Blar i Chr. Michelsens Institutt på emneord "Islam"
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A Discussion of Three Theoretical Approaches to Modernity: Understanding Modernity as a Globalising Phenomenon
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 1996)The paper compares the potential of three theories of modernity for explaining the current Islamist revival as an element of modernising Muslim societies. The theories discussed are rationalist fundamentalism as represented ... -
Angola: Religion and repression
(CMI Working Paper WP 2022:1, Working paper, 2022-03-01)The history of religious repression in Angola stands in sharp contrast to the official representations of religious tolerance. The regime keeps religion under government control, through formal and informal methods, and ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility in Islamic Economies – the Case of Sudan
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2016:1, Working paper, 2016-05-01)Introduction Since the 1950s, there has been a growing international awareness of the need for business organizations to commit to a social role that goes beyond the sole objective of profit maximization. The term ... -
Crescent and Sword: The Hamas Enigma
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2004)This paper analyses the popular support to Hamas, the most important of the Palestinian Islamist movements today. The paper charts the movement’s historical ascendancy from a fringe Gaza-based group to a mainstream Islamist ... -
Democratizing Islam and Islamizing democracy: An inquiry into Hasan al-Turabi's conception of Shura in light of Western democratic theory
(Nordic Journal of Human Rights vol. 27 no. 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009-08-01)This article explores Hasan al-Turabi’s conception of democracy with particular focus on the role and rights of non-Muslims. This is done through a qualitative analysis of his writings as well as semi-structured ... -
Discrimination in the Name of Religious Freedom: The Rights of Women and Non-Muslims after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan
(Research report, Research report, 2007)Government policy since independence has by and large disregarded Sudan’s multi-religious character through continuous Islamisation and Arabisation processes that have fuelled the civil war. International considerations ... -
Feminist interlegalities and gender justice in Sudan: The debate on CEDAW and Islam
(Religion and Human Rights vol. 6 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-01-01)The fundamental argument put forward by Islamists, who have ruled Sudan since 1989, for not signing the convention is based on cultural relativism; different cultures provide indigenous and local solutions to their women's ... -
Islam in Northern Mozambique: A Historical Overview
(History Compass vol. 8 no. 7, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-01-01)This article is a historical overview of two issues: first, that of the dynamics of Islamic religious transformations from pre-Portuguese era up until the 2000s among Muslims of the contemporary Cabo Delgado, Nampula, and ... -
Islam, menneskerettigheter og utviklingsprosesser
(Rapport, Research report, 1991)Denne studien undersøker islams forhold til menneskerettighetene og muligheten for en utvikling av islamsk tenkning til også å omfatte den moderne menneskerettighetstanken. Med utgangspunkt i framveksten av forskjellige ... -
Islamism in the diaspora: Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2003)In recent years there has been increasing academic interest in Islamism in the Middle East, not least in Palestinian Islamism championed by groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which are waging a bloody war of attrition ... -
Palestinian Islamist movements: An annotated bibliography
(CMI report, Research report, 2002)This report consists of two parts. Part one gives an overview of the Islamist movements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The second part is a select bibliography of the main academic works in English on these ... -
Political Islam in South Asia
(Research report, Research report, 2002)This report analyses the growth of political Islam in South Asia (Pakistan, Afghanistan and India’s Jammu and Kashmir Province). In Pakistan the failure of parliamentary democracy and the weakening of civil society have ... -
Political Islam in the Middle East
(Research report, Research report, 2003)This report provides an overview of the political Islam in the Middle East, with a special emphasis on the Islamic resurgence in the Levant (Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria). Following an introduction ... -
Questioning the Secular-Religious Cleavage in Palestinian Politics: Comparing Fatah and Hamas
(Politics and Religion vol. 7 no. 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-01-01)Following the 2007 war between Fatah and Hamas, Palestinian politics appears to have followed the regional trend where the competition between secularism and Islamism is developing into a major political cleavage. Through ... -
The politics of women's representation in Sudan: Debating women's rights in islam from the elites to the grassroots
(Research report, Research report, 2010)The international discourse on gender and peacebuilding presupposes a common agenda among all women across religion, ethnicity and class in any given post-conflict situation. The literature seems to express the belief that ... -
The Question of Becoming: Islamic Reform-Movements in Contemporary Ethiopia
(CMI Working paper, Working paper, 2007)Ethiopia’s new political climate (since 1991) has enhanced the Muslims’ opportunities for religious expressions, clearly seen through the surfacing of several Islamic reform movements. These movements; the Salafi movement, ... -
Women’s Equal Rights and Islam in Sudanese Republican Thought: A Translation of Three Family Law Booklets from 1975, Produced and Circulated by the Republican Sisters
(Sudan Working Paper SWP 2015:5, Working paper, 2015-08-01)This paper includes a translation of three booklets produced by the Sudanese Republican Sisters in commemoration of International Women’s Day in 1975: (i) Women Rights in the Constitution and under Sudanese Sharia Laws , ...