SUMMARY
In an editorial essay, Ovamir Anjum reflects on the current moment of (and literature on) de-globalization, considering in turn conservative and liberal arguments. He concludes by raising several questions which de-globalization opens, key among them the challenges posed by ongoing ecological degradation. In the first research article, Timothy Gutmann offers the term “propaedeutic” to refer to the critical pedagogy necessary for teaching unfamiliar material to audiences whose sensibilities and expectations are already structured by distinctive anxieties and concerns. Gutmann addresses common caricatures of Islamic law and suggests that Islamic traditions may themselves contain a propaedeutic potential for teaching Islamic studies in the North American context. In the second research article, Brannon Wheeler traces a possible Islamic “Responsibility To Protect.” By focusing on Islamist exegesis of Q 3:110 and on classical and contemporary understandings of migration, Wheeler ultimately notes the political and intellectual compromises involved in accepting certain instances of violence and rejecting others. In the third research article, Abbas Ahsan makes an analytic-philosophical case for radical epistemic relativism. Our inability to conceive of the logically impossible, he concludes, is itself a testimony that God transcends the laws of logic. Next, a review essay is followed by ten book reviews; in this issue’s Forum article, Scott Lucas introduces readers to the sophisticated work of four Muslim thinkers of the 5th/11th century: Miskawayh, al-Hakim al-Jishumi, Ibn Hazm, and al-Khatib al-Baghdadi. Lucas encourages Muslims to emulate these figures’ practices of reading widely, with intellectual generosity and commitment, and to insist on the relationship between knowledge and practice.
Introductory Note
A New Co-Editor Joins the American Journal of Islam and Society
Abstract 927 | PDF Downloads 582Page v-vi
Edtiorial
Articles
Propaedeutics in Practice
Abstract 7114 | PDF Downloads 406Page 1-23
Islamist Exegesis of Q 3:110
Abstract 1631 | PDF Downloads 623Page 24-49
God beyond the Boundary-Stones of Thought
Abstract 1839 | PDF Downloads 698Page 50-97
Review Essay
Revival from Below
Abstract 1653 | PDF Downloads 845Page 98-105
Book Reviews
Muslims and Christians Debate Justice and Love
Abstract 1527 | PDF Downloads 534Page 106-108
The Kaʿba Orientations
Abstract 6895 | PDF Downloads 929Page 109-112
Yozgatlı Ihsan Efendi
Abstract 815 | PDF Downloads 537Page 113-115
Muslim Environmentalisms
Abstract 6780 | PDF Downloads 929Page 116-119
Possessed by the Right Hand
Abstract 1234 | PDF Downloads 2233Page 119-123
The Qur’ān and Kerygma
Abstract 792 | PDF Downloads 648Page 123-129
Reversing the Colonial Gaze
Abstract 911 | PDF Downloads 1014Page 129-136
Ranks of the Divine Seekers
Abstract 1195 | PDF Downloads 1393Page 137-140
Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation
Abstract 2332 | PDF Downloads 2664Page 140-144
Tajdid, Islah, and Civilizational Renewal in Islam
Abstract 1573 | PDF Downloads 1673Page 144-148
Forum
The Value of Classical Islamic Thought for Muslims Today
Abstract 9256 | PDF Downloads 1091Page 149-173