Azim Nanji
Biographic Data
| ID | 1267352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Azim Nanji |
| GIVEN NAMES | Azim |
| FAMILY NAME | Nanji |
| SIGNATURE | NANJI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Penguin Dictionary of Islam
Mapping Islamic Studies
Mapping Islamic Studies
Mapping Islamic Studies
This volume presents an examination and a critical appreciation of how the discipline of Islamic studies evolved in its various historical contents. At the same time it seeks to reflect upon the ironic effects, whereby Orientalism and Islamic studies, which emerged as European disciplines to study the other, have themselves become texts and objects of study.
The Būjh Nirañjan
Charisma and Brotherhood in African Islam . Donal B. Cruise O'Brien, Christian Coulon
Between Metaphor and Context
In this article, the author explores three interrelated topics to elucidate the nature of Fatimid Ismaili discourse on justice and injustice in the larger context of Muslim medieval literature and expressions of law. First, the paradigm of imama is situated within the larger discussion of institutions of social justice in the Muslim world and articulated by the Fatimids through legal, doctrinal and philosophical writings. The paper then continues…
Beyond fundamentalism
Asian Islam Islam in Asia, Vol. 1
Early Ismāʿīlism Reconstructed
Book Notices
Journal Article BOOK NOTICES Get access A Clarification of Questions: An Unabridged Translation of “Resaleh Towzih al-Masael”. By Ayatollah Sayyed R. M. Khomeini. Translated and edited by J. Borujerdi. Westview Press, 1984. 432 pages. N.P. Azim Nanji Azim Nanji Oklahoma State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIV, Issue 2, Summer 1986, Pages 370–…
Religion in Africa
Journal Article RELIGION IN AFRICA Get access The Customs of the Swahili People: The “Desturi Za Waswahili” of Mtoro Bin Mwinyi Bakari and other Swahtili Persons. Edited and translated into English by J. W. T. Allen. University of California Press, 1982, 343 pages. $24.50. Azim Nanji Azim Nanji Oklahoma State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 52,…
On the Acquisition of Knowledge
Modernization and Change in the Nizari Ismaili Community in East Africa-a Perspective
The aspirations and problems of contemporary Muslims both in Africa and elsewhere have been variously formulated as challenge of the Modem Age to the modernization of technologically backward and traditional societies, or in even broader terms as a tension that is by no means peculiar to Islam. 1) Whereas the varied uses of terminology to express properly the nature of the problem may be questioned, we can agree in principle that since the onset …
Modernization and Change in the Nizari Ismaili Community in East Africa
Modernization and Change in the Nizari Ismaili Community in East Africa-a Perspective
The aspirations and problems of contemporary Muslims both in Africa and elsewhere have been variously formulated as challenge of the Modem Age to the modernization of technologically backward and traditional societies, or in even broader terms as a tension that is by no means peculiar to Islam. 1) Whereas the varied uses of terminology to express properly the nature of the problem may be questioned, we can agree in principle that since the onset …
Modernization and Change in the Nizari Ismaili Community in East Africa
On the Acquisition of Knowledge
Religion in Africa
Journal Article RELIGION IN AFRICA Get access The Customs of the Swahili People: The “Desturi Za Waswahili” of Mtoro Bin Mwinyi Bakari and other Swahtili Persons. Edited and translated into English by J. W. T. Allen. University of California Press, 1982, 343 pages. $24.50. Azim Nanji Azim Nanji Oklahoma State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 52,…
Book Notices
Journal Article BOOK NOTICES Get access A Clarification of Questions: An Unabridged Translation of “Resaleh Towzih al-Masael”. By Ayatollah Sayyed R. M. Khomeini. Translated and edited by J. Borujerdi. Westview Press, 1984. 432 pages. N.P. Azim Nanji Azim Nanji Oklahoma State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIV, Issue 2, Summer 1986, Pages 370–…
Early Ismāʿīlism Reconstructed
Asian Islam Islam in Asia, Vol. 1
Beyond fundamentalism
Between Metaphor and Context
In this article, the author explores three interrelated topics to elucidate the nature of Fatimid Ismaili discourse on justice and injustice in the larger context of Muslim medieval literature and expressions of law. First, the paradigm of imama is situated within the larger discussion of institutions of social justice in the Muslim world and articulated by the Fatimids through legal, doctrinal and philosophical writings. The paper then continues…
Charisma and Brotherhood in African Islam . Donal B. Cruise O'Brien, Christian Coulon
Mapping Islamic Studies
This volume presents an examination and a critical appreciation of how the discipline of Islamic studies evolved in its various historical contents. At the same time it seeks to reflect upon the ironic effects, whereby Orientalism and Islamic studies, which emerged as European disciplines to study the other, have themselves become texts and objects of study.
The Būjh Nirañjan
Mapping Islamic Studies
Mapping Islamic Studies
Penguin Dictionary of Islam
Islamic Studies and History (9 works) · Islam (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · African history and culture analysis (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (4 works)