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Muhammad Akram deposited Internationalisation of the Study of Religion and Its Methodological Challenges on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago
This paper discusses internationalisation of the study of religion after the mid-twentieth century and some methodological implications of this development. It is shown that when the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR) was established in 1950 under the auspices of UNESCO to collaborate between scholars from different…[Read more]
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Muhammad Akram deposited Christian-Muslim Coexistence in Peshawar City on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months ago
Several scholarly works and media reports claim that the Christian minority in Pakistan is mistreated, persecuted, and discriminated against, giving an overall impression as if Christians are alienated from the main social stream everywhere in Pakistan and that the public at large is responsible for their miseries. Noticing that most of the…[Read more]
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Muhammad Akram deposited Islamic Culture and Western Civilization: The Prospects of Coexistence in the Thought of Alija Izetbegović in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoAlija Ali Izetbegović (1925-2003) is one of the outstanding Muslim thinkers in recent history who have re-conceptualized the Islamic worldview and ethos in the context of the contemporary world on the one hand and critically reflected upon the modern Western civilization, on the other. Izetbegović conceives Islam as a system representing a m…[Read more]
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Muhammad Akram deposited Islamic Culture and Western Civilization: The Prospects of Coexistence in the Thought of Alija Izetbegović in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoAlija Ali Izetbegović (1925-2003) is one of the outstanding Muslim thinkers in recent history who have re-conceptualized the Islamic worldview and ethos in the context of the contemporary world on the one hand and critically reflected upon the modern Western civilization, on the other. Izetbegović conceives Islam as a system representing a m…[Read more]
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Muhammad Akram deposited Foundations of the Descriptive Study of Religions in Muslim History: A Conceptual Analysis. in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe classical Muslim scholarly tradition produced an assortment of literature on different religions including a considerable number of descriptive studies, a phenomenon that leaves imposing questions. Most importantly, how a pre-modern civilization was able to generate a tradition of descriptive scholarship on different religions in the absence…[Read more]
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Muhammad Akram deposited Foundations of the Descriptive Study of Religions in Muslim History: A Conceptual Analysis. in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe classical Muslim scholarly tradition produced an assortment of literature on different religions including a considerable number of descriptive studies, a phenomenon that leaves imposing questions. Most importantly, how a pre-modern civilization was able to generate a tradition of descriptive scholarship on different religions in the absence…[Read more]
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Muhammad Akram deposited Foundations of the Descriptive Study of Religions in Muslim History: A Conceptual Analysis. in the group
Hinduisms on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoThe classical Muslim scholarly tradition produced an assortment of literature on different religions including a considerable number of descriptive studies, a phenomenon that leaves imposing questions. Most importantly, how a pre-modern civilization was able to generate a tradition of descriptive scholarship on different religions in the absence…[Read more]
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Muhammad Akram deposited The Study of Religions in Premodern Muslim Civilization: Some Distinctions Concerning Its Disciplinary Status in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoScholars have made contesting claims about the nature and scale of works on religions by Muslim scholars before modern times. The present paper explores various primary and secondary sources, especially the classical bibliographical indexes that the scholarly tradition under scrutiny itself produced, and classifies these works into three types:…[Read more]
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Muhammad Akram deposited The Study of Religions in Premodern Muslim Civilization: Some Distinctions Concerning Its Disciplinary Status in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 10 months agoScholars have made contesting claims about the nature and scale of works on religions by Muslim scholars before modern times. The present paper explores various primary and secondary sources, especially the classical bibliographical indexes that the scholarly tradition under scrutiny itself produced, and classifies these works into three types:…[Read more]
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Muhammad Akram deposited Islamic Culture and Western Civilization: The Prospects of Coexistence in the Thought of Alija Izetbegović on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
Alija Ali Izetbegović (1925-2003) is one of the outstanding Muslim thinkers in recent history who have re-conceptualized the Islamic worldview and ethos in the context of the contemporary world on the one hand and critically reflected upon the modern Western civilization, on the other. Izetbegović conceives Islam as a system representing a m…[Read more]
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Muhammad Akram deposited Foundations of the Descriptive Study of Religions in Muslim History: A Conceptual Analysis. on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
The classical Muslim scholarly tradition produced an assortment of literature on different religions including a considerable number of descriptive studies, a phenomenon that leaves imposing questions. Most importantly, how a pre-modern civilization was able to generate a tradition of descriptive scholarship on different religions in the absence…[Read more]
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Muhammad Akram deposited The Study of Religions in Premodern Muslim Civilization: Some Distinctions Concerning Its Disciplinary Status on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months ago
Scholars have made contesting claims about the nature and scale of works on religions by Muslim scholars before modern times. The present paper explores various primary and secondary sources, especially the classical bibliographical indexes that the scholarly tradition under scrutiny itself produced, and classifies these works into three types:…[Read more]
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Muhammad Akram's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months ago
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