This volume provides a visual and descriptive overview of the Muslim presence in India, highlighting their historical, cultural, and religious contributions. Through curated photographs and explanatory captions, the book showcases important monuments, artistic traditions, sacred sites, and communal celebrations of Indian Muslims. Produced for the Ministry of External Affairs, it emphasizes the …
Shafique Ali Khan's Two-Nation Theory: As Concept, Strategy, and Ideology is a comprehensive and scholarly study of one of the most influential ideas behind the partition of India in 1947. Khan examines the "Two-Nation Theory" not as a mere historical accident, but as a well-developed ideological construct, a political strategy, and a concept rooted in religion and nationalism. He traces its or…
Based on a decade of research in Indonesia, this book provides an in-depth account of the military's struggle to adapt to the new democratic system after the downfall of Suharto's authoritarian regime in 1998. Unlike other studies of the Indonesian armed forces, which focus exclusively on internal military developments, Mietzner's study emphasizes the importance of conflicts among civilians in …
Buku ini memuat pembahasan singkat mengenai komunitas muslim sebagai minoritas di beberapa negara Eropa (Perancis, Jerman, Belanda, Inggris, Spanyol, Italia, dan Rusia), Amerika Serikat, China, Afrika Selatan dan Australia. Aspek-aspek yang diuraikan antara lain ialah sejarah singkat, demografi organisasi-organisasi dan masalah-masalah yang dihadapi oleh umat Islam di masing-masing negara, sepe…
Although their plight now dominates television news worldwide, The Bosnian Muslims were until recently virtually unknown outside of Yugoslavia. This meticously researched, comprehensive book traces the turbulent history of the Bosnian Muslims and shows how their mixed secular and religious idenity has shaped the conflict in which they are now so tragically embroiled.
An increasing amount of research is now coming out on southern Thailand, but Joseph Liow's Islam, Education and Reform in Southern Thailand: Tradition and Transformation, is the first full-length monograph in English to focus on the state of Islamic education in the region today. Liow's study is a detailed introduction to the subject. The research for Liow's Islam, Education and Reform in South…
In the course of the dialogue it transpired that despite their different standpoints the participants had a common horizon of shared problems, a sense of being together in the name of God, and a deep religious commitment to the need for common action in respect of the disturbing world affairs. At the end of the meeting it was agreed upon to act as a common study group duty-bound to deal with th…
The work sets the general, historical and social framework in which the Malagasy adventure of a “foreign minority” took place. This book will in fact be about a Sunni Muslim community in Madagascar (a minority compared to the Khodja Shiites), a Creole-speaking community of some six hundred people established for more than a hundred years in Tamatave, the country's first port, capital of the…
The life of this world focuses on the ways in which Muslims in predominantly non-Muslim Thailand have to constantly "negotiate" and "renegotiate" their lives as a minority group. Challenges to their faith and their identity as Muslims abound in Thai society, and through various means of negotiation, Muslims strive to maintain their links to society at the local, national, and global levels.
Peluang usaha produk halal masih terbuka bagi produsen Indonesia, menyusul tren permintaan produk halal yang terus meningkat dari tahun ke tahun. Indonesia sebagai negra berpenduduk muslim terbesar seharusnya bisa menangkap peluang tersebut, bukan melulu melakukan impor produk halal dari negara-negara non muslim. Ini penting dilakukan mengingat kepedulian akan sertifikasi halal merupakan salah …