The current AJISS issue opens with an editorial that draws attention to the plight of the Uyghur Muslims of East Turkestan facing sustained Chinese government persecution. The issue then features two main articles.
The first article, by Dr. Mohammad Syifa Amin Widigdo, argues that the Aristotelian dialectic was adopted within medieval Islamic theology and law and Christian scholasticism toward distinctive purposes: the Greeks aimed to defeat an opponent by showing logical contradictions, Christian scholastics searched for the truth by bringing out the preexisting truth in the mind of the teacher, and Muslim dialecticians employed it to arrive at a level of certainty in knowledge in both epistemological and psychological senses.
The second article reports multi-author empirical research by Drs. Bartkowski, Acevedo, Karakeci, and Campbell on the analysis of data extracted from the World Values Survey. It investigates early twenty-first century religious influences on Turkish Muslim women’s attitudes toward gender inequality, hypothesizing that religious devotion among Muslim women in Turkey is associated with greater support for gender inequality across the institutional domains of family.
Finally, following the book reviews, the issue includes an extensive and erudite response by Professor Sherman Jackson to some crucial and timely issues raised by Professor Kecia Ali, who has argued that Muslim male scholars often omit, overlook, undervalue, or dismiss the scholarly views and interventions of female scholars. Jackson’s response is thoughtful, engaging, and respectful, even if it refuses to grant the premise of Ali’s argument.
Edtiorial
Articles
Aristotelian Dialectic, Medieval Jadal, and Medieval Scholastic Disputation
Abstract 818 | PDF Downloads 499 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.106Page 1-24
Islam and Support for Gender Inequality among Women in Turkey
Abstract 779 | PDF Downloads 423 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.127Page 25-55
Book Reviews
Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shi‘ism
Abstract 366 | PDF Downloads 44 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.470Page 56-59
Qur’anic Pictures of the Universe: The Scriptural Foundation of Islamic Cosmology
Abstract 240 | PDF Downloads 71 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.472Page 62-62
Pilgrimage in Islam: Traditional and Modern Practices
Abstract 380 | PDF Downloads 92 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.474Page 62-64
Palestine…It Is Something Colonial
Abstract 270 | PDF Downloads 56 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.475Page 64-67
Women in the Qur’an: An Emancipatory Reading
Abstract 415 | PDF Downloads 217 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.476Page 68-71
Turkey’s July 15th Coup: What Happened and Why
Abstract 293 | PDF Downloads 21 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.477Page 72-75
The Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī (Volume 1)
Abstract 332 | PDF Downloads 41 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.478Page 75-78
The Fatimids: The Rise of a Muslim Empire
Abstract 492 | PDF Downloads 97 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.479Page 79-83
The Theological Thought of Fazlur Rahman: A Modern Mutakallim
Abstract 897 | PDF Downloads 150 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.480Page 83-86
Forum
The Alchemy of Domination, 2.0?1 A Response to Professor Kecia Ali
Abstract 254 | PDF Downloads 265 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.857Page 87-117