Anjum, Ovamir G

Ovamir G Anjum
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Professor & Imam Endowed Chair, Philosophy and Religious Studies , College of Arts and Letters

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Ovamir.Anjum@utoledo.edu

selected publications

Article (Faculty180)
- 2024
  
  Conjuring Sovereignty: How the "Constitution" of Medina Discourse became an Oracle of Modern Statehood. Journal of Islamic Law (Harvard).
- 2020
  
  Is Deglobalization Real?. American Journal of Islam and Society. 37:vii-xxiv.
- 2020
  
  Managing Epochal Change in a Global Community: A Three-Dimensional Approach. American Journal of Islam and Society. 37:1-14.
- 2019
  
  Can the Humanities Help us Balance Truths and Facts?. American Journal of Islam and Society. 36:v-xiii.
- 2017
  
  From the Sacred Canopy to the Haunted Vault: Understanding Secularism from within Islam. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences. 34:v-xxii (18).
- 2016
  
  Dhimmi Citizens?: Non-Muslim Citizenship in the New Islamist Thought. ReOrient. 2:31-50.
- 2016
  
  Political Metaphors and Concepts in the Writings of An Eleventh-Century Sunni Scholar, Abu al-Maali al-Juwayni. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 26:7-18.
- 2016
  
  Salafism and Democracy. The Muslim World. 106:1-26.
- 2013
  
  Hallaq's Challenge: Can the Shari'a Save Us from Modernity?. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences. 30:124-134.
Article (Web of Science)
- 2016
  
  Salafis and Democracy: Doctrine and Context. MUSLIM WORLD. 106:448-473.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/muwo.12158
- 2016
  
  Political Metaphors and Concepts in the Writings of an Eleventh-Century Sunni Scholar, Abu al-Ma'ali al-Juwayni (419-478/1028-1085). JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. 26:7-18.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S1356186315000711
- 2016
  
  Political Metaphors and Concepts in the Writings of an Eleventh-Century Sunni Scholar, Abū al-Ma‛ālī al-Juwaynī (419 – 478/1028 – 1085). JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY. 26:7-18.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/s1356186315000711
- 2011
  
  Cultural Memory of the Pious Ancestors (Salaf) in al-Ghazali. NUMEN-INTERNATIONAL REVIEW FOR THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS. 58:344-374.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1163/156852711X562344
- 2011
  
  Cultural Memory of the Pious Ancestors (Salaf) in al-Ghazālī. NUMEN-INTERNATIONAL REVIEW FOR THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS. 58:344-374.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1163/156852711x562344
- 2007
  
  Islam as a Discursive Tradition: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 27:656-672.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1215/1089201x-2007-041
Book (Faculty180)
- 2020
  
  Ranks of Divine Seekers-Madarij al-Salikin (Vol Two of Four). Brill Academic Publisher, Leiden, Netherlands.
- 2020
  
  Ranks of Divine Seekers-Madarij al-Salikin, Translation (Vol One of Four). Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Netherlands.
Book Review (Web of Science)
- 2015
  
  The Inevitable Caliphate? A History of the Struggle for Global Islamic Union, 1924 to the Present. Ed. 26.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/jis/etv063
- 2015
  
  The Economy of Certainty: An Introduction to the Typology of Islamic Legal Theory. Ed. 26.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/jis/etu082
- 2015
  
  Held in Trust: Waqf in the Islamic World. Ed. 26.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/jis/etu065
- 2014
  
  Islam and Literalism: Literal Meaning and Interpretation in Islamic Legal Theory. Ed. 25.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/jis/etu046
- 2014
  
  Dispensing Justice in Islam : Qadis and Their Judgements, edited by Muhammad Khalid Masud, Rudolph Peters & David S. Powers. Ed. 5.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.12730/13091719.2014.52.113
Chapter (Faculty180)
- 2021
  
  Unjust Inequality as a Challenge for Contemporary Islam. A World of Inequalities: Christian and Muslim Perspectives. Georgetown University Press. 18.
- 2018
  
  Islamic Law and the State in Premodern Sunni Thought. Routledge Handbook of Islamic Law. Routledge. 29.
- 2018
  
  Wither Islam: Western Islamic Reform and Discursive Density. Locating the Shari'a, ed. Siddiqui and French. Brill. 15.
- 2017
  
  Do Islamists Have an Intellectual Deficit?. Rethinking Political Islam, ed. Shadi Hamid and William McCants. Oxford University Press. 300-307.
- 2017
  
  Foreword. The Islamic Studies Notebook: A Student Manual of Islamic Traditions. Createspace. 3.
- 2017
  
  What is Salafism?. Muftah, an online publication, www.muftah.org,. Muftah.org. 14.
Lecture or Panel Discussion (Faculty180)
- 2016
  
  ISIS and the Challenge of Interpreting Islam. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, 21 Nov. 2016..
- 2015
  
  “Dhimmi Citizens: Modern Islamic Negotiation of Law and History on the Question of Non-Muslim Belonging” . Tolerance in Contemporary Muslim Thought and Practice Mar 16-17, 2015, European Research Council, King’s College, London, Mar 16, 2015. (Invited).
- 2013
  
  “Hal yumkin aslamat al-dawla?” (Can the State Convert to Islam?) (Arabic). Paper presented at the conference “al-Islamiyyun wa nizam al-dimuqratiyya,” Arab Center for Policy and Research, Doha, Qatar, Sept. 28, 2013..
- 2013
  
  “Ibn Taymiyya and the Islamic State,” Islamic Studies Lecture Series, Georgetown University, September 12, 2013.. Georgetown University.
Other Scholarly Work (Faculty180)
- 2024
  
  Islamic Political Theology. St Andrews Encyclopedia of Theology.
- 2021
  
  The “Constitution” of Medina: Translation, Commentary, and Meaning Today. Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research.
- 2016
  
  Islam and Politics; Ibn Jama'a, al-Qaradawi; Al-Juwayni; Governance; Globalization; Theories of Imamate. Several entries for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics.
- 2012
  
  al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyya; al-Mawardi; al-Qaradawi; al-Siyasa al-Shar'iyya. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Law.
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