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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Muslim Scholars"”.
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Agree to Disagree: How Ikhtilāf Enabled Muslim Scholars in the Early Islamic Period to Co-Exist
… Prophet and the generation of his Companions as scholars within the early Islamic period (approximately 7th-10th centuries CE) would debate about the accurate understanding and application of Islamic law ‘sharīʿah’. The geographical expansion of Islam from its centre in Medina to regions like …
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When Dispute Threatens Harmony in the Public Sphere: Discerning the Dynamics of State-Religion Relation with Particular Reference to Singapore's Muslim Scholars
Islamic religious contestation is not new in Singapore. Its roots took shape during the formative years of early Singapore when Islam came to its shores on the waves of trade and migration. However, over the years, the contestation was characterized by new dynamics, chief of which were …
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A Hermeneutical Consideration of Islamic Jurisprudence on Same-Sex Acts
… prevalence of violence against individuals in Muslim majority countries who do not succumb to normative definitions of gender and sexuality. Classical Islamic jurisprudence categorically condemns same-sex acts; however, the legal consensus does not address the practice of same-sex …
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A common word between us and you: a new departure in Muslim attitudes towards Christianity
In October 2007, 138 Muslim scholars signed a document entitled “A Common Word between Us and You” (ACW) and addressed it to 28 Christian leaders worldwide. ACW invited Christians to a common ground; the belief in one God to work for peace in the world along with Muslims. ACW makes a case for this …
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The Shiraz Controversy: Henry Martyn, Crucicentric Conversionism, and Islam 1811–12
… presented Evangelical Christianity to Muslim scholars. Although contemporary Muslim scholars and the Persian shah read Martyn’s tracts, recent scholarship has neglected the context and content of the Shiraz Controversy. In this early Evangelical encounter with Islam, Martyn drew from …
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Evaluation of Islamic perspectives regarding a medical condition known as disorders of sex development (DSD)
… iii) determine the need for the involvement of Muslim scholars in a multidisciplinary team to manage patients with DSD. As cultural context is inseparable from biomedical ethics, this study is conducted by acknowledging its regional context of South East Asian especially in exploring the latter …
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Building a Muslim-American Identity: An Islamic College
… higher learning will provide American-born Muslim scholars with the opportunity of assuming a positive role in society. The thesis explores repurposing and retexturing of West Berkeley, California as a method of weaving the Muslim American narrative in the design of Zaytuna College, …
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The Limits of Tradition: Competing Logics of Authenticity in South Asian Islam
… specific moments when prominent Indian Muslim scholars articulated and contested the boundaries of what should and should not count as Islam. This study does not provide a chronological history of Islam in colonial India or that of Indian Muslim reform. Rather, it examines minute …
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Muhammad Speaking of the Messiah: Jesus in the Hadith Tradition
… actions of the Prophet Muhammad. In effect, non- Muslims and Muslim scholars neglect the full range of Prophet Muhammad’s statements about Jesus that are in the Hadīth. The dissertation’s main thesis is that an examination of the Hadīths’ reports of Muhammad’s words about and attitudes toward ‘Īsā …
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Indirect dialogue between Chinese Christians and Muslim Huis: on the concept of collective transcendence deeply rooted in Chinese culture
… culture is evidenced through the study of Muslim Hui Chinese writings, Han Kitab. Both Christian and Muslim scholars find that the notion of a personal god is lacking in Chinese culture. Thus, the manifestation of collective transcendence hinges on the survival of a person’s clan. It …
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A history of the Kano Book Market, c. 1920-2020
… in particular, was pioneered by a section of Muslim scholars mainly based in Kano whose main goal was to publish Arabic books which circulated for centuries in northern Nigeria and other areas of West and Central Africa as part of the local curriculum in Islamic schools. The dissertation …
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The portrayal of Jesus in Islam amongst contemporary Muslims writing to the American public: in what ways do their writings represent continuity and change in relation to formative-classical Muslim understandings?
Tarif Khalidi, a contemporary Muslim scholar, has observed that the identity of the Jesus of Islam has been changing since the canonical writings of the Qur’an and Hadīth. He has moved from the ascetic saint of formative-classical Islam to lord of nature, miracle worker, healer, and social and …
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The concept of Khilafah according to selected Sunni and Shi I Quranic Commentaries
… the modern period. Yet, while the thought of Muslim political theorists on the subject has received much scholarly attention, far less notice has been taken of the ideas of Qur'anic exegetes. For this reason it has been judged worthwhile to seek to throw light on some relatively neglected …
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Al-Tibyan Fima Yahil Wa Yahrum Min Al-Haywan
… Moreover, the importance of this research for Muslims is highlighted since it gives the relevant injunctions on various kinds of meat that they can eat. The research offers a summary of what some Muslim scholars have written on the science of zoology as they understand it. It also examines the …
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Growth and challenges of the Islamic banking system: A perspective of the British Bangladeshi Muslim Community in London, United Kingdom
… Which factors influence the British Bangladeshi Muslim Community (BBMC) in Greater London regarding adopting the Islamic banking system? ii) Do the Muslim scholar's inconsistent views create any confusion about or obstacles to the growth and development of the Islamic banking system? In this …
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Comparative study on Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi's political thought with particular reference to his contempararies : Abul a la Mawdudi and Sayyid Qutb
… of the Islamic khilafah in 1924, many Islamic scholars realised there was an urgent need to reinstall the Islamic Khilafah. Thus political thought in Islam rose to prominence among some scholars. Consequently, many Islamic political and religious movements re-emerged in the Muslim world with …
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Aristotle’s journey to Europe: A synthetic history of the role played by the Islamic Empire in the transmission of Western educational philosophy sources from the fall of Rome through the medieval period
… I will contend that without the influence of Muslim scholars during the medieval period, the foundational impact of Greek philosophy on later Western philosophy (including specifically, Western sources of educational philosophy) may have been greatly reduced (or potentially lost), used …
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Futures studies in contemporary Islamic and Western thought: a critical study of the works of Ziauddin Sardar, Mahdi Elmandjra, Alvin Toffler and Daniel Bell
… Western traditions. In so doing, we chose two Muslim scholars, Ziauddin Sardar and Mahdi Elmandjra, who are both prominent in the study of future, and also two Western scholars, Alvin Toffler and Daniel Bell as representatives of Western tradition in studying future. Secondly, this research …
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The Interaction of Sound and Meaning in Qur’ānic Words: A Tonal Approach
Muslims believe that the Qur’ān is the Speech of God with all its sound and sense. The association of the sound with Divine speech triggers the anticipation that the sound and meaning in the Qur’ān have to be intertwined. This expectation is heightened since according to a vast majority of Muslim …
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Body, soul, and architecture: a study of the premodern Islamic and Western tradition
… tradition is one conspicuous example. Although Muslim scholars seem to have been familiar with Vitruvius’ representation of the human body as a measure for architecture, the developments of their thought on the topic have remained rather ambiguous. This thesis aims to investigate these …
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