In December 1996, TIME magazine published an article titled ‘‘Finding God on the Web,’’ which projected how the Internet would shape information seeking on faith and religion. A decade later, the Web has become a popular tool for gathering religious information as well as information and imagery related to religious travel. Yet there is little research on religious destination imagery online. I...

The purpose of this manuscript is to present a reliable estimate in form of tables of the Muslim population and its percentage in each country in Africa. This data is summarized to be a reference for other studies and discussions related to Muslim population. The presented data show that about 27% of the population of Africa is Muslim, a total of about 446 million.

This paper examines the relationship between nationalism, state formation, and the marginalisation of national minorities through an historical focus on Pakistani state’s relationship with the Ahmadiyya community, a self-defined minority sect of Islam. In 1974, a constitutional amendment was enacted that effectively rendered the Ahmadiyya community a non-Muslim minority, in spite of claims by t...

Laamiyat al-Arab is a great literary work that was written during the Jahili Arabs, and received attention from writers linguists. However, aspects of values it contains its relation to social context underlies al-Arabs’ are not well-documented. Through Goldmann's genetic structuralism approach, authors reveal values, characters, internal external factors generating literature. The results show...

I n this article I want to address a number of issues thrust into the open by different manifestations of Islamist politics and the intersection of religion and identity politics in Western societies. This intersection should be read in conjunction with the emergence in Muslimmajority societies of forms of political activism that ground themselves in Islamic doctrines and invoke religious tradi...

This qualitative case study research project examines the perceptions towards Muslim women in Great Britain after 2001. This study is based upon a historical framework that seeks to determine the historical developments of perceptions, both positive and negative,—after determining what said perceptions were—that ranged across all aspects of life: the political, social, public, and private. The ...

This study aims to describe the significance of meaning nationalism in poem Mudhakkirät Andalusiyya by Nizar Qabbani and factors that influence poem. In this study, model used was library research. The material object research is a entitled Andalusiyya, written Cordoba 1955. qualitative described descriptively using Roland Barthes' semiotic theory with order consisting connotation denotation. S...

BACKGROUND American Muslim women are an understudied population; thus, significant knowledge gaps exist related to their most basic health behaviors and indicators. Considering this, we examined American Muslim women's contraception utilization patterns. METHODS Self-reported data collected in late 2015 were analyzed. Women who identified as Muslim, were at least 18 years old, sexually active...

In the wake of the events of September 11, Muslim-American youth found that the multiple cultures within which they live were suddenly and alarmingly in conflict. The developmental consequences of living in a world fractured by religious and ethnic terror have yet to be determined forMuslim youth in the United States. This exploratory, mixed-method study begins to examine how Muslim youth negot...