scholarly journals Islam and Muslims in “non-religious” Japan: caught in between prejudice against Islam and performative tolerance

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Yoko Yamashita
Keyword(s):  
Critical Remark ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Foreign Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Muslim Communities

Abstract This paper examines how Islam in Japan tends to be tolerated as (foreign) “culture,” especially within the framework of tabunka kyōsei, multicultural coexistence, and cosmetic multiculturalism to circumvent religious apathy, phobia of religion, and prejudice against Islam. In doing so, this paper will: first provide a history of Muslim–Japanese relations and Muslim communities in Japan as well as an overview of the total estimate of the Muslim population in Japan as of 2018; historicize and denaturalize religious apathy, phobia of religion, and prejudice against Islam among the general Japanese public; analyze the rhetoric of tabunka kyōsei and its relation to cosmetic multiculturalism as well as its problematics; investigate the cases of local oppositions to the building projects of mosques and my observations made at events organized by Muslim groups; and conclude with a critical remark on the cosmetic multiculturalist understanding of “Islamic culture” and its approach to tabunka kyōsei.

On the history of the Andijan Muslim movement in 1898

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (10) ◽  
pp. 267-274
Author(s):  
Julia Lysenko ◽  
Tatyana Nedzelyuk
Keyword(s):  
Muslim Population ◽  
Religious Policy ◽  
Regional Administration ◽  
Russian Army ◽  
History Of ◽  
Legal Restrictions ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
The Military ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

In 1898, an uprising of the Muslim population took place in the city of Andijan of the Fergana region of the Turkestan governor-general, accompanied by an attack on the line battalion of the Russian army. The casualties from the military and civilian Russian population led to a reaction from the imperial authorities. On the basis of archival and published sources, some of which are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, the article analyzes a set of measures that were implemented by the regional administration to stabilize the situation in the region. It is emphasized that the consequence of the Andijan movement for the Muslims of Turkestan was a change in the vector of the state's religious policy towards tightening control over the life of Muslim communities and introducing additional legal restrictions for them.

Representations of religion in secular states: the Muslim communities in Sweden†

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 524-538
Author(s):  
Rickard Lagervall
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Muslim Minority ◽  
Swedish Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Politics And Law

The presence of Muslim populations in Western European societies is a relatively new phenomenon which is raising questions about how these societies treat religious minorities. This article considers the situation in Sweden, beginning with a brief history of the development of the Swedish state from one based on the Lutheran faith to today's secular society in which state and religion are officially separated. It moves on to discuss the emergence of a sizable Muslim population in the latter part of the 20th century and considers the ways in which the secular character and religious neutrality of the state offer such religious minorities space to practise their religions. However, as Swedish society, politics and law are still premised on certain Christian notions of what religion should be, Muslims and more particularly Islamic organizations in the country have to find ways to adapt themselves to these pre-existing religious structures. Thus the presence of a large Muslim minority has affected the mindset of the members of this minority as well as the Swedish host society.

scholarly journals PERANCANGAN INTERIOR MOESLIM CULTURE ARTSPACE DI KOTA DENPASAR

Jurnal Patra ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-57
Author(s):  
Cindy Paramitha Sugianto ◽  
A.A Gde Tugus Hadi Iswara ◽  
I Kadek Pranajaya
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Early Entry ◽  
History Of ◽  
Culture Design ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Muslim Culture

Islamophobia is a disease of excessive fear of Islam, due to excessivetrauma, such as the impact of the Bali I bombing and Bali II bombingcarried out by terrorists who use the name Islam. Islamophobia in Bali hasnot been resolved properly, due to the lack of approach between Muslimand non-Muslim communities in Bali regarding Muslim culture and theunavailability of commercial buildings based on cultural heritage regardingIslamic culture. Therefore, we need a place or facility that canaccommodate the needs of the Muslim community who want to take anapproach such as an artspace that raises the history of the early entry ofIslam in Bali, the development of Islamic culture in Bali after theoccurrence of alkuturation, and provides new insights that were notpreviously known by the community. non-Muslims. Where in this paperwill focus on interior design artspace in the city of Denpasar, entitledDesigning the Moeslim Culture Artspace in Denpasar City. keywords: artspace, culture, design, moeslim Islamophobia merupakan sebuah penyakit ketakutan berlebih terhadap islam, akibat trauma yang berlebih, seperti dampak dari bom bali i dan bombali ii yang dilakukan oleh teroris yang mengatas namakan islam.Islamophobia di bali belum dapat teratasi dengan baik, karena minimnyapendekatan antara masyarakat muslim dan non-muslim di bali mengenaikebudayaan umat muslim serta, belum tersedianya bangunan komersilyang berbasis cagar budaya mengenai kebudayaan islam. Oleh karena itudiperlukan sebuah tempat atau fasilitas yang dapat mewadahi kebutuhanmasyarakat muslim yang ingin melakukan suatu pendekatan seperti artspace yang mengangkat sejarah awal masuknya islam di bali, perkembangan kebudayaan islam di bali setelah terjadinya alkuturasi, sertamemberikan wawasan baru yang sebelumnya belum di ketahui olehmasyarakat non-muslim. Dimana dalam penulisan ini akan berfokus pada perancangan interior ruang karya di kota denpasar, yang berjudulPerancangan Pusat Seni Kebudayaan Islam Di Kota Denpasar.  kata kunci : kebudayaan, muslim, perancangan, pusat seni.

scholarly journals Sufism Scholars Network in the Middle East, India, and Indonesia

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-92
Author(s):  
Dwi Afrianti
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Local Level ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
International Network ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Entry Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Muslim Communities

The history of Islam in Indonesia cannot be separated from the affected of local culture, religion, belief earlier, and culture of the spreader of Islam which are also influenced by religion and beliefs held previously, as well as the entry period into certain areas of different life times, willingness to form the teachings of the scholars/king. All of this shows the complexity of the uniqueness of Islam in Indonesian as the majority religion among diverse religions in Indonesia. Sufism are directly involved in the spread of Islam in Indonesia with a unique teaching that facilitate the engaging of non-Muslim communities into Islam, compromise or blends Islam with religious and beliefs practices rather than local beliefs change from an international network to the local level. The terms and the elements of the pre-Islamic culture are used to explain Islam itself. Islamic history of Sundanese, there is a link in teachings of Wihdat al-Wujud of Ibn al-‘Arabi who Sufism Scholar that connected between the international Islamic networks scholars and Sundanese in Indonesia. It is more popular, especially in the congregation of Thariqat Syattariyah originated from India, and it is widespread in Indonesia such as Aceh, Minangkabau and also Pamijahan-Tasikmalaya that brought by Abdul Muhyi since 17th century ago.

scholarly journals Tatar Settlements of Kazan and Astrakhan in the Second Half of the 18th — Early 20th Centuries: Culture And Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-158
Author(s):  
A. Yu. Khabutdinov ◽  
M. M. Khabutdinova ◽  
M. M. Imasheva
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Russian State ◽  
History Of ◽  
Confessional Identity ◽  
Culture And Development ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
History Of Formation

The article deals with the history of formation and development of cultural landscapes of the two largest urban Tatar communities of pre-revolutionary Russia, namely of Kazan and Astrakhan. Both Astrakhan and Kazan are two centers of the Turkic–Tatar world, the history of which traces back to the Golden Horde. The both were the capitals of independent Tatar states- khanates and the both became in the middle of the XVI century the part of the Russian state. In the second half of the XVIII — early XX centuries, Tatar Muslim communities were formed in the both cities, which have had their own cultural and national identity. The Muslim population sought to preserve and develop their ethno- confessional identity. All these circumstances shaped a special cultural landscape of the Tatar settlement within the borders of the provincial Russian cities in the Modern age.

The Making of the Medieval Middle East

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Tannous
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
The Middle Ages

In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its eventual conversion to Islam. This book argues that key to understanding these dramatic religious transformations are ordinary religious believers, often called “the simple” in late antique and medieval sources. Largely agrarian and illiterate, these Christians outnumbered Muslims well into the era of the Crusades, and yet they have typically been invisible in our understanding of the Middle East's history. What did it mean for Christian communities to break apart over theological disagreements that most people could not understand? How does our view of the rise of Islam change if we take seriously the fact that Muslims remained a demographic minority for much of the Middle Ages? In addressing these and other questions, the book provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the religious history of the medieval Middle East. The book draws on a wealth of Greek, Syriac, and Arabic sources to recast these conquered lands as largely Christian ones whose growing Muslim populations are properly understood as converting away from and in competition with the non-Muslim communities around them.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold D. Morales
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Propositional Knowledge ◽  
History Of ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Struggle For Recognition

The conclusion provides a summary of key developments in the history of Latino Muslim communities and also critically explores future possibilities. While weaving a trail among the history of Islamic Spain, the Alianza Islamica, and subsequent Latino Muslim organizations, the struggle for recognition through solidarity groups emerges as a prominent theme throughout the book. However, this approach to liberation raises complex issues regarding the efficacy and logics of identity politics. Drawing on various sources, I argue that practical knowledge of how to know and how to be in relation with one another may circumvent identity politics premised on static propositional knowledge of groups like Latino Muslims.

scholarly journals What Stymies Action on Climate Change? Religious Institutions, Marginalization, and Efficacy in Kenya

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Lauren Honig ◽  
Amy Erica Smith ◽  
Jaimie Bleck
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
State Repression ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Vulnerability To Climate Change ◽  
History Of ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Critical Link

Addressing climate change requires coordinated policy responses that incorporate the needs of the most impacted populations. Yet even communities that are greatly concerned about climate change may remain on the sidelines. We examine what stymies some citizens’ mobilization in Kenya, a country with a long history of environmental activism and high vulnerability to climate change. We foreground efficacy—a belief that one’s actions can create change—as a critical link transforming concern into action. However, that link is often missing for marginalized ethnic, socioeconomic, and religious groups. Analyzing interviews, focus groups, and survey data, we find that Muslims express much lower efficacy to address climate change than other religious groups; the gap cannot be explained by differences in science beliefs, issue concern, ethnicity, or demographics. Instead, we attribute it to understandings of marginalization vis-à-vis the Kenyan state—understandings socialized within the local institutions of Muslim communities affected by state repression.

History of Mathematics in the Islamic World: The Present State of the Art

1985 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. L. Berggren
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
History Of Mathematics ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mathematical Sciences ◽  
Islamic Mathematics

In Recent Years, many discoveries in the history of Islamic mathematics have not been reported outside the specialist literature, even though they raise issues of interest to a larger audience. Thus, our aim in writing this survey is to provide to scholars of Islamic culture an account of the major themes and discoveries of the last decade of research on the history of mathematics in the Islamic world. However, the subject of mathematics comprised much more than what a modern mathematician might think of as belonging to mathematics, so our survey is an overview of what may best be called the “mathematical sciences” in Islam; that is, in addition to such topics as arithmetic, algebra, and geometry we will also be interested in mechanics, optics, and mathematical instruments.

Temür and the problem of a conqueror's legacy

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatrice Forbes Manz
Keyword(s):  
Economic Stress ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
The South ◽  
Political Fragmentation ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

Temür has been many things to many people. He was nomad and city-builder, Turk and promoter of Persian culture, restorer of the Mongol order and warrior for the spread of Islam. One thing he was to all: a conqueror of unequalled scope, able to subdue both the vast areas of nomad power to the north and the centres of agrarian Islamic culture to the south. The history of his successors was one of increasing political fragmentation and economic stress. Yet they too won fame, as patrons over a period of brilliant cultural achievement in Persian and Turkic. Temür's career raises a number of questions. Why did he find it necessary to pile conquest upon conquest, each more ambitious than the last? Having conceived dreams of dominion, where did he get the power and money to fulfill them? When he died, what legacy did Temür leave to his successors and to the world which they tried to control? Finally, what was this world of Turk and Persian, and where did Temür and the Timurids belong within it?

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