https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/gateway/plugin/WebFeedGatewayPlugin/atomComparative Islamic Studies2023-07-26T11:31:39+00:00Ulrika Mårtenssonumartensson@equinoxpub.comOpen Journal Systems<p><em>Comparative Islamic Studies</em> aims to advance research on Islam through comparisons between Islam and other religions, and between religious and non-religious factors and disciplines. Regarding Islam and other religions, CIS extends the scope of comparisons of Islam and Islamic Scripture from the traditional focus on Judaism and Christianity to include religions of Antiquity, Africa, South- and South East Asia, China, Oceania, Europe and the Americas, as well as contemporary new religious movements, spirituality and the various types of esotericism. <a href="https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/about">Read more.</a></p>https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/9723Sufism, Pluralism and Democracy2023-02-08T11:28:46+00:00Clinton BennettSarwar Alam2015-09-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2015 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/9724The Challenge of Religious Pluralism in Malaysia with Special Reference to the Sufi Thought of Ustaz Ashaari Muhammad2023-02-08T11:40:39+00:00Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid
Ustaz Ashaari Muhammad (1937-2010) was a sufi leader best remembered for the controversies surrounding his eschatological teachings which led to the Malaysian government’s banning of his organization, Darul Arqam, in 1994. Loved by admirers but reviled by the state, Ashaari’s influence cut across ethnicity, nationality and religion. While the transnational dimensions of Ashaari’s activities were well-known, aspects of ethno-religious pluralism in his thought, as conveyed in a multitude of written works published independently, have mostly escaped the attention of analysts and casual observers alike. With contemporary Malaysian Islam being invariably understood via ethnically slanted lenses, it would not have occurred to most people that a Malay-Muslim religious personality would actually subscribe to pluralistic conceptions of society which are liable to be interpreted as undermining conceptions of Malay-Muslim hegemony dearly held by the ruling establishment of the day. This chapter seeks to bring to the fore features of Ashaari’s thought which exemplifies integration between Sufism and political realities as conditioned by nation state-defined categories.
2015-09-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2015 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/9725Ibn 'Ata' Allah al-Sakandari2023-02-08T12:20:56+00:00Mohamed Mosaad Abdelaziz Mohamed
<p>Ibn 'Ata' Allah al-Sakandari (d 1309) is known as the true founder of the Šadhili Madhhab. Little is known about his role in creating both social peace and political stability in Mamluk Egypt. Comparing him to Ibrahim al-Dusuqi , I will study three aspects of this role. First, I will study his introduction of a new model of the Sufi-the Faqih vis-à-vis the Sufi-the Theologian, a model that created reconciliation between the two historical enemies: the Sufis and the Jurists. Second, Ibn 'Ata' Allah moved from Alexandria to Cairo to be a teacher at al-Azhar University, turning Sufism into a respected discipline, and closing the gap between urban Islam and periphery Islam. Third, he forged a political alliance with Sultan Qalawun that saved the Sultan enough popular support to create political stability after long years of political turmoil.</p>
2015-09-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2015 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/9726Sufism Without Boundaries2023-02-08T12:37:34+00:00Sarwar Alam
Most scholars believe that the majority of the population of Bangladesh embraced Islam through the influence of the Sufis (mystics, holy men). A large majority of Bangladeshi Muslims perceives Sufis as sources of their spiritual wisdom and guidance, viewing Sufi khanqahs [hospices] and dargahs [mausoleums] to be the nerve centers of Muslim society. It has been argued that the greatest achievement of the Sufis of Bengal is the “growth of cordiality and unity between the Hindus and the Muslims.” Yet, Sufism is a contested phenomenon in Bangladesh. Islamic reform movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries preached against some Sufi rituals and practices, and Sufism as a whole. This article analyzes how the concept of “Bangalee Nationalism” emerges, among others, from various Sufi ideologies that recognize the authenticity of another’s faith. This article will also analyze how these traditions have hitherto been engaged in establishing a pluralistic society as well as in developing a culture of tolerance and interfaith dialogue.
2015-09-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2015 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/9727Recent Interpretations of the Laws of Zakat with Regard to People with Disabilities2023-02-08T13:23:28+00:00Vardit Rispler-Chaim
<p>Zakat is considered the earliest social solidarity system that does not depend on voluntary charity but on orderly periodic government support. In this article I trace interpretations of the zakat laws on people with disabilities in the past and the present in respect of two main questions: is a disabled person subject to zakat taxation? and does a disabled person qualify as a beneficiary of funds collected through the zakat taxation? The main conclusions are that if and when the economic situation of people with disabilities is similar to that of the healthy, they are subject to taxation. People with disabilities become beneficiaries of zakat funds only when they are “poor,” “needy,” and unable to support themselves, but never only because of the disability.</p>
2015-09-30T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2015 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/26718Competing Narratives on Transnational Islam2023-07-26T11:30:32+00:00Etga Ugur
<p>Toward an Islamic Enlightenment: The Gülen Movement, by M. HakanYavuz, Oxford University Press, 2013. 320pp., Hb. $36.95. ISBN-13:9780199927999.<br><br>Gülen: The Ambiguous Politics of Market Islam in Turkey and the World, byJoshua D. Hendrick, New York University Press, 2013. 392pp., 5 half-tones, 2 figures. Hb. $65.00. ISBN-13: 9780814770986; Pb. $24.00. ISBN-13: 9781479800469.<br><br>The Gülen Hizmet Movement andits Transnational Activities: Case Studies ofAltruistic Activism in Contemporary Islam,edited by Sophia Pandya andNancy Gallagher, Brown Walker Press, 2012. 233pp., Pb. $25.95. ISBN-13: 9781612335476.</p>
2023-07-26T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/23749Integrity of Quranic Legislations2024-03-13T22:51:26+00:00Ahmed Ali Salem
<p>Abrogation is claimed to be required to resolve alleged contradictions between legislations in the Qu'ran, the Prophet’s Sunna, or both. The opponents of abrogation find the alleged contradictions imaginary because the Qu'ran is coherent and the legislative Sunna is its perfect implementation that God endorsed. Accordingly, the Quranic legislations are fully consistent if their different conditions and ultimate goals are considered. Different legislative verses were revealed in different circumstances to be applicable later in similar circumstances. Applying the Quranic legislations and the Prophet’s Sunna carefully in appropriate contexts can prove the integrity, consistency, universality, and eternity of the Quranic legislations. This article critically reviews the debate on the abrogation claim in Arabic literature, both classical and modern—debate that has important theological, legal and practical implications.</p>
2023-12-21T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2023 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/20058The Temptation of Graves in Salafi Islam Iconoclasm, Destruction and Idolatry, by Ondrej Beránek and Pavel Tupek2023-02-09T13:42:39+00:00Joas Wagemakers
<p>The Temptation of Graves in Salafi Islam Iconoclasm, Destruction and Idolatry, by Ondrej Beránek and Pavel Tupek. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. 272pp., Hb. £80.00. ISBN-13: 9781474417570.</p>
2021-10-13T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2021 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/20057Minorities in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel, by Mary Youssef2023-02-09T13:43:36+00:00Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen
<p>Minorities in the Contemporary Egyptian Novel, by Mary Youssef. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. 216pp., Hb. £75.00. ISBN-13: 9781474415415.</p>
2021-10-13T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2021 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/20056Islam in Pakistan: A History, by Muhammad Qasim Zaman2023-02-09T13:42:27+00:00Alix Philippon
<p>Islam in Pakistan: A History, by Muhammad Qasim Zaman. Princeton University Press, 2018. 432pp., Hb. $39.50. ISBN-13: 9780691149226.</p>
2021-10-13T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2021 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/20055Iranian Cosmopolitanism: A Cinematic History, by Golbarg Rekabtalaei2023-02-09T13:43:40+00:00Katja Föllmer
<p>Iranian Cosmopolitanism: A cinematic history, by Golbarg Rekabtalaei. Cambridge University Press, 2019. 303 pp., Hb. £75.00. ISBN-13: 9781108418515.</p>
2021-10-13T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2021 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/20054Hashtag Islam: How Cyber-Islamic Environments Are Transforming Religious Authority, by Gary Bunt2023-02-09T13:43:44+00:00Henrik Reintoft Christensen
<p>Hashtag Islam: How Cyber-Islamic Environments Are Transforming Religious Authority, by Gary Bunt. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 232 pp., Hb. $90,00, ISBN-13: 9781469643151; Ebk. $19.99, ISBN-13: 9781469643175.</p>
2021-10-13T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2021 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/20053The Loss of Tawhidi Worldview in Islamic World2023-02-09T13:41:22+00:00Wardah Alkatiri
<p>Modernization and the concomitant changes in people behavior are now blamed for the deterioration of the environment. This article points up desacralization of knowledge and the demise of esoteric tradition that followed to have an ecological impact in the Islamic world as the Muslims began to hold the bifurcated notion of “this-worldly” and “heavenly” in a completely distinct manner. Through modern education, Muslims adopted the notion of “independent existence” according to which nature exists in and of itself. Hence, the modernist vision of development and progress that threw the life-support system of the earth out of balance was possible in the Islamic world where religion and its cultural traditions remained strong. The twentieth century’s awareness about the need of an integrative framework to reconcile rational thought and science with a spiritual sense of awe for the cosmos, should remind the Muslims of the unitive worldview that arise from the core of Islamic belief—tawhid—expounded by esoteric Islam. Further, this article argues that science needs to repossess a metaphysical foundation, and that ethics and values need to be reintegrated into our rationality. Three case studies reveal mental crises caused by an overweening trust in science. I use data from my own extreme life experience, and biographical data suggestive of existential depression of two arguably highly gifted individuals. Drawing upon the data, the article juxtaposes the “unitive worldview” associated with mystical experience and the “evolutionary worldview” given rise by Darwin’s evolutionary biology, to put forward an examination of the effects that worldviews might have on human minds. The analysis adopts organic inquiry within transpersonal psychology research method, and content analysis of biographical data. Designed to investigate the “non-objective” spiritual reality, organic inquiry offers a rigorous method for those attempting to incorporate spiritual experience and mysticism into academic work. As a whole, the case studies present an example of the biologization of ethics; discusses social Darwinism and giftedness phenomena; and explicate the unitive worldview granted by mystical experiences.</p>
2021-10-13T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2021 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/20052“The Dynamic Duo”2023-02-09T13:36:02+00:00Ulrika Mårtensson2021-10-13T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2021 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/19152Miracles and Madness2023-02-09T13:38:46+00:00Teren Sevea
<p>This article analyzes the hagiographies, poems, oral traditions and miracle stories of an Islamic miracle worker (keramat) buried in Singapore named Sayyid Nuh ibn Muhd al-Habshi (ca.1788–1866). In his physical lifetime and beyond, he was described as a wandering ecstatic who adored children and burgled businesses, yet attained a reputation as “prophet” and keramat by performing miracles, healing the incurable and flying in and out of prisons and across the Indian Ocean. With appreciation for the historicity embedded in miracle stories, this article examines the Tamil devotional poems and songs, and the Malay hagiographies and oral traditions that commemorate this keramat. Attention is also paid to the historical concerns of his hagiographers, many of whom attempted to appeal to audiences informed by secularism, rationalism and “Wahhabism” by writing Islamic histories about this “Arab” Sufi master and the Sufi networks that operated in the Southeast Asian port city of Singapore at a time when it was dominated by western power. This article is thus concerned as much with the storytellers as with the miracle workers and members of devotional communities in nineteenth-century Singapore, all of whom are susceptible to being forgotten in academic historiography. By drawing upon ethnographies and newspaper reports about this prophet, saint, felon and “madman,” and discussing his mausoleum, which has remained intact in the face of war, colonialism and post-colonial infrastructural development, the article argues that the story of Sayyid Nuh is a history of Singapore Islam. A history that is interwoven with histories of the Indian Ocean, maritime Sufism, colonialism, capitalism and structural inequalities that were temporarily overcome by miracles. This is moreover a story of miraculous narratives, devotional cultures, social memories and sacral places that are often pushed to the margins of religious studies but refuse to “fade into folkloric oblivion.”</p>
2021-10-13T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2021 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/19109The Qur'an as the Only Constitutive Source of Islamic Law2021-11-08T11:41:49+00:00Ahmed Ali Salem
<p>In The Problem of Dealing with the Prophet’s Sunnah (originally in Arabic), Al-'Alwani proposes a comprehensive and coherent concept of Prophet Muhammad’s Sunnah based on the linguistic, Qur'anic and Prophetic usages of the term Sunnah, and argues that a prophet’s saying, action or approval is authentic if evidently rooted in the Qur'an, not only narrated in a correct, honest and accurate way. Al-'Alwani stresses the Prophet’s humanness and contends that the Qur'an proves his fallibility in his ijtihad and corrects it if it was not in full conformity with the Qur'an. Hence, the Qur'an’s authority over the Sunnah. Al-'Alwani links the authentic legislative Sunnah to the Qur'an and denies that one source can abrogate the other because there can be no contradiction between them. He argues that the authentic legislative Sunnah constitutes no laws; rather, it only illustrates the Prophet’s interpretation and implementation of the laws already constituted in the Qur'an. Hence, Al-'Alwani’s argument that the Qur'an is the only constitutive source of Islamic law. He asserts that the Qur'an contains all laws explicitly or implicitly, and the Sunnah is its application. Al-'Alwani sends a clear message in this book, that is, the unity of Muslim Ummah can be reestablished only through the recognition of the Qur'an’s role in life, and the Prophet’s role in implementing it.</p>
2021-10-13T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2021 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/18989Hanafi Maturidism: Trajectories of a Theological Legacy, with a Study and Critical Edition of al-Khabbazi’s Kitab al-Hadi, by Ayedh S. Aldosari2023-02-09T13:43:48+00:00Angelika Brodersen
<p>Hanafi Maturidism: Trajectories of a Theological Legacy, with a Study and Critical Edition of al-Khabbazi’s Kitab al-Hadi, by Ayedh S. Aldosari. Equinox 2020, 704pp., 42 figures. Hb. £95.00/$125.00, ISBN-13: 9781781794258; ePDF. £95.00/ $125.00, ISBN-13: 978178179095.</p>
2021-10-13T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2021 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/18988Islam in Bosnien-Herzegowina und die Netzwerke der Jungmuslime (1918–1983), by Armina Omerika2023-02-09T13:42:11+00:00Carl Bethke
<p>Islam in Bosnien-Herzegowina und die Netzwerke der Jungmuslime (1918–1983), by Armina Omerika. Harrassowitz, 2014. xiv, 362pp. Hb. € 68.00. ISBN 9783447065825.</p>
2021-10-13T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2021 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/18987What is “Islamic” Art? Between Religion and Perception, by Wendy M. K. Shaw2023-02-09T13:43:26+00:00Lorenz Korn
<p>What is “Islamic” Art? Between Religion and Perception, by Wendy M. K. Shaw. Cambridge University Press, 2019. 382pp., 34 b/w figures and 18 colour plates. Hb. € 36,75. ISBN-13: 9781108474658.</p>
2021-10-13T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2021 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/13555Iranian Cosmopolitanism2023-02-09T12:43:45+00:00Milad Odabaei2019-10-23T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2019 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/13565Reading the Global Disorder with Mahmud-i Tarzi2023-02-09T13:35:02+00:00Fatima Mojaddedi
<p>Maqalat-i-Mahmud-i Tarzi, by Mahmud Tarzi, compiled by Rawan Farhadi. Mu'assasa-i Intišarat-i Baihaqi, 1977. 898 pages, (selections).</p>
2019-10-23T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2019 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/13564Fearing the Night2023-02-09T13:31:14+00:00Naveed Mansoori
<p>Transnationalism in Iranian Political Thought: The Life and Times of Ahmad Fardid, by Ali Mirsepassi. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 408pp., Hb. £62.99, ISBN-13: 9781107187290; Pb. £19.99, ISBN-13: 9781316636473.</p>
2019-10-23T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2019 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/13563The Revolution of Reform Cinema2023-02-09T13:29:14+00:00Golbarg Rekabtalaei
<p>Reform Cinema in Iran: Film and Political Change in the Islamic Republic, by Blake Atwood. Columbia University Press, 2016. 280pp., Pb. $30.00/£24.00 ISBN-13: 9780231178174; Hb. $90.00/£70.00 ISBN-13: 9780231178167.</p>
2019-10-23T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2019 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/13562Writing Iran from Exile2023-02-09T13:27:50+00:00Arash Davari
<p>A Social History of Iranian Cinema, vol. 1: The Artisanal Era, 1897-1941. by Hamid Naficy. Duke University Press, 2011. 456pp., Pb. $28.95 ISBN-13: 9780822347750.</p> <p>A Social History of Iranian Cinema, vol. 2: The Industrializing Years, 1941-1978, by Hamid Naficy. Duke University Press, 2011. 560pp., Pb. $29.95. ISBN-13: 9780822347743.</p> <p>A Social History of Iranian Cinema, vol. 3: The Islamicate Period, 1978-1984. by Hamid Naficy. Duke University Press, 2012. 288pp., Pb. $25.95. ISBN-13: 9780822348771.</p> <p>A Social History of Iranian Cinema, vol. 4: The Globalizing Era, 1984-2010. by Hamid Naficy. Duke University Press, 2012. 664 pp., Pb. $32.95. ISBN-13: 9780822348788.</p>
2019-10-23T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2019 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/13560Hollywood Cosmopolitanisms and the Occult Resonance of Cinema2023-02-09T13:24:52+00:00Alireza Doostdar
<p>This article examines various circulations of Hollywood productions in Iran and the ways in which audiences, critics, cultural administrators, and activists relate to them. I am particularly concerned with what I call “Hollywood cosmopolitanisms,” forms of receptivity to religious and cultural others as mediated by the U.S. film industry. Rather than dividing attitudes toward Hollywood in terms of openness and refusal, or cosmopolitanism and counter-cosmopolitanism, I suggest that we attend to different modes of openness: those that are overtly acknowledged, those that are concealed, and those that pass altogether unrecognized but make their mark in the form of “occult resonance.”</p>
2019-10-23T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2019 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/13559Early Islamic Cosmopolitanism? Constructing the 'Umma of India in Pre-Mongol Muslim Scholarship2023-02-09T13:20:29+00:00Edmund Hayes
<p>This article analyzes possible avenues for the study of a pre-Mongol Islamic cosmopolitanism. The ways in which the archetypically idolatrous land of India is treated by Islamicate thinkers of the 'Abbasid empire and after illuminates an Islamic cosmopolitanism that managed to incorporate the other into its view of human history and religious history. Two major fields for the generation of cosmopolitan ideas are analyzed: narratives drawn from historiography, and taxonomies erected by theological-heresiographical works. Both frameworks rely on a Muslim model of history and society in which divine truth and guidance are mediated to the communities ('umma, 'umam) of the world firstly by a prophet, but also by sages and philosopher-kings: figures who play important roles in Muslim accounts of India. Through applying these “universal” categories to Indian subject-matter, Muslim thinkers were able to depict Indians as partners in the human struggle to attain and preserve truth, albeit falling short of the Muslim community in various ways. In both the historiographical and the heresiographical fields, cosmopolitan and anti-cosmopolitan trends are observable. By incorporating Indian narratives into a universalizing historical vision, Mas'udi can best be seen to approach a cosmopolitan sensibility among thinkers within historiographic discourse. Biruni goes furthest among the thinkers working within a theological-heresiographical framework in analogizing Indian philosophy with Muslim thought. It is argued that both thinkers achieve a kind of cosmopolitanism only through an elitist denigration of the commoners of their communities. In addition, their cosmopolitanism was predicated on imperial expansionism into India.</p>
2019-10-23T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2019 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/13558“The Necessary Ornaments of Place”2023-02-09T13:05:26+00:00Mana Kia
<p>This article analyzes representations of place in seventeenth-century texts to consider how early modern Persians made sense of the world. The Persian formulation of alterity stands in contrast to Edward Said’s formulation about Orientalism, by which Europe makes itself into the West. In early modern Persianate Asia, common representations of place appear in geographical and travel writing. These shared features, which I call ornaments, adorned both places that shared a learned Persian language, Muslim rule, and those beyond, in other parts of Asia and Africa. The presence or absence of these ornaments made the world intelligible for early modern Persians, creating categories of similarity and alterity that were partial, diffuse, and aporetic, defying the self-other distinctions of Orientalism. This form of knowledge about the self and the world then generated the possibility for encounters different from both modern colonial power and the nation-state.</p>
2019-10-23T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2019 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/13554The Special Iranian Issue2023-02-09T12:41:56+00:00Ulrika Mårtensson2019-10-23T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2019 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/13557Aristotle and Iranian Ethicists2023-02-09T12:55:08+00:00Mohammad Jafar Amir Mahallati
<p>From Aristotle to the end of the Middle Ages, friendship was considered to be a core notion in Western political philosophy. However, as Von Heyking and Avramenko argue, friendship has lost its prominent politico-philosophical status in the modern era, particularly in the Western liberal tradition. In the Muslim tradition, and specifically in the history of Iranian thought, friendship as a moral paradigm went through a different course of development. In this article, I will present a comparative view of friendship as reflected in the works of Aristotle and three major Iranian ethicists: Abu 'Ali Ahmad Miskawayh (d. 1030), Abu'l-Qasim Husayn al-Raghib al-Isfahani (d. ca. 1108) and Nasir al-Din Tusi (d. 1274). I will examine friendship-related perspectives rooted in the Irano-Islamic philosophical traditions that represent a significant but overlooked dimension of Iranian cosmopolitanism valuable for modern peacemaking approaches beyond such concepts as: “justice before peace,” “liberal peace” and “cold peace.”</p>
2019-10-23T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2019 Equinox Publishing Ltd.https://journal.equinoxpub.com/CIS/article/view/12588Dr. Arthur Buehler obituary2023-02-09T12:37:51+00:00Marcia K Hermansen
<p>Comparative Islamic Studies mourns the loss of editorial board member, Dr. Arthur Buehler, who passed away in Tucson, Arizona April 1, 2019. Before pursuing his doctorate at Harvard University under Annemarie Schimmel, he had mastered the Arabic language and spent several years in Yemen and Oman teaching English. Before his retirement Dr. Buehler had been Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He had also taught Islamic Studies at several American Universities.</p> <p>Art Buehler was a scholar of Sufism, especially the Persianate Sufism of South and Central Asia. In addition to numerous articles, his books include: Sufi Heirs of the Prophet: The Indian Naqshbandiyya and the Rise of the Mediating Sufi Shaykh (1998); Revealed Grace: The Juristic Sufism of Ahmad Sirhindi, 1564–1624 (2011), and Recognizing Sufism: Contemplation in the Islamic Tradition (2016).</p>
2019-08-28T00:00:00+00:00Copyright (c) 2019 Equinox Publishing Ltd.