Sociology of Islam & Muslim Societies Newsletter (Spring 2008 - Fall 2011) was published three times a year. The newsletter published Islam and Muslim Societies related news at Virginia Tech, and in general. This included information about conferences, panels, and original peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the sociological, political, anthropological, historical and other aspects of Islam and Muslim societies across all times and places.
The newsletter, is now published by Brill and can be found online at: http://www.brill.com/publications/journals/sociology-islam
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Sociology of Islam & Muslim Societies, Newsletter No. 1
Tugrul Keskin and Gary Wood
Table of Contents:
- Welcome
- Dr. Kemal Silay’s at Virginia Tech
- Upcoming Conferences and Web Sites of Interest
- Forthcoming Edited Volume: Survey of Islamic Ideas and the Sociology of Islam & Muslim Societies
- Subscriber Statistics
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Sociology of Islam & Muslim Societies, Newsletter No. 2
Tugrul Keskin and Gary Wood
Table of Contents:
- Feminism in Kuwait by Meredith Katz
- Research Abstracts and Updates: Babak Rahimi on Public Islam in Iraq; Thomas Pierret on Ulema in Modern Islam; CESS 2008 Islam Panel Neo-Imperialism and the Promotion of Democracy in Central Asia; and ASA 2008, Boston Islam and Muslim Societies Panels and Roundtables
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Sociology of Islam & Muslim Societies, Newsletter No. 3
Tugrul Keskin
Table of Contents:
- Interview with Sherry Jones on Her Novel “The Jewel of Medina”, Islam and Free Speech
- The Strange Case of the UIJ, or the evolutions of Uzbek Jihadism by Didier Chaudet
- 'Hizb ut-Tahrir in Uzbekistan: A Postcolonial Perspective' by Reed Taylor Islamic Banking by Husnul Amin
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Sociology of Islam & Muslim Societies, Newsletter No. 4
Tugrul Keskin
Table of Content:
- Introduction, Charles Kurzman
- An Interview with Dr. Y. Tzvi Langermann on Islamic Studies and Islam in Israel by Tugrul Keskin and Najm al-Din Yousefi
- The Islamicity of Different Interpretations of ḤIJĀB by Rachel Woodlock
- Representation of Islam and Muslims by the British Government Between 2001 and 2007 by Leon Moosavi
- Scholarly Research in the Madrassa: A Brief Overview by Maulana Waris Mazhari (Translated by Yoginder Sikand)
- Shah Mahmoud Hanifi’s lecture on the US Foreign Policy and Afghanistan: The Colonial Market for Afghan Languages by Lindsay N. Meath
- A New Book: The Clash of Modernities: The Islamist Challenge and the Making and Unmaking of the "New" Jew, Arab, and Turk by Khaldoun Samman
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Sociology of Islam & Muslim Societies, Newsletter No. 5
Tugrul Keskin
Table of Contents:
- Introduction by Tugrul Keskin and Najm al-Din Yousefi
- Reflections on Democracy, Non-Violence and Political Change in Iran by Nader Hashemi - Page 3
- An Interview with Iranian Political Scientist Hossein Bashiriyeh by Danny Postel - Page 6
- The role of religious agents in modern Iran by Wladimir van Wilgenburg - Page 24
- Identity Narratives among Second-Generation Iranians in the United States by Sahar Sadeghi - Page 28
- Writers’ Inferno, Ivayla Datseva - Page 32
- Iran-Yemen Relations and Regional Implications by Ladan Yazdian - Page 39
- Reconstructions, Reform and Ahmadinejad: Iran’s Political Revolutions 1989-2009 by Marcus W. Dorsen - Page 44
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Sociology of Islam & Muslim Societies, Newsletter No. 6
Tugrul Keskin
Table of Contents:
- Neo-Orientalism and Co-Optation in American Academia by Tugrul Keskin and Reed Taylor
- Islam and Identity among Uyghurs by Mettursun Beydulla
- Islamism Between the Political Dialectic and the Societal Reality by Abdennour Toumi
- Islam in Politics, not Islamic Politics by Shane Joshua Barter
- Taming The Tigers: Gender Relations and The Cultural Geneaology of Neocolonialism in Afghanistan by Nathaniel A. Davis
- Women, Islam, and Gender Inequality in post-conflict Aceh, Indonesia by Reed Taylor
- A Dissenting Voice on Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law by Yoginder Sikand
- A Book Review: The Afghanistan Challenge: Hard Realities and Strategic Choices by Fatemeh Shayan
- A Book Review: Nader Hashemi’s Islam, Secularism & Liberal Democracy by Sheena Sharma
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Sociology of Islam & Muslim Societies, Newsletter No. 7
Tugrul Keskin
Table of Contents:
- Social and Political Transformations in the Middle East by Umit Kurt and Oguz Alyanak
- The Political Economy of Turkey’s Response to the Arab Spring by Altay Atli
- Footsteps of Revolution in the Land of Queen Sheba by Bezen Balamir Coskun
- Two Sides of the Same Coin; Conflicting Views of Islamism in Pakistan by Jeanette Bailey
- Egypt and the "Arab Spring": Notes on Facts and Challenges by Moises Garduño García
- The Arab Spring and the Turkish Model by Alper Y. Dede
- Will Geopolitics Split Along Sectarian Lines in the Middle East? Witnessing the Rise of a Sectarian Speech Amidst War of Perceptions by Camille Germanos
- Turkey as a Model Democracy? Revisiting the Turkish Referendum by Umit Kurt and Oguz Alyanak
- Academic tourists sight-seeing the Arab Spring by Mona Abaza
- Review of ‘Islam: To Reform or to Subvert’ by Mohammed Arkoun (Saqi Books, 2006) by Imranali Panjwani