We are pleased to announce the publication of AJIS 38:1-2. This issue begins with a substantive editorial by AJIS coeditor Shuruq Naguib engaging the field of gender analysis in the study of Islam. The issue then features four research articles. In the first article, Ahmad Atif Ahmad revisits the Asl/Mabsut of Muhammad al-Shaybani, offering a contemporary reading of the complex relationship between norms and consent in this foundational Islamic legal text. In the second article, Sari Hanafi analyzes the institutionalization of the project of 'Islamization of Knowledge' through a case study of the International Islamic University of Malaysia. In the third article, Rafi Rahman traces the entanglement of race, religion, and culture in the United States -- a complex terrain negotiated by Black Muslims who challenge their marginalization as Muslim Americans in the umma. In the fourth article, Saja Parvizian reconstructs Ibn Rushd's argument that al-Ghazali is an unbeliever for causing others to fall into unbelief. The issue also includes three review essays -- by Omar Anchassi, Tammy Gaber, and Dženita Karić -- and a series of reviews. It concludes with Abdullah Drury's history of New Zealand Muslim discourse and thought.

AJIS Editorial Team

Edtiorial

Islam and the Epistemic Politics of Gender

Shuruq Naguib
Abstract 3200 | PDF Downloads 1717 Pre-press PDF Downloads 1417

Articles

Fifty-Seven Tracts: Shaybānī’s (d. 189/805) Aṣl/Mabsūṭ, Twelve Centuries On

Ahmad Atif Ahmad
Abstract 7615 | PDF Downloads 855 Pre-press PDF Downloads 442

Averroës’ Takfīr of al-Ghazālı̄: Ta’wīl and Causal Kufr

Saja Parvizian
Abstract 8036 | PDF Downloads 1416 Pre-press PDF Downloads 643

From Streamlining to Mainstreaming “Islamization of Knowledge”

Sari hanafi
Abstract 9385 | PDF Downloads 1862 Pre-press PDF Downloads 671

The Dissemination and Implementation of Islam within the African American Community

Rafiqur Rahman
Abstract 10146 | PDF Downloads 733 Pre-press PDF Downloads 1335

Review Essay

Book Reviews

Defending Muhammad in Modernity (by SherAli Tareen)

Junaid S. Ahmad
Abstract 1451 | PDF Downloads 877 Pre-press PDF Downloads 1420

Saṭwat al-Naṣ: Khiṭāb al-Azhar wa Azmat al-Ḥukm (By Basma Abdel Aziz)

Muhammad Amasha
Abstract 7811 | PDF Downloads 403 Pre-press PDF Downloads 263

The Power of Education (by Jeremy Henzell-Thomas)

Madiha Patel
Abstract 1039 | PDF Downloads 632 Pre-press PDF Downloads 441

Madrasas and the Making of Islamic Womanhood (by Hem Borker)

Fella Lahmar
Abstract 8046 | PDF Downloads 564 Pre-press PDF Downloads 618

Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution (by Kevin Fogg)

Khairudin Aljunied
Abstract 910 | PDF Downloads 727 Pre-press PDF Downloads 415

Islam and Asia: A History (by Chiara Formichi)

Daniel Morgan
Abstract 948 | PDF Downloads 520 Pre-press PDF Downloads 413

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Comfortably Numb: A Short History of New Zealand Muslim Discourse and Thought

Abdullah Drury
Abstract 8667 | PDF Downloads 751 Pre-press PDF Downloads 735