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...Felicitas Becker Becker’s article focuses on similarities between arguments about funerary ritual, in particular the rite of telkin (admonition), among Muslim congregations in Highland Aceh, Indonesia, and in parts of Tanzania. It discusses the Sufi and scholarly networks that most likely explain...

...Mohammad Ishaq Khan © 1996: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1996 Kashmiri Muslims: Social and Identity Consciousness Mohammad lshaq Khan The Muslim community of Kashmir is one of the grant sufis tried to give...

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... of granting maintenance to Shah Bano in 1985, Parliament subsequently overturned the judgment through the Muslim Women’s Act, 1986, to create alternate provisions. The case triggered a tremendous wave of protests simultaneously, against unfair provisions of Muslim law and against the state’s interference...

...John Chen Abstract Muslim leaders in China experienced political and social fracture and intellectual reorientation as a result of the Chinese Civil War (1945–49) and the early Cold War. Influential Chinese Muslim and Uyghur imams and officials who were once allies and friends found themselves...

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...Raphael Chijioke Njoku Holger Weiss ed. Stockholm: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2002. Pp. 189. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Book Reviews Holger Weiss ed. Social Welfare in Muslim Societies in Af- view of this nature cannot do justice to all...

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