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Isma'ilal-Faruqi ́s Contributions to the International Institute of Islamic Thought. An Overview
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2013 in the subject Theology - Islamic theology, , language: English, abstract: This paper attempts to analyze the important contributions of Ismail Raji al-Faruqi(1921-1986) in founding the International Institute of Islamic Thought in 1981. This effort was part of his significant project to lead unprecedented movement of Islamization of knowledge and advocating modern and progressive Islamic worldview. The constructions of ideas were well articulated through publications and programs of the Institute. The professors and students at IIIT has rigorously taking part in this project and published over 150 books that critically advocate IOK's aspirations and address significant Muslim issues. This study was conducted through extensive library research by analyzing basic supports, resources and activities of IIIT and in-depth interview with former students of al-Faruqi and the founding members of IIIT such as Prof. Dr. Abdul Hamid A. Abu Sulayman, ShaykhTaha Jabir al-Alwani, and Dr. Jamal Barzinji.
Egypt Under the Khedives, 1805-1879
Robert Hunter's Egypt Under the Khedives, brought back into print in this paperback edition, was a pioneering work when first published in the 1980s, as Western scholars began to comb Egypt's national archives for an understanding of the social and economic history of the country. It is now recognized as one of the fundamental books on nineteenth-century Egypt: it is so archivally based and empirically solid that it forms the starting-point for all research. Hunter used land and pension records in Dar al-Mahfuzat, in addition to published archival collections like those of Amin Sami Pasha, to enlarge our understanding of the social dimensions of the politics of the period. A secondary and ve...
Towards Jihad?
Since 2017, Mozambique has been confronted with a jihadi insurgency. This book looks at the origins of that insurgency, and the broader and longer history of the relationship between Islam and politics in the country. Did Mozambique's Muslim politics always point towards jihad? Eric Morier-Genoud examines the period immediately after independence, when the state engaged in anticlericalism; he then moves across the decades to the 2000s, when the ruling party and the opposition alike courted Muslims for electoral purposes, before reaching the 2010s, when tensions between 'mosque and state' returned. Along the way, he explores a wide variety of phenomena, including the rise of Wahhabism, religi...
The Revolution of 1908 in Turkey
This is a detailed account and an excellent narrative history of the often neglected period 1906-1908 in Turkey, in which the prelude and aftermath of the revolution and elections of 1908 took place. The year 1908 opened a new era of representative government and the social and political developments leading to the overthrow of the ancien régime are carefully and fascinatingly given. Historians and general readers will find The Revolution of 1908 in Turkey a thought-provoking book, which will resound in the discussion of the validity of Kemalist or quasi-Kemalist historiography and therefore provide a major contribution to the field.
Malaysia's Who's who
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Aliran Monthly
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