Avi Rubin, Ottoman Nizamiye courts: law and modernity [PDF]
This article is a book review on Avi Rubin's study, titled "Ottoman Nizamiye Courts.
Somel, Selcuk Aksin +1 more
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Islamic Environmentalism and Epistemic Waste
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
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Encountering (im)probable wit: Religious puns in an Indonesian post‐conflict setting
Abstract This paper analyses religion‐related humour in the post‐conflict setting of the Moluccas, Indonesia, which were haunted by interreligious violence in the late 1990s and early 2000s. It is concerned with religious puns told among Hadhramis, Indonesians of Arab descent, whose ancestors migrated in pre‐colonial and colonial times from the ...
Martin Slama
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ilješke o djelovanju bosanskohercegovačke uleme u Drugom svjetskom ratu (1941-1945) [PDF]
This paper brings some facts that shed light on the views and approaches ofBosnian Muslim religious officials, especially higher ulema, towards the current issues ofmilitary, political and social reality of Bosnia and Herzegovina and its inhabitants ...
Adnan Jahić
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The New Intellectual Capital Of Turkey: Muslim Intellectuals
A new genre of intellectuals has newly arisen in Turkey. They are coming from İslamic backgrounds. They are different from both modernizing elites of State and traditional Ulema of Islam.
Ensar Nişancı
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Islam re-observed: sanctity, salafism and islamism [PDF]
Clifford Geertz analyzed religious change in Morocco by developing an approach to Islam that uses both history and anthropology. His analysis is rooted in his conception of anthropology as a discipline whose focus is culture, a system of meanings through
Addi, Lahouari
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A Green Energy Frontier Long in the Making: From Tin to Solar Power in the Riau Islands, Indonesia
Abstract The Riau Islands in Indonesia, Southeast Asia are an emerging green energy frontier. This paper shows the long‐term making of this frontier. Through qualitative research, I trace colonial machinations for the capture of agrarian and mineral resources, postcolonial Cold War manoeuvres for the procurement of oil, and the contemporary quest for ...
Nikita Sud
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Analysis of the Fatwa of the Indonesian Ulema Council Supporting Halal Certification and the Progress of Indonesian Muslims [PDF]
Indonesia's efforts to make the country the center of the halal industry give theological and religious perspectives an essential role when making critical decisions.
Sigit Hardiyanto +5 more
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Everyday governance on the Somalia‐Kenya border: Flourishing without state support
Abstract Motivation How do people living in an insecure borderland beset by civil war and insurgency solve social problems and improve life when they are targeted by counterinsurgency forces, taxed by insurgents, and their villages are too insecure to get state or NGO services?
Patta Scott‐Villiers
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Political Instrumentalisation of Islam, Persistent Autocracies, and Obscurantist Deadlock [PDF]
The empirical literature has established a strong link between the fact of being a Muslim-dominated country and indicators of political performance and democracy. This suggests the possible existence of a relation between religion, Islam in this instance,
Jean-Philippe Platteau
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