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Anglophone Literature in Bangladesh and Malaysia: Challenges and Prospects

Future Humanities, Volume 3, Issue 1, May 2025.
ABSTRACT This article focuses on the historical trajectory and development of Anglophone literature in Bangladesh and Malaysia—two predominantly Muslim countries and previously British colonies categorised as “Outer Circle” countries in Braj Kachru's model of English‐speaking communities.
Mohammad A. Quayum
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Religious Pluralism in Indonesia: Helpful and Hindering Aspects [PDF]

, 2006
Indonesia today is not only a country with diverse religions, ethnicities, and races, but also a country with several challenges related to issues of religious pluralism.
Agus Hadi Nahrowi
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Religious authority in the urban mosque

American Ethnologist, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 159-170, May 2025.
Abstract In Eastern Indonesia, young male Islamic activists articulate a notion of religious authority that reorients community life toward neighborhood mosques. By providing local communities with Qur'anic classes and religious services, these activists—affiliated with Indonesia's largest Salafi organization—have created a network of spaces in which ...
Chris Chaplin
wiley   +1 more source

Islam Dan Pekerjaan Sosial [PDF]

, 2015
Islamic theology and the fie pillars of Islam have historical and current roles in enhancing Islamic social work practices in Muslim communities. These effects are explored by means of literature review and via comparisons among Muslim populations and ...
Lessy, Z. (Zulkipli)
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Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam: Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, vol. I. By Richard M. Frank [PDF]

, 2009
Michael Ewbank
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Belonging's Belongings: Sunni Waqfs and the Limits of Community in Beirut

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 1, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Lebanon is often described as being plagued by interreligious conflict among the country's eighteen religious communities. Since the mid‐2000s, with the political dominance of Shiʿi Hezbollah, Sunni‐Shiʿi tensions have been particularly acrimonious in multireligious Beirut.
Nada Moumtaz
wiley   +1 more source

Chronology violation and the Cosmological Argument [PDF]

arXiv, 2003
The Kalam Cosmological Argument is perhaps the most solid and widly discussed argument for a caused creation of the universe. The usual objections to the argument mainly focus on the second premise. In this paper we discuss the dependency of the first premise on the topological structure of the space-time manifold adopted for the underlying ...
arxiv  

The Role of Social and Cultural Environment in the Determination of Faith in Islamic Theology [PDF]

, 2003
In Arabic the term Ä«mÄ?n is derived from the root "a-m-nâ€?, it is in the "if"alâ€? form and means, "to give confidence to othersâ€?, "to be ensuredâ€?, "to confirm and to acceptâ€?. Verb form "Ä?manaâ€?
Biçer, Ramazan
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MARLOWE’S TAMBURLAINE (1587) AND ISLAMIC THEOLOGY [PDF]

, 2012
Fahd Mohammed Taleb Al-Olaqi
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Life, the Universe, and almost Everything: Signs of Cosmic Design? [PDF]

arXiv, 2009
Why did the big bang occur, why do the laws and constants of nature as well as the boundary conditions seem so fine-tuned for life, what is the role of intelligence and self-consciousness in the universe, and how can it escape cosmic doomsday? The hypothesis of Cosmological Artificial Selection (CAS) connects those questions and suggests a far-reaching
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