Islam Our Choice

Our choice from the recent literature.

Nonlinear pulse propagation in an optical fibre is usually modelled by z‐stepping schemes based on the nonlinear Schrödinger equation and its generalizations. However, problems often arise when the propagation constant becomes zero. Now, Jesper Lægsgaard from the Technical University of Denmark has derived a time‐propagating generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation that includes both instanta...

Islam Almasri_TOCSJ

Recently, a number of methods have been proposed to improve image retrieval accuracy by capturing context information. These methods try to compensate for the fact that a visually less similar image might be more relevant because it depicts the same object. We propose a new quick method for refining any pairwise distance metric, it works by iteratively discovering the object in the image from t...

‘‘Returning Home to Our Rightful Place’’: The Nation of Islam and Muhammad Farms

This paper demonstrates how the Nation of Islam (NOI), a well known black nationalist organization, is utilizing notions of community to promote the activities and goals of its farm to other black people. The NOI ownsMuhammad Farms in rural southern Georgia, USA. Its stated purpose is to feed all black people in the United States. Historically, theNOI has occupied a radical space in the black c...

Islam in local contexts: Localised Islam in Northern Pakistan

As Clifford Geertz remarked in his Islam Observed (1968), the idea of a ‘changing’ religion is a contradiction in terms, as religion is fundamentally concerned with what is permanent and eternal. Still, one way to come to terms with religious change is to consider the many ways that religion is interpreted, by laymen and scholars alike. Social anthropologists like myself have naturally found a ...

Islam in the West: From Immigration to Global Islam