Over the last two centuries the Muslim world has undergone dramatic transformations, impacting the Islamic tradition and throwing into question our understanding of tradition. The notion of tradition as an unmoving edifice is contradicted by the very process of its transmission, and the complex role human beings play in creating and sustaining traditions is evident in the indigenous mechanisms …
Meskipun tren kekuatan politik Islam dalam realitas politik modern mulai bisa eksis bersama mekanisme demokrasi, namun masih banyak kekuatan politik yang masih phobia terhadap politik Islam. Realitas itu telah terbukti sejak awal 1990-an dan masih bertahan hingga sekarang. Awal Tahun 1990-an misalnya, kekuatan politik Islam di Turki dan Aljazair yang menang dalam pemilu demokratis misalnya, dib…
Winner of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies' Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History. Through close study of Russian, Eurasian, and Central Asian ethnographic, administrative, literary, and missionary sources, this book shows how traditional Islamic education among the people of Tsarist Russia's Middle Volga region (today's Tatarstan) helped to Islamize the area's Tu…