Adis Duderija

Griffith University

Authentic assessment (AA) is a reform in higher education that has been less explored from students’ perspectives. In this paper we report findings from a pilot study that explored student perceptions of authentic assessment in the Islam West Relations Major (IWRM) Bachelor of Arts program, at an Australian university. This study used a survey that...

Bu makalede, ilerlemeci İslam düşüncesinde ‘sünnet’ kavramının doğasını ve kapsamını açıklıyorum. İslam’ın klasik dönemindeki hadis-temelli sünnet kavramının aksine, ilerlemeci İslam’daki sünnet kavramının, bu kavramın İslam düşüncesinin oluşum döneminde nasıl algılandığıyla güçlü benzerlikleri olduğunu iddia ediyorum. Bu bağlamda, ilerlemeci İslam...

Basándose en dos décadas de investigación académica y experiencia en la teorización del Islam progresista, el Dr. Duderija explora sus diversos aspectos, incluidos sus implicaciones definicionales, filosóficas, metafísicas, sociopolíticas, culturales/civilizacionales y económicas.

Drawing upon two decades of academic research and expertise in theorising of progressive Islam ,Dr. Duderija explores its various aspects including its definitional, philosophical, metaphysical , socio-political ,cultural /civilisational and economic implications. Written in an accessible manner these essays offer a comprehensive overview of what c...

With a particular emphasis on definitions, continuities, and change, this edited volume examines the historical role and function of haya' – or feelings of shame, modesty, and honor – in Islamic theology and law, and explores contemporary Muslims' engagements with the concept. The book explores various conceptions of haya' and the practices associa...

With a particular emphasis on definitions, continuities, and change, this edited volume examines the historical role and function of haya’ – or feelings of shame, modesty, and honor – in Islamic theology and law, and explores contemporary Muslims’ engagements with the concept. The book explores various conceptions of haya’ and the practices associa...

With a particular emphasis on definitions, continuities, and change, this edited volume examines the historical role and function of haya’ – or feelings of shame, modesty, and honor – in Islamic theology and law, and explores contemporary Muslims’ engagements with the concept. The book explores various conceptions of haya’ and the practices associa...

Religious education in contemporary society faces several challenges, including globalization and the morphing of traditional moral values. Using a quantitative approach, we survey teaching staff across eight campuses of the State Islamic University in Indonesia and six campuses of Alphacrucis University College in Australia to compare the approach...

The main aim of this chapter is to provide a reconceptualization of the idea of jihad as a form of nonviolent interfaith solidarity as embodied in the autobiographical accounts of the two authors to highlight how the term jihad can be employed for the purposes of advancing interfaith understanding and practice. The first section explores the centra...

The planetary-scale problems of our current era make contemporary interfaith research, education and practice a fertile agenda for sustainable human development, locally, nationally, and internationally. The reasons are manifold and compelling and are nurtured by both hindsight and foresight. Looking back, human experience of past interreligious di...

Over the past few decades, interest in and conversion to Islam among non-Muslims in the West has been on the rise. There is a view in the scholarly literature that Western converts to Islam are overrepresented in regard to politicized interpretations of the religion, commonly referred to as political Islam or Islamism, and even militancy or jihadis...

The main aim of this article is to examine the construction of a religiously ideal Muslim woman as presented in two sources documenting Bosnian Muslim (Bosniak) customs. The concept of a religiously ideal Muslim woman adopted in this article is based on recent theoretical studies in mainstream Sunnism, which can be arranged into three thematic area...

In this chapter, I explore the phenomenon of reactive co-radicalization (RCR) in the form of Islamist vs. right-wing radicalism. I also offer heuristic and, to a lesser extent, theoretical insights into how this phenomenon can be countered through deconstructing fundamentalist mindsets and affirming ideas of civilizational hybridity and religious p...

In this paper I describe the nature and scope of the concept ‘sunna’ in progressive Muslim thought. I argue that, unlike the hadith-based concept of sunna found in classical Islam, the concept of sunna in progressive Islam has strong affinities with how that concept was understood during the formative period of Islamic thought. In this respect, I s...

Over the past few decades, specific approaches and conceptualisations of Islam have been promoted in Southeast Asia, notably Islam Nusantara (IN) in Indonesia and Islam Hadhari in Malaysia. In Indonesia, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), a prominent Indonesian Islamic organisation, currently allied with the ruling government, champions the IN concept. However,...

Numerous researchers in the field of Islamic and Muslim Studies have proposed various typologies to categorize Muslims in relation to their understanding of and identification with Islam. However, to date few studies have conducted the necessary empirical work to determine the numbers of Muslims that identify with the typologies that have been cons...

This report presents an overview of the discipline of Islamic studies in the Australia’s higher education sector collected in 2017. After a brief exploration of the history of teaching Islam and Islamic studies in modern Western institutions, the report briefly discusses the types of theoretical and methodological issues that concern the contempora...

This article presents the findings of a national survey on Islam in Australia based on responses of 1034 Muslim Australian citizens and permanent residents. Knowing what Muslim Australians think about Islam in relation to Australian society is essential for a more informed understanding about Islam and Muslims needed to address misinformation, Isla...

This chapter discusses interpretational principles developed by contemporary scholars of hadith, Islamic feminism, Islamic jurisprudence and Islamic legal theory that assist in developing interpretations of the hadith literature compatible with contemporary conceptions of gender justice.

This article aims to explain the ideas and the significance of Dr. Bilal Philips, a prominent 'Salafi'preacher, a major proponent of Neo-Traditional Salafism, and how his writings and activities can aid us in understanding the dynamics regarding the nature of Salafism in the West as a discursive tradition with deep roots in the Islamic intellectual...

This chapter examines the processes by which Muslim migration to the West has occurred since the latter half of the twentieth century and discusses the issue of Muslim identity as new migrants belonging to a minority religious group. In this context, it explores the question of identity change from the majority to minority context. This chapter hig...

This chapter provides an introduction to the history of Islam in the West and an overview of current demographics of Muslim communities in various Western countries. It sets the scene for the subject matter of this book through a discussion of the nature and the socio-historical context of interactions between Arabo-Islamic and Western-Christian ci...

This chapter discusses the issue of female religious authority within Western Muslim communities in light of the growing gender consciousness in the West over the past several decades and the influence of Western liberal democracies and exposure to intellectual feminist currents on Muslim thought. It highlights that Western Muslim communities are b...

In the conclusion, we summarise the main arguments and findings this study has grappled with and provide some reflections concerning the future of Islam and Muslim communities in the West.

This chapter examines the institutionalisation of Islam in the West with a focus on religious, legal, and educational institutions. Islamic institutions tend to represent the public interface of Islam with the state and society and as such their nature, orientation, and activities are a reflection of the faith in society. The chapter traces the evo...

This chapter examines the various scholarly perspectives concerning definitions, manifestations, extent, causes, and critiques of Islamophobia in the West. Since the turn of the century, Islamophobia has been widely discussed in regards to Muslims in the West and has attracted considerable concern from governments in the Muslim World and the West a...

This chapter addresses the scholarly discourse concerning Islamic jurisprudence for Muslim minorities in the West, also known as fiqh al aqalliyyat or minority fiqh for short. It examines the broader context, origins, theory, and criticisms of this juristic discourse, which has gained considerable scholarly attention among Muslims in the West aroun...

This chapter presents an overview of the major contemporary social and discursive orientations among Western Muslims and major transnational Muslim organisations operating in the West. This chapter highlights the diversity of these organisations along with an examination of their ideological underpinnings. While it makes reference to a number of st...

This chapter addresses the topic of immigrant incorporation with a specific focus on multiculturalism. It highlights that although multiculturalism has been a defining characteristic of many Western societies since, at least, the last third of the twentieth century, it has faced considerable opposition over the past couple of decades on account of...

This chapter discusses Western converts to Islam. Particularly since the turn of the century, when so much focus on Islam has been in the context of violence and terrorism, the embracing of Islam by Westerners has become a perplexing phenomenon. On the one hand, segments of Western society express disapproval of converts to Islam, but on the other...

This chapter addresses the relatively recent phenomenon of Islamist militants and home-grown terrorism perpetrated by Muslims in the West. Although Muslims have resided in Western countries for centuries, with large communities having been established since the 1960s and 1970s, home-grown Islamist terrorism is a very new phenomenon that emerged in...

This chapter examines the extent to which and prospects for the emergence of a Western Islam. This chapter draws on the work of a number of scholars, primarily based in Europe, who have discussed the concept of a Western or more precisely “Euro/European-Islam” and/or American Islam, the theoretical underpinnings of the idea of Western Islam, and th...

This book analyzes the development of Islam and Muslim communities in the West, including influences from abroad, relations with the state and society, and internal community dynamics. The project examines the emergence of Islam in the West in relation to the place of Muslim communities as part of the social fabric of Western societies. It provides...

The aim of this article is to point to the hermeneutical limits of the critique of mainstream Sunnism vis-a-vis the Salafi-jihadist interpretations with particular reference to the literature produced by the proponents of the IS. The main argument the article makes is that by subscribing to what will be termed a “Salafi worldview,” mainstream Sunni...

Reading the book under review has truly taken me down memory lane. Some 20 years ago I encountered the academic study of Islam primarily through reading the books of Professor Fazlur Rahman (including the ‘Serbo-Croatian’ translation of his book Islam) all of which left a deep and indelible impression on me both as a Muslim and as an aspiring acade...

Reading the book under review has truly taken me down memory lane. Some 20 years ago I encountered the academic study of Islam primarily through reading the books of Professor Fazlur Rahman (including the ‘Serbo-Croatian’ translation of his book Islam) all of which left a deep and indelible impression on me both as a Muslim and as an aspiring acade...

This book analyzes the development of Islam and Muslim communities in the West, including influences from abroad, relations with the state and society, and internal community dynamics. The project examines the emergence of Islam in the West in relation to the place of Muslim communities as part of the social fabric of Western societies. It provides...

This essay employs Catherine Cornille's conditions for a constructive interreligious dialogue theoretical framework with reference to the Islamic tradition as exemplified by the work of Reza Shah-Kazemi, a contemporary proponent of Islamic mysticism and the Islamic branch of religio perennialis. More specifically, it demonstrates how Cornille's "co...

With the proliferation of transnational Muslim networks over the last two decades, the religious authority of traditionally educated Muslim scholars, the uluma, has come under increasing scrutiny and disruption. These networks have provided a public space for multiple perspectives on Islam to be voiced, allowing “progressive” Islamic worldviews to...

book review "What is Islam: The importance of being Islamic"

The Custom (ʿurf) based assumptions regarding Gender Roles and Norms in the Islamic Tradition: A Critical Examination The aim of this article is to critically examine certain custom (ʿurf) based assumptions and theories regarding gender roles and norms that have been incorporated into the Islamic tradition and Islamic law in particular. In the fir...

The essays in this volume discuss recent trends and issues in the scholarly study of the Qur’ān and its exegesis. The last few years have witnessed an unprecedented development in qur'anic studies in terms of both the number of volumes that have been produced and the wide range of issues covered. It is not an exaggeration to say that the field of q...

It is the aim of this article to examine several gender related practices considered religiously normative by the is and deconstruct the religious justifications behind them. In the analysis I include the practices pertaining to the all-pervasive nature of gender segregation, obligatory nature of the face-veil (niqa¯b) and the institution of concub...

The concept of sunna, as one of the two normative fountainheads of the Islamic tradition, is of fundamental importance in understanding nearly all the branches of Islamic knowledge, including Islamic law and politics. It is, however, a contested concept that—like the Qur’ān, —has been used by many Muslim groups throughout history to both discredit...

It is the first study which comprehensively, systematically and critically examines the role and usefulness of the concept of Maqasid al-Shari’a (higher Objectives of Islamic Law) in contemporary Muslim reformist thought in relation to number of specific issues pertaining to Islamic legal philosophy, law, ethics and the socio-political sphere.

The aim of this paper is to highlight the scholarly contribution of the Iranian born Muslim scholar-activist Ziba Mir- Hosseini to the academic field of gender and Islam. In the first part of the paper Mir-Hosseini’s thought is positioned within the larger processes of the shifting loci of authority and normativity in contemporary Islamic discourse...

Mohammad Hashim Kamali is one of the leading contemporary scholars writing on the concept of maqāṣid al-šarīʿa as well as Muslim reformist thought. The purpose of this article is to closely examine his numerous writings on the concept of maqāṣid al-šarīʿa with a particular focus on how he employs this concept for the purposes of reforming Islamic l...

This chapter examines how the context of belonging to a new immigrant minority religion group can contribute to the process of facilitation and (re)-enforcement of exclusionary social orientations among some Muslims residing in western liberal democracies. In the first part of the chapter I note that the concepts of religion-based identity and the...

The basic rationale behind bringing out this volume is that although many noteworthy works have been written on issues pertaining to Muslim reformist thought and the concept of maqāṣid al-sharī‘a, there still remains a need for a study that examines the role and the usefulness of maqā‘id al-sharī‘a as a philosophic-legal cum hermeneutical tool for...

When engaging in the process of developing a Qur’ānic hermeneutic¹ and Islamic legal theory (usul ul-fiqh), generations upon generations of Islamic legal theorists (usuliyyun), jurists (fuqahā'), and exegetes (mufassirun) have primarily concerned themselves with questions of what the Qur’ān has to say on a particular issue or theme but not what the...

This chapter attempts to systematically employ the insights from maqāṣidoriented approaches to Islamic law and gender non-patriarchal Qur’ān hermeneutics in providing a novel gender-symmetrical reinterpretation of Muslim family laws.¹.

Mohammad Hashim Kamali is one of the leading contemporary scholars writing on the concept of maqaāṣid al-shariā‘a as well as Muslim reformist thought. The purpose of this chapter is to closely examine his numerous writings on maqaāṣid al-sharī‘a with particular focus on how he employs this concept for the purpose of reforming Islamic law. In the fi...