Probing the South African Solution for Israel / Palestine
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is analyzed With three interrelated goals: first, to improve understanding of the reasons for failed conflict resolution in the Middle East by contrasting it With successful peacemaking…
Religion and Politics in Contemporary World Affairs: the Global Implications of American Exceptionalism
This paper argues that we have entered a ‘Tocquevillean’ phase in world affairs that represents the culmination of a long-gestating historical process. Since 1945, there have been three phases of…
Democracy, Wild Sovereignties and the New Leviathan
The argument presented in this paper develops in relation to three interrelated themes. It begins by considering the current LIS-dominated discourse on democracy and democratization, which argues that democratic values…
Arab Prophets and the Tombs of Giants
Numerous pilgrims and travellers report that the tombs of the Arab prophets are much longer than the tombs of ordinary people, ranging from ten to fifty metres in length. Little…
Christian Monks in Islamic Literature: a Preliminary Report on Some Arabic Apophthegmata Patrum
Islamic scholarship records a large number of accounts featuring sayings by Christian monks (both monastics and ascetics) and their encounters with Muslim ascetics and mystics. On one level, these accounts…
Islamic Revival Among Second-generation Arab-american Muslims: the American Experience and Globalization Intersect
This article examines the chain of events that facilitated an Islamic revival among second-generation Arab-American Muslims. Based upon research in metropolitan Chicago, it argues against trends in the literature that describe Western-born Muslims…