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Islamic Theology of Religious Pluralism: Building Islam-Buddhism Understanding
Drawing from the teachings of the Qur’an about human unity and religious diversity and also the history of Islam-Buddhism coexistence, this chapter...
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Rawlsian Liberal Pluralism and Political Islam: Friends or Foes?
In this chapter, I argue that there is an important structural similarity between the Liberal Pluralism of John Rawls’ Theory of Justice and (a very...
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‘Humankind. The Best of Molds’—Islam Confronting Transhumanism
The paper intends to analyze the philosophic, imaginative, and theological aspects of Islam, which give grounds to the integration, acceptance, and...
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Against Silencing: Redefining Women’s Voices in Islam with Reference to the Life and Works of Aisha Abd Al Rahman (Bint Al Shati)
One of the main concerns on which the discussion of Islam and Modernity centres is gender and the Islamic view of women. The Quran as the...
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Islam and Democracy
This chapter provides an overview and analyzes the different contemporary theories that seek to establish the compatibility of Islam and democracy....
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Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Comparing Abrahamic Monotheistic Religions
The impact of culture and religion on sexual and reproductive health and behavior has been a develo** area of study in contemporary time....
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Universalism and Cosmopolitanism in Islam: The Idea of the Caliphate
While universalism is rooted in the very ideology of Islam and is grounded in the Qur’an, especially through the concepts of fiṭra, amr and rūḥ,...
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Introduction: Islam, Muslims, and Religious Pluralism: Concepts, Scope and Limits
This paper overviews the meanings of especially religious pluralism in the Islamic intellectual and political tradition, past and present, with...
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Multiculturalism, Islam and Suicide Bombers
Is a Muslim still a Muslim when he crashes airplanes into the twin towers? Any serious theory of multiculturalism has to deny that Islam could ever...
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Taking an Anti-Sacrificial Stance: The Essentializing Rhetoric and Affective Nature of Meat Consumption in Islam
Informed by lived experience and research in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the authors analyze rhetorics of Muslim veg(etari)anism....
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In search of religious individuals’ career success pattern: “to be rich but not only for me”
The present study examines the nexus of religiosity and two career-success elements: positive impact and financial success. The cross-sectional...
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Beyond the Categories of Truth
In the course of this paper, I shall argue that an absolute ineffable God of Islam is contradictory beyond the ordinary categories (substantive or...
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An Islamic perspective of workplace rectitude
The purpose of the study is to conceptualise Islamic workplace rectitude. Based on a comprehensive literature review, the study proposes that Islamic...
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Being a Marxist and a Muslim in Belgium: A Case Study
Lionel Remy-Hendrick interrogates the continuities and tensions between Islam and Marxism in Europe through an ethnographic study of Nasser and his...
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Religious Beliefs Inspire Sustainable HOPE (Help Ourselves Protect the Environment): Culture, Religion, Dogma, and Liturgy—The Matthew Effect in Religious Social Responsibility
China has achieved economic prominence but damaged the natural environment. Can religions excite pro-environmental actions? Chinese religion...
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Who Should Be Legitimate Living Donors? The Case of Bangladesh
In 1999, the Bangladesh government introduced the Human Organ Transplantation Act allowing organ transplants from both brain-dead and living-related...