam

The aim of the article is to reveal some of the socio-psychological capabilities of protecting a person from informationalpsychological threats. The article discusses the psychological possibilities of information and psychological security of a person. Humanity lives in the era of information technology, which accelerated the flow of information, which can change the mood, goals and aspirations of the people of the world, as well as the whole way of thinking. The article also notes that with the transition of mankind to the 21st century, it has been noted with unprecedented growth and quality of information, and today the impact, as …

Socio-Philosophical Aspects Of The Senusite Movement In North Africa, Azam Mamurov

The Light of Islam

The great imam and reformer seyyid Muhammad bin ‘Ali al-Senusi was born in Algeria and is a direct descendant of the prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). Received an excellent upbringing and education. He devoted all his knowledge and life experience to a noble cause: improving and reforming the hard and poor life of the simple Arab people. This is the period when European countries (France, Italy, etc.) began occupation actions against the underdeveloped Arab countries of North Africa. In 1830, the French captured Algeria - the homeland of Muhammad ‘Ali al-Senusi, and in 1881 the …

Development Of Concepts On The Philosophy Of Religion In The Philosophical Thinking Of The West, Abduxoliq Tashanov

The Light of Islam

This article explores the role of religious ideas, concepts and ideas in the cognitive process, the idea of God in the dominant idea of medieval Western civilization, as well as the philosophical views of theologians on the unity and eternity of God. The ideas of Thomas Aquinas about God, the omnipotence of God and his relative and absolute views on him are analyzed. The role of the theological doctrine in European philosophy of the 11th-13th centuries, its transformation into medieval European conceptual dominance was investigated in the theory of theology as a major scientific science with the addition of philosophy …

Moral Principles For Establishing Rules Of Fair Governance, Uktam Shakarov

The Light of Islam

The article discusses the role of ethical principles in the creation of management regulations. It states that governance based on established ethical values can serve as a legal basis for resolving various conflicts and disputes that may arise in society and is an important tool for ensuring good governance.

The Religious-Philosophical Legacy Of Ahmed Zaki Validiy, Muminjon Xojaev

The Light of Islam

This article analyzes the social and social life during the time of Ahmad Zaki Validi Togan, the religious-philosophical, socio-political views of A. Validi.

The emergence of the need to study the history of Islam and Christian doctrine, religious and philosophical thoughts by Ahmаdom Zaki Validi. Socio-political views of Zaki Validi on the political situation during the Soviet totalitarian politics based on an analysis of his views on the spiritual degradation of society, the moral impoverishment of people and the dependent of communist ideology among people of the former Soviet Union.

The New Philosophical Paradigm Of Cultural Development, Asliddin Sultonov

The Light of Islam

It is no secret that in recent еars the effectiveness of research in our country devoted to the study of social processes remains low. It is worth noting that many factors influence this. On the one hand, the active interaction of the international community and the waves of globalization go ahead than the development of diagnostic findings and the implementation of preventive measures in social research, and on the other hand, current studies lack clear scientific approaches and paradigms. Except for the requirement of a specific approach of the Higher Attestation Commission under the CM of the Republic of Uzbekistan, …

Problems Of Regulation Of Secularism And Religious Principles In Arab Countries, Mukhammadolim Mukhammadsidiqov

The Light of Islam

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that the wave of socio-political transformations that began in December 2010 in Tunisia and Algeria, called the «Arab Spring», was a phenomenon caused by a difficult internal situation, as well as internal and external factors that triggered these events.

The article examines the degree of influence of political Islam on the processes of modernization, geopolitics, as well as sociopolitical development, including the need to create a scientific basis for regulating religious relations in Arab African countries, which have become a source of instability. In this context, political processes in North Africa and …