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 540 | PDF Downloads 344 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.2460Page v-vi
Edtiorial
Editorial
Abstract 371 | PDF Downloads 341 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1940Page vii-xxiv
Articles
Propaedeutics in Practice
Abstract 755 | PDF Downloads 178 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.744Page 1-23
Islamist Exegesis of Q 3:110
Abstract 696 | PDF Downloads 302 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.709Page 24-49
God beyond the Boundary-Stones of Thought
Abstract 1348 | PDF Downloads 305 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.593Page 50-97
Review Essay
Revival from Below
Abstract 807 | PDF Downloads 524 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1693Page 98-105
Book Reviews
Muslims and Christians Debate Justice and Love
Abstract 655 | PDF Downloads 298 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1576Page 106-108
The Kaʿba Orientations
Abstract 630 | PDF Downloads 555 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1425Page 109-112
Yozgatlı Ihsan Efendi
Abstract 466 | PDF Downloads 299 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1036Page 113-115
Muslim Environmentalisms
Abstract 814 | PDF Downloads 529 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1114Page 116-119
Possessed by the Right Hand
Abstract 722 | PDF Downloads 1175 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1118Page 119-123
The Qur’ān and Kerygma
Abstract 407 | PDF Downloads 349 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.988Page 123-129
Reversing the Colonial Gaze
Abstract 453 | PDF Downloads 578 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1621Page 129-136
Ranks of the Divine Seekers
Abstract 763 | PDF Downloads 925 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1706Page 137-140
Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation
Abstract 1413 | PDF Downloads 1736 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1941Page 140-144
Tajdid, Islah, and Civilizational Renewal in Islam
Abstract 800 | PDF Downloads 923 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1942Page 144-148
Forum
The Value of Classical Islamic Thought for Muslims Today
Abstract 1817 | PDF Downloads 651 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1470Page 149-173