Journey into Islam: The Crisis of Globalization

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Abacha, Sani (president of Nigeria), 107 Abbasid Empire, 220 Abduh, Muhammad, 36, 41, 224 Abdullah (king of Jordan), 70, 93–94 Abdullah (king of Saudi Arabia), 230 Abu Bakr (friend of Muhammad; first caliph), 44, 97, 98, 141, 209. See also Muslims—role models Abu Ghraib (Iraq prison), 3, 41, 128, 195, 201, 203. See also England, Lynndie Abyssinia, 106–07 Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AK Party; Justice and Development Party; Turkey), 155, 229 AEI. See American Enterprise Institute Afghanistan: anarchy in, 5, 91, 109, 128; bin Laden, Osama, and, 89–90, 176; deaths in, 162; globalization and, 86; Islamic models in, 39–40; meaning of, 85; Muslim views of, 3, 10; Operation Mountain Storm and, 87; Our Voices Together and, 260; Pakistan and, 174; solutions for, 225; Soviet Union and, 153, 168; Taliban in, 89, 91, 109, 176–77; television in, 91–92; tribes in, 91, 93, 95, 177; U.S. and, 4, 10, 88, 95, 137, 168, 258–59. See also Al-Qaeda; Taliban Africa, 10, 106–16 Aga Khan University (Karachi, Pakistan ), 167 Agence France-Presse, 113 Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud (president of Iran): Israel and, 9, 226–27; media presentation of, 240; as president of Iran, 240; religious beliefs of, 242; speech before the UN, 241; U.S. and, 171, 194, 226–27, 261, 239; worldview of, 240. See also Muslims —role models Ahmed, Abdullahi Yusuf, 112, 114 Ahmed, Akbar: definition and views of Islam, 187–92, 248–51; family of, ix–x, 154, 248–49; “Jinnah Quartet ” and, 190–92; September 11, 2001, and, 6–8; in the U.K., 152, 153; views of, 3, 21, 46–47, 81, 128–29, 130–39, 159, 187, 196–97; index 303 10-0132-3 index 4/6/07 4:39 PM Page 303 304 Index as Washington, D.C., Professor of the Year 2004, 269–73. See also Islam under Siege Ahmed, Akbar—journey to the Muslim world, 12–25, 42, 267–68; Ajmer, 53–58, 251; Aligarh, 73–76; Damascus, 252–55; Deoband, 60–66, 68–69; Doha, 83; Islamabad , 120, 171–75; Kuala Lumpur, 122, 123–24; Qatar, 159; Taj Mahal, 219–20; Turkey, 156 Ahmed, Amineh. See Hoti, Amineh Ahmed Ahmed, Nafees, 120 Ahmed, Zeenat, 121, 271 Aisha (wife of Prophet Muhammad), 97–98. See also Muslims—role models Ajmer model of Islam: acceptance and, 56, 59; in action, 47, 54, 188–89, 256; decline of, 153, 219, 243; definition and meaning of, 34, 37, 40, 41; Deoband model and, 41; development of, 155–56; Ibrahim, Anwar, and, 180; Keller, Nuh, and, 182; in Indonesia, 184; Islam and, 77–78; in Nigeria, 107, 109; in the nineteenth century, 52; Rumi, Maulana, and, 38; Shia Muslims and, 46; in Somalia, 115; in South Asia, 160; Sufis and, 180; Taj Syndrome and, 219; as a universal model, 58, 59, 155, 257; Western views of, 39 Ajmer (Rajasthan, India), 4, 33, 43, 53–56, 250–51 Akbar the Great (emperor of India), 51, 53, 56 Akbar, M. J., 76 Akef, Mahdi, 229 Akyavas, Erol, 156 Al-Afghani, Jamal Ad-Din, 224 Al-Arabiya (TV station), 162 Al-Askari, Hassan (imam), 194 Al-Assad, Bashar (president of Syria), 116–17, 252. See also Muslims— role models Albania, 34 Al-Bashir, Omar, 230 Albright, Madeleine, 89–90 Alexander the Great, 171, 210 Al-Gaddafi, Moammar, 75, 230 Al-Huda International Institute of Islamic Education for Women (Islamabad), 121–22 Ali (caliph; son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad; husband of Fatima), 20, 44, 45, 98, 209, 212 Ali, Ayaan Hirsi, 143–46, 204 Aligarh model of Islam: in action, 47, 189, 191–92, 249–50, 256, 257; in Africa, 107; Ahmed, Akbar, and, 187, 190, 191–92, 224, 249, 256; Anwar, M. Syafi’i, and, 182–85, 186; Bhutto, Benazir, and, 125; cold war and, 224; decline of, 153, 191–92, 219, 224, 243; definition and meaning of, 36, 38; followers of, 36–37, 41–42; globalization and, 81–82, 119, 256; Ibrahim, Anwar, and, 179; in Indonesia, 184; in Iran, 71, 233–34; Jinnah, Mohammed Ali, and, 80, 187, 191; in Jordan, 193; leaders of, 167, 224; Mubarak, Hadia, and, 43–44; Musharraf, Pervez , and, 173, 174; Noor, Ismail, and, 186; as prevailing model, 80; shift in, 163–64; in Somalia, 110, 112, 155; sources of inspiration, 76; in South Asia, 160; Taj Syndrome and, 219; Western views of, 39 Aligarh (India), 33, 43–44, 52–53, 80–81 Aligarh University, 73–78, 79, 80, 81, 178 Al-Jazeera (TV station...