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"Muslim Institutions of Higher Education in Postcolonial Africa seeks to enrich the public debate on Muslim education in Africa by offering new insight into the evolving encounter between the diversity of local Islamic knowledge and the politics of transnational trends of Muslim education. Contributors include scholars in the field of Islamic education and administrators in Muslim institutions. Using theoretical studies, case studies of these institutions, and analyzing issues of intellectual viability and graduate visibility in these institutions this volume is will serve students from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds"--

All the parties that have held power in Turkey have reformed the state educational policies based on their political ideologies. The book describes how the Justice and Development Party administration have reformed education systems such that religion is imposed as an important element of the national identity.

CONTENT: List of Contributors -- Introduction / Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel -- 1. Global Governance, Islamism, and Authority in the Middle East / Alise Coen -- 2. Modernity, Islam and Religious Activism / Deina Abdelkader -- 3. The Interrelated Dynamics of Culture, Religion and Nation in the United Arab Emirates / Vania Carvalho Pinto -- 4. Lebanon's Quest for Independence: Between Fragmentation, Political Instability and Foreign Intervention / Benedetta Berti -- 5. Challenging the Hashemites: Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic Action Front in Jordan / Kürsad Turan -- 6. The Micro-foundations of Religious Party Moderation: Religious Party Supporters and Ideological Changes / Sultan Tepe -- 7. Politics of Religious Education in Turkey / Yusuf Sarfati -- 8. Uncertainty in the Governance Processes: Political Economy of Biosafety Policies in Turkey / Ebru Tekin -- Epilogue.

Aria Nakissa shows how hermeneutic theory and practice theory can be brought together to analyze cultural, legal and religious traditions. These ideas are developed through an analysis of the Islamic legal tradition, which examines both Islamic legal doctrine and religious education. In terms of disciplinary orientation, the book combines anthropology and Islamicist history, utilizing both ethnography and in-depth analysis of Arabic religious texts.

"Education and Muslim Identity During a Time of Tension explores life inside an Islamic Center and school in present-day America. Melanie Brooks' work draws on in-depth discussions with community and school leaders, teachers, parents and students to present thoughtful and contemporary perspectives on many issues central to American-Muslim identities. Particularly poignant are the children's voices, as they discuss their developing identities and how they navigate the choice of being American, Muslim, or both. The book covers topics ranging from establishing the community and the considerations involved, the management of diversity within the community, and approaches to modern opinions on and experiences of gender and extremism in the western world. Based on focus groups, interviews and observations collected over a two-year period, this book serves as a fascinating and informative insight into the culture and experiences of modern American Muslims. This is essential reading for students and researchers interested in education, religion, politics, sociology, and most particularly in contemporary Islamic studies"--

Reflections on a Life in Middle Eastern History -- Map -- Understanding Islam -- 1 An Introduction to Islam -- 2 The Foundations of State and Society -- 3 Does Pre-Modern Islamic Thought Allow for a Secular Realm? -- Islamic law and ethics -- 4 An Introduction to Islamic Law and Islamic Jurisprudence -- 5 Consultation and the Political Process in the Middle East of the 9th, 10th, and 11th Centuries -- 6 The Idea of the Jihād in Islam before the Crusades (with Ridwan al-Sayyid) -- 7 Friendship in Islamic Ethical Philosophy -- 8 Brother and Brotherhood in the Qur'ān -- Islamic societies -- 9 The Shu'ūbīya Controversy and the Social History of Early Islamic Iran -- 10 Bureaucracy and the Patrimonial State in Early Islamic Iran and Iraq -- 11 Some Attitudes towards Monarchy and Absolutism in the Eastern Islamic World of the 11th and 12th Centuries -- 12 Oaths and Public Vows in the Middle East of the 10th and 11th Centuries -- 13 Qur'ānic Commentary on the Verse of Khums (al-Anfāl VIII:41) -- Islamic education -- 14 The Transmission of Learning: The Role of the Islamic Northeast -- 15 Traditional Shi'ite Education in Qom -- 16 The Najaf Ḥawza Curriculum -- Islamic economics -- 17 A Note on the Tasbīb -- 18 The Economic Thought of al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī -- Islamic cities -- 19 Administration in Buyid Qazvin -- 20 Medieval Kashan: Crossroads of Commerce and Culture (with Mehrdad Amanat) -- 21 Faith and Practice: Muslims in Historic Cairo -- 22 Medieval Lexicography on Arabic and Persian Terms for City and Countryside -- Shi'ism -- 23 Keeping the Shi'ites Straight -- 24 Shi'ite Political Thought and the Destiny of the Iranian Revolution -- 25 The Quandaries of Emulation: The Theory and Politics of Shiʻite Manuals of Practice -- Recent history in the middle east.

Economic Welfare in Terms of Islamic Perspective; Human Wellbeing in Islam; Innovative Education in the Digital Era; Islamic Education; Law and Ethics in Terms of Islamic Perspective; Marketing and Fintech in Terms of Islamic Perspective; Media, Journalism, and Transformation; New Media (Impacts, Benefits, and Barriers).

Preliminary Material -- 1 Variant Traditions, Relative Chronology, and the Study of Intra-Quranic Parallels /Joseph Witztum -- 2 The Earliest Attestation of the Dhimma of God and His Messenger and the Rediscovery of P. Nessana 77 (60s ah/680 ce) /Robert Hoyland and Hannah Cotton -- 3 Jewish Christianity and Islamic Origins /Guy G. Stroumsa -- 4 A Note on the Relationship between Tafsīr and Common Understanding with Reference to Contracts of Marriage /Karen Bauer -- 5 "Earnest Money" and the Sources of Islamic Law /Gerald Hawting and David M. Eisenberg -- 6 "A Bequest May Not Exceed One-Third": An Isnād-cum-Matn Analysis and Beyond /Pavel Pavlovitch and David S. Powers -- 7 Basra and Kufa as the Earliest Centers of Islamic Legal Controversy /Christopher Melchert -- 8 God's Cleric: Al-Fuḍayl born ʿIyāḍ and the Transition from Caliphal to Prophetic Sunna /Deborah G. Tor -- 9 Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn and the Politics of Deference /Matthew S. Gordon -- 10 Eighth-Century Indian Astronomy in the Two Cities of Peace /Kevin van Bladel -- 11 Greek Language and Education under Early Islam /Maria Mavroudi -- 12 Kalām and the Greeks /Fritz W. Zimmermann -- 13 "Arabs" and "Iranians": The Uses of Ethnicity in the Early Abbasid Period /Michael Cooperson -- 14 The Poetics of Cultural Identity: Al-Mutanabbī among the Būyids /Margaret Larkin -- 15 Must God Tell Us the Truth? A Problem in Ashʿarī Theology /Khaled El-Rouayheb -- 16 Administrators' Time: The Social Memory of the Early Medieval State, East and West /Chris Wickham -- 17 An Eleventh-Century Justification of the Authority of Twelver Shiite Jurists /Devin J. Stewart -- 18 A Family Story: Ambiguities of Jewish Identity in Medieval Islam /David J. Wasserstein -- 19 What Happened in al-Andalus: Minorities in al-Andalus and in Christian Spain /David Abulafia -- 20 The Samaritan Version of the Esther Story /Adam Silverstein -- 21 New Evidence for the Survival of Sexually Libertine Rites among some Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawīs of the Nineteenth Century /Bella Tendler Krieger -- 22 Crone and the End of Orientalism /Chase F. Robinson -- Index.