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COSMOPOLITAN PHILOLOGY AND SACRED GRAMMAR

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 109-126, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Persian developed a formal grammatical tradition comparatively late in its thousand‐year history as a lingua franca. This article takes up the emergence of Persian grammar within the larger trajectory of Persian philology. It explores questions about why and when such a tradition developed in Persian by closely analyzing the earliest formal ...
ALEXANDER JABBARI
wiley   +1 more source

Islamic Environmentalism and Epistemic Waste

open access: yesJournal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 414-437, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Environmental ethics is concerned with how humans use and relate to the environment, including its conservation and protection. In recent decades, works on Islamic environmentalism have increased multiplied with efforts to ground an ethics based on the resources of the Islamic scholarly tradition.
Aysenur Cam
wiley   +1 more source

Flood Disaster, Local Belief And Islam-sufism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Flood disaster as a natural phenomenon has a lot of meaning for the rural community. They believe that flood is the power of deity, as a sign that a quarrel is happening ‘under water\u27, and a sign of God\u27s kindness because flood has negative and ...
Harifuddin, H. (Harifuddin)
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What can psychoanalysis learn from Sufism?

open access: yesBritish Journal of Psychotherapy, Volume 41, Issue 4, Page 744-757, November 2025.
Abstract This paper critically examines psychoanalysis—particularly ego psychology—by contrasting it with Sufism's approach to the psyche. Drawing on the insights of the Sufi teacher and psychiatrist Javād Nurbakhsh, alongside classical Sufi literature, it argues that the Sufi perspective on the psyche provides insights that challenge the paradigms of ...
Ali Yansori
wiley   +1 more source

The Origin of Mysticism and Sufism in Hadith [PDF]

open access: yesReligious Inquiries, 2013
Islamic mysticism or Sufism is one of the most outstanding appearances of Islamic culture that has had a fundamental and undeniable role in the history of Islam.
Seyyed Muhammad Rastgoo Far   +1 more
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Absurdity and Metaphysical Rebellion in the Philosophies of Albert Camus and Omar Khayyam [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The first time Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyiat were brought to the Western world, it was through a translation from their original Persian to English by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859.
Alsatie, Lynn
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Socio-structural Innovations in Indonesia's Urban Sufism: the Case Study of the Majelis Dzikir and Shalawat Nurul Mustafa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Sufi tradition has grown significantly in the modern Muslim world, including Indonesia. Currently, Sufism has been not only practiced by villagers, peasants, and non-educated people, but also practiced by urbanites, national elites, and educated people ...
Zamhari, A. (Arif)
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Gender Diversity and the Law in Pakistan: A Critical Review of Criminalization and Social Exclusion of Khawaja Sira/Hijra/Gender X

open access: yesSociology Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This review article adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine how Khawaja Sira, Hijra, and other gender‐diverse communities in Pakistan navigate law, criminalization, and punishment. While Socio‐Legal Studies and Criminology provides the main framework, it also draws from history, anthropology, public health, and gender studies to ...
Sabeen Kazmi
wiley   +1 more source

Buton, Islamization, and This Manuscript Tradition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Buton the beginning of the country is filled with myths, which serves to form a world view of cosmocentric in determining descriptions of time, space, and society.
Rosdin, A. (Ali)
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Toward an Ethnography of God

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 541-551, September 2025.
ABSTRACT In recent years, anthropologists and theologians have been engaging in conversation with one another. Building on, and branching out from, that conversation, this article calls for a careful ethnographic engagement with not just “God talk” (the literal meaning of theology) but also with the figure of God itself.
Amira Mittermaier
wiley   +1 more source

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