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Abu Ghraib: Prisoner Abuse in the Light of Islamic and International Laws
Get PDFAbstract: This study analyses the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib in the light of Islamic and International laws. Using documentary sources, the paper argues that Islamic law is far superior than the International law as enshrined in the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations Charter on the treatment of prisoners of war. It found the abuse of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib a routine operation carried out in obedience to orders issued by the higher authorities. The photographs portraying images of dehumanization in Abu Ghraib is unacceptable either in Islamic or international law
Indonesia and the Muslim World: Islam and Secularism in the Foreign Policy of Soeharto and Beyond. By Anak Agung Banyu Perwita
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From Cairo to the Straits Settlements: Modern Salafiyyah Reformist Ideas in Malay Peninsula
Get PDFAbstract: Early twentieth-century Malay Peninsula witnessed the emergence of Islamic reform movements. The Malay reformists who were discontented with the socio-economic and political conditions of the Malays criticised the Malay elites and called for “reformation” of their society. The Malay reformists derived inspirations for their reformist ideology from the leading Middle Eastern reformists, Muhammad ≤Abduh, Rashīd Riḍā and others, known as salafiyyah. Available data suggest that the transmission of salafiyyah ideas in particular, and Middle Eastern reformism in general, to Malay Peninsula were made possible by many factors. Of these factors, the roles of the ḥaramayn, the centres of learning in Cairo and the invention of printing machines have been least explored. This study attempts to fill in the void in the existing literature
Dispute Resolution through Third Party Mediation: Malaysia and Indonesia
Get PDFAbstract: Since independence, Malaysia has been involved in territorial disputes and overlapping maritime claims with almost all its neighbours. Some of these disputes were resolved through bilateral and multilateral treaties. However, Malaysia and Indonesia settled the dispute over Sipadan-Ligitan islands by referring the issue to the International Court of Justice (ICJ). This high sense of civility shown by the two countries need to be analysed and appreciated. Documentary analysis shows that the consideration of the geopolitical conditions, the state of bilateral relations the disputing countries were enjoying, security problems, the lack of progress in settling disputes through the bilateral efforts and the weaknesses inherent in ASEAN’s dispute settlement mechanism made the two parties to refer their dispute to the ICJ rather than to the ASEAN High Council (AHC). The ICJ’s decision, delivered in 2002, was accepted by the two parties as stipulated in the referral agreement
Extremism in the Discourse of Sayyid Quṭb: Myth and Reality
Get PDFAbstract: Sayyid Quṭb has been much maligned in the West as well as in the Muslim World as an extremist and a radical whose writings have been the inspirational source of international terrorism. A discourse analysis of his writings shows that his views about Western culture and civilisation, the Zionist conspiracy to undermine the ummah, and Western education were highly critical and harsh, and these may have given the impression that he is a radical. His explanation of such concepts as tawḥīd, Islamic society and the infidelity of Muslim rulers may have added further impetus to the charge of extremism. These concepts, however, were explained by Quṭb with reference to the Qur´ān and the Sunnah and has precedence in the writings of other Muslim scholars. Further, Quṭb however advocated a peaceful, incremental methodology for the Islamic movement and personally abhorred armed tactics as means to usher in an Islamic society and state
Critical Pedagogy, Islamisation of Knowledge and Muslim Education
Get PDFAbstract: This study attempts to reconstruct Western critical pedagogy from an Islamic perspective and to explore its contribution to the resolution of the crisis in the Muslim mind and Islamic education. It analyses the underlying philosophical assumptions behind critical theory, compares it with Islamic philosophy of education and with the Islamisation of Knowledge project, reconstructs the Western critical pedagogy and uses the arguments of Muslim scholars to justify the need for critical pedagogy in Muslim education. It is argued that an Islamised critical pedagogy can offer an adequate resolution to the crisis in the Muslim mind
Global Communication and Cultural Desensitisation: Repackaging Western Values for Non-Western Markets
Get PDFAbstract: Global communication is widely perceived as an instrument to disseminate Western values in the developing world. The “Wheel of Fortune” and “Who Wants to be a Millionnaire” licensed to Malaysian Television stations, though the language and the word puzzles were localised, carried the same format of the original (American) show. They promote consumerism, gambling and the images of usury, the style of wealth accumulation forbidden in Islam. For the Malaysian audience whose priorities are those of contentment, modesty and humility, such emphasis on material desires breeds internal contradictions that may lead the audience to succumb to the new Western values