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Educational Philosophy and Practice of Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Atlas: An Exposition of the Original Concept of Islamization. By Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud
Get PDFIslamization and Sectarian Violence in Pakistan
Get PDFShiā‘ah-Sunnī violence has assumed alarming proportion in Pakistan during the recent years. While there is a long history of discord and occasional violence between the two groups, a number of factors have precipitated the violence, and kept it going on. The nature of the Islamization process during the Zia regime, with its emphasis on legalistic aspects of Islam (Shaīʿatization), rather than the broader objectives (maqāṣid) of Sharīʿah, was one of them. This created a feeling of being marginalized in the minorities. During this period the socioeconomic deprivation of a large section of the masses, suspension of political institutions, collapse of administrative machinery, and use of sectarian and ethnic discord for short-term political gains, created an atmosphere conducive to violence, including sectarian violence
International Conference on Islamization of Sociology and Anthropology: Implications for Social Development of Muslim Countries
Get PDFTeacher Training and Work Success: A Case Study of the Effectiveness of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) Diploma in Education Programme. By Rosilani Hashim
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Emancipation, Women and the State: A Competing Agenda in the 20th Century Malaysia
No full textThe structural contradictions of being Muslim and members of a nation-state for women in modern-day Muslim nation-states created after the Second World War have never been fully resolved. The problem is even more compounded for Malaysia, which started life as a collection of sultanates, graduating to a multi-racial nation-state. In the beginning, Malay women saw emancipation as involvement in party politics. But much of the development envisaged for women was hampered by illiteracy. Since 1970, with the new found petro-ringgit, however, the situation changed. Women attained emancipation in mobility, political and economic spheres. Yet, an appropriate space for motherhood and wifehood has not been carved out in the industrial state
The Need for Civilizational Dialogue
Get PDFThe mutual miscomprehension between the civilizations of Asia and the West can lead to a dangerous form of confrontation. Already the divisions have hardened. It is imperative that the civilizations initiate a process of dialogue between themselves, so that they may together contribute towards building a better world
The Failure of Muslim Reformation: "Jadidism" in Eastern Europe, 1699-1922
Get PDFThe advent of Western influence has led to a number of responses in the Muslims, one of them being an attempt to "reform" Islam-Jadidism. This study examines the influence (lf such movements from the early eighteenth century to the first quarter of the twentieth century, in eastern European countries, particularly relating to Polish, Crimean, Turkish and Tatar Muslims. It is shown that all such attempts resulted in cultural decay, and loss of identity and power