scholarly journals AMSS Third Regional Conference

2003 ◽  
Vol 20 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 228-230
Author(s):  
Syed A. Ahsani
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Contextual Approach ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Holy War ◽  
The West ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
Regional Conference ◽  
President Elect ◽  
Popular Image

At its Third Regional Conference, the AMSS broke new ground, dispellingthe popular image that Muslims are extremists and Islam isengaged in holy war against the West. Mayor Robert Cluck welcomed theparticipants, praised American Muslim organizations' condemnation of9/11, and thanked AMSS for informing Americans about Islam and theMuslim contribution to civilization through its publications and annualconventions. MSA president Laith Albataineh welcomed the participantson behalf of the students.In his introduction, Chairman Basheer Ahmed stated that extremismand terrorism were not unique to a single religion. He exhorted all peacelovingpeople to unite to rein in extremism before it gets out of control.Congressman Martin Frost (D-Texas), the guest of honor at the luncheon,referred to his post-9/11 statement encouraging every Texan to join him inresisting intolerance and bigotry. While condemning terrorism in theMiddle East, he expressed his support for the "roadmap to peace" and aPalestinian state. Congressman Frost is known for his support of civilrights, getting more immigrants into the American armed forces, con­stituent service, upholding the Bill of Rights, furthering his district's eco­nomic development, and assisting students' career development.Moazam Syed, American Muslim Alliance president elect (TarrantCounty) thanked the congressman; said that terror, hatred, and prejudice arealien to all religions; and that: "America will remain just and tolerant, evenwhen confronted with terror and adversity." Bob Ray Sanders, Star Telegramstaff writer and columnist, moderated the question and-answer session.Jamal Badawi (Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada) dispelled theinaccurate notions that the Arabic words for "holy war'' can be found in theQur' an, that kufr means "infidel," that Allah is the God of Muslims only, thatIslam is exclusivistic, and that an unbeliever (kafir) does not have the sameright to life as a Muslim, and several other often-misunderstood notions. Heaffirmed that practice or juristic opinions could not replace the Qur'an andahadith, advocated an integrative contextual approach toward understandingthese texts, and pointed out common pitfalls in their interpretation. Hisstatements were well-received by both Muslims and non-Muslims.AMSS president Louay Safi analyzed the present extremism found inthe Muslim world as being based on distorted interpretations of scripture ...

scholarly journals The Educational Philosophy of Boko-haram; Analysis from Islamic Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 55-68
Author(s):  
Nasirudeen Abdulrahim Adeyanju ◽  
Muhammad Umar ◽  
Abdulraheem Muhammad Sunusi
Keyword(s):  
Private Schools ◽  
Educational Philosophy ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
The West ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Useful Knowledge ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
Total Elimination

Abstract The Nigerian armed forces are doing their utmost to crush the Boko-haram insurgency. However, killing and dislodging members of the group does not indicate the total elimination of its ideology. The arguments of the movement against conventional education remain in circulation among people awaiting another generation to champion the course in a new identity. To eradicate the ideology and its influence, there is a need for thorough intellectual and logical responses to those arguments. It is against this background that this paper sought to analyse the movement’s arguments that conventional education should be prohibited on the ground that it originated from the West and was introduced in the country to promote Christianity. The paper realized that this argument is unfounded because conventional education is not a western property, rather a global heritage comprising the remarkable contributions of the Muslim world. Moreover, Islam does not forbid Muslims to benefit from any useful knowledge irrespective of where it originates from as long as it does not contravene Islamic teachings. It also found that using schools for promoting Christianity is not more applicable to many public and private schools in Nigeria today. The paper encouraged Muslims to pursue education to its highest level. Keywords: Boko-haram, Conventional education, Islam, Muslims, Nigeria

scholarly journals Debating Moderate Islam

2005 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. i-vi
Author(s):  
Muqtedar Khan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The West ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
Muslim Politics ◽  
The Relationship

Since the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, there have beenseveral conversations about the different interpretations of Islam, its impacton Muslim politics, and the relationship between Islam and the West. Thisdebate gained renewed vigor after the London attacks on July 7 and 21,2005. Scholars and policymakers agree that a politically angry and intellectuallynarrow interpretation of Islam – loosely referred to as militant orradical Islam – is exacerbating the already rampant anti-Americanism inthe Muslim world and encouraging terrorist responses to real and perceivedinjustices. Some analysts assert that the United States is completely innocentand thus blame radical Islamists alone for all of the problems in theworld, while others totally ignore the existence of extremism in the Muslimworld and blame the United States for all of the ills of our times. Most peopleare somewhere in between.Regardless of where one stands in this debate, there is now a growingconsensus that those on the moderate side in the Muslim world must assertthemselves and join the battle against extremism. Western governments arebeing advised to actively welcome the help and cooperation of moderateMuslims in order to ensure that the war against extremism does not become– or appear to be – a war against Islam. This policy idea of including moderateMuslims as allies against extremism in the Muslim world has generatedan interesting debate about what moderation really means and who isa moderate Muslim.In this special issue of the American Journal of Islamic SocialSciences, prominent voices from the policy community, the academic community,and the American Muslim community come together to debate whois a moderate Muslim and just what moderation means in a theological as ...

Religious Freedom in Islam

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Philpott
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Human Right ◽  
The West ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Public Controversy ◽  
Arab Uprisings ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
The World ◽  
Muslim Majority

Is Islam hospitable to religious freedom? The question is at the heart of a public controversy over Islam that has raged in the West over the past decade-and-a-half. Religious freedom is important because it promotes democracy and peace and reduces ills like civil war, terrorism, and violence. Religious freedom also is simply a matter of justice—not an exclusively Western principle but rather a universal human right rooted in human nature. The heart of the book confronts the question of Islam and religious freedom through an empirical examination of Muslim-majority countries. From a satellite view, looking at these countries in the aggregate, the book finds that the Muslim world is far less free than the rest of the world. Zooming in more closely on Muslim-majority countries, though, the picture looks more diverse. Some one-fourth of Muslim-majority countries are in fact religiously free. Among the unfree, 40% are repressive because they are governed by a hostile secularism imported from the West, and the other 60% are Islamist. The emergent picture is both honest and hopeful. Amplifying hope are two chapters that identify “seeds of freedom” in the Islamic tradition and that present the Catholic Church’s long road to religious freedom as a promising model for Islam. Another chapter looks at the Arab Uprisings of 2011, arguing that religious freedom explains much about both their broad failure and their isolated success. The book closes with lessons for expanding religious freedom in the Muslim world and the world at large.

Islamic International Relations Towards a Theoretical Framework

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gubara Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
The West ◽  
The Past ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The World

The Western originators of the multi-disciplinary social sciences and their successors, including most major Western social intellectuals, excluded religion as an explanation for the world and its affairs. They held that religion had no role to play in modern society or in rational elucidations for the way world politics or/and relations work. Expectedly, they also focused most of their studies on the West, where religion’s effect was least apparent and argued that its influence in the non-West was a primitive residue that would vanish with its modernization, the Muslim world in particular. Paradoxically, modernity has caused a resurgence or a revival of religion, including Islam. As an alternative approach to this Western-centric stance and while focusing on Islam, the paper argues that religion is not a thing of the past and that Islam has its visions of international relations between Muslim and non-Muslim states or abodes: peace, war, truce or treaty, and preaching (da’wah).

scholarly journals PRÓBY PRZEDZIERANIA SIĘ DROGĄ MORSKĄ PRZEZ NIEMIECKĄ BLOKADĘ POLSKIEGO WYBRZEŻA 1 IX 2 X 1939 ROKU

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 276-293
Author(s):  
Piotr Sykut
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
The West ◽  
Made In

The article presents the attempts of Polish coast defenders’ to get through to neutral countries by sea during military operations in September and October 1939. These efforts were made in spite of the German blockade of Polish coast by Kriegsmarine ships and Luftwaffe planes. This subject hasn’t been widely featured yet using the reports of coast defenders kept in Polish and foreign archives. The goal of this article is the systematization of knowledge about these facts, presentation of characters of sailors, soldiers and civilians, who didn’t want to go into captivity. Some of them were going to continue their struggle in Polish Armed Forces in the West.

scholarly journals POPE BENEDICT XVI AND THE REGENSBURG LECTURE: THE REPRESENTATION OF ISLAM AND THE “CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS” IN THE ITALIAN MEDIA

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-232
Author(s):  
Martina Ambrosini
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Clash Of Civilizations ◽  
The West ◽  
Holy See ◽  
Pope Benedict Xvi ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
The Relationship

As those of other Western countries, Italian media often employ the term “clash of civilisation” [conflitto di civiltà] to refer to the relationship between “Islam” and the “West”. The Muslim world is simplistically described, and perceived, as a monolithic reality. Its representation by media ranges from that of an irrational to that of an intolerant religion. The expression “clash of civilization” was especially used in September 2006, after the Pope’s lectio magistralis at Regensburg University caused vigorous protests to take place in the Muslim world. Benedict XVI seemed to present the Christian God as the only rational divinity, and Islam as an irrational religion. After international Muslim communities asked for an official apology, the Pope held a meeting with the ambassadors from Islamic States to the Holy See, and the representatives of the Italian Muslim communities, to explain his words. This paper analyzes the way in which this event was presented by the Italian media – including right-wing, mainstream and Catholic media - with the aim of understanding the official reaction of the Vatican (as reported by the Osservatore Romano), the Italian Catholic Church (as reported by Avvenire), and the Italian public opinion

scholarly journals PERDEBATAN PENGGUNAAN HERMENEUTIKA SEBAGAI METODE PENAFSIRAN AL-QUR'AN

ALQALAM ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
MASRUKHIN MUHSIN
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
New Method ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
To Come

The word hermeneutics derives from the Greek verb, hermeneuin. It means to interpret and to translate. Hermeneutics is divided into three kinds: the theory of hermeneutics, the philosophy hermeneutics, and the critical hermenmtics. Hasan Hanfi is known as the first scholar who introduces hermeneutics in the Islamic World through his work dealing with the new method of interpretation. Nashr Hamid Abu-Zaid is another figure who has much studied hermenmtics in the classical interpretation. Ali Harb is a figure who also much involved in discussing the critism of text even though he does not fully concern on literature or art, but on the thoughts. Muslim thinker who has similar view with Ali Harab in seeing that the backwardness of Arab-Islam from the West is caused by the system of thoguht used by Arah-Muslim not able to come out of obstinary and taqlid is Muhammad Syahmr. On the other side, ones who refuse hermeneutics argue that since its heginning, hermeneutics must be studied suspiciously because it is not derived from the Islamic tradition, but from the unbeliever scientific tradition, Jews and Chrtians in which they use it as a method to interpret the Bible. Practically, in interpreting the Qur'an, hermeneutics even strengthens something, namely the hegemony of scularism-liberalism in the Muslim World that Muslims must actually destroy. Keywords: Hermeneutics, Tafsir, al qur'an

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