Recently more intensively in the public discourse on Islam we witness the introduction of certain terms marking the name of this universal religion with adjectives of geographic and cultural character, like "Indonesian Islam", "Turkish Islam", "European Islam" or as in our case "Bosnian Islam". This has been a consequence of the terminology transfer from Western religious studies, where the difference is made between "official" or "normative" religion, found in religious textual sources and their general interpretation on one side, and "folk religion" denoting interpretation and practice of a certain religion by its followers at a certain territory or within a certain group on the other. Study of "folk religion" is commonly performed through cultural phenomena study methods, including ethnography, cultural anthropology, etc. Cultural anthropologists for example, are in the case of Islam interested in the "process of socialization and symbolization in which Islam is mirrored in the local setting". "Folk religion" in this case is comprised of the name of the "normative" religion to which geographic and cultural adjectives are added.
What is the “Islamic tradition of Bosniaks "?
Father Arthur: "I pray for Mr Sarkozy to have a heart attack."
After Father Arthur Hervet made such a strong statement even the Pope has joined the growing chorus of French clergymen who have rebuked Nicolas Sarkozy's government over its policy of deporting undocumented Roma back to their home countries.
Pope Benedict XVI voiced his discontent with French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s policy of deporting Roma people on Sunday, echoing numerous similar statements from French clergymen over the past few weeks.
Who are the Macedonian Slavic Muslims
Accepting the Islam with the Mijak Macedonians in Reka is a process that started in XVI and lasted until the second half of XIX century. However, this conversion from one into another confession was not massive but rather individual and lasted for a long period of time.
Holy month of Ramadan begins today at sunset
Ramadan is the holiest month of the year in the Islamic calendar, on the merits of it being the month in which the Muslim holy book, the Quran, began to be revealed by God through the Angel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad. However, the month is perhaps best known because for Muslims it is the month of fasting, one of the five pillars of Islamic practice.
Those bitter tears afterwards
Review of Srđa Popović's book One gorke suze posle (Those bitter tears afterwards), published by Peščanik editions, Belgrade 2010
I leaf through Srđa Popović’s latest book, One gorke suze posle, just published by Peščanik and containing articles the author has written since 2000. It is a pungent book about the loss of hope in the aftermath of the changes of 5 October 2000, a book forcing to our attention the fact that we have learnt nothing from the alarming events of the 1990s. Popović is one of the few lawyers who did not sell out to higher powers, who did not auction his expertise.
CBS Special on Jewish in Albania
The story of a Jewish Family that fled to Albania during the World War to escape the Nazis.
Assassination in Sarajevo and WWI
The Austrian and Russian emperors should not dethrone one another and pave the road to revolution.”
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
It was an ordinary, unremarkable visit by a senior leader of the Empire to one of its central cities. And for us, it would not be the slightest bit interesting, if not for one “but.“ As a result of a chain of suspicious accidents and strange coincidences on this day that led to the death of the heir to the Austrian throne, the First World War began …
Which Orthodoxy , Whose Islam: Journalistic accounts versus scholary analysis
It was with increasing discomfiture that I read the article ‘“Secular Orthodoxy” versus “Religious Islam” in Post-communist Bulgaria' by Daniela Kalkandjieva. In it the author discusses 'some problems of Christian-Muslim dialogue in post-communist Bulgaria', basing her discussion on abundant references to various newspaper publications in Bulgaria for the period 2005-2007.
Future Directions and Research Agenda for Islamic Finance
“Islamic finance is a serious alternative that academia is still ignoring,” said Dr. Muhammad Fahim Khan, a distinguished economist speaking at a seminar at IIIT on May 28. Dr. Mohammad Fahim delivered a lecture entitled “Islamic Finance: Future Directions and Agenda for Research”.
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In a short book of four chapters (170 pages including an appendix), Richard Bulliet presents a compelling vision for what he calls an Islamo-Christian Civilization. Bulliet—professor of history at Columbia University, former director of The Middle East Institute, and executive secretary of the Middle East Studies Association—seeks to transcend the all too common ways of seeing and talking about the relationship between the Islamic and Western worlds.
