scholarly journals Speaking Qurʼan

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-97
Author(s):  
Nicole Correri

The Speaking Qur’an is Timur R. Yuskaev's first book and emerges from his dissertation work at UNC. Yuskaev’s approach to Islamic studies focuses on lived religion in the American context, at the intersection of hermeneutics of sacred text, memory, and linguistic studies.

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-97
Author(s):  
Nicole Correri

The Speaking Qur’an is Timur R. Yuskaev's first book and emerges from his dissertation work at UNC. Yuskaev’s approach to Islamic studies focuses on lived religion in the American context, at the intersection of hermeneutics of sacred text, memory, and linguistic studies.


Author(s):  
Ziad Elmarsafy

The chapter falls into two parts. The first traces the history of the key translations of the Qur’an in its entirety into Western languages (mainly English, French, German, and Latin) from the Middle Ages to the present day. The emphasis is on the factors that affected the production and reception of these translations, including military conflict, religious polemics within Christianity, and the growth of Arabic and Islamic Studies as an academic field within Western institutions and centres of learning. The second part investigates some theoretical issues arising from this account, including the difficulties attendant upon translating a sacred text and pleading for the value of the literary register in understanding the Qur’an and its translation.


Author(s):  
Catharina Raudvere

English abstract: An apparent trend in the study of Islam and Muslims during the last decades is the growing interest in religious everyday life and ritual practice. Sometimes Islamic Studies are said to be too focused on politicization, extremism and migration, but contemporary studies to a growing extent also discuss ”lived religion” and ”vernacular religion” with the ambition to identify how individuals and smaller groups practice and understand their religion. These studies have provided important documentation of practices, methodological and theoretical discussions and a more complex view on texts and the uses of texts. But such an interest has a long history. This article presents one of the pioneers in the study of Muslim piety, Elizabeth Fernea, and points to the importance of early ethnography as a resource for the study of contemporary religion. Fernea's two-year stay in a Shiite small-town in Iraq generated fully-fledged descriptions of everyday piety as well as a unique account of a pilgrim tour to Karbala 1957. Its literary style immediately gave Guests of the Sheik a broad range of readers when it was published in 1965, but it took longer before it was established in academic literature. In her book, Fernea describes religious conditions in Iraq in the 1950s and the conflicts between the lives of the clans and the emerging urban middle class. In comparison to the chaos in Iraq since 2003 and the preceding decades of dictatorship, Fernea's study is a narrative from another Iraq. Svensk resumE: En påtaglig trend i studiet av islam och muslimer under de senaste årtiondena har varit ett växande intresse för religiöst vardagsliv och rituell praxis. Islamstudier skylls ibland för att vara alltför fokuserade på politisering, extremism och migration, men samtida studier som inte primärt behandlat dessa frågor har i ökad utsträckning studerat ”lived religion” och ”vernacular religion”. Dessa perspektiv har genererat betydelsefull dokumentation av praxis, metodologiska och teoretiska diskussioner, samt bidragit till en mer komplex syn på text och textbruk. Men intresse för hur människor praktiserar sin religion och lokala tolkningar har en lång historia. Denna artikel presenterar en av pionjärerna för studiet av muslimsk fromhet, Elizabeth Fernea, och pekar på betydelsen av tidigare etnografi som resurs också för religionsvetenskapens samtida studier. Ferneas tvååriga vistelse i en shiamuslimsk småstad i Irak resulterade i skildringar av såväl vardagens fromhet som en unik framställning av en pilgrimsfärd till Karbala 1957. Guests of the Sheik fick från början en bred läsekrets när boken publicerades 1965, men det dröjde innan den fick en självklar plats i den akademiska litteraturen. I jämförelse med det tillstånd av kaos och våld som Irak befinner sig i sedan 2003 och den diktatur som föregick är Ferneas studie ett vittnesmål om ett annat Irak, men som ohjälpligt hör till historien. Spänningarna mellan klanernas traditionella liv och den begynnande framväxten av en utbildad urban medelklass är ett bärande tema i studien liksom de komplicerade relationerna mellan muslimer och kristna.


PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (52) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Lee
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ALQALAM ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Nur Hidayah

There has been a concern over a high unemployment rate among graduates of Islamic higher education and a low proportion of entrepreneurs in Indonesia. In fact, a high proportion of entrepreneurs is one of indicators of a country’s welfare. This has generated a question: to what extent do Islamic values cultivate entrepreneurial culture among its adherents? How to cultivate entrepreneurial culture in Islamic higher education? This paper will investigate this matter using a case study of Faculty of Islamic Law and Economics at Banten State Institute for Islamic Studies.  The paper argues that the curriculum at the faculty of Islamic Law and Economics has not been oriented towards building entrepreneurial culture. The curriculum consists of subjects to enhance the students’ competence and skills to prepare them as bachelors of syari`ah economics for the professions such as manager, lecturer, researcher, syari`ah auditor, etc, instead of preparing them for entrepreneurs who are capable to build his or her own business from the scratch.    To propose Islamic entrepreneurship study program at the FSEI of IAIN SMHB, it is important to have a strong political will not only from the internal IAIN but also higher authoritative body such as the Ministry of Religious Affairs to facilitate this from not only the accreditation process but also financial support. A further feasibility study needs to be undertaken to build its infrastructure such as qualified lecturers, appropriate curriculum structure, and recruitment student system. Since this field has a strong link with a ‘real sector’, there has been an urgent need to build cooperations with business sector to enable the students to undertake their apprentice and build their networks to facilitate their ability to develop their own business.     Keywords: Islam, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial education.


ALQALAM ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Maftuh Maftuh

For many observers, Banten is well known as an area where the population has a strict religious understanding onislamic law. Colonial officials and experts in Islamic studies such as Snouck Hurgronje and GF Pijper, testified that compared to other Muslims across Java , Muslim in Banten and Cirebon were stricter in practicing Islam . The phenomenon of the social life of the religious community in Banten is necessarily formed within a very long time span. This paper traces the root of the formation of public religious understanding ojMuslim in Banten. Using a socio-historical approach, this paper then leads to the conclusion that the sultan of Banten issued policies that had a greater emphasis to the adherence to the Shari'a rather than Sufism. Religious orientation on the fiqh-oriented can explain the Islamic militancy Banten community, as witnessed by the colonial officials, and even still can be seen up to this present moment.Key words: Jslamization, Sultanate, Banten


Author(s):  
Amran Abdul Halim ◽  
Abdulloh Salaeh

This study is to identify the involvement of academicians on the teaching of the hadith. The contribution of the academicians to the teaching of the hadith is also very much needed so that Muslims can acknowledge al-Sunnah closely. The academicians were selected from Academic of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya Islamic Studies Academy, the National University of Malaysia, the Islamic Science University of Malaysia and the International Islamic University which they are all from various fields of Islamic Studies. The methodology used in this study is a questionnaire which is group sampling. The researcher distributes the questionnaire to the academic staff at the university involved. Based on this descriptive analysis of the questionnaire, it can be concluded that academic practitioners either in the field of hadith or other fields are involved and contribute to the teaching of hadith such as in public universities and other institutions. This shows that most academicians have good knowledge related to the field of hadith. Therefore, they are among the most suitable as references to the community in solving Sunnah and bidaah issues, especially the academicians who are experts in the field of hadith. Abstrak Kajian ini adalah untuk mengenalpasti penglibatan ahli akademik terhadap pengajaran hadith. Sumbangan ahli akademik terhadap pengajaran hadith juga amat diperlukan agar umat Islam dapat mengenali al-Sunnahsecara  lebih  dekat.  Ahli-ahli  akademik  yang  dipilih  adalah  dari  Akademi  Pengajian  Islam  Universiti Malaya,   Universiti   Kebangsaan   Malaysia,   Universiti   Sains   Islam   Malaysia   dan   Universiti   Islam Antarabangsa  yang  mana  kesemuanya  dalam  pelbagai  bidang  Pengajian  Islam.  Kaedah yang  digunakan dalam kajian ini adalah soal selidik iaitu persampelan berkelompok. Penyelidikmengedarkan borang soal selidik tersebut kepada ahli akademik di universiti tersebut. Berdasarkan, analisis deskriptif soal selidik ini, dapat dirumuskan bahawa ahli akademik sama ada dalam bidang hadith atau lain-lain bidang adalah terlibat dan turut memberi sumbangan dalam pengajaran hadith seperti di universiti-universiti awam dan lain-lain institusi  pengajian.  Ini  menunjukkan  bahawa  kebanyakan  ahli  akademik  mempunyai  pengetahuan  yang baik  berkaitan  dengan  bidang  hadith.  Oleh  itu,  mereka  adalah  antara  golongan  sangat  sesuai  dijadikan sebagai rujukan masyarakat dalam menyelesaikan permasalahan Sunnah dan bidaah, terutama sekali ahli akademik yang pakar dalam bidang hadith.


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