This book examines the lives of the Malay and Cham Muslims in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam and examines how they co-exist and live in societies that are dominated by an alternative consensus and are illiberal and...
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Undertaking a search that spans revelation, legal tradition, and the reality of the Muslim world, this book explores the Islamic contract (‘aqd in Arabic) as a ‘city’ at the crossroads of convergent paths of....
Read More »How Islamophobia Suppresses, Marginalizes, Eliminates Muslim Presence
There is a political connection that makes it possible to link the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, the rise of Hindu fundamentalism against minority Muslims in India and the colonial occupation of...
Read More »Muslim NGOs Criticize ‘Racist’ Study on Muslim Students in Austria
Muslim associations in Austria criticized research conducted among Muslim students by the University of Vienna over alleged racism....
Read More »Islamophobia in France: The Construction of the “Muslim Problem”
Islamophobia in France is an English translation of Abdellali Hajjat and Marwan Mohammed’s Islamophobie: Comment les e´lites franc¸aises fabriquent le “proble`me musulman.” In this groundbreaking book, Hajjat and....
Read More »The Major Trends of Islam in Contemporary Malaysia and their Influence on the Form of Islamic Family and Penal Law
The aim of this article is to present selected major trends in Islam in contemporary Malaysia – its political representation (the dominant political parties: UMNO, PAS and PKR) and intellectual non-governmental groups (especially the NGO Sisters of....
Read More »Call for Papers: Muslim Intellectual History in Mughal South Asia
The conference invites current research on Muslim intellectual history in Mughal South Asia across areas like philosophy, theology, astronomy, rhetoric, jurisprudence, hadīth, tafsīr, Perso-Sanskrit interactions, infrastructures of...
Read More »Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia: The Memoirs of ʻAbd al-Majid al-Qadiri
Our book tells a dramatic story of ’Abd al-Majid al-Qadiri, a Muslim individual born in the Kazakh lands and brought up in the Sufi environment of the South Urals, who memorized the entire Qur’an at the Mosque of the....
Read More »For the Greater Good: Common Goals and Institutional Sunni–Shiʿa Cooperation in Norway
Under what circumstances do Sunni and Shiʿa organisations enter into institutional cooperation with each other? This article explores this question through a study of Muslim institutional cooperation in Norway from the late 1980s to the late 2010s, based on both archival sources and...
Read More »PhD Thesis: Muslim Populations in a Western Context: Lived Experience of Stigma and Marginalization
This research examined the lived experiences of Muslim populations in Western societies with a focus on stigma and marginalization....
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