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Reflecting on Teaching Practice: Adopting Islamic Liberatory Pedagogies within Muslim Institutes of Higher Education in UK (MIHEUK)
The aim of this paper is to discuss the practice of Islamically informed liberatory pedagogical practice within a MIHEUK, through a ‘self-reflective’ dialogue. As the former course leader for Education Studies at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education, the paper examines the derived reflections and experience of the author teaching the BA degree program in Islamic studies with Education and the MA Post-Graduate Degree program in Islamic Education (2019–2022). In contributing to the discussion, the paper adopts a critically reflective interpretivist–hermeneutical methodology, whereby Fazlur Rahman’s double hermeneutical model is utilised to contextualise core educational principles from the Islamic weltanschauung (1982). The paper cites an example exercise study utilised to analyse the adoption of Islamically informed liberatory pedagogical practices. The findings from this exercise reveal that the students’ general ability to critically reflect upon the Islamic educational tradition reflect the influence of the teacher. However, the increased ability of the students to act independently and think critically to challenge the limits to their own potential or understanding of the sources dictating their religiosities and subjectivities is from a place of authenticity, thereby demonstrating the transformative nature of self-realisation as conscientization (critical consciousness) and its realisation of latent potentialities.
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Islamic commercial arbitration and private international law: mapping controversies and exploring pathways towards greater coordination
This article maps the main fault lines between the concerns for Shari’ah compliance, which are central to Islamic commercial arbitration and the categories of private international law. While issues such as applicable law, public order and the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards are routinely addressed in private international law, questions remain as to the extent to which the latter is able to accommodate additional concerns, which would be relevant for Shari’ah compatibility of an Islamic commercial arbitral award. This study is based on the qualitative methodology that is standard in legal analysis. This methodology consists, first, of desk-based research to compare the formulations found in a variety of textual sources: national and international legal sources, doctrinal opinions and the rulings of different courts. Second, the implications of different formulations are drawn out by considering actual and possible ‘limit cases’ in which the different wordings would translate into incompatible solutions. Third, proposals are made to help address the ensuing incompatibilities. Establishing a common operational ground between international private law and Shari’ah compliance in commercial arbitration would enable the two systems to function in a more coordinated fashion, reducing the legal uncertainties that are otherwise present when they are treated as parallel, mutually incommunicable systems. Through a focus on the specific misalignment between Islamic commercial arbitration and private international law, our article makes targeted suggestions that would materially address some of the concerns posed by the increasing internationalisation of Islamic finance—and by its attendant need for cross-border dispute resolution respectful of the ethical goals of Shari’ah compliance.
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Awards of the khudadad sarkar: medals from Tipu Sultan's Mysore
The collection of the Asiatic Society, Calcutta, preserves a manuscript titled Risala-i-Padakah which was formerly in the library of the ruler of Mysore, Tipu Sultan (d. 1799). This manuscript has descriptions of medals with drawings illustrating their forms. We investigate the design of these medals and assert that Tipu Sultan understood the importance of rewarding his loyal subordinates with medals, thus transferring his authority down to them. The ‘People's Medals’ given to non-combatants, a novel award for those times, are also covered here in detail. We show that some of these medals, reflecting Deccan jewellery traditions, were actually awarded by Tipu Sultan himself to his men, who wore them; and we draw attention to the plunder of these medals, along with other treasures, during the sack of Seringapatam. The authors also view this as a demonstration of Tipu Sultan's regard for loyalty, rank, as well as good governance in opposition to estimates of him by contemporary British biographers. This article is the first documentation of these medals, which were the earliest to be awarded by any state in pre-modern India.
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Locating the Storyteller in Silent Waters: Sabiha Sumar’s Cinematic Tale of Shared Histories and Divided Identities
In her multi award-winning feature film Silent Waters (2003), Pakistani woman filmmaker Sabiha Sumar connects the socio-political traumas of the Partition of India and creation of Pakistan (1947) with the onset of military dictator General Zia-ul-Haq’s Islamization period (1977-1988) in Pakistan. Presenting a story based on real-life events, the film focuses on the impact of religious fundamentalism and nationalism on women in particular. Examining Silent Waters as an example of “history on film/film on history” (Rosenstone 2013), and film as an “agent, product, and source of history” (Ferro 1983), the discussion identifies and analyzes the filmmaker’s own tacitly embedded location and participation in the filmic narrative as an experiential ‘auto/bio-historiographer’, arguing for the value of this new paradigm in Cinema Studies.
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Reading Hoda Hadadi in Tehran: The Implicit Articulation of Lesbian Identity in Iranian Children’s Literature
Sexuality in its full diversity has been expressed in Iranian lore and literature both explicitly and implicitly (Alfiyah and Shalfiyah, Astarābādī, Floor, Khānsārī, Najmabadi, Nakhshabī, Shamisa). Yet, as the modern notion of childhood and children’s literature emerged at roughly the same time as the heterosexual/homosexual divide consolidated, sexuality also receded from Iranian children’s literature.1 Besides religious considerations, censorship is another important reason. Publications are subject to censorship both before and after their release in Iran. For a book to be published, the manuscript must be licensed by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, which often involves demands for modifications to ensure compliance with the law and sharia, yet this does not immunize the author and publisher against further liability in case authorities later find traces of transgression even in a licensed publication that might lead to a ban on the book and potential punishment for the parties involved. While unashamedly and avowedly heteronormative, Iranian children’s literature frequently attempts to eschew sexuality. Nonetheless, we seem to have both a pattern of slow emergence in the face of hostility and heteronormativity (as in the West in the 1960s) and a particularly pronounced version of those things due to religious beliefs and the political situation in Iran. Examples of this slow emergence include Azadeh Mohseni’s title story in Born in the Owl Month, Nooshin Zargari in Woody, and, in particular, Hoda Hadadi in children’s and young adult literature. Hadadi, writer, poet, and illustrator, was born in 1977 in Tehran. She has so far created almost sixty titles as author, illustrator, and author/illustrator and has won several distinctions and awards. Her books My Day with the Clouds, Deep in the Sahara (written by Kelly Cunnane and illustrated by Hadadi), Drummer Girl (with Hiba Masood), and Rainbow in My Pocket (written by Ali Seidabadi and illustrated by Hadadi) are available in English.
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Portugal celebrates Islamic art, past and present, with Aga Khan Awards
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2013 was held in September in the Portuguese capital. Although Portugal was not among the prize winners, nor even represented on the jury, the Architectural Award assumed the importance of a national celebration of Islamic art, past and present. The award ceremony took place in Lisbon's Sao Jorge Castle, with its Moorish fortifications, in the presence of the president and foreign minister of Portugal, the mayor of Lisbon, leaders of Lisbon's Sunni and Ismaili communities, and the Aga Khan. Simultaneously, the City of Lisbon inaugurated an exhibit on \"Architecture: the Islamic Heritage in Portugal\" in Sao Jorge's main exhibition hall, with the cooperation of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The exhibit features recent excavations of art produced during the Muslim rule in Portugal from 711-1245, and will be open to the public until Jan 6, 2014.
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The new knighthood: Terrorism and the medieval
Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik describes himself as a member of a neomedieval, underground paramilitary group known as the Knights Templar. This essay addresses Breivik’s manifesto’s use of the medieval as a vehicle for understanding the continued importance of the Middle Ages to the formation of modern political ideas.
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Anna Wintour, Sheikha Mayassa Raise $4M at Franca Fund Gala
to honor the late Vogue Italia editor and raise funds tor genomics research. The night after FTA, luminaries including Queen Rania joined the fashion world at the Museum of Islamic Art
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Music, Peacebuilding, and Interfaith Dialogue: Transformative Bridges in Muslim–Christian Relations
An ever-increasing need to find creative approaches and mission models to engage with Muslim neighbors exists. Studies have shown that musical performance can evoke transformative moments that enhance communication and restore broken relationships. In this article, I explore the intersection of music, peacebuilding, and interfaith dialogue in light of Muslim-Christian relations. I ask how music contributes to peacebuilding among peoples of differing faiths by investigating the roles music plays in promoting peace and living with the other in sustainable ways. I suggest a theoretical framework of transformative music communication and practices of interfaith dialogue as bridges in Muslim-Christian relations.
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