We are pleased to announce the publication of AJIS 38:1-2. This issue begins with a substantive editorial by AJIS coeditor Shuruq Naguib engaging the field of gender analysis in the study of Islam. The issue then features four research articles. In the first article, Ahmad Atif Ahmad revisits the Asl/Mabsut of Muhammad al-Shaybani, offering a contemporary reading of the complex relationship between norms and consent in this foundational Islamic legal text. In the second article, Sari Hanafi analyzes the institutionalization of the project of 'Islamization of Knowledge' through a case study of the International Islamic University of Malaysia. In the third article, Rafi Rahman traces the entanglement of race, religion, and culture in the United States -- a complex terrain negotiated by Black Muslims who challenge their marginalization as Muslim Americans in the umma. In the fourth article, Saja Parvizian reconstructs Ibn Rushd's argument that al-Ghazali is an unbeliever for causing others to fall into unbelief. The issue also includes three review essays -- by Omar Anchassi, Tammy Gaber, and Dženita Karić -- and a series of reviews. It concludes with Abdullah Drury's history of New Zealand Muslim discourse and thought.

AJIS Editorial Team

Edtiorial

Islam and the Epistemic Politics of Gender

Shuruq Naguib
Abstract 3207 | PDF Downloads 1719 Pre-press PDF Downloads 1420

Articles

Fifty-Seven Tracts: Shaybānī’s (d. 189/805) Aṣl/Mabsūṭ, Twelve Centuries On

Ahmad Atif Ahmad
Abstract 7752 | PDF Downloads 859 Pre-press PDF Downloads 443

Averroës’ Takfīr of al-Ghazālı̄: Ta’wīl and Causal Kufr

Saja Parvizian
Abstract 8154 | PDF Downloads 1420 Pre-press PDF Downloads 647

From Streamlining to Mainstreaming “Islamization of Knowledge”

Sari hanafi
Abstract 9486 | PDF Downloads 1868 Pre-press PDF Downloads 676

The Dissemination and Implementation of Islam within the African American Community

Rafiqur Rahman
Abstract 10295 | PDF Downloads 737 Pre-press PDF Downloads 1337

Review Essay

Book Reviews

Defending Muhammad in Modernity (by SherAli Tareen)

Junaid S. Ahmad
Abstract 1455 | PDF Downloads 882 Pre-press PDF Downloads 1435

Saṭwat al-Naṣ: Khiṭāb al-Azhar wa Azmat al-Ḥukm (By Basma Abdel Aziz)

Muhammad Amasha
Abstract 7940 | PDF Downloads 405 Pre-press PDF Downloads 266

The Power of Education (by Jeremy Henzell-Thomas)

Madiha Patel
Abstract 1040 | PDF Downloads 634 Pre-press PDF Downloads 481

Madrasas and the Making of Islamic Womanhood (by Hem Borker)

Fella Lahmar
Abstract 8170 | PDF Downloads 566 Pre-press PDF Downloads 620

Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution (by Kevin Fogg)

Khairudin Aljunied
Abstract 912 | PDF Downloads 730 Pre-press PDF Downloads 416

Islam and Asia: A History (by Chiara Formichi)

Daniel Morgan
Abstract 951 | PDF Downloads 522 Pre-press PDF Downloads 414

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Comfortably Numb: A Short History of New Zealand Muslim Discourse and Thought

Abdullah Drury
Abstract 8783 | PDF Downloads 755 Pre-press PDF Downloads 737