A !is article problematizes the complexity of Muslim approaches to the question of modernity. It challenges both a hegemonic voice of a singular and superior Western modernity and an essentialist Islamist response to modernity. It examines the alternative approach of multiple modernities. !is approach calls for a critical dialogue and negotiation between tradition and modernity, expedite...

Editor's note Miss Molkoy, a British Muslim and a trained nurse has been carryingout researchfor the Certiftcate in the Study of Islam at the Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim relations. This paper is based on that research. In collecting her evidence on attitudes to medical ethics Miss Molloy explores with her survey sample such topics as contraception, life support machines, ...

INTRODUCTION Uptake of antenatal services is low in Nigeria; however, indicators in the Christian-dominated South have been better than in the Muslim-dominated North. This study evaluated religious influences on utilization of general and HIV-related maternal health services among women in rural and periurban North-Central Nigeria. MATERIALS AND METHODS Targeted participants were HIV-positive...

This paper is a work of autoethnography in which I (the author) observe critical practices that and my colleague, Aisha, thought, said, embodied during our tenure as the only Muslim Nostra Aetate Fellows at St. Catherine Center for Interreligious Dialogue Vatican City, Italy. The focuses on survival strategies took an interreligious anti-patriarchal character within interreligious, Muslim–Chris...

romania was occupied by the soviet army in 1944 and the military seizure continued until 1958. constant interference and constraints imposed by the russian government upon romania, during this time, resulted in formation and establishment of a communist institution in the country. the communist reign in romania lasted forty four years from 1945 to 1989. the hostility of the communist government...

OBJECTIVE To assess the incidence and the risk factors implicated in acute appendicitis in preschoolers in our region. METHODS Over a 7-year period, 352 children underwent appendectomy for suspected acute appendicitis. Of these, data for 23 children were excluded because no inflammation of the appendix was found on subsequent histology. Of the remaining 329, 82 were ≤ 5 years old (i.e., presc...

The State of Israel that was declared independent in 1948 is a country that is ~450 km in length and 180 km at its maximum width (Fig. 1). At the end of 2012 there were 7,984,500 inhabitants in Israel among which 5,999,600 (75.1%) were Jews, 1,387,600 (17.4%) Muslim Arabs, 158,400 (2.0%) Christian Arabs, and 131,500 (1.6%) Druzes (Statistical Abstracts of Israel 2013). In 2012, there were 170,9...

The Melkites, Jacobites, and Nestorians were the main Christian communities under Muslim rule. Several pre-Islamic Arab Christian authors wrote treatises concerning their beliefs in Arabic, some of which date back to the early Islamic centuries. The multiplicity of such polemical works suggests an intellectually open society and a degree of tolerance shown by Muslim leaders. Abu Raʾita...