SOCIOLOGY OF ISLAM & MUSLIM SOCIETIES
Summer 2009 - Newsletter No. 4 - ISSN:1942-7948
We are launching a new issue of the Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies Newsletter. In the current issue, you will find an introduction by Dr. Charles Kurzman, three short articles by Rachel Woodlock, Yoginder Sikand and Leon Moosavi, an interview with Dr. Tzvi Langermann on Islam and Islamic Studies in Israel, a book review by Khaldoun Samman, and asummary of a lecture on Afghanistan, by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi. We have also expanded our network (Sociology of Islam Mailing List), and will be transitioning our publication and mailing list to Portland State University in the Fall of 2009.
We hope that you will enjoy reading the diverse views on Islam and Muslim Societies from the sociological perspective provided in the newsletter.
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This new issue contains the following articles:
1. Introduction, Charles Kurzman
2. An Interview with Dr. Y. Tzvi Langermann on Islamic Studies and Islam in Israel, by Tugrul Keskin and Najm al-Din Yousefi
3. The Islamicity of Different Interpretations of Ḥijab, by Rachel Woodlock
4. Representation of Islam and Muslims by the British Government Between 2001 and 2007, by Leon Moosavi
5. Scholarly Research in the Madrassa: A Brief Overview, by Maulana Waris Mazhari (Translated by Yoginder Sikand)
6. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi's lecture on the US Foreign Policy and Afghanistan: The Colonial Market for Afghan Languages, by Lindsay N. Meath
7. A New Book: The Clash of Modernities: The Islamist Challenge and the Making and Unmaking of the "New" Jew, Arab, and Turk, by Khaldoun Samman
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