About the Journal
Established in 1984, AJIS is a biannual (April and October), double-blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal, published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and distributed worldwide. In the year 2020, the journal got its new name, American Journal of Islam and Society (AJIS), repla
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Announcements
AJIS IS TRANSITIONING TO OPEN ACCESS
2020-12-09
Current Issue
Vol. 37 No. 3-4 (2020): AMERICAN JOURNAL of ISLAM AND SOCIETY
Published: 2020-11-06
SUMMARY
In an editorial essay, Ovamir Anjum reflects on the current moment of (and literature on) de-globalization, considering in turn conservative and liberal arguments. He concludes by raising several questions which de-globalization opens, key among them the challenges posed by ongoing ecological degradation. In the first research article, Timothy Gutmann offers the term “propaedeutic” to refer to the critical pedagogy necessary for teaching unfamiliar material to audiences whose sensibilities and expectations are already structured by distinctive anxieties and concerns. Gutmann addresses common caricatures of Islamic law and suggests that Islamic traditions may themselves contain a propaedeutic potential for teaching Islamic studies in the North American context. In the second research article, Brannon Wheeler traces a possible Islamic “Responsibility To Protect.” By focusing on Islamist exegesis of Q 3:110 and on classical and contemporary understandings of migration, Wheeler ultimately notes the political and intellectual compromises involved in accepting certain instances of violence and rejecting others. In the third research article, Abbas Ahsan makes an analytic-philosophical case for radical epistemic relativism. Our inability to conceive of the logically impossible, he concludes, is itself a testimony that God transcends the laws of logic. Next, a review essay is followed by ten book reviews; in this issue’s Forum article, Scott Lucas introduces readers to the sophisticated work of four Muslim thinkers of the 5th/11th century: Miskawayh, al-Hakim al-Jishumi, Ibn Hazm, and al-Khatib al-Baghdadi. Lucas encourages Muslims to emulate these figures’ practices of reading widely, with intellectual generosity and commitment, and to insist on the relationship between knowledge and practice.
Introductory Note
A New Co-Editor Joins the American Journal of Islam and Society
Abstract 167 | PDF Downloads 87Page v-vi
Articles
Propaedeutics in Practice: Islamic Legal Studies and the Public Sphere
Abstract 253 |Page 1-23
Islamist Exegesis of Q 3:110: The Islamic Doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect
Abstract 260 |Page 24-49
God beyond the Boundary-Stones of Thought
Abstract 527 |Page 50-97
Review Essay
Revival from Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam by Brannon D. Ingram
Abstract 271 | PDF Downloads 133Page 98-105
Book Reviews
Muslims and Christians Debate Justice and Love by David L. Johnston
Abstract 120 | PDF Downloads 55Page 106-108
The Kaʿba Orientations. Readings in Islam’s Ancient House by Simon O'Meara
Abstract 188 | PDF Downloads 103Page 109-112
Yozgatlı Ihsan Efendi: Kaybolan Dünyadan Nurlu Bir Sima by Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu
Abstract 145 | PDF Downloads 48Page 113-115
Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations by Anna M. Gade
Abstract 147 | PDF Downloads 95Page 116-119
Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures by Bernard K. Freamon
Abstract 109 | PDF Downloads 81Page 119-123
The Qur’ān and Kerygma: Biblical Receptions of the Muslim Scripture across a Millennium by Jeffrey Einboden
Abstract 113 | PDF Downloads 66Page 123-129
Reversing the Colonial Gaze: Persian Travelers Abroad by Hamid Dabashi
Abstract 92 | PDF Downloads 65Page 129-136
Ranks of the Divine Seekers: Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya Translated, Annotated and Introduced by Ovamir Anjum
Abstract 154 | PDF Downloads 98Page 137-140
Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation: A Study of Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql by Carl Sharif El-Tobgui
Abstract 712 | PDF Downloads 334Page 140-144
Tajdid, Islah, and Civilizational Renewal in Islam by Mohammed Hashim Kamali
Abstract 213 | PDF Downloads 144Page 144-148
Forum
Forum: The Value of Classical Islamic Thought for Muslims Today
Abstract 665 | PDF Downloads 123Page 149-173
Abstracting and Indexing
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