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ajiss-2691	al Disuqi, Rasha	Royall Tyler’s Thee Algerine Captive and the Barbary Orient”	1989-12-01	American Journal of Islam and Society; Vol. 6 No. 2 (1989): American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences; 376-378	The International Institute of Islamic Thought	eng	10.35632/ajis.v6i2.2691	https://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/download/2691/1760	The first problem is constant quotations of distorted Islamic image portrayals,and a one and a half page dialogue without evaluation. If the dialoguedoes anything, it increases hostility between Muslim and non-Muslim withoutproviding a critical Islamic evaluation. Options are: examination of sources,Orientalist roots, Tyler’s erroneous characterization, all with enhancementof Islamic values, correcting the thought process. One option the paper missesis captivity due to piracy- a Western coinage invented to cover up the West’sillegitimate attack of Muslim shores. Historically, the Muslims were on thedefensive from the previous century, when Spain and Portugal raided theirshores and persecuted Moriscos, Moroccans, and Islamic North Africa.America joined later, assuming the Muslims’ guilt. That captivity brings outan awareness of the despotic American slavery system is not the sole valueof Underhill’s experience. That he continues forming erroneous judgementsbased on racial biases is more important. The entire experience provides astroke of Islamic irony. While a Christian fails to judge Islam, Islam’s systemof equality in the eyes of God renders Underhill’s awareness stale, captivitya legend, and blindness of war purpose ignorance. Of course the issue couldbe discussed in more profundity and length. If the Islamic perspective is notbrought out, then, the casual non-Muslim reader may read the paper as anadventure of a romantic nationalist when war was a romantic enterprise. Inthis way, the Islamic thesis is lost. There has to be a definite awareness ofthe historical context of such Orientalist writings. This issue is extremely crucialfor Muslim scholars and sheds light on the purpose of Orientalist works witha political goal. We will not go so far as researching who has created racism,or who has created slavery in the American system, which are equally validpoints for this paper, but we should see the historical milieu of this work.Placement in context helps Muslims understand academic endeavors atmisrepresenting Islam at this point in history.The author’s paper entitled “In Search of the Orient: The Muslim Easton the Contemporary American Literary Scene,’’ published by the InternationalInstitute of Islamic and Arabic Studies is of much hgher quality becauseof covering new ground, although it does not mention an important work bya Muslim scholar, Dr. Layla al-Farsy; “Washington Irving’s Mahomet: A Studyof the Sources.” ...
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/2692	Sachedina, Abdulaziz	Islamic Ethics: Concept and Prospect	1989-12-01	American Journal of Islam and Society; Vol. 6 No. 2 (1989): American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences; 378	The International Institute of Islamic Thought	eng	10.35632/ajis.v6i2.2692	https://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/download/2692/1761	The paper is incomplete in its present form. Its discussion about Islamic Ethicsis superficial. Neither the complexity of theological ethics nor are philosophicaland juridical ethics admitted anywhere. Moreover, it does not evaluate thepresent status of works on ethics (e.g., Isma'il al Faruqi's contribution) andthe scholarship produced by academics like Hourani (The Ethics of 'Abd Al-Jabbar).The paper must be expanded with proper discussion about the conceptualdifficulties and the Islamic alternative. Certainly there is a need forthis discussion, but not so superficially ...
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/2693	Syeed, Sayyid Muhammad	Editorial	1989-09-01	American Journal of Islam and Society; Vol. 6 No. 1 (1989): American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences; v-vii	The International Institute of Islamic Thought	eng	10.35632/ajis.v6i1.2693	https://www.ajis.org/index.php/ajiss/article/download/2693/1762	The first decade of the 15th century Hijrah is over. It saw the establishmentof the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) and was markedby the development of cooperation and collaboration between various Islamicorganizations and institutions around the world. The results have been mostencouraging. This collaboration has contributed toward the initiation of anera of discussions and debates on the Islamization of knowledge and thedevelopment of a methodology for the reconstruction of Islamic thought.Among the consequences has been the unfolding of various intellectual forums.One such intellectual forum for the last five years has been the AmericanJournal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS) published jointly by the IIIT andthe Association for Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS). We are greatly encouragedby its steadily increasing circulation and by the enhanced participationof social scientists as well as lay scholars.'AbdulHamid AbuSulayman, now Rector of the International IslamicUniversity (IIU). Malaysia, continues to send us his inspiring selection andcommentary of Qur'anic verses as the Guiding Light:'In this issue, for the first time, we are induding a paper by Taha Jabiral 'Alwani, the President of the IDT and author of several scholarly titlesin Arabic. This paper is the English rendering of his lecture delivered inRabat, Morocco at a conference held under the aegis of the Islamic Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO). He sketches a briefargument for establishing an Islamic alternative in thought and knowledge,not only for the benefit of Muslims, but for the common good of humanity.Another first is the paper by Eric Winkel, a multi-lingual political scientistof the faculty of IIU Malaysia, who provjdes us with an analysis of Habermasand Foucault. This paper entitled "Remembering Islam . . . " bringsthese postwar leaders of the Frankfurt school of anarchist and radical critiqueinto the discussion of the Islamic paradigm. Winkel explains thecharacterization of Habermas and Foucault of existing epistemologies as "pernicious,pervasive and truth distorting," and shows how their own vision ofthe possible future world is extremely restricted and inadequate. He suggeststhat we remember that Islam, as the divine guidance of Allah, provides thebasis for a truly emancipatory meta critique.Moving from philosophical issues to the more concrete, Ausaf Ali's paperon " . . . Islamization of Social and Behavioral Sciences" argues for a moral ...	nan	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1044	50	57	Mentioning an old edition of Smith, while a new one edited by Muslim scholars is neglected does not invite readers to Muslim achievement nor clarify the Muslim perspective. This issue is extremely crucial for Muslim scholars and sheds light on the purpose of Orientalist works with a political goal.	cache/ajiss-2691.pdf	txt/ajiss-2691.txt