Volume 1, Number 1 (Spring 1999)

Articles

Paradigm Shifts in Muslim International Relations Discourse
      Farhang Rajaee

Understanding the Political Behavior of Islamists: The Implications
of Socialization, Modernization, and Rationalist Approaches
      Anas B. Malik

Redeeming the Nation: Redemption Theology
in African-American Islam
      Timur Yuskaev

Jailhouse Religion: The Challenge of Corrections
to the American Muslim Community
      Frederick M. Denny and the Late Olga Scarpetta

Democracy on Trial in Malaysia
      Mumtaz Ahmad

Book Reviews

Review Essay

History of Bangladesh: In Search of a More Flexible Narrative
Prasenjit Duara, Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China and India; Joya Chatterji, Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition 1932-47; Richard M. Eaton, The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier 1204-1760; Peter Van der Veer, Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India.
      By M. Rashiduzzaman

Kenneth Cragg, Muhammad and the Christian and
Jesus and the Muslim
      By Shabbir Akhtar

Bruce Lawrence, Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt Against the Modern Age and Shattering the Myth: Islam Beyond Violence
      By Thomas D. Tellner

Omar Khalidi, Indian Muslims Since Independence
      By Theodore P. Wright, Jr.

Abdulkader I. Tayob, Islamic Resurgence in South Africa:
The Muslim Youth Movement
      By Imtiyaz Yusuf

Mushtaqur Rahman and Guljan Rahman,
Geography of the Muslim World
      By Dilnawaz A. Siddiqui

Volume 1, Number 2 (Fall 1999)

Articles

Defining Islam in the Throes of Modernity
      Abdulkader I. Tayob

Islamist Intellectuals of South Asia:
The Origins and Development of a Tradition of Discourse
      S. V. R. Nasr

Universal Human Rights vs. Muslim Personal Law:
The Shahbano Begum Case in India
      Theodore P. Wright, Jr.

The Muslim Community in the United States: Some Issues
      Sulayman S. Nyang

Democracy in Malaysia:
A Critical Look at Mumtaz Ahmad's Analysis
      Steven J. Rosenthal

Image, Text, and Form:
Complexities of Aesthetics in an American Masjid
      'Akel Isma'il Kahera
 

Book Reviews

Ralph Braibanti, Islam and the West: Common Cause or Clash?
      By Joy Hendrickson

Sulayman S. Nyang, Islam in the United States of America
      By Mohammed Bassiru Sillah

Murad W. Hofmann, Islam 2000
      By Mustansir Mir

Lee Levine, ed., Jerusalem: Its Sanctity and Centrality
to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
     By Shabbir Akhtar

Volume 2, Number 1 (Spring 2000)

Articles

Tools of Persuasion in Iran: Images of Women on Postage Stamps and Other Print Materials
      Faegheh Shirazi

The Shari'ah Issue in Nigerian Politics
      Victor F. Wan-Tatah

Studying the "Other": Challenges and Prospects of Muslim Scholarship on World Religions
      Ahmad F. Yousif

Indian Muslims and the Search for Communal Harmony:
Some Notes on Mawlana Wahiduddin Khan
      Irfan A. Omar
 

Book Reviews

Review Essay: Islam in South Africa
Abdulkader Tayob, Islam in South Africa: Mosques, Imams, and Sermons, and Islamic Resurgence in South Africa: The Muslim Youth Movement
      By Victor F. Wan-Tatah

Alija Ali Izetbegovic, Islam Between East and West
      By Mumtaz Ahmad

Ralph Braibanti, Chief Justice Cornelius of Pakistan:
An Analysis with Letters and Speeches
      By Allen Jones

Farid Esack, On Being a Muslim:
Finding a Religious Path in the World Today
      By Dilnawaz A. Siddiqui

Volume 2, Number 2 (Fall 2000)

Articles

The Gaze and Colonial Plans for the Unveiling of Muslim Women
      Katherine H. Bullock

Islam and Nationalist Historiography: Competing Historical Narratives of the Iranian Nation in the Pahlavi Period
      Kamran Aghaie

The 1999 General Elections in Malaysia: Democracy vs. Development
      Abdul Rashid Moten
 

Book Reviews

Richard M. Eaton, Essays on Islam and Indian History
      By Theodore P. Wright, Jr.

Robert W. Hefner, Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia
      By Dicky Sofjan

Akbar S. Ahmed, Islam Today: A Short Introduction to the Muslim World
      By Sulayman Nyang and Ejaz Akram

Rose Wilder Lane, Islam and the Discovery of Freedom, edited and annotated by Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad
      By Ejaz Akram

Fred Dallmayr, ed., Border Crossings: Towards a Comparative Political Theory
      By Joy Hendrickson

Volume 3, Number 1 (Spring 2001)

Articles

Muslim Theodicy as Reflected in Turkish Media Reactions to the 1999 Earthquake
      David S. Sayers

Is Vegetarianism Un-Islamic?
      Richard C. Foltz

Wilfred Cantwell Smith in Lahore 1940-1951
      Sheila McDonough
 

Book Reviews

William C. Chittick, Sufism: A Short Introduction
      By Muzaffar Iqbal

Faegheh Shirazi, The Veil Unveiled, The Hijab in Modern Culture
      By Elma Ruth Harder

Yuvonne Chireau and Nathaniel Deutsch, eds., Black Zion: African American Religious Encounters with Judaism
      By Mohammed Bassiru Sillah

Volume 3, Number 2 (Fall 2001)

Articles

Contemporary Muslim Intellectuals and Their Responses to Modern Science and Technology
      Mohd Hazim Shah

The Indigenization of an Intellectual Tradition: A New Trend in Contemporary Islam in Yorubaland (Nigeria)
      Amidu Sanni

The Urban Mosque: Urban Islam, Activism, and the Reconstruction of the Ghetto
      Akel Ismail Kahera

Playing for Respect: Some Notes on the Interplay Between Islam and Athletics
      Faiz Shakir
 

Book Reviews

Nadje Al-Ali, Secularism, Gender and the State in the Middle East: The Egyptian Women's Movement
      By Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi'

Paul Dresch, A History of Modern Yemen
      By Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi'

Lewis V. Baldwin and Amiri YaSin Al-Hadid, Between Cross and Crescent: Christian and Muslim Perspectives on Malcolm and Martin
      By Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

Iqbal Singh, The Ardent Pilgrim
      By Sheila McDonough

Volume 4, Number 1 (Spring 2002)

Articles

The West, Islam, and the Democratic Imperative
      Antony T. Sullivan

Economic Development, Globalization, and Muslim Countries
      Mohamed Aslam Haneef
 

Review Essay

Scholarship or Sophistry? A Review of Bernard Lewis's What Went Wrong?
      M. Shahid Alam
 

Book Reviews

Ghulam Haider Aasi, Muslim Understanding of Other Religions: A Study of Ibn Hazm's Kitab al-Fasl fi al-Milal wa al-Ahwa' wa al-Nihal
      By Amidu Olalekan Sanni

Javeed Akhter, The Seven Phases of Prophet Muhammad's Life
      By Amidu Olalekan Sanni

Ronald Segal, Islam's Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora
      By Earnest N. Bracey

Beverly B. Mack and Jean Boyd, One Woman's Jihad: Nana Asma'u, Scholar and Scribe
      By Joy Hendrickson

Volume 4, Number 2 (Fall 2002)

Articles

Imagining Space and Siting Collective Memory in South Asian
Muslim Biographical Literature (Tazkirahs)
      Marcia Hermansen

Islam in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
      David H. Anthony III

The Muslim World and the United States
      Abdullah al-Ahsan

Fazlur Rahman: Prophecy, the Qur'an, and Islamic Reform
      R. Kevin Jaques

Book Reviews

Chase F. Robinson, Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest
      By Muzaffar Iqbal

Mohammed Hashim Kamali, Islamic Law in Malaysia: Issues and Developments
      By Umar F. Abd-Allah

Ralph H. Magnus and Eden Naby, Afghanistan: Mullah, Marx, and Mujahid
      By Mohammad Hashim Kamali

 

Volume 5, Numbers 1 and 2 (Spring and Fall 2003)
Special Issue on Religious and Ethnic Minorities

Editors’ Note

Introduction
     Tamara Sonn

Articles

The Rise of a Womanist Movement among Muslim Immigrant Women in Alberta, Canada
     Earle H. Waugh and Jenny Wannas

The Theological-Ideological Dispute Between ImamWarith Deen Muhammad and Minister Louis Farrakhan
     Clifton E. Marsh

The Shi‘ah as a Minority Community in Pakistan and India
     David Pinault

Shi‘i Political Activism in Pakistan
     Mumtaz Ahmad

Pressures on the Muslim Minority in India
     Theodore P. Wright, Jr.

Islam and Minorities: The Case of the Bahá’ís
     Christopher Buck

The Kurds and the Turkish National State: The Interaction of Nationalism, Secularism, and Islam
     Michael B. Bishku

Israeli-Druze Relations: An Appraisal
     Jacob Abadi

The Limits of Tolerance: The Status of Gypsies (Roma) in the Ottoman Empire
     Faika Çelik

Book Reviews

Akbar S. Ahmed, Islam Under Siege:
Living Dangerously in a Post-Honor World
      (1) By Tamara Sonn
      (2) By Asma Afsaruddin

Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, and Daniel Brumberg, eds.,
Islam and Democracy in the Middle East
      By Amidu Olalekan Sanni

Robert O. Freedman, ed., The Middle East Enters the Twenty-first Century
      By Amidu Olalekan Sanni

Vojtech Mastny and R. Craig Nation, eds., Turkey Between East and West: New Challenges for a Rising Regional Power
      By Cemil Aydin

Negin Nabavi, Intellectuals and the State in Iran: Politics, Discourse, and the Dilemma of Authenticity
      By Jason B. Mohaghegh

S. Frederick Starr, ed., Xinjiang: China’s Muslim Borderland
      By Dirk Richard Morton

Peter van der Veer, Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain
      By Sheila McDonough

Naveed S. Sheikh, The New Politics of Islam: Pan-Islamic Foreign Policy in a World of States
      By Robert D. Lee

Just World Trust, Human Wrongs: Reflections on Western Global Dominance and its Impact Upon Human Rights.
Hashim Makaruddin, ed., Globalisation and the New Realities: Selected Speeches of Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia
      By Keith Lepak

Joseph A. Camilleri and Chandra Muzaffar, eds., Globalisation: The Perspectives and Experiences of the Religious Traditions of Asia Pacific
      By David Porter

Farish A. Noor, ed., Terrorising the Truth: The Shaping of Contemporary Images of Islam and Muslims in Media, Politics and Culture
      By David Porter

M. J. Akbar, The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict between Islam and Christianity
      By Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

Majid Fakhry, Averroes (Ibn Rushd): His Life, Works and Influence
Majid Fakhry, Al-Farabi, Founder of Islamic Neoplatonism: His Life, Works and Influence
      By Oliver Leaman

Islam and Science: Journal of Islamic Perspectives on Science
      By Brendan Minogue

Gary B. Ferngren, Science and Religion: A Historical Introduction
      By Muzaffar Iqbal

Attilio Petruccioli and Khalil K. Pirani, eds., Understanding Islamic Architecture
      By Stephanie Smith

Sarah Louise Baker, From Utah to Eternity: A Mormon-Muslim Journey
      By Maysam J. al Faruqi

Gordon D. Newby, A Concise Encyclopedia of Islam
      By Mohamed Taher

 

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