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Islam and the Drive to Global Justice: Principles of Justice Beyond Dominant Ethnic and Religious Communities is a 2023 edited volume edited by Louay M. Safi, published by Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield). The book brings together contributions from ten scholars, including Asma Afsaruddin, Mustafa Akyol, Armando Salvatore and Mohammed Abu-Nimer, to examine the relationship between Islam and the pursuit of global justice (Safi, 2023). The work situates Islamic justice discourse within contemporary debates on globalization, universality and the policies of global powers towards Muslim populations in the Global South (Safi, 2023, p. 4).Continue ...
Muharram (Arabic: ٱلْمُحَرَّم) is the first month of the Islamic calendar. It is one of the four sacred months of the year in which warfare is forbidden. For Shia Muslims, Muharram is a period of intense mourning and remembrance that commemorates the Battle of Karbala, in which Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and most of his male relatives and companions were killed by the forces of the Umayyad caliph, Yazid I on the tenth day of the month, known as Ashura. Over the centuries, the observances of Muharram have travelled far from their origins at Karbala and have developed into a significant set of rituals with profound social, political, cultural, and artistic dimensions (Chelkowski, 2010). This event is central to Shia religious identity and practice, with rituals during Muharram serving to express grief, reaffirm loyalty to Husayn, and reflect on themes of sacrifice and justice.Continue ...
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On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam is a 2002 book by Sherman A. Jackson that presents an annotated translation of the classical Islamic text Fayṣal al-Tafriqa Bayna al-Islam wa al-Zandaqa (The Decisive Criterion for Distinguishing Islam from Masked Infidelity) by the renowned medieval theologian Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111). The work includes a substantial introductory essay that situates al-Ghazālī's treatise within its historical and theological context and argues for its contemporary relevance to intra-Muslim discourse on orthodoxy and heresy (Jackson, 2002).Continue ...
