25 Jaar Midden-Oosten en Islam Studies in Nederland

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25 jaar Midden-Oosten en Islam Studies in Nederland

Sharqiyy�t jaargang 15, nummer 1-2, 2003
Nederlandse Vereniging voor de Studie van het Midden-Oosten en Islam (MOI)
Sharqiyy�t is een uitgave van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor de Studie van het Midden-Oosten en Islam (MOI). Het themanummer “25 jaar Midden-Oosten en Islamstudies is een bundeling van twaalf artikelen. Dit 262 pagina’s tellende nummer biedt een schets van de voornaamste ontwikkelingen sinds 1975 op een aantal voor de MOI relevante terreinen. Er is aandacht voor de traditionelere vakgebieden van de Arabische taal- en letterkunde, de Iranistiek en de studie van de islam in Indonesi�. Ook de studie met betrekking tot de dialoog tussen islam en Christendom heeft al een lange traditie in Nederland, en dus een plek in deze uitgave. Daarnaast bevat de bundel bijdragen over vakgebieden die juist in de afgelopen 25 jaar tot ontwikkeling of bloei zijn gekomen: de studie van het Berbers, van de islam in Afrika, van genderstudies, van de politieke wetenschappen en van de antropologie. Ook zijn er nog twee artikelen over instituten in Cairo en Damascus. Kortom: een ‘must have’ voor iedere wetenschapper, journalist en anderszins ge�nteresseerden in islam en het Midden-Oosten.
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The War for Muslim Minds – Are the Jihadists losing the war? Gilles Kepel thinks so

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Categories: Research International.

UCLA International Institute :: Are the Jihadists Losing the War? Gilles Kepel Thinks So

“Despite car bombings, beheadings, and kidnappings, French scholar Gilles Kepel says the jihadists are losing their hold on the Muslim masses. A professor at l’Institut d’�tudes Politiques in Paris, Kepel visited UCLA September 30 to discuss his new book, The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West (Harvard University Press, 2004). “Jihad in the 1990s failed,” Kepel declared, and the spectacular actions plotted by Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants have not turned that tide, no matter how shattering they have been. Kepel’s talk, in a conference room in Bunche Hall to an overflow crowd, was sponsored by the International Institute’s Center for Near Eastern Studies. It was chaired by political science professor Leonard Binder, a well-known Middle East scholar and acting director of the Near Eastern Center.”
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Reactions to Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi's Fatwa Calling for the Abduction and Killing of American Civilians in Iraq

Posted on October 9th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Internal Debates.

MEMRI: Latest News

“At a convention on the subject of “Pluralism in Islam” which took place in late August, 2004 at the Egyptian Journalists’ Union in Cairo, Sheikh Dr. Yousef Al-Qaradhawi, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood movement and one of the most important religious authorities in Islamist circles, issued a religious legal opinion permitting the abduction and killing of American civilians in Iraq in order to pressure the American army to evacuate its forces. Al-Qaradhawi stressed the fact that in his view, “all of the Americans in Iraq are combatants, there is no difference between civilians and soldiers, and one should fight them, since the American civilians came to Iraq in order to serve the occupation. The abduction and killing of Americans in Iraq is a [religious] obligation so as to cause them to leave Iraq immediately. The mutilation of corpses [however] is forbidden in Islam.”

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Reactions to Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi’s Fatwa Calling for the Abduction and Killing of American Civilians in Iraq

Posted on October 9th, 2004 by .
Categories: Internal Debates.

MEMRI: Latest News

“At a convention on the subject of “Pluralism in Islam” which took place in late August, 2004 at the Egyptian Journalists’ Union in Cairo, Sheikh Dr. Yousef Al-Qaradhawi, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood movement and one of the most important religious authorities in Islamist circles, issued a religious legal opinion permitting the abduction and killing of American civilians in Iraq in order to pressure the American army to evacuate its forces. Al-Qaradhawi stressed the fact that in his view, “all of the Americans in Iraq are combatants, there is no difference between civilians and soldiers, and one should fight them, since the American civilians came to Iraq in order to serve the occupation. The abduction and killing of Americans in Iraq is a [religious] obligation so as to cause them to leave Iraq immediately. The mutilation of corpses [however] is forbidden in Islam.”

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Contending Visions of the Middle East

Posted on October 9th, 2004 by .
Categories: Important Publications.

Palestine Chronicle
“The book is without a doubt a forceful presentation of the route taken by western Islamic studies, and allows the reader alternating viewpoints..”

Contending Visions of the Middle East � The History and Politics of Orientalism, Zachary Lockman. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 2004. 308 pages.

Reviewed by Jim Miles
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British imam on Kenneth Bigley�and how European Muslims should respond to hostage situations

Posted on October 9th, 2004 by .
Categories: Islamnews.

A British imam on Kenneth Bigley�and how European Muslims should respond to hostage situations

Too late, but still worthwile: Hussain met with NEWSWEEK�s Marie Valla in a London mosque today to discuss his mission and how European Muslims should respond to the hostage situation.

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HACKERS AND RELIGION: the down of a cyber crusade?

Posted on October 9th, 2004 by .
Categories: Religious and Political Radicalization.

Zone-H.org * News

One of the most interesting of such phenomenon is the �hacking for religion� hysteria which originally started back in 2001 with the Hacking For Satana group.

http://www.zone-h.org/en/defacements/filter/filter_defacer=HFS/

At that time, I contacted them to understand the reasons behind their defacement campaign, which lasted a few months between years 2001 and 2002, we agreed on an interview which actually can be shrunk in two sentences:

SyS64738: Why �the hell� are you defacing in the name of Satanism?

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Protected: Jongerenmoskee

Posted on October 9th, 2004 by martijn.
Categories: Young Muslims.

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