We are pleased to announce the publication of AJIS 38:1-2. This issue begins with a substantive editorial by AJIS coeditor Shuruq Naguib engaging the field of gender analysis in the study of Islam. The issue then features four research articles. In the first article, Ahmad Atif Ahmad revisits the Asl/Mabsut of Muhammad al-Shaybani, offering a contemporary reading of the complex relationship between norms and consent in this foundational Islamic legal text. In the second article, Sari Hanafi analyzes the institutionalization of the project of 'Islamization of Knowledge' through a case study of the International Islamic University of Malaysia. In the third article, Rafi Rahman traces the entanglement of race, religion, and culture in the United States -- a complex terrain negotiated by Black Muslims who challenge their marginalization as Muslim Americans in the umma. In the fourth article, Saja Parvizian reconstructs Ibn Rushd's argument that al-Ghazali is an unbeliever for causing others to fall into unbelief. The issue also includes three review essays -- by Omar Anchassi, Tammy Gaber, and Dženita Karić -- and a series of reviews. It concludes with Abdullah Drury's history of New Zealand Muslim discourse and thought.

AJIS Editorial Team

Edtiorial

Islam and the Epistemic Politics of Gender

Shuruq Naguib
Abstract 3183 | PDF Downloads 1710 Pre-press PDF Downloads 1410

Articles

Fifty-Seven Tracts: Shaybānī’s (d. 189/805) Aṣl/Mabsūṭ, Twelve Centuries On

Ahmad Atif Ahmad
Abstract 7485 | PDF Downloads 834 Pre-press PDF Downloads 438

Averroës’ Takfīr of al-Ghazālı̄: Ta’wīl and Causal Kufr

Saja Parvizian
Abstract 7873 | PDF Downloads 1396 Pre-press PDF Downloads 624

From Streamlining to Mainstreaming “Islamization of Knowledge”

Sari hanafi
Abstract 9233 | PDF Downloads 1842 Pre-press PDF Downloads 668

The Dissemination and Implementation of Islam within the African American Community

Rafiqur Rahman
Abstract 10003 | PDF Downloads 727 Pre-press PDF Downloads 1332

Review Essay

Book Reviews

Defending Muhammad in Modernity (by SherAli Tareen)

Junaid S. Ahmad
Abstract 1435 | PDF Downloads 847 Pre-press PDF Downloads 1391

Saṭwat al-Naṣ: Khiṭāb al-Azhar wa Azmat al-Ḥukm (By Basma Abdel Aziz)

Muhammad Amasha
Abstract 7711 | PDF Downloads 399 Pre-press PDF Downloads 255

The Power of Education (by Jeremy Henzell-Thomas)

Madiha Patel
Abstract 1028 | PDF Downloads 625 Pre-press PDF Downloads 438

Madrasas and the Making of Islamic Womanhood (by Hem Borker)

Fella Lahmar
Abstract 7911 | PDF Downloads 558 Pre-press PDF Downloads 605

Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution (by Kevin Fogg)

Khairudin Aljunied
Abstract 900 | PDF Downloads 715 Pre-press PDF Downloads 408

Islam and Asia: A History (by Chiara Formichi)

Daniel Morgan
Abstract 937 | PDF Downloads 518 Pre-press PDF Downloads 407

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Comfortably Numb: A Short History of New Zealand Muslim Discourse and Thought

Abdullah Drury
Abstract 8537 | PDF Downloads 722 Pre-press PDF Downloads 732