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Established in 1984, the American Journal of Islam and Society (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 received its new name, American Journal of Islam and Society (AJIS), repl
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Current Issue
Vol. 38 No. 3-4 (2021): American Journal of Islam and Society
Published: 2022-04-22
SPECIAL ISSUE
Theory and Uses of Maqāṣid al-Sharī‘a
On May 2-5, 2021, as the world stood humbled by COVID-19—the smallest of God’s creation that has humbled the mightiest—over a dozen Muslim scholars spent a portion of the Blessed Days of Ramadan in a virtual AJIS symposium. The meeting, titled “Theory and Uses of Maqāṣid al-Sharī‘a” was inaugurated by a keynote address by the senior contemporary Muslim jurist and leading commentator on the Maqāṣid discourse, Dr. Mohammad Hashim Kamali. That thoughtful presentation is being reproduced here as a fitting introduction to this collection of articles. In this brief introductory note, I provide a summary of the presentations in the symposium before turning the reader over to our learned jurist’s critical appraisal of where the maqāṣid discourse stands today.
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Editorial Note
Abstract 157 | PDF Downloads 158Page 2-5
Keynote Address
History and Jurisprudence of the Maqāṣid
Abstract 244 | PDF Downloads 221Page 8-34
Articles
From Islamic Modernism to Theorizing Authoritarianism
Abstract 465 | PDF Downloads 213Page 36-70
Before Maqāṣid
Abstract 114 | PDF Downloads 126Page 71-102
Maqāṣid and the Renewal of Islamic Legal Theory in ʿAbdullah Bin Bayyah’s Discourse
Abstract 175 | PDF Downloads 449Page 103-145
Book Reviews
Qur’anic Stories: God, Revelation and the Audience (by Leyla Ozgur Alhassen)
Abstract 146 | PDF Downloads 111Page 148-151
Islamic Theology in the Turkish Republic (by Philip Dorroll)
Abstract 97 | PDF Downloads 67Page 152-156
Sufism in Ottoman Egypt Circulation Renewal and Authority in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (by Rachida Chih)
Abstract 146 | PDF Downloads 73Page 157-159
Christian Monastic Life in Early Islam (by Bradley Bowman)
Abstract 83 | PDF Downloads 58Page 160-163
Carrying on the Tradition: A Social and Intellectual History of Hadith Transmission across a Thousand Years (by Garrett A. Davidson)
Abstract 132 | PDF Downloads 319Page 164-170
In Your Face: Law, Justice, and Niqab-Wearing Women in Canada (by Natasha Bakht)
Abstract 104 | PDF Downloads 62Page 171-175
The Muslim Resolutions: Bosniak Responses to World War Two Atrocities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (by Hikmet Karčić, Ferid Dautović, and Ermin Sinanović, eds.)
Abstract 113 | PDF Downloads 58Page 176-179
Forging Ideal Muslim Subjects: Discursive Practices, Subject Formation, & Muslim Ethics (by Faraz Masood Sheikh)
Abstract 93 | PDF Downloads 45Page 180-185
Reports
Islam and Psychology
Abstract 213 | PDF Downloads 149Page 188-194
Obituary
AbdulHamid Ahmad AbuSulayman’s Legacy of Intellectual Reform
Abstract 232 | PDF Downloads 88Page 196-208
Abstracting and Indexing
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