Ovamir Anjum
Biographic Data
| ID | 3450395 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ovamir Anjum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ovamir |
| FAMILY NAME | Anjum |
| SIGNATURE | ANJUM O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toledo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Abraham Accords
Elham Fakhro’s The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization offers a groundbreaking and timely analysis of the 2020 normalization agreements between Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain—collectively known as the Abraham Accords. As the first major academic treatment of these accords, the book presents a comprehensive, incisive, and methodologically rigorous account of their genesis, negotiation proc…
The Warrior Prophet
Joel Hayward’s The Warrior Prophet: Muhammad and War (Claritas Books, 2022; I only have access to the Kindle version) is an important recent addition to the English language Sira literature. The book, erudite and amply referenced throughout, investigates the Prophet Muhammad’s motives for waging jihad against Mecca after his flight to what became Medina. Professor Hayward, a specialist in military history, sets out to explain the well-established…
Küreselleşmeden
2009 yılında The Economist dergisi, küreselleşmenin geri döndürülemez olduğudogmasına karşın “dünya ekonomisinin entegrasyonunun neredeyse her alandageriye çekildiğini”[1] yazmıştı. Dünyamız, yıllardır süren küreselleşme sürecindensonra şimdi bunun tersini tecrübe edeceği bir evreye mi geçiyor? Peki bunuolumlu mu karşılamalıyız? Küreselleşmenin “Batılı” liberal tüketim kültür vebilgisini dünyanın dört bir yanına yayması gibi küreselleşmeden uzakl…
Volume 36 Issue 2 - Spring 2019
This issue begins with an editorial on humanistic education and Islam by the journal editor, Ovamir Anjum. It then features two research articles: Kareem Rosshandler’s “A Review of Contemporary Arabic Scholarship on the Use of Isrā’īliyyāt for Interpreting the Qur’an” is an important exploration of how modern Arabophone Muslim exegetes employ Israelite narratives in their commentaries. The second article, Abbas Ahsan’s “Quine’s Ontology and the I…
Interview with Talal Asad
The work of Talal Asad, in particular his two landmark volumes Genealogiesof Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianityand Islam (1993) and Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam,Modernity (2004), has given new life to critical study of secularismand the idea of "religion" across the disciplines of anthropology, politicalscience, religion, history, and colonial studies. In fact my firstpublished article, "Islam as a Discurs…
From the Sacred Canopy to the Haunted Vault
As the incoming editor of an academic journal in the fourth decade of its existence,I must begin with a great deal of trepidation for the task ahead andgratitude to many predecessors: those who envisioned and founded it, andthose who brought it where it is today. “One who does not thank men [andwomen] does not thank God,” goes a saying of Prophet Muhammad (S). Myfirst note of gratitude must go to the outgoing editor, Dr. Zakyi Ibrahim, wholed the…
Elements of a Prophetic Voice of Dissent and Engagement
In your hands is another thematic issue of AJISS, one that consists of two maincontributions that address the Islamic tradition’s prohibition of the homosexualact. Jonathan A. C. Brown’s essay analyzes the authenticity of pertinent hadithtraditions, whereas Mobeen Vaid’s essay explores the Qur’anic perspective.Both articles had their origin in presentations by a number of scholars at a colloquiumheld at the International Institute of Islamic Thou…
Dhimmi Citizens
Accounts of modern Islamic reformist currents offered by recent studies take for granted that Islamists have embraced the modern nation-state, and, relatedly, that there is consequently a rupture in Islamic discursive tradition. This article seeks to nuance these notions by examining “the new Islamist” discourse on the poignant question of non-Muslim belonging in an Islamic state. Not all Islamists have embraced the nation-state and its majoritar…
Political Metaphors and Concepts in the Writings of an Eleventh-Century Sunni Scholar, Abū al-Ma‛ālī al-Juwaynī (419 – 478/1028 – 1085)
This article investigates political vocabulary and metaphor in the writings of al-Juwayni (d. 1085) to bring out the commitments and presuppositions of premodern Islamic political tradition and raises the question of their compatibility with those of the modern nation-state
Salafis and Democracy
The Inevitable Caliphate? A History of the Struggle for Global Islamic Union, 1924 to the Present By Reza Pankhurst
Journal Article The Inevitable Caliphate? A History of the Struggle for Global Islamic Union, 1924 to the Present By Reza Pankhurst Get access The Inevitable Caliphate? A History of the Struggle for Global Islamic Union, 1924 to the Present By Reza Pankhurst (London: Hurst & Company, 2013), xii + 216 pp. Price PB £18.99. EAN 978–1849042512. Ovamir Anjum Ovamir Anjum University of Toledo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
Dispensing Justice in Islam
First paragraph: The volume at hand is a treasure trove of available knowledge of two kinds, the field’s accumulated wisdom as well as new research over the last few decades. Published a decade later, the volume is based on a conference organized by M. Khalid Masud as the director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) in 2001. The editors hope, quite justifiably, that the chapters thus brought together h…
Islam and Literalism
Journal Article Islam and Literalism: Literal Meaning and Interpretation in Islamic Legal Theory By Robert Gleave Get access Islam and Literalism: Literal Meaning and Interpretation in Islamic Legal TheoryBy Robert Gleave (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013 [2012]), xii + 212 pp., bibliography, index. Price PB $39.95. EAN 978–0748689866. Ovamir Anjum Ovamir Anjum 1University of Toledo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Held in Trust
Frederic W. Maitland, the so-called father of English legal history, declared that the trust ‘perhaps forms the most distinctive achievement of English lawyers. It seems to us essential to civilization, and yet there is nothintg quite like it in foreign law’. An Anglo-American legal scholar, G. P. Verbit, in his recently published translation of a ninth-century Islamic treatise on the law of trusts, or waqfs, noted that ‘Maitland was wrong ... ..…
The Economy of Certainty
The publication of Aron Zysow’s 1984 dissertation, ‘The Economy of Certainty: An Introduction to the Typology of Islamic Legal Theory’, in the book form with the same title, is an event in the field of Islamic legal studies. It has been long overdue. The book form is mostly a faithful reproduction of the dissertation, but introduces a few bidaʿ ḥasana, that is, praiseworthy innovations, such as turning the useful but painful to access endnotes in…
Hallaq’s Challenge
Wael Hallaq, a leading western scholar of Islamic law, throws down the gauntlet in this daring book, challenging not only Orientalist distortions of Islam but also turning the tables on modernity, the ubiquitous and ineluctable paradigm that informs nearly all thinking, Muslim and non-Muslim, about the Shari‘ah. An Islamic state is impossible, Hallaq contends, not because the Shari‘ah is undesirable, but because the modern state is inherently con…
Reason and Community in the Classical Period
Politics, Law and Reason in Islamic Thought
This revisionist account of the history of Islamic political thought from the early to the late medieval period focuses on Ibn Taymiyya, one of the most brilliant theologians of his day. This original study demonstrates how his influence shed new light on the entire trajectory of Islamic political thought. Although he did not reject the Caliphate ideal, as is commonly believed, he nevertheless radically redefined it by turning it into a rational …
Cultural Memory of the Pious Ancestors (Salaf) in al-Ghazālī
The superiority and truth of the way of the first few generations of Muslims, the Salaf , has been a key theological premise of Sunni Islam, which Sunni ulamā have tried to defend against incursions of intellectual sophistication as well as foreign systems of reasoning and spirituality. However, they have also been attracted by the promises of greater intellectual coherence, sophistication, or ultimate truths that other traditions seemed to offer…
Sufism Without Mysticism? Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah’s Objectives in Madāriǧ al-Sālikīn
Islam as a Discursive Tradition
Research Article| December 01 2007 Islam as a Discursive Tradition: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors Ovamir Anjum Ovamir Anjum Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 656–672. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2007-041 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ovamir Anjum; Islam as a Discursive Tradition: Talal Asad and H…
Islam as a Discursive Tradition
Research Article| December 01 2007 Islam as a Discursive Tradition: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors Ovamir Anjum Ovamir Anjum Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 656–672. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2007-041 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ovamir Anjum; Islam as a Discursive Tradition: Talal Asad and H…
Salafis and Democracy
Interview with Talal Asad
The work of Talal Asad, in particular his two landmark volumes Genealogiesof Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianityand Islam (1993) and Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam,Modernity (2004), has given new life to critical study of secularismand the idea of "religion" across the disciplines of anthropology, politicalscience, religion, history, and colonial studies. In fact my firstpublished article, "Islam as a Discurs…
Sufism Without Mysticism? Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah’s Objectives in Madāriǧ al-Sālikīn
Political Metaphors and Concepts in the Writings of an Eleventh-Century Sunni Scholar, Abū al-Ma‛ālī al-Juwaynī (419 – 478/1028 – 1085)
This article investigates political vocabulary and metaphor in the writings of al-Juwayni (d. 1085) to bring out the commitments and presuppositions of premodern Islamic political tradition and raises the question of their compatibility with those of the modern nation-state
Islam as a Discursive Tradition
Research Article| December 01 2007 Islam as a Discursive Tradition: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors Ovamir Anjum Ovamir Anjum Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 656–672. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2007-041 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Ovamir Anjum; Islam as a Discursive Tradition: Talal Asad and H…
Sufism Without Mysticism? Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah’s Objectives in Madāriǧ al-Sālikīn
Cultural Memory of the Pious Ancestors (Salaf) in al-Ghazālī
The superiority and truth of the way of the first few generations of Muslims, the Salaf , has been a key theological premise of Sunni Islam, which Sunni ulamā have tried to defend against incursions of intellectual sophistication as well as foreign systems of reasoning and spirituality. However, they have also been attracted by the promises of greater intellectual coherence, sophistication, or ultimate truths that other traditions seemed to offer…
Reason and Community in the Classical Period
Politics, Law and Reason in Islamic Thought
This revisionist account of the history of Islamic political thought from the early to the late medieval period focuses on Ibn Taymiyya, one of the most brilliant theologians of his day. This original study demonstrates how his influence shed new light on the entire trajectory of Islamic political thought. Although he did not reject the Caliphate ideal, as is commonly believed, he nevertheless radically redefined it by turning it into a rational …
Hallaq’s Challenge
Wael Hallaq, a leading western scholar of Islamic law, throws down the gauntlet in this daring book, challenging not only Orientalist distortions of Islam but also turning the tables on modernity, the ubiquitous and ineluctable paradigm that informs nearly all thinking, Muslim and non-Muslim, about the Shari‘ah. An Islamic state is impossible, Hallaq contends, not because the Shari‘ah is undesirable, but because the modern state is inherently con…
Dispensing Justice in Islam
First paragraph: The volume at hand is a treasure trove of available knowledge of two kinds, the field’s accumulated wisdom as well as new research over the last few decades. Published a decade later, the volume is based on a conference organized by M. Khalid Masud as the director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) in 2001. The editors hope, quite justifiably, that the chapters thus brought together h…
Islam and Literalism
Journal Article Islam and Literalism: Literal Meaning and Interpretation in Islamic Legal Theory By Robert Gleave Get access Islam and Literalism: Literal Meaning and Interpretation in Islamic Legal TheoryBy Robert Gleave (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013 [2012]), xii + 212 pp., bibliography, index. Price PB $39.95. EAN 978–0748689866. Ovamir Anjum Ovamir Anjum 1University of Toledo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acad…
Held in Trust
Frederic W. Maitland, the so-called father of English legal history, declared that the trust ‘perhaps forms the most distinctive achievement of English lawyers. It seems to us essential to civilization, and yet there is nothintg quite like it in foreign law’. An Anglo-American legal scholar, G. P. Verbit, in his recently published translation of a ninth-century Islamic treatise on the law of trusts, or waqfs, noted that ‘Maitland was wrong ... ..…
The Economy of Certainty
The publication of Aron Zysow’s 1984 dissertation, ‘The Economy of Certainty: An Introduction to the Typology of Islamic Legal Theory’, in the book form with the same title, is an event in the field of Islamic legal studies. It has been long overdue. The book form is mostly a faithful reproduction of the dissertation, but introduces a few bidaʿ ḥasana, that is, praiseworthy innovations, such as turning the useful but painful to access endnotes in…
The Inevitable Caliphate? A History of the Struggle for Global Islamic Union, 1924 to the Present By Reza Pankhurst
Journal Article The Inevitable Caliphate? A History of the Struggle for Global Islamic Union, 1924 to the Present By Reza Pankhurst Get access The Inevitable Caliphate? A History of the Struggle for Global Islamic Union, 1924 to the Present By Reza Pankhurst (London: Hurst & Company, 2013), xii + 216 pp. Price PB £18.99. EAN 978–1849042512. Ovamir Anjum Ovamir Anjum University of Toledo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
Dhimmi Citizens
Accounts of modern Islamic reformist currents offered by recent studies take for granted that Islamists have embraced the modern nation-state, and, relatedly, that there is consequently a rupture in Islamic discursive tradition. This article seeks to nuance these notions by examining “the new Islamist” discourse on the poignant question of non-Muslim belonging in an Islamic state. Not all Islamists have embraced the nation-state and its majoritar…
Political Metaphors and Concepts in the Writings of an Eleventh-Century Sunni Scholar, Abū al-Ma‛ālī al-Juwaynī (419 – 478/1028 – 1085)
This article investigates political vocabulary and metaphor in the writings of al-Juwayni (d. 1085) to bring out the commitments and presuppositions of premodern Islamic political tradition and raises the question of their compatibility with those of the modern nation-state
Salafis and Democracy
From the Sacred Canopy to the Haunted Vault
As the incoming editor of an academic journal in the fourth decade of its existence,I must begin with a great deal of trepidation for the task ahead andgratitude to many predecessors: those who envisioned and founded it, andthose who brought it where it is today. “One who does not thank men [andwomen] does not thank God,” goes a saying of Prophet Muhammad (S). Myfirst note of gratitude must go to the outgoing editor, Dr. Zakyi Ibrahim, wholed the…
Elements of a Prophetic Voice of Dissent and Engagement
In your hands is another thematic issue of AJISS, one that consists of two maincontributions that address the Islamic tradition’s prohibition of the homosexualact. Jonathan A. C. Brown’s essay analyzes the authenticity of pertinent hadithtraditions, whereas Mobeen Vaid’s essay explores the Qur’anic perspective.Both articles had their origin in presentations by a number of scholars at a colloquiumheld at the International Institute of Islamic Thou…
Interview with Talal Asad
The work of Talal Asad, in particular his two landmark volumes Genealogiesof Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianityand Islam (1993) and Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam,Modernity (2004), has given new life to critical study of secularismand the idea of "religion" across the disciplines of anthropology, politicalscience, religion, history, and colonial studies. In fact my firstpublished article, "Islam as a Discurs…
Volume 36 Issue 2 - Spring 2019
This issue begins with an editorial on humanistic education and Islam by the journal editor, Ovamir Anjum. It then features two research articles: Kareem Rosshandler’s “A Review of Contemporary Arabic Scholarship on the Use of Isrā’īliyyāt for Interpreting the Qur’an” is an important exploration of how modern Arabophone Muslim exegetes employ Israelite narratives in their commentaries. The second article, Abbas Ahsan’s “Quine’s Ontology and the I…
The Warrior Prophet
Joel Hayward’s The Warrior Prophet: Muhammad and War (Claritas Books, 2022; I only have access to the Kindle version) is an important recent addition to the English language Sira literature. The book, erudite and amply referenced throughout, investigates the Prophet Muhammad’s motives for waging jihad against Mecca after his flight to what became Medina. Professor Hayward, a specialist in military history, sets out to explain the well-established…
Küreselleşmeden
2009 yılında The Economist dergisi, küreselleşmenin geri döndürülemez olduğudogmasına karşın “dünya ekonomisinin entegrasyonunun neredeyse her alandageriye çekildiğini”[1] yazmıştı. Dünyamız, yıllardır süren küreselleşme sürecindensonra şimdi bunun tersini tecrübe edeceği bir evreye mi geçiyor? Peki bunuolumlu mu karşılamalıyız? Küreselleşmenin “Batılı” liberal tüketim kültür vebilgisini dünyanın dört bir yanına yayması gibi küreselleşmeden uzakl…
The Abraham Accords
Elham Fakhro’s The Abraham Accords: The Gulf States, Israel, and the Limits of Normalization offers a groundbreaking and timely analysis of the 2020 normalization agreements between Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain—collectively known as the Abraham Accords. As the first major academic treatment of these accords, the book presents a comprehensive, incisive, and methodologically rigorous account of their genesis, negotiation proc…
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