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American Journal of Islam and Society
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ISSN 2690-3733 · International Institute of Islamic Thought · 2,525 articles in the index
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From Ego-Politics to Rūḥ-Politics
This article probes the Moroccan philosopher Abderrahmane Taha’s concept of izʿāj—literally agitation/disturbance—as an Islamic decolonial option. Reading it through his notion of al-majāl al-tadāwulī (the pragmatic discursive field), this study shows how izʿāj redirects Walter Mignolo’s…
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The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt
In the last two decades, debates within the anthropology of Islam have been invigorated by ethnographies set in Egypt – from Saba Mahmood’s Politics of Piety and Charles Hirschkind’s The Ethical Soundscape, to Amira Mittermaier’s Dreams that Matter and Samuli Schielke’s Egypt in the Future Tense…
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The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization
Elham Fakhro’s The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization offers a groundbreaking and timely analysis of the 2020 normalization agreements between Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain—collectively known as the Abraham Accords. As the first major…
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Faith and Loyalty
The popular association of Muslim immigration to New Zealand with recent Asian and African arrivals obscures a longer trajectory of settlement dating to the mid-19th century. From the 1850s onward, Muslim individuals and families have migrated, lived, and worked across various regions of the…
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Covenants with Allah: Keystone of Islam
In an era marked by the decay of international trust, systemic injustice, and state violence, Halim Rane and Ibrahim Zein’s new book Covenants with Allah is a timely and necessary intervention. The author’s draw our attention to the Qurʾanic and Prophetic concepts of covenant (ʿahd and mīthāq) and…
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Witnessing God: Christians, Muslims, and the Comparative Theology of Missions
The first thing you need to know about this book is that its author is the preeminent Islam expert on the faculty at Wheaton College, sometimes called “the Harvard of Evangelical Christians.” Wheaton College made headlines in 2015 for a controversy involving the censure of a faculty member who wore…
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Re-inventing Islam: Gender and the Protestant Roots of American Islamophobia
In Helen Moody Stuart’s 1920 novel Fatmeh: A Common Story of Mission Schools for Moslem Girls, Stuart creates a fictional Syrian family where one day young Fatmeh tells her parents she wants to attend the Christian missionary school to learn to read. “What do you want with reading?” retorts…
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Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran: A Socio-Legal Analysis
Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran is a concise, highly erudite, study that focuses on how the Islamic Republic of Iran and the confessional communities within its society grapple with transformations in religious identity, beliefs, practices, and social and political implications of…
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The Divine Names: A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qurʾan
The publication of The Divine Names: A Mystical Theology of the Names of God in the Qurʾan marks a noteworthy addition to the growing body of literature on Islamic metaphysics, Qurʾanic hermeneutics, and Sufi theology. Composed by the understudied yet intellectually formidable North African Sufi…
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“The Grove of Imagination”
This paper re-examines Ibn ʿArabī’s concept of the barzakh through the lens of spiritual ecology, arguing that it functions not only as an eschatological or metaphysical intermediary but as a dynamic, growth-oriented realm integral to the soul’s development. Moving beyond previous structural and…
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Islamic Themes in US Hip-Hop Culture
Anders Ackfeldt’s Islamic Themes in US Hip-Hop Culture represents yet another welcome example of the increasing scholarly attention being paid to the representation of Islam in popular culture. Combining his expertise in the history of religions and Islamic Studies with a range of tools stemming…
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After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization
As Tufan al-Aqsa marks its second anniversary, the devastation in Gaza remains immense. Thousands have been killed in relentless Israeli bombardments, and countless children, the sick, and the elderly face starvation under a blockade that has systematically denied access to food, medicine, and…
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Editorial Note
This issue of the American Journal of Islam and Society comprises three research articles that, taken together, explore the many ethical, historical, and conceptual resources through which Muslim thinkers and communities negotiate modernity, power, and knowledge across a wide range of diverse…
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Muhammad in the Seminary: Protestant Teaching about Islam in the Nineteenth Century
David Grafton’s Muhammad in the Seminary focuses on the nineteenth century as a pivotal period for the formation of American Protestant conceptions about Islam. Grafton identifies theological seminaries as the earliest institutions in North America to provide students with sustained instruction on…
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Filip Ćorlukić’s Hermeneutics and Exegesis in his Translation of the Qurʾān
This essay outlines the main approaches that should be considered when engaging with the works of Filip Ćorlukić in which he examines the Qurʾān. It addresses his engagement with the Islamic holy text through its translation and adaptation into the Croatian language, through comparative analyses of…
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In Memoriam of M. Yaqub Mirza (1946-2025)
It is with deep sadness that I write about the passing of Dr. M. Yaqub Mirza, who was also my father. Dr. Mirza was so many things such as a businessman, philanthropist, institutionalist, mentor, educator, intellectual and sage. He contributed to various sectors from business to finance to…
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From Ummatic Muslims to State-centered Bosniacs
This paper explores the evolution of the national identity of Bosnian Muslims throughout the 20th century, from an Ummatic-centric focus on their Islamic identity (using the ethnonym “Muslims”) to a state-centered, secularized, and “modernized” identity, adopting the ethnonym “Bosniacs.” This shift…
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Prophet al-Khiḍr: Between the Qur’anic Text and Islamic Contexts
Khiḍr is not widely known or extensively theorized, even though he frequently appears in Muslim literature and has been embraced by several Muslim civilizations. Building on the extensive research and analysis of the enigmatic prophet Khiḍr by Patrick Franke and Talat Halman, Irfan A. Omar’s…
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Marital and Sexual Ethics in Islamic Law: Rethinking Temporary Marriage
An excellent contribution to the field of Qur’anic Studies and to the field of Muslim feminist ethics, this book is a valuable contribution. Through the controversial, if I may say so, sensational legal route of temporary marriage, or mutʿa in Islam, Iqbal introduces the significance of tafsīr in…
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Agency, Rationality, Morality: The Qur’anic View of Man
Mona M. Abul-Fadl (1945-2008) had a mind of dazzling brilliance, making her one of the pioneering female Muslim scholars of her generation and a keen observer of the rapid devolution of society divorced from spiritual tradition in the modern context. In this powerful work, she provides a reading of…
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