This issue features two research articles and a research note. Darakhshan Khan’s “In Good Company: Reformist Piety and Women’s Da‘wat in the TabliÌ„ghiÌ„ JamÄ‘at†is an original, meticulously researched, deeply thoughtful, and timely contribution. Her research, which is edifying and brilliant on a topic of great and continued significance, throws into sharp relief the crucial role women and family structure played in the history of even a movement that is often stereotyped as an all-male affair. Dr. Fareeha Khan and Dr. Usha Sanyal’s rejoinders to the article greatly add to an already significant contribution; they highlight its strengths and tease out some of the avenues in which further exploration could be fruitful.
Paul Shore’s “Lexical Choice and Rhetorical Expression in Ignazio Lomellini’s 1622 Translation of and Commentary on the Qur’Än†is an erudite study of a unique seventeenth-century and rarely studied document housed in the University of Genoa library and consisting of the entire text of the Qur’Än in Arabic along with a Latin translation of same and commentary. Authored by Lomellini, a Jesuit priest, it is of considerable value as an example of how early Western Christian scholars of the Qur’Än grappled with lexical, syntactical and exegetical problems. Shore examines a series of lexical choices made by Lomellini and touches on some of his exegetical discourses, and sheds light on the question of its intended audiences, possible sources and informants, and particularly the tension between Lomellini’s mission to propagate the Catholic faith and in doing so attack rival religious traditions, and his desire to produce a translation faithful to the meaning of the original. Dr. Peter Feldmeier and Dr. Elliot Bazzano offer penetrating insights into the phenomenon that Shore has so ably explored.
Finally, James Morris’s fascinating research note explores the biography and visit of the first Muslim visitor to Japan, SÄdÅulÇ”dÄ«ng, who arrived in Japan as part of a Mongol envoy in 1275CE and was ultimately executed. Given the paucity of research on the topic, this note provides a valuable evaluation of the relevant primary sources on the subject. Morris suggests that the visitor may not have been a Uyghur or an Arab, as previously thought, but rather a Persian, and goes on to discuss the significance of this episode in history.
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Articles
Lexical Choice and Rhetorical Expression
Abstract 17 | | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i3.847Page 61-63
Book Reviews
The Emergence of Early Sufi Piety and Sunni Scholasticism: ‘Abdallāh b. al-Mubārak and the Formation of Sunni Identity in the Second Islamic Century
Abstract 125 | PDF Downloads 8 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i3.481Page 68-72
The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri an the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition
Abstract 140 | PDF Downloads 4 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i3.482Page 72-76
The Hunt In Arabic Poetry: From Heroic to Lyric to Metapoetic
Abstract 123 | PDF Downloads 4 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i3.483Page 76-79
The Koran in English: A Biography
Abstract 202 | PDF Downloads 4 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i3.484Page 79-82
Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait
Abstract 140 | PDF Downloads 5 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i3.485Page 83-86
Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress
Abstract 291 | PDF Downloads 9 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i3.486Page 87-90
Islam, State and Modernity: Mohammed Abed al-Jabri and the Future of the Arab World
Abstract 202 | PDF Downloads 9 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i3.487Page 90-92
Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace
Abstract 169 | PDF Downloads 13 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i3.488Page 93-98
Salafism in Nigeria: Islam, Preaching, and Politics
Abstract 296 | PDF Downloads 14 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i3.489Page 98-103
Jihad & Co.: Black Markets and Islamist Power
Abstract 113 | PDF Downloads 6 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i3.490Page 104-107
The Practice of Islam in America: An Introduction
Abstract 292 | PDF Downloads 9 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i3.491Page 108-111
Middle East Studies for the New Millennium: Infrastructures for Knowledge
Abstract 99 | PDF Downloads 4 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i3.492Page 112-115
Forum
Some Reflections on the First Muslim Visitor to Japan
Abstract 20 | PDF Downloads 10 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i3.850Page 116-130