Published: 2024-12-26

This issue of the American Journal of Islam and Society (Volume 41 Nos. 3-4) comprises three main research articles, which respectively engage with the themes of political loyalty, justice and the just ruler, and popular preaching. We begin with Abdessamad Belhaj’s study, “Political Loyalty in Reformist Islamic Ethics: Resources and Limits.” We then turn to Fadi Zatari and Omar Fili’s contribution, “Justice and the Just Ruler in the Islamic Mirror of Princes.” For our third research article for this issue, we have Hatim Mahamid and Younis Abu Alhaija’s work, “Popular Religious Preaching as Informal Education and its Impact on Medieval Islamic Culture.”

This issue of the AJIS also includes several book reviews, including Iymon Majid’s review essay “Integrating Kashmir.” Majid’s essay considers two recently published and important works, Shahla Hussain’s Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition and Hafsa Kanjwal’s Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building under Indian Occupation. AJIS Volume 41 Nos. 3-4ends with two insightful forum pieces. The first is Mohamed Alio’s contribution, “The Mazrui Dynasty: Serving Islam in East Africa” and the second is Shahzar Raza Khan’s piece on the famous Urdu poet Akbar Allahabadi.

Edtiorial

Editorial Note

David Warren
Abstract 225 | PDF Downloads 47 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v41i3-4.3657

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Articles

Review Essay

Book Reviews

Slavery & Islam

Anggi Azzuhri
Abstract 341 | PDF Downloads 130 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v41i3-4.3361

Page 108-112

Islam and Democracy in the 21st Century

Owais Manzoor Dar
Abstract 513 | PDF Downloads 205 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v41i3-4.3535

Page 113-118

Forum

The Mazrui Dynasty

Mohamed Alio
Abstract 586 | PDF Downloads 108 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v41i3-4.3322

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Tackling Displacement

Shahzar Raza Khan
Abstract 211 | PDF Downloads 126 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v41i3-4.3168

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