The smell of sweat and rum: teacher authority in capoeira classes

The Brazilian martial art, capoeira, is popular in many countries outside Brazil, including the UK. Capoeira is generally taught by Brazilians whose livelihood depends on recruiting and retaining enough paying customers to keep their classes economically viable and socially pleasurable for the students. The teachers also have to establish and maintain authority over their students who are young adults with many other ways to spend their time and money. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in three British cities, the ways in which teacher authority is established, challenged and maintained are explored, including claims to authenticity, physical prowess, race, renaming the students, and skill on the dance floor.     

Leading multi‐ethnic schools: adjustments in concepts and practices for engaging with diversity 1

The student population across world is increasingly reflective of diverse cultures, religions and ethnicities. This rich diversity may become a challenge for educational leaders, teachers, and policy‐makers in the absence of an understanding of diverse sources of knowledge people draw on for directing their beliefs and daily practices. This paper explores the multi‐ethnic context in Britain with a focus on Muslim students in English secondary schools, and argues for drawing on diverse ethnic knowledge sources to inform and enrich approaches towards managing diversity. It discusses the concept of Adab derived from Muslim ethics and philosophy, and debates possible contributions of such conceptual adaptations towards improving educational engagement and performance.     

Pedagogies of Muslim feminisms: reflections on faith,space and citizenship

In this article, I offer a qualitative study of three spaces created by and for young Muslim women in Toronto, Canada: an after-school drop-in programme for Muslim girls, a Somali women’s group and a Muslim women’s collective. I focus on data gathered from interviews of seven Muslim women in their 20s who created the spaces, which offered refuge from the racism and Islamophobia in Canadian schools and society and from the patriarchal forms of social control in their families and communities. Drawing on feminist and ethnographic approaches to citizenship studies and a critical faith-centred epistemology, I consider how these spaces function as loci for teaching and learning self and community, building communities of resistance and articulating new notions of the political and of citizenship.     

试析马坚译《古兰经》中gawmu一词的翻译——基于汉文本、英文本及波斯文本之比较

gawmu一词在马坚译《古兰经》中被翻译为宗族、民众、百姓。文章通过对马坚译《古兰经》与伊朗Tahereh Saffarzadeh所译英文本和波斯文本《古兰经》中gawmu的译义进行初步的比较与分析,认为马坚译《古兰经》将gawmu一词翻译为宗族、民众、百姓基本符合原意,但将其翻译为宗族则略显勉强。     

1945以来日本的伊斯兰暨中东研究

日本的伊斯兰教与中东研究始于20世纪30年代。该研究随着国际和日本国内形势的发展而有所变化,总的趋势是不断加强。笔者重点介绍了第二次世界大战以来日本的伊斯兰教与中东研究发展情况,内容包括这一研究的发展简史、主要的科研机构、团体、学术刊物、项目以及图书馆等。     

Working with Muslims in Counselling—Identifying Sensitive Issues and Conflicting Philosophy

Islam is currently at the forefront of world news and the publicity it receives does not always reflect the reality which counsellors meet when working with Muslim clients. This paper proposes that in working with Muslim clients it is important to identify and avoid making false assumptions concerning Muslim beliefs, values and practices and in the process and content of counselling, to be acutely aware of issues and practices, which are sensitive, and to work within the boundaries which religious beliefs set. The final section attempts to identify some key areas of training for counsellors working with Muslim clients.This article is based on a talk given at the IAC (International Association for Counselling) Conference in Geneva in April 2003.     

Religious education and hermeneutics: the case of teaching about Islam

ABSTRACT

This article attempts to do three things: the first is an exploration of the ways in which Islam is presented in an essentialist way (with a focus on religious education (RE) in England and Wales), leading to stereotypes and unsubstantiated generalisations that are then embedded in resources and agreed syllabi, secondly, it provides a critique of essentialism, and finally a case is made for the role of hermeneutics in the teaching and learning of Islam. We argue that a hermeneutical approach is a sound way to both conceptualise the phenomenon of Islam and a pedagogical opening to make sense of it, that may help overcome some of the weaknesses of the current ways of teaching about Islam.     

回族交际中的特殊词语及其文化含义

回族使用汉语文交际时常出现一些特殊词语.其中有一部分是借自阿拉伯语和波斯语的词语;有一部分是利用汉语原有构词材料构成的新词语;有一部分是改变了汉语原义而赋予它特定含义的词语;有一部分则是改变了汉语原有结构形式的逆序词语.这些特殊词语,生动地表现了回族在使用汉语时所具有的民族特色,从一个侧面体现了回族长期形成的独特而深远的民族文化.     

人类文明第一次大融合的结晶:阿拉伯—伊斯兰文化

人类在不同的地域创造了不同的文化,构成了不同的文明区域。古埃及文明、两河流域文明、印度文明、中华文明基本上是以地域为核心的独立文明。希腊—罗马文明虽然直接或间接地吸收了其他文明的一些成果而发展为欧洲文明的基石,但这是一种有限的综合文明。人类文明第一次真正的大融合是在阿拉伯帝国时期出现,并在融合中发展出一种独特的不是纯宗教和民族的阿拉伯—伊斯兰文明。论文对阿拉伯帝国时期人类文明的大交汇大融合作简要阐述,以此凸现阿拉伯—伊斯兰文明的吸收性和包容性,这在文明冲突的今天有一定的现实意义。     

阿拉伯伊斯兰文化对东方文学的影响

阿拉伯伊斯兰文化是东方的三大文化体系之一。它对西亚、南亚、中亚、东南亚、东非和西非等地区许多国家的文学产生了广泛而深刻的影响