Volume 3, No 2; Year III; Autumn MMXXII
- Details
- Written by Mustafa Cerić
- Category: Volume 3, No 2; Year III; Autumn MMXXII
In this issue, academician Mehmed Akšamija continues his epoch-making story about the horizons of the spirit of “art” with a review of the immanent and transcendental dimensions of “art in Islam” through the figure and work of Homo Islamicus.
- Details
- Written by Mehmed A. Akšamija
- Category: Volume 3, No 2; Year III; Autumn MMXXII
- Original scientific paper
The intention of this analysis is to continue the discussion of some parts of the history of what is declared or titled „Islamic art”, within the critical and theoretical framework of both Occidental-Western and (some) Muslim perspectives.
- Details
- Written by Muhamed Hamidović
- Category: Volume 3, No 2; Year III; Autumn MMXXII
- Original scientific paper
Architecture of minaret belongs to the cultural history of pre-Islamic art. The vertical observed in Islam is a semiologically transcedentally metaphoric sign of the téhnē of religious architecture, a gnomon*2 – a phenomenonconfigural zodiak chronometer. The phenomenon of fizis-shape is a configural sacral elevation of substance – the immanently articulated purpose in Islam.
- Details
- Written by Mustafa Cerić
- Category: Volume 3, No 2; Year III; Autumn MMXXII
- Original scientific paper
This paper is based on my personal experience of war and peace in Bosnia. The basic notion is that it is easier to start a war than to stop it.
- Details
- Written by Reuven Firestone
- Category: Volume 3, No 2; Year III; Autumn MMXXII
- Original scientific paper
This article traces the idea of a binary between one religious truth and another religious falsehood. The cycle of true versus false religion began with the birth of biblical monotheism. While monotheism of Christianity was neither the first nor the last to fall into this typology, the author argues that its particular location in the historical unfolding of monotheist communities compelled it to become the most exclusive.
- Details
- Written by Ana Belén Soage
- Category: Volume 3, No 2; Year III; Autumn MMXXII
- Original scientific paper
This article is a comparative portrayal of three main figures of Islam in modern times, namely Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Muḥammad ‘Abduh and Rashīd Riḍā with a particular focus on Shykh Rashīd Riḍā’s legacy of a mixture of an Islamic reform with Islamic tradition (Salafism). Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī is portrayed as a revolutionary who saw in Islam elements of unity and mobilization.
- Details
- Written by Ibrahim Negm
- Category: Volume 3, No 2; Year III; Autumn MMXXII
- Other uncategorized works: reviews
The menace of extremism and terrorism over the past years has been largely aided through a creation of the chaos of fatwā (legal and moral norm in Islam) by extremists. This is an impudent violation of the venerable traditional institution of fatwā in Islam.
- Details
- Written by Ekrem Tucaković
- Category: Volume 3, No 2; Year III; Autumn MMXXII
Book review: Ajla Čustović, Islam and Human Rights
Zagreb, Ljevak, 2022, p. 343.