Islam in Bosnia Between East and West: The Reception and Development of Traditionalism

Abstract The article looks at the reception and development of Guénonian Traditionalism in Bosnia from the 1970s to the present day. Traditionalism was initially received in Yugoslavia as esotericism, but then its reception became more Islamic, based in Sarajevo’s Islamic Theology Faculty. After the Bosnian War, Islamic Traditionalist works became popular among young Bosnians who wanted to combine Islam with European identities. Some Bosnian ulama taught Traditionalist works to their students, a development unparalleled elsewhere, and wrote their own Traditionalist-influenced works, mostly dealing with interreligious dialogue. The Bosnian reception and development of Traditionalism is unique, and it is argued that this reflects Bosnia’s special position between East and West.

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Muhammad Hamidullah on the Islamic theology of revelation: topics for a discussion on comparative theology

Caminhos de Diálogo ◽

10.7213/cd.a9n14p84-98 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (14) ◽

pp. 84

Author(s):

César Andrade Alves

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

Interreligious Dialogue ◽

Christian Theology ◽

Divine Revelation ◽

Comparative Theology ◽

Second Vatican Council ◽

Islamic Theology ◽

Fundamental Theology ◽

Vatican Council ◽

Future Work

The dialogue of theological exchange, which can be carried out as comparative theology, is one of the four forms of interreligious dialogue encouraged by the magisterium. A subject of great interest to this form of dialogue is divine revelation, within the field of fundamental theology. Regarding this subject, a discussion partner in the dialogue with Islam is Muhammad Hamidullah, one of the most distinguished Muslim scholars of the 20th century, whose work is the object of growing attention. This article has two objectives: (1) to highlight the importance of Hamidullah for a future work within comparative theology; (2) to categorize issues, derived from his analysis of revelation, that will be relevant to a later theological exchange with a Christian theology of revelation of an ecumenical nature in the light of the Second Vatican Council.

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TANTANGAN PENGEMBANGAN ILMU-ILMU USHULUDDIN MENYONSONG PERUBAHAN IAIN AR-RANIRY MENJADI UIN

Ar-Raniry International Journal of Islamic Studies ◽

10.20859/jar.v1i1.9 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Abdul Wahid

Keyword(s):

Academic Community ◽

The Other ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Islamic Theology ◽

Islamic Studies ◽

Academic Communities ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

Important Position ◽

Theology Faculty

<p>Theology faculty as the vessel of developing basic Islamic studies that has an important position among the other faculties. The experience of changing institution to be university shown that theology faculty “desert” of applicants. Therefore, readiness and progress of Islamic Theology faculty under the State Islamic University (UIN) of course determine the future history of Islamic Theology.This struggle would be faced with all the seriousness of the academic community. Establishing the Faculty of Islamic Theology in the new form to be a demand. On the other hand, the academic communities of Islamic Theology Faculty are required to initiate a new paradigm in the world of work.</p>

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Benedict XVI, Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations

The Downside Review ◽

10.1177/0012580616676234 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 135 (1) ◽

pp. 55-75

Author(s):

Rocco Viviano

Keyword(s):

Religious Experience ◽

Vatican Ii ◽

Interreligious Dialogue ◽

Islamic Theology ◽

Benedict Xvi ◽

Rightful Place ◽

Common Task ◽

The World ◽

Theological Foundations

In continuity with Vatican II and the development of the modern papacy vis-à-vis the religions, Ratzinger-Benedict-XVI has given a distinctive contribution to the Catholic engagement with Islam. He sees the dialogue between Christians and Muslims as theologically founded in ‘God’s irruptive call … heard in the midst of man’s ordinary daily existence,’ which constitutes the shared source of their respective faiths. This shared religious experience imposes on Christians and Muslims a common vocation, that is, to serve humanity by witnessing to that experience, and so help society open itself to the transcendent and give God his rightful place in the life of humanity. Together Christians and Muslims can proclaim that God exists and can be encountered, that he his Creator and calls all people to live according to his ‘design for the world’. Our common task is to offer this truth to all. Benedict XVI has identified the theological foundations, and has suggested the content, aims and a spirituality of the Christian Muslim relationship. Most importantly, in doing so he has challenged Islam to articulate its own theology of interreligious dialogue and has ultimately identified the possible foundations of an Islamic theology of Christian-Muslim relations on which Muslims themselves can build.

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Trans-Religious Identity from the Edge? Promoting Interfaith Dialogue among Transgender Community in Yogyakarta

Al-Albab ◽

10.24260/alalbab.v6i1.676 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 103

Author(s):

Achmad Fawaid

Keyword(s):

Empirical Study ◽

Religious Experience ◽

Religious Identity ◽

Social Relation ◽

Interreligious Dialogue ◽

Interfaith Dialogue ◽

Transgender People ◽

Special Position ◽

Shared Space ◽

Anthropological Approach

Transgender issues, including those who have been called as ‘waria’, are diverse, complex, and evolving, particularly in Indonesia where the most inhabited people are Muslims commonly bringing with them any sexual and, sadly, religious stereotype to waria as marginal(ized) individuals. This paper aims to raise a question of our primordial understanding and religious experience on the existence of the transgender community. It focused on an empirical study of Kebaya (Keluarga Besar Komunitas Waria Yogyakarta), Yogyakarta’s Center for Transgendered, which is an NGO developed by transvestites in Yogyakarta to struggle against prejudice, acceptance, and HIV Aids. This study is not specifically to analyze their social relation, but importantly how the NGO became a shared space of interfaith dialogue and a representation of religios life among transgender people in Yogyakarta, including the ways they build socio-cultural-religious relation with other people and religious figures. It would be analyzed under socio-anthropological approach to religion by which this study reflect them as a part of the certain community who had special position in terms of interreligious dialogue. The implication of this study suggests that interfaith dialogue is possible, not only among the inner-circle of mainstream religious believers, but also among and from the edge community: from those who often feel ostracized within today’s trans-population in Indonesia.

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Trends in the Prevalence of Atopic Eczema in East and West Germany

British Journal of Dermatology ◽

10.1046/j.1365-2133.1998.2110d.x ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 138 (2) ◽

pp. 376-376

Author(s):

Schäfer ◽

Krämer ◽

Vieluf ◽

Behrendt ◽

Ring

Keyword(s):

Atopic Eczema ◽

West Germany ◽

East And West Germany ◽

East And West

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A Reflection on Crucial Periods in 50 Years of Social Psychology (in Germany)

Social Psychology ◽

10.1027/1864-9335/a000372 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 1-6

Author(s):

Katja Corcoran ◽

Michael Häfner ◽

Mathias Kauff ◽

Stefan Stürmer

Keyword(s):

Social Psychology ◽

Early Development ◽

West Germany ◽

East And West Germany ◽

The Future ◽

History Of ◽

East And West

Abstract. In this article, we reflect on 50 years of the journal Social Psychology. We interviewed colleagues who have witnessed the history of the journal. Based on these interviews, we identified three crucial periods in Social Psychology’s history, that are (a) the early development and further professionalization of the journal, (b) the reunification of East and West Germany, and (c) the internationalization of the journal and its transformation from the Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie to Social Psychology. We end our reflection with a discussion of changes that occurred during these periods and their implication for the future of our field.

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