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Scientific Discourse amongst the Scholars of the Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies: Bibliometric Study, and Geopolitical Analysis and Insights
This paper examines the state of scholarly communication within the field of Islamic Studies as reflected by the Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies (OJIS). The field of Islamic studies has witnessed significant growth in recent years, with a surge in publications covering a wide range of subfields. The paper highlights challenges in scholarly communication, particularly in introducing a peer-review culture and fostering voluntary peer-review in Islamic studies. The study also explores the impact of the emphasis on research and publications in universities in the Arab Gulf countries, potentially shifting the focus from teaching to research. This study offers a comprehensive analysis of OJIS publications, encompassing articles, books, and book reviews from 1990 to 2021. Through bibliometric analysis, it assesses the academic prominence of Islamic Studies, investigates publication patterns, scrutinizes book selection criteria, compares articles, books, and reviews, contextualizes publications within their geopolitical milieu, and offers recommendations for future research. The study reveals shifts in publication patterns influenced by global events, while also highlighting highly cited articles and influential authors. Furthermore, it provides insights into the thematic evolution of research trends, demonstrating the multi-disciplinarity of OJIS publications. The paper concludes with a geographical analysis, showcasing the countries with the most significant contributions to OJIS publications. Overall, this research contributes to the understanding of Islamic Studies scholarship and its global impact.
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Home, land, security : deradicalization and the journey back from extremism
\"Nicola, Christianne, and Marie are mothers who discovered too late that their sons had been radicalized online and had flown from the West to join the tens of thousands of foreign ISIS fighters in Syria. Too often extremists are portrayed as having sprung from the earth as irredeemable killing machines, but these women underscore the deeper truth that no one is born a terrorist, and they have themselves become activists in preventing violent radicalism. Grasping at the Root explores innovative new counter-extremism programs around the world, including in the United States, Europe, Pakistan, and Indonesia. We meet an American judge who has staked his career on finding new ways to handle terror suspects, a Pakistani woman running a game-changing school for former child soldiers, a radicalized Somali American who learns through literature to see beyond his hate-filled beliefs, and a former neo-Nazi who now helps disarm jihadis\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Divine Money
Zakat giving or mutual aid is a sacred practice in Islam. Where
government and public safety nets fail, zakat serves as a form of
social security in Muslim communities. In Divine Money ,
Emanuel Schaeublin shows how zakat institutions and direct zakat
donations function in contemporary Palestine. Based on his
ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Nablus, Schaeublin traces
zakat flows as they provide critical support to households living
under military rule and security surveillance. In the neighborhoods
of Nablus, the Islamic tradition shapes public life. Many enact
simple gifts of money of food as an expression of God's generosity
and justice. How do such invocations of the divine enable people to
negotiate responsibilities and tensions arising from differences in
wealth in Palestinian society? What is the role of zakat in
confronting political repression and economic instability?
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Women's employment in Muslim countries : patterns of diversity
\"With the economic position of women in Muslim countries being a regular focus of public attention and a fiercely debated topic amongst academics, few systematic, detailed descriptions and analyses are available. This book presents a new and nuanced exploration of the topic, introducing a theoretical framework that accommodates both women's individual agency as well as cultural, economic, religious, and political forces shaping their position. Collating research findings involving more than 300,000 women in 383 provinces in 28 Muslim countries ranging from the Middle East via Sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia to Indonesia in Southeast Asia, the book, based on this wealth of data, shows how many women earn a living outside agriculture, how big the differences in employment likelihood really are, and how these differences can be explained. In doing so it addresses topical debates on the role of Islam, modernization, globalization, neocolonialism, educational inequalities, patriarchy, household hierarchies, and more\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Invisible Martyrs
\"Farhana Qazi draws on her background as a pioneering counterterrorism professional and a devout Muslim to offer an insider's view of what drives girls and women to join radical Islamic movements, and identifies what America and the world community can do to keep them from making this terrible choice Why would a girl from Denver join ISIS, a radical movement known for its mistreatment of women? Why would a teenage Iraqi girl strap on a suicide bomb and detonate it? Farhana Qazi, the first Muslim woman to work for the U.S. government's Counterterrorism Center, has been fascinated, even obsessed, by this phenomena for over a decade and has circled the globe searching for answers. What she has found are women, sometimes confused, sometimes taken advantage of, and sometimes as radical and dedicated as their male counterparts, women whose stories she tells. Here is the book that reframes the story so readers can see the female terrorists as they are-- ordinary women co-opted by radical men, other extremist women, or motivated by their own experience of oppression. The untold story of the women of these movements is important to understand and recognize if the world hopes to contain the expansion of these ever present threats\"-- Provided by publisher
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Adjudicating family law in Muslim courts
\"While there are many books on Islamic family law, the literature on its enforcement is scarce. This book focuses on how Islamic family law is interpreted and applied by judges in a range of Muslim countries, Sunni and Shi'a, as well as Arab and non-Arab. It thereby aids the understanding of shari'a law in practice in a number of different cultural and political settings. It shows how the existence of differing views of what shari'a is, as well as the presence of a vast body of legal material which judges can refer to, make it possible for courts to interpret Islamic law in creative and innovative ways\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Making Sense of Muslim Fundamentalisms
Studying Muslim fundamentalisms, this book compares key movements, examining their commonalities, differences, and intricate relations, as well as their achievements and failures. Muslim fundamentalisms have the sympathy of approximately half of the Muslim population in the world. Yet, they are divided among themselves and are in a constant state of controversy.
The research dwells on the leading fundamentalist movements, such as the Muslim Brothers, Tablighi-Jamaʻat, al-Qaeda, and ISIS, and illustrates how differently they think about the West and its culture, democracy, and women’s presence in the public sphere. By identifying these trends, and studying them comparatively, the book enables the interested reader to make sense of the plethora of fundamentalist movements, which are otherwise lumped together by the media and are barely discernible for the reader. Whereas most studies of Muslim fundamentalism focus on organizational or militant actions that the movements perform, this study concentrates on their efforts to Islamize society through everyday life in a peaceful manner.
Identifying the different strands of Muslim fundamentalisms, the book will be a key resource to a wide range of readers including researchers and students interested in politics, religious, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.
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Why the French Don't Like Headscarves
The French government's 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers, both because it seemed to infringe needlessly on religious freedom, and because it was hailed by many in France as an answer to a surprisingly wide range of social ills, from violence against females in poor suburbs to anti-Semitism.Why the French Don't Like Headscarvesexplains why headscarves on schoolgirls caused such a furor, and why the furor yielded this law. Making sense of the dramatic debate from his perspective as an American anthropologist in France at the time, John Bowen writes about everyday life and public events while also presenting interviews with officials and intellectuals, and analyzing French television programs and other media.
Bowen argues that the focus on headscarves came from a century-old sensitivity to the public presence of religion in schools, feared links between public expressions of Islamic identity and radical Islam, and a media-driven frenzy that built support for a headscarf ban during 2003-2004. Although the defense oflaïcité(secularity) was cited as the law's major justification, politicians, intellectuals, and the media linked the scarves to more concrete social anxieties--about \"communalism,\" political Islam, and violence toward women.
Written in engaging, jargon-free prose,Why the French Don't Like Headscarvesis the first comprehensive and objective analysis of this subject, in any language, and it speaks to tensions between assimilation and diversity that extend well beyond France's borders.
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