Search Results - "muslims"

Testimony is one of the evidences for proving a case to court which has been accepted by all legal systems. Testifying is sometimes between Muslims against each others, Muslims against unbelievers, unbelievers against Muslims and unbelievers against unbelievers. According to the Islamic jurisprudent...

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Book review: Renat Bekkin, Almira Tagirdzhanova. Muslim Petersburg. Historical guide-book. The life of Muslims in St. Petersburg and its suburbs. - Moscow, St. Petersburg: Institute for African Studies, 2016. - 640p.

The article is devoted to an important aspect of the policy of the Soviet state towards the citizens of the USSR who professed Islam - the organization of trips to the Hajj in the first half of the 1960s. The relevance of the topic is determined by the fact that the share of the Muslim population of...

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An estimate of about 160 000 persons, or 17% of the population, is generally accepted for the number of persons of Muslim origin in Brussels. Since national statistics do not include information on religious beliefs, the figure can only be an approximation. To give a more accurate factual understand...

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In Brussels – a city subject to duality from a socioeconomic point of view and with ethnic segregation from an educational perspective – a proportion of its youth are characterised by cultural heterogeneity resulting from (past and present) migratory pathways, which may be at the origin of asserted...

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The historiography on religious otherness in art has analysed separately the Muslim signs and those of the Jew, as if this differentiation was due to an iconographical classification already conceived by medieval societies. However, it is known that certain artworks cannot adapt to an epistemologica...

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In Brussels – a city subject to duality from a socioeconomic point of view and with ethnic segregation from an educational perspective – a proportion of its youth are characterised by cultural heterogeneity resulting from (past and present) migratory pathways, which may be at the origin of asserted...

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In Brussels – a city subject to duality from a socioeconomic point of view and with ethnic segregation from an educational perspective – a proportion of its youth are characterised by cultural heterogeneity resulting from (past and present) migratory pathways, which may be at the origin of asserted...

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This paper explores a marked shift in the role and functions of religion in Kazakhstan, indicative of change in ideology and societal foundations. In explaining this shift, we highlight various elements that affect the religious landscape in Kazakhstan, with the most pronounced and recent trend bein...

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The article is devoted to the analysis of the organization of international activities of the Spiritual administration of Muslims of the European part of the USSR and Siberia in 1945-1953. The issue is how this activity was controlled - primarily by the Council for religious affairs under the Counci...

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American cinema is imbued with stereotypical representations of various ethnic and racial groups, but of the many stereotypes and misrepresentations that plague Hollywood those of the Muslim world and its inhabitants have ostensibly been the most damaging and resilient. Ever since the camera began...

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Based on recent research, we aim to present the current global religious con-figuration, the religious demographic evolution during the twentieth century, and the main trends for the first half of the twenty-first century. From a methodological point of view, we chose to present only those religions...

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This study aims to analyze the role of Sufistic multicultural da'wah in shaping the moderate character of the millennial Muslim generation during the challenges of the digital era. Using a qualitative research method based on literature studies, this study explores the Sufistic da'wah app...

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Following a field survey in neighbourhoods and schools in the poor area of Brussels among adolescents from an African migrant background (Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa), this article examines young people’s attempts to rationalise the discrimination and injustice they experience. As well as their d...

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The paper is devoted to a topical subject of current political discussions, namely, the identity of Muslims living in the countries ofthe European Union (EU). Development ofinformation technologies significantly affects almost all spheres of life of every state and citizens living there. To benefit...

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 36.0pt; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, &quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">In respect of literature, Punjab has been a fecund soil. I...

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Enslaving a free Muslim was unacceptable for Islam. However, many Africans who had been enslaved by the Portuguese in the fifteenth century belonged to ethnic groups who had already been converted to Islam so that in Seville “Jolofes” and “Mandingas” were not an uncommon sight. Actually, they openly...

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This article is a response to the invitation of the Union of Italian Islamic Communities to the academic world to pay more attention to the issue of Islamic burial and cemetery spaces in Italy. It has two objectives. The first is to identify and analyse Islamic rules on burial in a non-Islamic co...

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The article deals with an acute problem of integration of Muslim immigrants and their descendants in France. The author follows the problem throughout its history and analyzes its modern status. The article provides thorough analysis of the French Integration Model. The author concludes with a prosp...

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