This article discusses the historical role of Islam in the political evolution of Guinea in the broader context of Muslims’ experience of nation/state building and globalization in Africa. This role is examined on the premise that Islam is one of the major globalizing forces (more in the body of the paper on this idea of Islam as a globalizing force) responsible for the formation of what expert...

one potentially basic concept in islam, as a religion, as reflected in the glorious qur’an , is the theory of ‘umma’ (community of muslims).this concept that has been stemmed from islam's political doctrine refers to features such as: tribe, clan, racial groups as well as a nation with stabilizing elements of religion's celestial values under the leadership of one prophet and those wh...

the fact that the prophet did not achieve much success in mecca in converting the people to islam after 13 years of missionary work and that the people of medina turned to islam although the prophet was not physically present is one of the little understood questions in the history of islam. the present paper seeks to study, from a sociological point of view, the reason why the people of mecca,...

For more than a generation in the United States, and now increasingly in Europe, students have shown growing interest in the “tradition” of political theory. This particular literary practice is often said to be one of the guiding intellectual threads of the Western tradition as a whole. It is remarkable, therefore, that historically this “tradition” has had practically no professional practiti...

my paper has two parts. first, i talk about the golden rule. after introducing the rule and its global importance, i explain why many scholars dismiss it as a vague proverb that leads to absurdities when we try to formulate it clearly. i defend the golden rule against such objections. second, i talk about the golden rule in persia and islam; i consider persian sources (muslim and non-muslim) an...

Justice and Development Party at the Helm: Resurgence of Islam or Restitution of Right of Center Predominant Party? by Ersin Kalaycıoğlu Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey Introduction General elections of July 22, 2007 witnessed a very rare occasion in Turkish politics. The Justice and Development Party (AKP), which had been in government since the November 3, 2002 elections managed to i...

in the framework of critical theory, this essay explains the revolutionary evolutionsin arab countries of the middle east and concludes that these evolutions haveislamic coloration. thus, it can be called islamic awakening. arab world with relyon hidden cultural rationality in islam criticize current islamic tradition and westfruition, and with use of the capacity of islamic emancipation, insur...