The current AJISS issue opens with an editorial that draws attention to the plight of the Uyghur Muslims of East Turkestan facing sustained Chinese government persecution. The issue then features two main articles.
The first article, by Dr. Mohammad Syifa Amin Widigdo, argues that the Aristotelian dialectic was adopted within medieval Islamic theology and law and Christian scholasticism toward distinctive purposes: the Greeks aimed to defeat an opponent by showing logical contradictions, Christian scholastics searched for the truth by bringing out the preexisting truth in the mind of the teacher, and Muslim dialecticians employed it to arrive at a level of certainty in knowledge in both epistemological and psychological senses.
The second article reports multi-author empirical research by Drs. Bartkowski, Acevedo, Karakeci, and Campbell on the analysis of data extracted from the World Values Survey. It investigates early twenty-first century religious influences on Turkish Muslim women’s attitudes toward gender inequality, hypothesizing that religious devotion among Muslim women in Turkey is associated with greater support for gender inequality across the institutional domains of family.
Finally, following the book reviews, the issue includes an extensive and erudite response by Professor Sherman Jackson to some crucial and timely issues raised by Professor Kecia Ali, who has argued that Muslim male scholars often omit, overlook, undervalue, or dismiss the scholarly views and interventions of female scholars. Jackson’s response is thoughtful, engaging, and respectful, even if it refuses to grant the premise of Ali’s argument.
Edtiorial
Editorial
Abstract 539 | PDF Downloads 200 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.856Page vii-xiv
Articles
Aristotelian Dialectic, Medieval Jadal, and Medieval Scholastic Disputation
Abstract 1212 | PDF Downloads 856 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.106Page 1-24
Islam and Support for Gender Inequality among Women in Turkey
Abstract 2360 | PDF Downloads 652 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.127Page 25-55
Book Reviews
Twelve Infallible Men: The Imams and the Making of Shi‘ism
Abstract 798 | PDF Downloads 273 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.470Page 56-59
Qur’anic Pictures of the Universe: The Scriptural Foundation of Islamic Cosmology
Abstract 645 | PDF Downloads 459 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.472Page 62-62
Pilgrimage in Islam: Traditional and Modern Practices
Abstract 2900 | PDF Downloads 518 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.474Page 62-64
Palestine…It Is Something Colonial
Abstract 1063 | PDF Downloads 665 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.475Page 64-67
Women in the Qur’an: An Emancipatory Reading
Abstract 1620 | PDF Downloads 1197 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.476Page 68-71
Turkey’s July 15th Coup: What Happened and Why
Abstract 659 | PDF Downloads 178 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.477Page 72-75
The Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī (Volume 1)
Abstract 661 | PDF Downloads 316 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.478Page 75-78
The Fatimids: The Rise of a Muslim Empire
Abstract 1157 | PDF Downloads 942 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.479Page 79-83
The Theological Thought of Fazlur Rahman: A Modern Mutakallim
Abstract 2063 | PDF Downloads 570 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.480Page 83-86
Forum
The Alchemy of Domination, 2.0?1 A Response to Professor Kecia Ali
Abstract 776 | PDF Downloads 670 | DOI https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v35i4.857Page 87-117