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British Muslims: A Challenge
( Qatar University , 2007 , Article)The Muslim community in Britain today face multiple challenges covering a wide range of spectrum from the basic right to exists, fighting the increasing trends of Islamophobia, having equal opportunities, to participate ... -
The Composition and Writing of the Qurʾān: Old Explanations and New Evidence
( Qatar University Press , 2020 , Article)يعارض هذا البحث الفكرة السائدة لدى الكثير من الباحثين الغربيين منذ مطلع القرن السابق بأن القرآن الكريم لم يكتمل ككتاب منزّل خلال حياة النبي بل أخذ شكله النهائي بعد وفاته بفترة غير قصيرة. ومقابل هذه الفكرة يسلط الضوء على ... -
Courting Islam: The Evolution of Perceptions of Islam within the British and American governments from the European Colonial period to the War on Terror
( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Article)Purpose: This article explores the changing attitudes to, and perceptions of Islam that developed over a period in which substantive engagements between Anglo-American strategic interests brought them more and more into ... -
Digital Humanities and Qur’ãnic Manuscript Studies: New Perspectives and Challenges for Collaborative Spaces and Plural Views
( Qatar University Press , 2020 , Article)The use of digital tools has revolutionized academic research in the humanities, changing its approaches, methodologies and outcomes. The phenomenon is comparable to the radical change induced by the introduction of printing ... -
Exegeting Sūra al Fātiḥa for the Masses: Bediüzzaman Said Nursi and Haji Muḥammad Saʿīd bin ʿUmar
( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Article)Purpose: This article considers exegetical perspectives on the best known Sūra of the Qur’ān from two exegetes who lived in diverse contexts in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Caliphate. Bediüzzaman Said ... -
Generation Z and the Level of Islamic Akhlaq Practices
( Qatar University , 2020 , Article)Akhlaq (good moral character) is an important element in the life of adolescents. It determines adolescent behaviour. Akhlaq is the product of knowledge and an understanding of knowledge gained through formal or informal ... -
Historical Criticism and Recent Trends in Western Scholarship on the Qur’an: Some Hermeneutic Reflections
( Qatar University Press , 2020 , Article)The application of the historical-critical method to the Qur’an is sometimes viewed as an imperialist attempt to undermine Islamic belief. This view, however, fails to sufficiently consider that the same method has also ... -
Humanness of Prophets in the Quran
( Qatar University Press , 2022 , Article)Purpose: The study draws attention to a pioneering work in Urdu on an interpretation of the Quran, Bashariyat-i Anbiya (Humanness of Prophets), published in 1960 by Abdul Majid Daryabadi (1892-1977), a distinguished Quranic ... -
The Interfaith Dimension of Some Recent English Translations of the Quran: A Critical Analysis
( Qatar University , 2019 , Article)This paper first provides a critical, historical survey of the English translations of the Quran, namely, those by Alexander Ross (1649), George Sale (1734), J. M. Rodwell (1861), E. H. Palmer (1880), Richard Bell (1937-1939), ... -
Islam in New Zealand – A Mixed Reception: Historical Overview and Contemporary Challenges
( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Article)Purpose: This research aims to discuss the history of Islam in New Zealand, together with some of the pressing issues and challenges Muslims have encountered along the way. Looking back at the history of early Muslim ... -
Islamic Banking: Past, Present and Future
( Qatar University Press , 2022 , Article)Purpose: The Islamic banking literature has been growing rapidly in the last decade. The aim of this study is to carry out a retrospective hybrid review to reveal this literature’s influential scientific actors (countries, ... -
Neither Christian Nor Heathen; Islam among the African Slaves in the Americas
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Non-Puerperal Induced Lactation among Married Women: Islamic Jurisprudence and Contemporary Practice
( Qatar University Press , 2023 , Article)Objective: Among Muslims, milk kinship elucidates the relationships established by a wet-nurse and her breastfed infant, prohibiting marriage between those it relates after the fulfillment of prerequisites. When galactagogues ... -
Penalty and Compensation in Financial Commitments - A Critical Shariah Review
( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Article)Purpose: The aim of this paper is to critically review the position of Shariah and contemporary ijtihād on penalty provisions in financial commitments. It is also to show that some relevant fiqh resolutions have dealt ... -
Quranic Studies Made in Austria: Approaching Quantitative Arabic Linguistics
( Qatar University Press , 2020 , Article)The aim of this article is to outline the interest in the Arabic language in Europe and the beginnings of teaching Arabic and establishing Arabic studies in Europe before introducing Quranic studies in Austria as such. In ... -
The Qur’ān before the book - History and concepts of Qur’ānic variants (qirā’āt)
( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Article)Purpose: This paper addresses methodological issues related to the concept of ‘Qur’ānic variants and readings’ (qirā’a pl. qirā’āt and ḥarf pl. aḥruf, respectively). I investigate the way they have been depicted in early ... -
Rapprochement between Sunnīs and Imāmīs during the Crusades
( جامعة قطر , 2018 , Article)The Imāmī Shī‘a of Syria stood along with the Sunnīs as one group against the Franks, rather than as followers of different religious traditions. This article traces the rapprochement between the Sunnī and the Imāmī Shī‘a ... -
Re-forming the knot - ʿabdullāh al-ghumārī's iconoclastic sunnī neo-traditionalism
( جامعة قطر , 2018 , Article)This article studies the life and thought of Abdullah al-Ghumari (d. 1413/1993), an accomplished, yet uncelebrated, Muslim scholar from Morocco. After a brief biographical sketch, I present an overview of his thought ... -
Religious Approaches and Practices in Malaysia to Supplement Handling of Sexuality Issues of Adolescents with Autism
( Qatar University Press , 2022 , Article)Adolescents with autism (AWA) suffer limitations in communication, social interaction and behaviour as well as inability to manage their sexuality in a normal way. A more efficacious approach needs to be introduced to deal ... -
The Role of Apocalyptic Prophecies in ISIS Terrorism
( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to reveal how ISIS exploits apocalyptic prophecies stated in the Qur’an and hadiths to find new recruits and legitimize its ideology. The study tries to identify how sensitive issues of Islam are ...
