具有自由民主思想的伊斯兰革命理论家--巴扎尔甘

巴扎尔甘是从伊朗传统文化中走出来的具有现代西方自由民主思想的政治家,他的思想是西方文明和伊朗文明历史交往的结晶,体现了传统文明与现代文明的有机统一.他努力使伊朗传统文化现代化,使宗教与科学协调统一,使民族主义者具有国际主义胸怀,使来自西方文明的自由民主平等的种子移植到伊朗的伊斯兰土壤中.他的政治思想和政治实践在当代伊朗的政治史上占有重要的地位.     

Between “Islamic” and “un-Islamic”: Navigating Religion at an American Islamic High School

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate how one American Islamic school community grapples with external and internal demands on religion, and how this process impacts notions of what is religious. At ‘Ilm High School, an Islamic high school on America’s West Coast, school administrators and teachers must accommodate students’ and parents’ diverse and often competing ideas about Islam and the “Islamic.” In doing so, they sometimes downplay the “Islamic” in their Islamic Studies classes, policies, and school representation. They do this without venturing into the “un-Islamic”, casting a wide “religious net” and keeping Islam capacious and relevant enough for Muslim students.     

伊朗伊斯兰共和国初期的妇女观与妇女就业

伊朗伊斯兰共和国初期，伊朗妇女经历了一个就业上的大规模衰退和萎缩时期，这是由伊朗伊斯兰教国家特定的历史文化环境决定的，特别是与当时社会上存在的压倒一切的伊斯兰教传统妇女观和传统的两性关系密切相关。     

A model for Islamic education from Turkey: the Imam-Hatip schools

The aim of this article is to examine the Imam-Hatip schools and their basic features, the characteristic model of Islamic education in Turkey that was proposed as an alternative model for other Muslim countries during their madrasa reform movements in the aftermath of the September 11 events in the USA. In the continuation of the madrasa tradition during the Saljuki period under state supervision, along with the modernisation efforts in education since the late Ottoman period, these schools have been revitalised and adapted to the contemporary conditions of educational institutions. At the foundation of these schools, there lay a notion of reconciliation between the ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’. Throughout the years of the Turkish Republic, these schools have constantly become a controversial issue in terms of their number, structure, and student and alumni profiles. Especially after the opening process of the Turkish people and Turkish foreign policies to the world, the issue has become an international one since the 1980s. After the events of 11 September 2001, these schools were offered as an alternative model for madrasas in Muslim countries and therefore drew international attention to themselves.     

学术自由的危机与抗争:1860至1960年的美国大学

学术自由是伴随着美国现代大学的产生而发展的，美国现代大学的发展过程就是一个反对思想压制、争取学术自由的斗争过程。自从内战后美国现代大学产生以来，美国大学为捍卫学术自由的权利，先后经历了反对宗教原教旨主义、自由资本主义、麦卡锡主义等的斗争。     

生命对死亡的超越——解读《清水里的刀子》中"两世并重"的生死观

回族作家石舒清书写回民生活的短篇小说《清水里的刀子》,以回族信仰的伊斯兰教为创作的文化精神底蕴,表达了一种超然达观而又积极入世的“两世并重”的生死观念。     

Religious tolerance in secondary Islamic Education textbooks in Kuwait

ABSTRACT

With widespread media coverage of religious ‘extremism’, there is a great deal of interest in how religious identities and principles of tolerance – or intolerance – are learned and manifested. The current study investigates the extent to which high school Islamic Education textbooks reflect Islamic religious tolerance, and how this topic presented. A content analysis for religious-tolerance topics was conducted in the Islamic Education textbooks in Kuwaiti high schools; the results show that tolerance is mentioned much more often than intolerance, but there is still room for improvement.     

Teacher autonomy and centralised control: The case of textbooks

This paper analyses teachers’ attitudes towards the use of textbooks as a means of understanding what happens in a heavily centralised education system. Whilst the research is based on a particular country, the lessons can be applied to many parts of the globalised education system. The research question here is to find out whether the teachers have freedom in varying their teaching methods or not. The main research method used was semi-structured interviews. The factors that decide this freedom are discussed in detail. Whilst the particular circumstances are peculiar to Jordan, they can be likened to the centralised national curriculum and an authoritative inspection regime in the UK.     

Islamic higher education and social cohesion in Indonesia

This study explores the role of public Islamic higher education in promoting better relations between various religious communities in post-authoritarian Indonesia. Based on field research conducted between December 2005 and March 2006, it documents how progressive Islamic education leaders have advanced a tradition of critical intellectualism in efforts toward the “renewal” of Islamic thought. This report provides an analysis of how this tradition has served as a foundation for educators seeking to promote democratization and address issues of social cohesion. It examines some of the core values expressed by educational leaders as they have aspired to transform the most prominent State Institutes for Islamic Studies (IAIN) into genuine universities. The study also highlights the conservative backlash against public Islamic higher education and other purveyors of progressive ideas within Indonesian society.

Narrative,Adaptation, and Change

This paper explores how individuals and communities orient themselves to the future by the way they story the past. There is a persistent tendency to think of such narratives as factual and therefore stable. The mutability of such narratives is actually a key adaptive characteristic, ranging from complete repression of individual traumas to public revisionism and debates about such events as the bombing of Hiroshima. Arguably, only those with a predictable future can afford a fixed version of the past, while those who are swept by unpredicted social change toward new learning and improvisation must also construct new narratives. This paper considers the social and individual value of multiple fluid narratives in the context of multiple belief systems of other kinds.