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Islam and the Myth of Literalism
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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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Making Islam (Coherent): Academic Discourse and the Politics of Language
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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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Part 1: Why I Am Not a Postsecularist
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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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Muslims, Jews, and Christians: How the Bible Was Translated into Arabic
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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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Identifying Khizr: On the Paths of Goethe and Iqbal
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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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Amiri Baraka's Humanist Theater: A Reading of A Black Mass
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (4): 31–63.
Published: 01 November 2024
... in New Jersey in 1966, which he uses to settle philosophical scores with the Nation of Islam. Although the play borrows its plot from the Nation of Islam's myth of Yakub, which casts the white race as fundamentally monstrous, A Black Mass resists a vision of history as racial destiny. It does so, first...
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Our Unnamable Present: On Roberto Calasso’s Weltanschauung
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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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French Decadence, Arab Awakenings: Figures of Decay in the Arab Nahda
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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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Turkey at a Turning Point
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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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A Bridge Too Far? Ludovico Marracci's Translation of the Qurʾan and the Persistence of Medieval Biblicism
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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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Twin Offspring of Empire, Neoliberalism and Authoritarian Neotraditionalism: Thoughts on Susan Buck-Morss's “Democracy: An Unfinished Project”
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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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Sayyid Qutb's fiqh al-waqi`i , or New Realist Science
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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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The Echo Chamber of Freedom: The Muslim Woman and the Pretext of Agency
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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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Neocons and Their Nemeses in Iran
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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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From Erotic Rage Bank to Thymotic World Culture
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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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Part 1: Why I Am Not a Postsecularist
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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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Democracy or Ideology
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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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Red Jihad: Translating Communism in the Muslim Caucasus
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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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Introduction: Narrating and Translating Sexual Violence in Wartime in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region
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boundary 2 (2025) 52 (1): 49–63.
Published: 01 February 2025
... (nonbeliever). The Mufti replied, (He [the taghut ] is asked to rule using God's words, but if he decides to disobey God's words/rules, he then is a nonbeliever in God the gracious.) The ultimate ruler here is God and his obedience is fundamental in Islam. 10. (For We assuredly sent amongst...
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