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https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916556
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Welcome to the Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies (JIMS), a publication of the North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (NAAIMS). We offer the readership a publication that focuses primarily on Islam and Islamic studies which covers a broad cross-section of ethnicities and cultures across seven continents. Since the target audience of such a journal crosses over ethnic boundaries due to the large Muslim mosaic of cultures under the Islamic umbrella, JIMS would fill a vacuum in the international landscape of Muslim societies. A deeper understanding of Islam is generated through the multidisciplinary study of the diverse lived experiences of Muslims worldwide.In the last twenty years there has been
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/740/image/coversmallPreface2024-01-06text/htmlen-USPreface2024-01-062024TWOProject MUSE®35142024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002024-01-0619th Century Moroccan Sufism and the 2011 Syrian Revolution: The Legacy of Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Mas'ūd al-Fāsī
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916557
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The story of the Syrian Revolution's relationship to the Islamic scholarly class ('ulamā') begins by following a trajectory typical of many Arab countries at that time. Throughout the conflagration of Arab Spring protests in 2011, many Muslim 'ulamā' tended to oppose the revolutionary moment, opting instead to support their existing governments.1 Many invoked the classical position in Sunni legal theory forbidding rebellion against an extant authority (khurūj 'alā al-imām), on the premise that the power vacuum left by a leaderless society would produce levels of sedition (fitna) even worse than an unjust ruler. Granted, the history of Sunni legal theory cannot be easily generalized to advocate abject quietism, but
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/740/image/coversmall19th Century Moroccan Sufism and the 2011 Syrian Revolution: The Legacy of Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Mas'ūd al-Fāsī2024-01-06text/htmlen-US19th Century Moroccan Sufism and the 2011 Syrian Revolution: The Legacy of Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Mas'ūd al-Fāsī2024-01-062024TWOProject MUSE®1584842024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002024-01-06Localized Timbres and Tonalities of Qur'ānic Recitation: From Africa to Indonesia
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916558
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Over many centuries of expansion, the religion of Islam globalized by localizing, transmitting a unified core, the spiritual message of tawḥīd (belief in the oneness of God) across the globe, while allowing expression of that core to be refracted in myriad local forms. In this way, Islam facilitated its clear communication to, and absorption by the world's tremendous human diversity. For the umma (global Muslim community), tawḥīd constituted, in the words of Michael Chwe, a type of "common knowledge,"2 or, as I have recursively defined it, that which everyone knows, and which everyone knows is common knowledge.3 Despite global diversity in belief and practice, emerging from distinct environments, histories, and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/740/image/coversmallLocalized Timbres and Tonalities of Qur'ānic Recitation: From Africa to Indonesia2024-01-06text/htmlen-USLocalized Timbres and Tonalities of Qur'ānic Recitation: From Africa to Indonesia2024-01-062024TWOProject MUSE®930172024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002024-01-06Responding to the Call of God: The Motif of Devotional Love in the Poetry of Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916559
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Over the last three millennia, the landmass known today as South Asia has been a generative matrix of diverse types of socio-religious identities. Recent scholarship has drawn attention to the manifold ways in which these identities emerged through dynamic contestations and fertile cross-cultural exchanges, in such a way that complicates simplistic notions of immutable and uniform religious groups, as suggested by the terms "Hindu" and "Muslim."1 In other words, in South Asia's premodern past the theological idioms and social subjectivities that are today subsumed under these two categories were not immured in epistemic enclosures, but were instead vitally informed and inflected by everyday encounters across
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/740/image/coversmallResponding to the Call of God: The Motif of Devotional Love in the Poetry of Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam2024-01-06text/htmlen-USResponding to the Call of God: The Motif of Devotional Love in the Poetry of Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam2024-01-062024TWOProject MUSE®1141712024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002024-01-06Rabi'a From Narrative to Myth: The Many Faces of Islam's Most Famous Woman Saint, Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916560
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Ever since Margaret Smith (d. 1970) published Rabi'a the Mystic A.D. 717–801 and Her Fellow Saints in Islam almost a century ago, Rabi'a has remained a figure of abiding interest in the study of Islam in the West. For Muslims, she has often embodied the archetype of the selfless lover of God, the devotee whose sole desire is neither to be saved from Hell nor to be granted Paradise, but to receive the Beloved's acceptance.1Yet, how many of the stories and accounts of Rabi'a that have been recorded and repeated for more than a millennium of Islamic history actually took place? How much of what has been bequeathed to us about her by countless generations is historically accurate? This is one the guiding aims of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/740/image/coversmallRabi'a From Narrative to Myth: The Many Faces of Islam's Most Famous Woman Saint, Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya2024-01-06text/htmlen-USRabi'a From Narrative to Myth: The Many Faces of Islam's Most Famous Woman Saint, Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya2024-01-062024TWOProject MUSE®229372024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002024-01-06Sculpting the Self: Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916561
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Muhammad U. Faruque frames his project as one of salvage. Against a backdrop of unresolved scientific and philosophical debates about the very existence of the self, he seeks to put forward a theory of self "in such a way that one would be able to resolve all the apparent contradictions concerning it" (p. 2). The robust and substantial existence of the self (involving, for Faruque, self-knowledge and self-awareness) is necessary not only to legitimate our everyday presumption of selfhood, but, far more urgently, it is "indispensable as we think of our moral and ethical flourishing" (p. 2). The book, a development of Faruque's dissertation on selfhood and subject formation in Islamic thought, puts the theories of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/740/image/coversmallSculpting the Self: Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing2024-01-06text/htmlen-USSculpting the Self: Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing2024-01-062024TWOProject MUSE®159462024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002024-01-06The Essence of Reality: A Defense of Philosophical Sufism by ʿAyn al-Quḍāt
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916562
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ʿAyn al-Quḍāt al-Hamadānī (d. 525/1131) was one of the most erudite and influential Sufi figures of the sixth/twelfth century. Although his life tragically ended at the age of thirty-four, his teachings left a lasting impression on the later Arabic and Persianate Islamic tradition. One of his most valuable works, which he wrote in three days at the age of twenty-four is entitled Zubdat al-ḥaqāʾiq or The Essence of Reality.This work was a standard text in the curriculum of ḥikmat studies in the famed Mujāhidiyya Madrasa in Maragha, having been taught some eighty years after its author's death alongside other major works in ḥikmat by the likes of al-Fārābī, Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī, and Avicenna. The Essence of Reality
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/740/image/coversmallThe Essence of Reality: A Defense of Philosophical Sufism by ʿAyn al-Quḍāt2024-01-06text/htmlen-USThe Essence of Reality: A Defense of Philosophical Sufism by ʿAyn al-Quḍāt2024-01-062024TWOProject MUSE®123492024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002024-01-06Rise of Empires: Ottoman
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916563
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Directed by Emre Şahin, Rise of Empires: Ottoman is a docudrama spread over two seasons. The first one begins with Episode One "The New Sultan," which tells the story of Mehmed's conquest of Constantinople. The second season takes place about a decade later and reviews the complicated relationship between Vlad III, ruler of Wallachia, and Sultan Mehmed. In a 2020 interview with Barbaros Tapan, the director explained why he made Rise of Empires: Ottoman and particularly why he made an English language film. Şahin is clear about the fact that he wanted to reach an international audience, noting that "Growing up in Turkey I saw over and over again that there weren't many chances when we as Turks get to tell our
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/740/image/coversmallRise of Empires: Ottoman2024-01-06text/htmlen-USRise of Empires: Ottoman2024-01-062024TWOProject MUSE®140532024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002024-01-06The Swimmers
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916564
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When director Sally El-Hosaini imagined two migrant girls' harrowing crossing of the Mediterranean in The Swimmers (2022), she was neither the first nor will she be the last. Dangerous migrant water crossings have been highlighted in Hernán Zin's and Megan Mylan's documentaries Born in Syria (2016) and Simple as Water (2021); Jonas Poher Rasmussens' animated documentary Flee (2021); Remi Weekes's thriller horror film His House (2020) where a refugee Sudanese couple cross the perilous English Channel; and Mostefa Djadjam's film Borders (2001). What sets El-Hosaini's rendition apart is her controversial attempt to infuse the traumatic crossing with triumph.She chose the right story to do so. The Swimmers (2022)
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/740/image/coversmallThe Swimmers2024-01-06text/htmlen-USThe Swimmers2024-01-062024TWOProject MUSE®385512024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002024-01-06Religious Authority, Digitality, and Islam: The Stakes and Background
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916565
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It could be argued and defended that no individual or institution exists and functions outside the confines of some kind of power structure. This includes hierarchical scaffoldings that are pervasive and manifest across diverse spheres of human life, and fundamentally influence a plethora of decisions, obligations, and activities undertaken by individuals and collectives. Such structures often take the form of power structures that, for example, dictate the distribution of roles and responsibilities. The puissance of these structures often extends to the realms of civic activities and personal convictions, shaping perceptions and attitudes based on the prevailing norms and values upheld within a given society.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/740/image/coversmallReligious Authority, Digitality, and Islam: The Stakes and Background2024-01-06text/htmlen-USReligious Authority, Digitality, and Islam: The Stakes and Background2024-01-062024TWOProject MUSE®520892024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002024-01-06Lives of Hadith
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/916566
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The 51st Annual (Virtual) Conference of the North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (NAAIMS) on "Lives of Hadith" was cosponsored by the University of Florida (UFL), Gainesville, on October 20, 2022, under the direction of Sarra Tlili (NAAIMS President and Program Chair), associate professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Florida. She welcomed the panelists and guests for their participation and thanked various UFL departments for their financial support.The conference consisted of four panel sessions. Panel Session 1 highlighted "Hadith in Contemporary Islamic Thought," with Omer Awass (American Islamic College, Chicago, IL) serving as discussant. Presentations
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2024-03-28T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/740/image/coversmallLives of Hadith2024-01-06text/htmlen-USLives of Hadith2024-01-062024TWOProject MUSE®233162024-03-28T00:00:00-05:002024-01-06