Vol. 2 No. 4: July 2011

Vol. 2 No. 4

Published July 1, 2011
July 2011
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Editorial

Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Editorial
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Articles

Hamza Zeghlache
The Concept of the Centre in Islam
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Osman Bakar
The Evolving Face of Religious Tolerance in Post-Colonial Malaysia: Understanding Its Shaping Factors
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Arthur F. Buehler
Islamophobia: A Projection of the West’s ‘Dark Side’
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Mohammed Hisham Dafterdar
Toward Effective Legal Regulations and an Enabling Environment for Inalienable Muslim Endowments (Awqaf)
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Abdul Karim Abdullah
Overcoming the Weaknesses in Sukuk: Toward Risk-Sharing Instruments in Islamic Finance
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Muhammad Haniff Hassan, Sharifah Thuraiya S.A. Alhabshi
Contemporary Fiqh in Singapore: Some Observations
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Viewpoints

Karim D. Crow
Peace and Security: The Islamic Understanding
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Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Islam’s Religious Pluralism in Context
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Christoph Marcinkowski
Toward ‘Prussian Virtues’: Transforming the Civil Service in Muslim Countries into a Factor of Political Stability
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Osman Bakar
Identifying the Islam-Policies of the Predecessors of the Najib Administration: Has He Abandoned Tradition?
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Tengku Iskandar
Toward an Islamic Perspective on Creativity
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Eric Winkel
Islam, Buddhism, and the New Sciences
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Book Reviews

Christoph Marcinkowski
Augustus Richard Norton, Hezbollah: A Short History (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2009, 1st paperback printing), 199 pp. ISBN: 978-0691141077. US$9.66
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Christoph Marcinkowski
Thilo Sarrazin, Deutschland schafft sich ab: Wie wir unser Land aufs Spiel setzen [‘Germany does away with itself: How we are gambling with our country’] (Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2010, 11th printing, 2010), 464 pp. ISBN: 978-3421044303. €22.90
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Osman Bakar
Barry Wain, Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times
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Norhayati Mustapha
Seyyed Hossein Nasr (in conversation with Muzaffar Iqbal), Islam, Science, Muslims, and Technology
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Saifullah Qamar
Ziauddin Sardar (with Zafar Abbas Malik, illustrator), Introducing Islam: A Graphic Guide
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Zarina Nalla
Christopher G. Weeramantry, Tread Lightly on the Earth: Religion, the Environment, and the Human Future (Pannipitiya [Sri Lanka]: Stamford Lake, 2009), xvii, 338 pp. ISBN: 978-955-658-190-4. US$29.50
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Events and Significant Developments

Zarina Nalla
Interview with Professor John L. Esposito on Religious Pluralism in Malaysia
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Abdul Karim Abdullah
Round Table Discussions on ‘Religion in the Public Space: Europe and Malaysia’ (Kuala Lumpur, 1–2 March 2011)
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Christoph Marcinkowski
‘OIC: Perception and Achievements’, AEI Eminent Persons Lecture by Syed Hamid Albar (Kuala Lumpur, 29 March 2011)
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Abdul Karim Abdullah
‘Islamic Funds and Sukuk School’ (Kuala Lumpur, 21–24 March 2011)
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Zarina Nalla
‘International Conference and Research on the Resurgence of Religions in Southeast Asia, 1997–2011’ (Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 4–8 January 2011)
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