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Misquoting Muhammad: The challenge and choices of interpreting the Prophet’s legacy. By Jonathan A. C. Brown
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Halal logistics: A marketing mix perspective
No full textḤalāl is no longer understood as solely concerning food consumption or ritual slaughter. It is at the centre of the global Muslim food industry and logistics is one of its driving forces. The growing demand for ḥalāl food integrity contributes to the need for ḥalāl logistics. However, ḥalāl logistics operation has thus far not been warmly received by the industry thus hampering the availability of such services. This conceptual study attempts to illuminate the issue by addressing ḥalāl logistics from a marketing perspective. The concept of marketing mix and how it can be practiced by industrial players in marketing or promoting ḥalāl logistics services underpins our discussion. Existing literature is reviewed and discussed to ascertain the link between ḥalāl logistics and the 7Ps of its marketing mix, namely, product, place, price, promotion, people, process, and programme
Articulating Islam: Anthropological approaches to Muslim worlds. Edited by Magnus Marsden and Konstantinos Retsikas
Get PDFReligious quest orientation: Rising against fundamentalism
Get PDFQuest, or a journey-oriented approach to religion, is one dimension of religiosity that has been consistently related to positive outgroup attitudes. The present research assessed the extent to which individual differences in quest religiosity moderated the effects of a religiosity prime on attitudes toward an outgroup religion. Christian identifying participants (N = 55) completed a scale measure of quest religiosity. They then read a vignette that primed quest religiosity or religious fundamentalism. Attitudes toward Muslims and Jews were assessed with evaluation thermometers. Quest religiosity interacted with the prime such that those high in quest appeared to react against the fundamentalism prime by expressing particularly positive outgroup attitudes. Trait quest religiosity appears to buffer against situational factors that are typically associated with negative outgroup attitudes. In addition, implications for research on intergroup relations of religious groups are discussed
Hasan al-Turabi’s approach to Qur’ānic exegesis
Get PDFAuthor of numerous books in Islamic Studies, Hasan al-Turabi is considered an eminent and influential figure in international Islamic movements as well as a controversial thinker. Among his most prominent and most recent works is his Qur’ānic exegesis entitled “al-Tafsīr al-Tawḥīdī”. This study discusses al-Turabi’s fundamental postulates in his exegesis. Applying analytic and inductive methodologies, the research concludes that although al-Tafsīr al-Tawḥīdī focuses on Islamic renewal and the establishment of an Islamic State, al-Turabi took this opportunity to express his general beliefs, which subsequently served as the foundation of his exegesis. The study also reveals that al-Tafsīr al-Tawḥīdī can be classified among the modernist exegetical trends in tafsīr as it claims that the Qur’ān is open to personal interpretation and advances the argument on the historicity of both the Sunnah of the Prophet (SAW) and the tradition of tafsīr
