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 309 | PDF Downloads 163 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.2460Page v-vi
Articles
Propaedeutics in Practice
Abstract 514 | PDF Downloads 10 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.744Page 1-23
Islamist Exegesis of Q 3:110
Abstract 427 | PDF Downloads 14 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.709Page 24-49
God beyond the Boundary-Stones of Thought
Abstract 732 | PDF Downloads 12 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.593Page 50-97
Review Essay
Revival from Below
Abstract 431 | PDF Downloads 212 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1693Page 98-105
Book Reviews
Muslims and Christians Debate Justice and Love
Abstract 287 | PDF Downloads 110 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1576Page 106-108
The Kaʿba Orientations
Abstract 352 | PDF Downloads 178 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1425Page 109-112
Yozgatlı Ihsan Efendi
Abstract 257 | PDF Downloads 102 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1036Page 113-115
Muslim Environmentalisms
Abstract 258 | PDF Downloads 155 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1114Page 116-119
Possessed by the Right Hand
Abstract 279 | PDF Downloads 160 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1118Page 119-123
The Qur’ān and Kerygma
Abstract 219 | PDF Downloads 128 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.988Page 123-129
Reversing the Colonial Gaze
Abstract 192 | PDF Downloads 120 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1621Page 129-136
Ranks of the Divine Seekers
Abstract 414 | PDF Downloads 218 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1706Page 137-140
Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation
Abstract 951 | PDF Downloads 476 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1941Page 140-144
Tajdid, Islah, and Civilizational Renewal in Islam
Abstract 366 | PDF Downloads 237 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1942Page 144-148
Forum
The Value of Classical Islamic Thought for Muslims Today
Abstract 1363 | PDF Downloads 197 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v37i3-4.1470Page 149-173