New Issue of The Muslim World Available

The Muslim World journal, which reaches subscribers in 65 countries and has been connected with Hartford Seminary since 1938, has a new issue available. Two of the articles were written by Hartford Seminary faculty members — Profs. Yahya Michot and Feryal Salem.

The Muslim World is c0-edited by Profs. Yahya Michot and Timur Yuskaev, and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This scholarly journal is dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of scholarly research on Islam and Muslim societies and on historical and current aspects of Christian-Muslim relations. The journal includes research articles on historical and contemporary topics, comparative essays, and book reviews. At least one issue each year is devoted to a unifying theme

In the latest issue, articles include:

• Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Response to Sharaf al-Dīn al-Mas῾ūdī’s Critical Commentary on Avicenna’s Ishārāt (pages 1–61) by Ayman Shihadeh

• Duncan Macdonald’s Pioneering Study of al-Ghazālī: Paths Not Taken (pages 62–70) by Kenneth Garden

• The Roots and Achievements of the Early Proto-Sunni Movement: A Profile and Interpretation (pages 71–88) by Matthew J. Kuiper

• Taqiyya as Polemic, Law and Knowledge: Following an Islamic Legal Term through the Worlds of Islamic Scholars, Ethnographers, Polemicists and Military Men(pages 89–108) by Yarden Mariuma

• Ibn Taymiyya’s Critique of Shī῾ī Imāmology : Translation of Three Sections of his Minhāj al-Sunna (pages 109–149) by Yahya M. Michot

• Muslim Selbstverständnis: Ahmet Davutoğlu answers Husserl’s Crisis of European Sciences (pages 150–170) by Scott Morrison

• Proselytizing Islam — Problematizing “Salafism” (pages 171–197) by Susanne Olsson

• Freewill, Qadar, and Kasb in the Epistle of Ḥasan al-Baṣrī to ῾Abd al-Malik (pages 198–219) by Feryal Salem

Book reviews include:

• The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity’s Moral Predicament – By Wael B. Hallaq (pages 220–223).  Usaama al-Azami

• The Night Journey and Ascension in Islam: The Reception of Religious Narrative in Sunni, Shi᾽i and Western Culture – By R.P. Buckley and I.B. Tauris (pages 223–225). Kemal Argon

• In Search of the Sacred: A Conversation with Seyyed Hossein Nasr on His Life and Thought – By Ramin Jahanbegloo (pages 225–227). Caner Dagli

• Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road – By Johan Elverskog (pages 228–230). Kieko Obuse

• Allah: A Christian Response – By Miroslav Volf (pages 231–233). Steven G. Smith