by AZEEM IBRAHIM for INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING on MAY 8, 2013: (Summary Excerpt) Leaders in Tunisia and Egypt have acknowledged Turkey as a potential model for their emerging democracies due to its ability to balance Islam and democracy. Rashid Ghannouchi, leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda Party, views Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party [...]
by SHEHZAD H. QAZI for INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING on FEBRUARY 19, 2013: (excerpt from introduction to policy brief) On December 22, 2012, a Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber assassinated Bashir Ahmad Bilour, a senior member of Pakistan’s secular Awami National Party (ANP) and a vocal opponent of the Taliban. Just three months before, the Taliban in Swat [...]
by H.A. HELLYER for AL ARABIYA on MARCH 24, 2013: Religion. It is not the paradigm through which people ought to explain everything about the Arab world. Yet, the reality is, religion is an important influence upon the cultures of this region. Whether one is a Muslim, a Christian or a Jew, their religious identity [...]
by CYNTHIA ARFKEN, SAMEERA AHMED, and WAHIBA ABU-RAS (ISPU Fellows) for ISPU on MARCH 12, 2013: (Executive Summary Excerpt) Alcohol abuse is a costly social and public health problem. To reduce its consequences, the United States has invested substantial resources to document use and abuse, monitor changes within demographic groups, and intervene. However, the data collected in all [...]
by KATHLEEN E. JENKINS for SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION on FEBRUARY 18, 2013: Islamic Divorce in North America: A Shari’a Path in a Secular Society (Oxford University Press, 2012) Julie Macfarlane explores how North American Muslim communities manage marriage and divorce processes. She draws from interviews with 212 Muslims in the United States and Canada, including imams, religious [...]
by RICHARD W. BULLIET for INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL POLICY AND UNDERSTANDING and THE BRITISH COUNCIL on DECEMBER 14, 2013: (Report Summary Excerpt) The phrase “Islamo-Christian civilization” first appeared in 2004 in the book The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization by historian Richard W. Bulliet. It was coined with a two-fold purpose. First, in the aftermath of [...]
