...Chaider S. Bamualim The article discusses a particular Islamist militant movement in Indonesia, the Islamic Defenders Front (Front Pembela Islam, or FPI). Gaining considerable following and influence in post-Suharto Indonesia, the FPI called for the implementation of Sharia law addressing...

...Trent Maxey The Islamic Middle East and Japan: Perceptions, Aspirations, and the Birth of Intra-Asian Modernity Reneé Worringer, ed. Princeton, NJ: Marcus Wiener, 2007 163 pp., $68.95 (cloth), $24.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2007 Multiculturalism, Muslims, and Citizenship...

...Torsten Janson This study analyzes Islamic children’s picture books that were originally produced as a means of religious socialization for Muslim communities in Britain but today are created for a global Islamic market. Particular attention is devoted to the visual norms of the books produced...

...). Unless noted otherwise, all translations are those of the author. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Illustrating an Islamic Childhood in Syria: Pious Subjects and Religious Authority in Twelver Shi’i Children’s Books Edith Szanto hi’i children’s books have only...

...Zachary Wright The publication of Rudolph Ware's The Walking Qur'an revives the debate surrounding fundamentally divergent understandings of Islamic identity, the epistemological divide between Salafism and traditionally trained African Muslim scholars. This article extends Ware's findings...

... nteDsoreo oamdKhatami Mohammad of Discourse the in Democracy Islamic of Dilemmas Iran: in Modernity Religious...

... . The Colonial Harem , Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Azari , Farah , 1983 . Women of Iran, The Conflict with Fundamentalist Islam , London: Ithaca Press. Balibar , Etienne , and Immanuel Wallerstein, 1988 . Race, Nation, Class: Les Identités Ambigues , Paris: Editions la...

...Sadik J. Al-Azm © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XIV No. 1 ( 1994). Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered: A Critical Outline of Problems, Ideas and Approaches, Part II Sadik J.AI-Azm...

...Bruce B. Lawrence © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XIV No. 2 ( 1994) Tracking Fundamentalists and Those Who Study Them A Sequel to Sadik Al-Azm, “Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered I? Bruce 6. Lawrence In his two part...

...Youssef Belal This article is devoted to the study of questions of knowledge, law, and ethics in Islamic context. Starting with a discussion of assumptions about Islamic ethical practices in recent anthropological and historical works on the fatwa, it explores procedures of truth seeking and modes...

... Revolution's confidence in the possibility of the boomi-sazi (nativization) and islami-sazi (Islamicization) of Western forms of knowledge and of the production of Islamic social and human sciences. However, a few rejected the idea that these texts and debates were necessary for the creation of modern...

...Junaid Quadri Abstract Taking the complexity and diversity of Islamic law ( fiqh ) as a point of departure, this article examines a series of positions advanced by Muslim jurists on the relationship between law and astronomy. Focusing primarily on the question of the appropriateness of relying...

...Mohamed Amer Meziane Abstract Since many orientalists make Revelation to Muhammad meaningful in terms of hermeneutical engagement, does it mean that orientalism should be deemed Islamic? By raising this deliberately provocative question, this essay examines the ways in which definitions of Islam do...

... norms. 15 Both Muslim judicial and civil authorities not only retained these pre-Islamic customs and traditions, but also adapted and Islamicized laws and customs provided that they did not contradict the Quran and Sunnah . 16 In rendering legal opinions, jurists and judges often cited general...

..., Angels in Islam , 19 . 51. Sprenger, “Al-Suyuti's Work on Earthquakes,” 741 . 52. Sprenger, “Al-Suyuti's Work on Earthquakes,” 749 . 53. The British Mandate for Palestine lasted from 1920 to 1948. 54. Norris, Land of Progress . 55. Letter from the Government...

...Megan Eaton Robb Abstract Social and cultural historians of South Asia have long called for additional research into the qasbah , or Islamic small town. This essay offers evidence that Bijnor qasbah, through the newspaper Madinah , hosted alternate geographies and temporalities to construct...

...Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular Abstract This review essay of Faiz Ahmed's Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires focuses on the late imperial and the postimperial context of inter-Islamic networks. It emphasizes the Ottoman, Balkan, and Eurasian exchanges...

...Yasmin Moll Abstract The practice of feigning weeping in devotional contexts, including in hortatory preaching, is closely associated in Egypt with Islamic Revivalism. It is an expression of pious humility through which worshippers pretend to cry in order to (ideally) develop the embodied capacity...

... the British, and now recognized as a pioneering modernizer and renegade constitutional monarch, Aman Allah introduced a series of reforms during his reign that Faiz Ahmed has recently characterized as “a burgeoning model of Islamic legal modernism.” Yet the story of Afghanistan's experiments with Islamic...

...Michael O'Sullivan Abstract Few works in recent years have enriched the study of Islamic law quite like Faiz Ahmed's Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires . The book presents an opportunity to interrogate prevailing historiographical debates about...