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Muslim Understanding of Other Religions – A Study of Ibn Ḥazm's Kitāb al-Faṣl fī al-Milal wa al-Aḥwāl wa al-Nihal. By Ghulam Haider Aasī
No full textIslamic Economics Literature: A Bibliometric Analysis
Get PDFThe study tested the hypothesis that Islamic economics literature exhibits the features of the Bradfordian Law of Scattering while identifying core authors, publishers, sources of literature, and countries of origin. A database of 3,026 citations was created with information about the four primary measures. The occurrence counts were tabulated and displayed in bibliographs as essential instruments for hypothesis testing. It was found that the hypothesis could not be supported as the immature state of the discipline did not exhibit the features of established disciplines. Cores for authors, publishers, sources, and countries of origin were also identified
Developing a History Curriculum: An Islamic Perspective
Get PDFDeveloping a history curriculum from an Islamic perspective, though crucial for Muslim universities, is not an easy task. The curricula in the Muslim world suffers either from traditional methods which lack dynamism and cannot meet the spirit and challenge of contemporary life, or blind imitation of foreign styles which are alien to the Muslim character and identity. However, a clear vision of Islamic interpretation of history, laws of Allah in the universe, writing history in a scientific manner and helping students to develop their critical thinking skills, are necessary for achieving this vital mission. This article examines the curriculum of the department of history and civilization, International Islamic University Malaysia. This curriculum focuses on Islamic history, and indicates the efforts made by the faculty in bringing out some changes. The paper also suggests an applied example in teaching one of the courses in Islamic history
Orientalism Revisited: Bernard Lewis’s School of Political Islamography
No full textThis paper aims at examining the writings of a group of “political Islamographists" mainly headed by Bernard Lewis, who are engaged in promoting the idea of "Islamic threat" to the Western civilization. Since this group includes the most venerated counselors of the American and British political establishment on the Middle Eastern affairs, their post-modern Islamography has radically changed the contemporary relations between the Islamic revivalists and the Western powers
Development of a Measure of Teacher Effectiveness for IIUM
Get PDFThe paper reports the development of a multidimensional measure to assess teaching effectiveness. The scale, known as Teaching Feedback Survey for the International Islamic University Malaysia (TFS-IIUM), was developed and tested on a large sample of students and lecturers. By employing a principal components analysis with varimax rotation, an instrument consisting of 30 items was obtained, with four factorially independent dimensions of teaching effectiveness: Delivery of Information, Meaningful Interaction, Feedback and Fair Treatment, and Islamic Orientation. It documented high internal consistency reliability coefficients and a substantial amount of content, convergent-discriminant and criterion-related validity coefficients
A “secular” Malaysia? Toward an alternative democratic ethos
Get PDFThis article intervenes in the discourse that calls for the establishment of a secular state in Malaysia. Proponents argue that a secular state, with its principle of state neutrality in religious matters, would be most suited to oversee society’s democratic exchanges. The article traces the proposal’s affinities to theoretical debates on issues concerning pluralism, and argues that a secular regime may not be as neutral as proponents would make it to be, even if it transpires in a deontological form. The mistake with such work of reform lies in its preoccupation with kick-starting its efforts by making strong philosophical claims, which may well stifle, rather than further the interests of the plural society. The article argues that a more modest work of reform is possible, by way of exploring what existing infrastructures can do to help foster productive democratic exchanges, without having to foreclose the terms of engagements. The article concludes with a call for the cultivation of a novel set of civic virtues that would create positive democratic ethos
Politics and power in the Maghreb: Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco from independence to the Arab Spring
Get PDFPolitics: An Islamic Perspective
Get PDFMuslim societies in all of their social and cultural variety are, as Donald E. Smith points out, ‘organic’ societies characterized by organic religious systems. In these societies, religion tends to permeate all institutions rather than to be differentiated and/or autonomous. The vast body of literature produced since the departure of the colonialists from the Muslim lands suggests, however, either the implicit existence of the dichotomy or at least the feasibility and advisability of radical separation between the spiritual and temporal realms. The seriousness of the issue, evidenced by an outpouring of studies, calls for an examination of the linkage between the two realms through textual (Qur’an and Hadith), intellectual (ideas of Muslim thinkers) and historical evidence. Only in such a manner can the dynamics of the relationship between Islam and politics be understood and a determination made of what has changed and what has remained unchanged. This entails, first, an understanding of the meaning and nature of politics from the Western perspective to facilitate a comparison..
