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Tantric religion and social change
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 268-279, August 2025.Abstract During the period between the seventh and 11th centuries, several religious innovations occurred in Indic religions (which I refer to anachronistically as ‘Hinduism’). In particular, during this period, we see the rise of tantric traditions based on a new revelation of texts, some of whose followers regarded themselves as transcending the ...
Gavin Flood
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The Muslim World, Volume 114, Issue 1-2, Page 14-35, Winter-Spring 2024.Abstract One of the most important developments in modern Islamic missionary activism was the establishment in 1972 of the Libya‐based World Islamic Call Society (WICS, originally the Islamic Call Society) which acted as a leading think tank advocating Muslim unity and Pan‐Arabism throughout the Qaddafi era.
Mykhaylo Yakubovych
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Decolonizing the Muslim mind: A philosophical critique
The Philosophical Forum, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 353-375, Winter 2024.Abstract The crises of the Islamic world revolve around “epistemic colonialism.” So, in order to decolonize the Muslim mind, we must be able to deconstruct the Western episteme, and this involves dissociating ourselves from the Eurocentric knowledge system that gradually became ascendent since the Renaissance through such ideas as progress and ...
Muhammad U. Faruque
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Islamic Medievalism and Mobility in Mathias Énard's Street of Thieves
Literature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 10-12, October-December 2024.ABSTRACT Set against the backdrop of the Arab Spring uprisings, Jihadist extremism, and the neoliberal exploitation of the Global South, Mathias Énard's 2012 novel Street of Thieves (Rue des voleurs) follows the fortunes of Lakhdar, a young man from Tangier who finds himself living as an undocumented migrant in Barcelona's notorious Carrer d’En Robador,
Louise D'Arcens
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Zainab's traffic: spatial lives of an Islamic ritual across Southwest Asia
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 168-186, March 2024.Abstract Since the 1979 Revolution, Iranian pilgrims have engaged in saint visitation (ziyarat) to sites in Syria. By travelling via Turkey on buses, and venerating Sayyida Zainab at their destination, these pilgrims disrupt conventional conceptions of not only Islamic ritual, but also Iranian mobility under sanctions.
Emrah Yıldız
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The issue of methodology adopted by Mustafa Abdel-Raziq and its effects [PDF]
, 2011 This academic thesis deals with the issue of methodology as used by Muṣṭafā Abdel-Rāziq (1885 - 1947). It is an issue that represents the essence of his academic philosophical thought.
Abd-Allah, Amina
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“to stop the earthquake”: Palestine and the Settler Colonial Logic of Fragmentation
Antipode, Volume 56, Issue 1, Page 187-205, January 2024.Abstract Fragmentation is a key colonial strategy to which Palestinians enact resistance, evident most prominently in the 2021 Unity Intifada. In this article, I take inspiration from such Palestinian resistance to theorise fragmentation as a central logic of Zionist/Israeli settler colonialism. I make three related points. First, I employ the metaphor
Jamal Nabulsi
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The Social and Theoretical Dimensions of Sainthood in Early Islam: Al-Tirmidhiís Gnoseology and the Foundations of Sufi Social Praxis. [PDF]
, 2015 This dissertation offers new perspectives on al-Tirmidhi’s contribution to the Sufi doctrine of sainthood and to the development of early Islamic mysticism.
Palmer, Aiyub
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The return of the Turāth : the Arab Rationalist Association 1959-2000 [PDF]
, 2019 The Six-Day War in 1967 ended an era characterized by cultural exuberance and political optimism, ushering the Arab world into a period rife with economic anxiety and political unrest. Formerly powerful Arab armies disbanded. Firm social conventions were
Agbaria, Ahmad Tawfik
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Living without why: an exploration of personal Muslim authenticity [PDF]
, 2014 This work aims to look into the question of authenticity and inauthenticity within the Muslim discourse. How muslim can Muslims really be? Within the Muslim world the concept of authenticity is usually coupled with questions of adherence to the canonical
Trevathan, Stephen Davis
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