Tag: religion
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From Morocco to Malabar: The Transnational Journey of Dalā’il al-Khayrāt Beyond Borders
n this article, the author examines the underexplored Sufi connections between North Africa and South Asia by analysing the core contents of the 15th-century Moroccan prayer manual, the Dalā’il al-Khayrāt.
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Book Review: Adeel Hussain’s Law and Muslim Political Thought in Late Colonial North India
Adeel Hussain’s Law and Muslim Political Thought in Late Colonial North India takes up this neglected decade, arguing that colonial legal debates—far from being a mere instrument of domination or governance—became a crucial site for the reconfiguration of Muslim political concepts.
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The Day My Patient Called Me Son
During my sub-centre posting, there was a day I was posted alone. My co-interns were on leave, and the Medical Officer was expected to arrive late. So, it was just me, holding the fort. That morning, a woman in her sixties walked in with a warm smile. She instantly reminded me of my late grandmother—only…
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The Long Way Home: A Review of ‘Putting Everything in Its Proper Place’
Introduction This past Ramadan, the legendary Malaysian sufi and academician, Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas returned to the mercy of His Lord; a beautiful return for a life spent in service of the Qur’an. Many contemporary scholars regard him as the mujaddid (reviver) of the era owing to the incomparable gravitas that his oeuvre that stretches…
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The Rise of Political Salafism in Bangladesh and Its Challenge to Traditional Sunni Authority
Bangladesh has a distinctive presence in global perceptions of the Muslim world. Its religious character has been shaped not by militant orthodoxy but by a multi-layered, syncretic Sunni culture that is bound up in centuries of Ḥanafī jurisprudence, Sufi devoutness and vernacular Islamic expression, with approximately 150 million Muslims making it the third-largest Muslim-majority nation…
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Allah’s Signs, Man’s Scalpel: Reframing Islamic Scientific Practice Beyond the Positivist Lens
The modern concept of an Islamic ‘Golden Age’ often oversimplifies a complex historical period, neglecting the integrated worldview where science and theology merged. Al-Zahrawi exemplifies this ideal, blending rigorous inquiry with spiritual reflection.
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In a Time of Thulm, Taqwa
Their walls have fallen, crumbled, yet they remain strong, standing while the world stumbles to its knees. The world has fallen and yet they have risen.
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Conceptualization of Islam as a ‘Religion’ and Possibility of the Secularist/Islamist Binary
The history of the modern Middle East is often narrated as a story of power struggles between competing ideologies. One such set of competing ideologies is Islamism and secularism. The aim of this paper is not to explore these ideologies in the light of Middle Eastern history and argue in favor of either one of…
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近代性という「猛獣」を手懐ける―イスラーム的アプローチ―
ティモシー・ウィンター教授としても知られるアブドゥルハキーム・ムラド師は「虎を乗りこなす」という表現を用いて、近代性から退却するのではなく、敵対的あるいは友好的なアプローチをもって立ち向かうことを論じた。
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Dekonstrukcija zapadnih predstava o političkom islamu
Za zapadne posmatrače je nepoželjno postojanje političkog djelovanja sa metafizičkim referencama, jer je upečatljiva karakteristika savremenog doba to što je ono desakralizirano. Budući da je tako, islamsko političko djelovanje se, skoro po klišeu, posmatra u vezi sa bremenitim i analitički beskorisnim terminima kao što su „radikalizam“ i „fundamentalizam“. U najgorem slučaju, u vladajućim predstavama je…