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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 528–543.
Published: 01 December 2009
... but have also failed to realize the poetics that exist within the parameters of religious and Koranic exigencies of martyrdom. This article summarizes and creates reference points for the morphology of a contemporary phenomenon, which finds its prototype not only in the tragic events of Karbala but also...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 23–26.
Published: 01 May 2011
...” and “full implementation of Sharia” as a political platform sanctioned by revelation. This essay suggests that neither claim is legitimate. Political power is a worldly question. Neither the Koran nor Prophet Muhammad himself claimed that he ruled on behalf of God. Nor did Muslims in the early age of Islam...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (1): 73–98.
Published: 01 May 1994
... to and re-receives with him, the original meanings and what I believe is God’s religion. Through me He first significations of the Koran, in all their pristine guided others that He chose from among His purity, primitive simplicity and absolute certainty. servants, who then followed me...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 101–115.
Published: 01 August 2004
... be- Ages was transmitted through the Reformation and be- fore Szigetvár, Ferdinand’s proclamation of the yond. Reichstag broached the need for levies to repel Ottoman Before the Reformation, the most important body of encroachment. He coupled the political problem with a information on the Koran...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (1): 96–104.
Published: 01 May 2006
... and historical writings that provide, along with the Koran, the foundation of the creed of Islam and have to this day remained of vital signifi cance to the Muslim world. As recently pointed out by the Arab historian Tarif al...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 381–397.
Published: 01 December 2009
... course was not on religion; rather, it following years, Koranic courses related to the attempted to formulate a secular morality. Reli- President of Religious Affairs remained the only gious education was still realized in specialized places of religious education. In the period of institutions...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (3): 600–616.
Published: 01 December 2005
... sImagery ’s iiekoldebsoe nteoewowould God. who before himself one naught the of on source bestowed the knowledge and Divine instrument term the this indicate Rumi For to Pen.” seems the by And “N. Koran: 68 the chapter of of verse opening the incorporates Rumi 7. 1999). ledge...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 267–281.
Published: 01 August 2011
..., Islamic, dominated by the study of the Koran and Is- have their roots in Hadhramaut, Yemen. lamic subjects such as hadith (the words and deeds of 3. Betawi denominates an ethnic group whose mem- the prophet Muhammad) and fiqh (jurisprudence). bers consider...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (2): 408–438.
Published: 01 August 2005
... of Islam and Islamic re- all, in Muslim societies despite or regardless of formism. the Islamic orthodoxy.3 At best, socioeconomic At present certain explicit Koranic injunc- and political modernization will continue to tions and aspects...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 124–132.
Published: 01 May 2011
... of the interviewees of   Comparative the Koran is the word of God. They aim to pre- this article, who quit Jamaat meetings?16 Asia,   Studies serve orthodox norms, as evidenced by their Though Mahmood rejects this categoriza...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 46–52.
Published: 01 May 2011
... infidels and heretics, corpus of the state. This is a manifest example as prescribed by the Koran, is one of the essen- of such a transformative action made possible, tial instruments for establishing an Islamic state among other means, by rhetorical devices. on the basis of Islamic law...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 120–123.
Published: 01 May 2011
... and explaining and interpreting the holy text through its context. The second stream understood and ited to learning the Koran and to instruction followed the Koranic text, the Sunnah nabawi- in religion and the Arabic language. Natural 121 yah (the Prophet’s tradition), and the khulafa’s...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 341–355.
Published: 01 December 2010
... have not seen any biog- name shall be punished for their deeds” [Koran 7:180]. I myself ask for this death in my prayers. rapher explain the etymology of ‘Ayn al-­Qudat’s...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 34–45.
Published: 01 May 2011
... Return God (Matthew 22:21) and that since no such ref- the roundup and massacre of more than forty erence is found in the Koran, then Muslims are thousand Shi’is.6 There have also been many and not to abide by such separation, and it is con- intra-­sect wars and confrontations...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (2): 273–282.
Published: 01 August 2008
... the interpretative and intellectual tions of women’s roles a hybrid of “modernness” process of legislating from the Koran, the Ha- and tradition? In what ways are these conceptu- dith, or the Sunna...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (1): 95–108.
Published: 01 May 2007
... mity (taqlid ) of the scholars of the Hanafi school and hence in urgent need of reform. Some Ahl-i even when their prescriptions went against the Hadith pioneers, such as Maulana Sanaullah express commandments of the Koran and the Amritsari (1870–1943), even...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 323–338.
Published: 01 August 2012
... British Islamic organizations largely mirrored ethnic and sectarian a lia- tions of the motherland left behind. As a rule, such organizations relied on traditional forms of religious instruction for children, focusing on a mimetic learning of prayer and Koranic recitation while disregarding deeper...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1988) 8 (1_and_2): 46–49.
Published: 01 August 1988
... challenges the material conditions of Muslims within the capitalist from the non-Muslim Marhattas and Sikhs, the establish- order established by the British. For his Islamic thought, ment of British colonialism in the subcontinent, and in the Sayyid Ahmad Khan "relied solely on the Koran which he...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 361–373.
Published: 01 August 2012
... “habituated e ects” and as “pro- and a larger drawing in the bottom left, which ductive power” generative of pious subjects children must color in. Each image also com- Fictional others thus compel young readers prises two parts: an item (such as the Koran) to cite the ahl al- bayt, perform pious...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (2): 41–50.
Published: 01 August 1994
... issues they appear as a new register for talist leader Jerry Falwell, with the exception of a grasping the common purpose of groups that are single word that I altered, viz., substituting ‘Koran’ utterly unrelated as historical collectivities and yet for ‘BiblePt. I, p. 117). dramatically...