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The American Journal of Islam and Society ( AJIS ), previously published quarterly (1984-2020) as American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences ( AJISS ), is a double-blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal published in English by the International Institute of Islamic Thought ( IIIT ). AJIS showcases a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world: anthropology, economics, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, and law. The journal welcomes all scholarship that pertains to the myriad ways in which Islam and human societies interact.
- Islam and Psychology: Research Approaches and Theoretical and Practical Implications
- From Islamic Modernism to Theorizing Authoritarianism: Bin Bayyah and the...
- Qur’anic Stories: God, Revelation and the Audience (by Leyla Ozgur Alhassen)
- In Your Face: Law, Justice, and Niqab-Wearing Women in Canada (by Natasha Bakht)
- Maqāṣid and the Renewal of Islamic Legal Theory in ʿAbdullah Bin Bayyah’s Discourse
- Before Maqāṣid: Uncovering the Vision of Contested Benefits (maṣāliḥ) in the Classical...
- Carrying on the Tradition: A Social and Intellectual History of Hadith Transmission...
- Christian Monastic Life in Early Islam (by Bradley Bowman)
- Sufism in Ottoman Egypt Circulation Renewal and Authority in the Seventeenth and...
- Forging Ideal Muslim Subjects: Discursive Practices, Subject Formation, & Muslim...
- The Muslim Resolutions: Bosniak Responses to World War Two Atrocities in Bosnia and...
- Islamic Theology in the Turkish Republic (by Philip Dorroll)
- Editorial Note: Special Issue: Theory and Uses of Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿa
- History and Jurisprudence of the Maqāṣid: A Critical Appraisal
- AbdulHamid Ahmad AbuSulayman’s Legacy of Intellectual Reform
- Averroës’ Takfīr of al-Ghazālı̄: Ta’wīl and Causal Kufr
- The Dissemination and Implementation of Islam within the African American Community
- From Streamlining to Mainstreaming “Islamization of Knowledge”: The Case of the...
- Conquered Populations in Early Islam: Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of Slave Mothers:...
- Comfortably Numb: A Short History of New Zealand Muslim Discourse and Thought
- Madrasas and the Making of Islamic Womanhood (by Hem Borker)
- Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution (by Kevin Fogg)
- Fifty-Seven Tracts: Shaybānī’s (d. 189/805) Aṣl/Mabsūṭ, Twelve Centuries On
- China’s Muslims and Japan’s Empire, Centering Islam in WWII (by Kelly A. Hammond)
- The Power of Education (by Jeremy Henzell-Thomas)