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Established in 1984, the American Journal of Islam and Society (AJIS) is an open-access, biannual, double-blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal with global reach, published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and distributed worldwide.
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Current Issue
Vol. 41 No. 3-4 (2024): American Journal of Islam and Society
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.
Full Issue
Edtiorial
Editorial Note
Abstract 137 | PDF Downloads 27Page 2-3
Articles
Political Loyalty in Reformist Islamic Ethics
Abstract 254 | PDF Downloads 97Page 6-33
Justice and the Just Ruler in the Islamic Mirror of Princes
Abstract 223 | PDF Downloads 83Page 34-55
Popular Religious Preaching as Informal Education and its Impact on Medieval Islamic Culture
Abstract 169 | PDF Downloads 59Page 56-83
Review Essay
Integrating Kashmir: Modernity, Development and Sedimented Narratives
Abstract 206 | PDF Downloads 93Page 86-100
Book Reviews
Collective Ijtihad: Regulating Fatwa in Postnormal Times
Abstract 171 | PDF Downloads 57Page 102-107
Slavery & Islam
Abstract 209 | PDF Downloads 73Page 108-112
Islam and Democracy in the 21st Century
Abstract 407 | PDF Downloads 156Page 113-118
The Exceptional Qur’ān: Flexible and Exceptive Rhetoric in Islam's Holy Book
Abstract 148 | PDF Downloads 73Page 119-124
Forum
The Mazrui Dynasty
Abstract 319 | PDF Downloads 63Page 126-156
Tackling Displacement
Abstract 97 | PDF Downloads 95Page 157-182
Abstracting and Indexing