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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 69–77.
Published: 01 August 2010
...M. A. R. Habib One of the central concerns of Islamic scholars today is the need to engage in a rereading of the various “texts” that form the core of Islamic doctrine and practice: the Qur'an; the Sunna, or example of the prophet Muhammad; the hadith , or sayings of the prophet; the tradition...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 33–55.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Raha Rafii Abstract Despite the Islamophobic insistence on “Islam” as an alien and hermetically sealed phenomenon in popular and political Anglophone cultures, the field of Islamic and Near Eastern studies—historically subsumed under Oriental studies—has long been studied alongside a multiplicity...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 7–19.
Published: 01 February 2013
...Aamir R. Mufti This essay argues that the “postsecular” tendency in contemporary humanities and social sciences relies disproportionately on contemporary political Islam to make its case for a “return of religion.” Furthermore, postsecularism generates a highly misleading view of political Islam...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (2): 153–160.
Published: 01 May 2015
...Michael Fishbein Sidney H. Griffith’s recent book, The Bible in Arabic: The Scriptures of the “People of the Book” in the Language of Islam , discusses how the Bible was translated into Arabic, the language of Islam, but increasingly the vernacular of Jewish and Christian communities in the Middle...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 71–98.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Susan Buck-Morss This essay criticizes Ahmet Davutoğlu’s proposal that Islamic civilization complete the “unfinished project of modernity” (Jürgen Habermas), by challenging the concept of civilization itself. As scholars in multiple disciplines have demonstrated, civilizations are hybrid...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 15–24.
Published: 01 August 2022
...G. S. Sahota Abstract Through an analysis of the legendary Islamic figure Khizr in the works of Norman O. Brown, Muhammad Iqbal, and Johann Wolfgang Goethe, this essay proposes world literature as a methodology for deriving possible alternatives to existing worlds. By tracing the dialectic...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 143–160.
Published: 01 May 2012
...David Fieni Examining the work of Ernest Renan in relation to thinkers confessing Arab and Islamic affiliations in the Ottoman fin de siècle allows us to understand how Orientalist scholarship has used decadence as the figure through which its positivist scientific claims were redistributed...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (2): 1–11.
Published: 01 May 2015
... to represent a more moderate and democratic form of political Islam under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. This party, in power for the last twelve years, is beginning to show strong signs of establishing a majoritarian-authoritarian regime, a gain lacking in democracy. This is the new turning point...
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boundary 2 (2020) 47 (4): 213–220.
Published: 01 November 2020
... of the current, unsettling political conditions of Western society, which Calasso directly puts in relation to the equally secular development of Islamism and Christianity. Book Reviewed: Calasso Roberto , The Unnamable Present , trans. Dixon Richard ( New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 145–169.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Christopher Livanos; Mohammad Salama Abstract The medieval tendency to view Islam as a Christian heresy continues to influence Qurʾanic studies in the Western academy due to the academy's origins as a religious institution and the absence of systematic reckoning by contemporary scholars. Ludovico...
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boundary 2 (2015) 42 (3): 1–17.
Published: 01 August 2015
... Davutoğlu’s Project of Islamic Modernity.” Ahmet Davu- toğlu, minister of foreign affairs when the article was written, just recently has been elevated to the post of prime minister of the Republic of Turkey. He is a politician with academic credentials. He holds a PhD in political sci...
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boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 113–148.
Published: 01 May 2004
...Ronald A.T. Judy Ronald A.T. Judy 2004 Sayyid Qutb’s fiqh al-waqi i, or New Realist Science Ronald A.T. Judy No reader of al- Adāla al-ijtimya fi l-Islām (Social Justice in Islam) can help but remark the pronounced way in which...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 155–189.
Published: 01 February 2013
... that we feminist internationalists strain. I am thinking now of the worldwide group called Women Living under Islamic Law, extending all the way from North Africa to Indonesia with members from immigrant communities in the First World. These feminist inter- nationalists must...
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boundary 2 (2005) 32 (1): 95–115.
Published: 01 February 2005
... and Richard Perle, An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Ter- Abrahamian / Neocons and Their Nemeses in Iran 97 In reference to Iran, the neoconservatives describe the Islamic Republic as ‘‘nightmarish ‘‘fanatical ‘‘satanic ‘‘ferocious ‘‘despicable ‘‘mother of all evils...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (3): 179–201.
Published: 01 August 2014
... of European/US-­educated intellectual that Slavoj Žižek has recently characterized—­in a book that includes an engagement with Sloterdijk’s work on the welfare state—­as “a politically correct anti-racist”­ who “rejects anti-immigrant­ populism” (spe- cifically, the variety that attacks Islam...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 21–39.
Published: 01 February 2013
... of the religious with one particular faith, in most cases, Islam. The resurgence of theology as an instrument of social regulation is evident in postcolonial, postsocialist, and post-­Keynesian contexts alike, with relative indifference to the historical secularism or otherwise of the state...
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (3): 35–59.
Published: 01 August 2006
... the United States more rather than less vulnerable to terrorist assault at home. Accordingly, the invocation of ideology in the Fort Bragg speech was meant to provide a bridge connecting terrorism in general—it must be noted that in that speech Bush never uses the designator Islamist or Islamic extremism...
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boundary 2 (2016) 43 (3): 221–249.
Published: 01 August 2016
.... —Congress of the Peoples of the East, Manifesto to the Peoples of the East (1920) The translation of Marxism-Leninism­ on the Soviet periphery gen- erated a paradox—Muslim communism. This notion was paradoxical not because it proposed an encounter between communism and Islam...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 233–246.
Published: 01 August 2023
... of Islam in Liberia and his frustration that this presence negatively impacted the ability of missionaries like himself to make inroads with “the natives,” who were either more likely to maintain their own indigenous religions or to practice the Islamic faith. When I wrote my dissertation on Crummell more...
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boundary 2 (2014) 41 (2): 24–25.
Published: 01 May 2014
... of this instrumentalization saw a figure of Islamism in Tunisia, someone who did so much to divide the country and erode its modernity and freedoms before and after the revolution, dubbed “the closest thing to an Islamic Nelson Mandela.” Aside from the absurdity of the phrase “Islamic Mandela,” the label...