History textbooks can and primarily should contribute to the strengthening of students’awareness of universal human values.However,history textbooks can also deepen the divisions,prejudices,and uncritical attitudes,c...
Islamic fundamentalism is a reading of Islam,the Qur’an and hadiths,according to which a large part of these bases are nonhistorical,independent and immune to social and political changes and are applicable to all so...
Nigeria,which is multi-ethnic and multi-religious in nature,is faced with religious violence.Religion that is supposed to be a unifying factor among several ethnic groups in Nigeria has turned out to be one of the cat...
This study is to identify the relationship between young Islamic women involvement in physical education,physical activities,and sports.Today,limited attention has been paid to the relationship of young female Muslims...
A simple reading of the Ottoman history during the 19th century displays a diverse ray of intellectual thought and discussion. The so-called clash between Islam and European political structures was a serious debate w...
Today, poverty is one of the most important problems in the world. This is not only the problem of poor people living in specific regions but also the problem of all people in general. Poverty is expected to decrease...
This study attempts to clarify the role of religious values in the rise of new pious Muslim entrepreneurs in Turkey, based on field study carried out in Kayseri of 1980 to present. It particularly attempts to account ...
Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje(1857-1936)was at his core an Arabist,rather than a scholar of Southeast Asia or even Islam in the Dutch East Indies.An Arab lens is evident in his early work on the Hijaz and in his later s...
This paper presents an overview and analyzes the impact of the Partido Renacimientoy Union de Espana (PRUNE, Renascence Party and Union in Spain) specifying in the socio-political articulation of Muslims in Spain. I...
Islam-democracy discourse,a hotly debated topic and a burning issue,has highly intensified over the last few decades and throughout the world with several Muslim thinkers/intellectuals having taken strides to shape Mu...