Introduction: Historicizing Sayyid-ness: Social Status and Muslim Identity in South Asia

Scripture and Society in Modern Muslim Asia —A Symposium Introduction

THE LATE nineteenth century, Muslim movements for religious and social reform have underscored the value of making scripture accessible to a broad public. Scholars and activists alike have urged ordinary Muslim men and women to study and follow the Qur'an and the hadlth (the reports of the Prophet Muhammad's words and deeds), and to do so they have rendered these scriptural writings and comment...

"the Muslim World or Ummah? Historicizing Modern Muslim Connectivity and Pan-islamic Imagination "

Social Security in South Asia

Introduction: Islamic Law in South-east Asia

There is a profound ignorance in Australia about Islamic law. One of the major aims of the Australian Journal of Asian Law is to inform and to encourage debate. At a time when the distance between Islamic and secular traditions seems wider than at anytime in living memory, this special issue is our attempt to open serious debate among legal scholars about syarî’ah. We believe the initiative is ...

kurdish diaspora in central asia and caoucasus

در طول دو قرن گذشته و ظهور روسیه بعنوان قدرتی بزرگ در عرصه جهانی و شروع رقابت با سایر قدرت های بین المللی و منطقهای خصوصا با ایران و عثمانی این ئکشور تلاش کرده است تاد از جمعیت کردها در این کشورها در راستای منافع خود بهره برداری کند در قرون 18 و 19 بارها بخشی از کردها برعلیه امپراطوری عثمانی توسط این کشور مورد استفاده قرار گرفت خصوصا در جنگ های سال 1790تا 1798. این ججنگ ها م.جب شد که بخشی از کر...