Ibn Khaldun University conference proceedings on Shaykh Muhammed Mustafa El-Azami (rahimahu Allah)

 (With studies in Arabic, Turkish and English)

https://www.amazon.com/Muhammed-Mustafa-El-Azami-Kolektif/dp/6058075254/

تخميس ابن العربي لقصيدة لذّة العيش لأبي مدين الغوث

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Moving the Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an forward: an interview with Johanna Pink

 https://blog.brill.com/humanitiesmatter/johanna_pink_on_relaunching_encyclopaedia_of_the_quran.html

Professor Sohaira Siddiqui: Rethinking Dichotomies: Beyond Continuity and Rupture in Islamic Law in the Colonial Period

 https://islamiclaw.blog/2021/01/04/rethinking-dichotomies-beyond-continuity-and-rupture-in-islamic-law-in-the-colonial-period/

Islamicate Book Reviews 4: Rediscovering the Islamic Classics by Ahmed El Shamsy

https://youtu.be/mRUTDRYmMqM

New Book: "To Bring the Good News to All Nations: Evangelical Influence on Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Relations" (Cornel University Press, 2020)

When American evangelicals flocked to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century to fulfill their Biblical mandate for global evangelism, their experiences abroad led them to engage more deeply in foreign policy activism at home. Lauren Frances Turek tracks these trends and illuminates the complex and significant ways in which religion shaped America's role in the late–Cold War world. In To Bring the Good News to All Nations, she examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s, assesses the effectiveness of Christian efforts to attain foreign aid for favored regimes, and considers how those same groups promoted the imposition of economic and diplomatic sanctions on those nations that stifled evangelism.

Using archival materials from both religious and government sources, To Bring the Good News to All Nations links the development of evangelical foreign policy lobbying to the overseas missionary agenda. Turek's case studies—Guatemala, South Africa, and the Soviet Union—reveal the extent of Christian influence on American foreign policy from the late 1970s through the 1990s. Evangelical policy work also reshaped the lives of Christians overseas and contributed to a reorientation of U.S. human rights policy. Efforts to promote global evangelism and support foreign brethren led activists to push Congress to grant aid to favored, yet repressive, regimes in countries such as Guatemala while imposing economic and diplomatic sanctions on nations that persecuted Christians, such as the Soviet Union. This advocacy shifted the definitions and priorities of U.S. human rights policies with lasting repercussions that can be traced into the twenty-first century.

https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501748912/to-bring-the-good-news-to-all-nations/ 

 

Riyadh: "Over 100 mosque preachers fired for violating directives on Brotherhood" 12/15/20

 The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance has terminated the services of more than 100 mosque imams and preachers in the Makkah region for their negligence of the ministry’s directives to warn against the dangers of the Muslim Brotherhood in the Friday sermon. A number of preachers in the Qassim region were also sacked, according to a report in Al-Watan newspaper.

https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/601474 

Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl (UCLA and Usuli Institute) Receives American Academy of Religion (AAR)'s Martin E Marty Award (December 7 2020)

https://youtu.be/lu4VTUCdfyw

Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl is the recipient of the American Academy of Religion 2020 Martin E. Marty Award. Press release as follows: "Khaled Abou El Fadl, Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor in Islamic Law at the UCLA School of Law and Chair of the Islamic Studies Interdepartmental Program at UCLA, is the recipient of the 2020 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion. "In announcing the award, Evan Berry, chair of the AAR’s Committee on the Public Understanding of Religion (CPUR) acknowledged the award “identifies extraordinary, relevant, broad-reaching contributions to the public understanding of religion. We recognize Dr. Abou El Fadl’s influences inside and outside of the academy.” "At the UCLA School of Law, Abou El Fadl teaches International Human Rights, Islamic Jurisprudence, National Security Law, Law and Terrorism, Islam and Human Rights, Political Asylum, and Political Crimes and Legal Systems. The committee cited and commended his intellectual courage, ability to write for non-specialist audiences, longstanding commitment to human rights, and willingness to bring academic expertise to bear on the complex religious and political dynamics that have characterized the post-9/11 era." "The AAR Marty Award celebrates individuals whose work has a relevance and eloquence that speaks, not just to scholars, but more broadly to other publics as well. Founded in 1909, the AAR is the world’s largest association of religion scholars with some 8,000 members in North America and abroad. The AAR’s mission is to foster excellence in the academic study of religion and enhance the public understanding of religion."

Leila Fadel (NPR): "Muslim Communities Divided Over Abuse Allegations Against Popular Preacher" (11/22/20) [re: NAK and Mad Mamluks]

 https://www.npr.org/2020/11/22/937804223/muslim-communities-divided-over-abuse-allegations-against-popular-preacher

H.A. Hellyer (Foreign Policy): "Macron’s Not Worried About Islam. He’s Worried About Le Pen." (10/8/20)

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/08/macrons-not-worried-about-islam-hes-worried-about-le-pen/