Reactualizing Hegel: Žižek, the Universality of Islam, and Its Political Potentiality (Revisiting “the Archives of Islam”)
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DOI: 10.1007/s11841-020-00799-0
Abstract: This article revisits the controversy over the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek’s sympathetic, yet critical and provocative, views on Islam and fundamentalist terrorism as developed in his ‘A Glance on the Archives of Islam.’ Žižek, I… read more here.
Keywords: hegel; archives islam; universality islam; political potentiality ... See more keywords
“Islam” in Sanskrit doxography: a reconsideration via the writings of Madhusūdana Sarasvatī
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DOI: 10.1017/s1356186320000644
Abstract: Abstract In the ongoing debate regarding the construction of the modern concept of “Hinduism”, recent research has considered the ways in which the pre-colonial encounter with Islam may have served as a catalyst in the… read more here.
Keywords: dana sarasvat; sanskrit; islam; madhus dana ... See more keywords
Does War Make States? Investigations of Charles Tilly’s Historical Sociology. By Lars Bo Kaspersen and Jeppe Strandsbjerg, eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 333p. $120.00 cloth.
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592718000191
Abstract: “allows people to construct new identities, to build better versions of themselves—and it does so in multiple ways” (p. 93). The chapters also discuss the relationships of young Islamists with the Moroccan state and authorities… read more here.
Keywords: ideational threat; saudi arabia; sociology; rubin ... See more keywords
What Is Political Islam. By Jocelyne Cesari. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2018. vii + 232 pp. $65.00 cloth
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DOI: 10.1017/s1755048318000366
Abstract: Jocelyn Cesari begins What is Political Islam by referring to two seemingly extremely ambitious questions posed in recent debates about Islam and politics: Is ISIS Islamic? And is Islamic law compatible with the modern state?… read more here.
Keywords: state; islam jocelyne; political islam; jocelyne cesari ... See more keywords
Raised under Stalin: Young Communists and the Defense of Socialism. By Seth Bernstein. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2017. xi, 254 pp. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Tables. $55.00, hard bound.
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DOI: 10.1017/slr.2018.299
Abstract: refusing to accept its authority, and of how SADUM’s centralized authority was sharply dented by Khrushchev’s antireligious campaign. Yet, he persists with his maximalist argument about the centrality of SADUM to Central Asian life. I… read more here.
Keywords: stalin young; tasar; raised stalin; authority ... See more keywords
Islamic transformations in the periphery of Maluku, Indonesia
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DOI: 10.1080/13639811.2019.1583428
Abstract: ABSTRACT The article explores Islam as an element of the social and symbolic formations created in the context of long-distance trade relations in the Aru and the Kei islands of southeast Maluku. The Muslim migrants… read more here.
Keywords: transformations periphery; islamic transformations; periphery maluku; maluku indonesia ... See more keywords
Modern French Jewish thought: writings on religion and politics
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DOI: 10.1080/1462317x.2018.1523577
Abstract: First, it enables one to trace the development of such contemporary concepts as democracy and human rights within the new Islamism. Second, it questions the rigidity of Islam and its inability to adjust to the… read more here.
Keywords: french jewish; modern french; political islam; new political ... See more keywords
The Seekers at the Cloister Gate
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DOI: 10.1086/702677
Abstract: Muslim-ness that are articulated around faith and practice or primarily seen as part of one’s ethnonational belonging (50). This point leads us to the second centrally stated aim of this study. Besides its ostensible focus… read more here.
Keywords: anthropology; chapter; notions muslim; secularism ... See more keywords
Droughts and societal change: The environmental context for the emergence of Islam in late Antique Arabia
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DOI: 10.1126/science.abg4044
Abstract: In Arabia, the first half of the sixth century CE was marked by the demise of Himyar, the dominant power in Arabia until 525 CE. Important social and political changes followed, which promoted the disintegration… read more here.
Keywords: century; arabia; environmental context; context emergence ... See more keywords
The Hungarian Border Barrier and Islam
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DOI: 10.1163/22117954-12341339
Abstract: The co-existence between Hungarians and Islam has been considered balanced, until the spring of 2015 when a wave of migrants appeared in Europe. “Opening to the East”, the foreign policy announced by the government in… read more here.
Keywords: hungarian border; border barrier; islam; barrier islam ... See more keywords
Framing Islam at the World of Islam Festival, London, 1976
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DOI: 10.1163/22117954-12341365
Abstract: This article focuses on a neglected historical example where contemporary museological framings of Islam in Europe were established—the World of Islam Festival in London, 1976. The material consulted consists of the publications and materials from… read more here.
Keywords: world islam; festival; islam festival; london 1976 ... See more keywords