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The dynamics of Islamic revival/activism have been the subject of renewed interest in the aftermath of the 9/ I I tragedy. Most of this interest has been confined to media sound bites that present little or no appreciation for the linkages between cause ...
Sajjad Idris
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Sufism and the Indonesian Islamic revival
Like other parts of the Muslim world, Indonesia has experienced an Islamic revival since the 1970s (cf. Hefner 1997; Jones 1980; Liddle 1996, 622-25; Muzaffar 1986; Schwarz 1994, 173-76; Tessler and Jesse 1996). To date, representations of Indonesia's
Howell, Julia D. (R16682)
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Essays on the determinants of the Islamic revival and its political implications [PDF]
This thesis consists of three independent essays studying the interactions between economics, politics and religion, Islam, in particular. In the first essay “Render unto Caesar: Taxes, Charity and Political Islam,” we investigate the origins of support
Fourati, Maleke
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The Grammar of Race: British Fascism, Racial Nationalism and the Rise of Reform UK
Abstract This article brings histories of British fascism and the Black Radical Tradition into conversation with the study of contemporary British politics to offer a race‐critical analysis of Reform UK's rise. Drawing on race‐critical scholarship and Black Radical analyses of fascism, it argues that Reform UK is the latest formation of a distinctively
Kian Aspinall
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Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Islamic Thought in the South Asian Subcontinent
The International Institute of Islamic Thought-Islamabad, the Islamic Research Institute, and the International Islamic University, Islamabad, are conducting ongoing seminars on the history of Islamic thought in eighteenth-century South Asia.
Zafar I. Ansari
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This article analyses the ways characteristics associated with the ‘Schedule Tribe’ (‘ST’) category in India shape situated acts of relating to others with either deference or assumed superiority. Ethnography shows how within an indigenous Adivasi community the traits that determine identification within the group generate feelings of entitlement and ...
Thomas Herzmark
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What is Islamic economics? The view of Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr
Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr (1935-1980) is a well-known Muslim scholar of the late twentieth century. Al-Sadr is considered as one of the pioneers of Islamic revival in the contemporary Muslim world.
Hafas Furqani
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This paper argues that reviving Islam and Islamic values is a prerequisite for liberating the Muslim society, particularly Muslim youth from the clutches of colonization, which continue to haunt the majority of the Muslim world, even in the Postcolonial era.
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This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
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