In this analytical article, we will examine the challenges and pathological problems of living in a Coronavirus-stricken world based on the practical theology foundations of Mulla Sadra (the seventeenth-century Iranian Muslim theosopher). The …

In this article, I show how a group of Iranian Muslims in Trump-era rural Kentucky conceptualize their Islamic practices in relation to the dominant American social, political, racial, and economic norms to compromise Americanness with Muslimness …

This article examines a contemporary Muslim sacred placemaking in a predominantly Balinese Hindu society in the largest Muslim country Indonesia. Through a series of ethnographic fieldworks, it specifically addresses the practice of the sacred …

Most academic scholars of the Muslim Brotherhood and like-minded Islamist organisations seem to agree that these groups have come to accept the nation state and the rules of the democratic game over the past few decades. At the same time, several …

The outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic drew attention to God and religion in confrontation with natural disasters. An undeniable fact about Islamic Republic of Iran is that the country is subject to severe international sanctions. The prevalence …

The aim of this study is to investigate factors associated with the applications of child marriage dispensation submitted to the Religious Courts during the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia, particularly in 2019–2021. The number of child marriage …

This article thoroughly investigates Boko Haram’s (BH) evolving stance towards Muslims, particularly in northern Nigeria, unveiling distinct phases of engagement. It asserts that BH’s transformation into a covert entity, driven by state …

As a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the entire world is shattering. Maintaining social distancing at its different levels has been demonstrated as a key measure to minimize coronavirus transmission. In Islam, religious congregations are …

The COVID-19 pandemic is not the first such global crisis. It is also far from the worst the world has known. Bubonic plague is far deadlier. Untreated, mortality rates from bubonic plague are approximately 66%. Center for Disease Control and …

From the 1980s, revisionist Sunni Islamist thinkers have engaged in a hermeneutical effort to argue for the full acceptance of non-Muslims as equal political participants and citizens in an Islamic polity. A key text in their argument is the …

This study aims to examine the relationship between acceptance of the COVID-19 pandemic control measures, emotions and social interaction among Muslims attending congregational prayer at mosques in Malaysia. A cross-sectional study was conducted …

This paper examines why the MB was cautious in its revision of views on women under Anwar Sadat when it was, at the same time, changing the way it dealt with politics and the issue of revolutionary violence, by looking at the movement’s view on …

Some proponents of new atheism, including Dawkins, claim that religion, especially Islam, is the cause of the war because it encourages divisiveness and labeling. In this article, in the first step, I will show that Islam is not the cause of war …

The concept of an Islamic state has often been criticized on account of its failure to articulate full and equal citizenship for non-Muslims. It is also often assumed that non-Muslims in Islamic societies would want a form of individualist …