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Madrasa Ideologies of English in Bangladesh: Questioning ELT‐Aid and Post‐9/11 De‐Islamization

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract External donors increasingly promote English as a notionally value‐neutral language of socioeconomic advancements in the Muslim South, overlooking local ideological diversities. Furthermore, national and Western forces deploy English as a tool to de‐Islamize madrasas (Islamic educational institutes) in the post‐9/11 world for global peace ...
Qumrul Hasan Chowdhury
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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The Legal Status of Conjoined Twins in Islamic Law: A Socio‐Legal Analysis

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Conjoined twins are a rare congenital anomaly. Conjoined twins can occur in various morphological types. Conjoined twins are perceived not only as a physical difference but also as a subject of interest and curiosity in many areas of society.
Merve Yiğitoğlu
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Code and Creed: The Construction of AI‐Islamic Discourse in Singapore's Media Landscape

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how Singapore's mainstream media shapes public understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) in Islamic contexts through analysis of newspaper coverage from 1989 to 2024. Drawing on computational analysis of over 620,000 articles from The Straits Times and The Business Times, we develop the concept of “double mediation” to ...
Reza Shaker
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Religious Classification Beyond Belonging: Madhehebu as Lived Grammar

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Religious classifications remain socially meaningful even when people refuse to inhabit the categories they name. This article examines that puzzle through madhehebu, the Swahili term (from Arabic madhhab) used to name Muslim difference. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork (2022–2026) at Radio Nuur FM—an Islamic station in Tanga, Tanzania, that ...
K. D. Thompson
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Reality and the Unseen in the Early Fatwas of al‐Manār

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
This article explores how discussions of the unseen in the fatwa section of Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā's journal, al‐Manār, related to larger processes of rationalization, epistemological boundary‐making, and modernization occurring at the turn of the twentieth century. A discursive analysis of a subset of fatwas published between 1903 and 1914 suggests that
Alice Catanzaro
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Christian–Muslim Comparative Theology in the Catholic Church Before Vatican II: A Study of Marie et l'Islam (1950) by Jean‐Mohammed Abd‐el‐Jalil, OFM

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract The 1950 monograph Marie et l'Islam (Mary and Islam) by Jean‐Mohammed Abd‐el‐Jalil, OFM (1904‐1979) is an early example of Christian–Muslim comparative theology in the Catholic Church. Writing in the decade immediately prior to the Second Vatican Council, Abd‐el‐Jalil's work strongly anticipates the form and content of contemporary comparative
Mark Spinnenweber
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God Knows Best

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 4, Page 875-881, December 2026.
ABSTRACT The Arabic phrase Allāhu a‘lam—“God knows best”—is used frequently in everyday Muslim speech and to conclude seemingly assertive statements or fatwas. At its heart lies the recognition that God is the All‐Knowing, whereas humans know next to nothing. Reflecting on this recognition, this essay discusses Sufi refusals of the ethnographic project
Amira Mittermaier
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Representations of the Prophet during the expeditions, as depicted in the maghāzī literature and the ḥadīt̲h̲-s of al-Bukhārī

, 2017
Adrien de JARMY (PhD candidate at Paris-Sorbonne University). Paper presented at the workshop « Between God and Man. The Representations of the Prophet in the Construction of Islamic Knowledge » (Paris, 5-6 July 2017) Introduction : from Muḥammad to the ...
Francesco Chiabotti
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