The 38th Annual Conference of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists of North America (AMSS)

"Islamic Traditions and Comparative Modernities"

Cosponsored by:
The University of Virginia - Department of Religious Studies
& 
Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian
Languages and Cultures, Charlottesville, VA
September 25-26, 2009  

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• Alan Godlas: “Psychological Resources for Emotionally Intelligent Dialogue between Islam, the West, and Indigenous Cultures”
• Alireza Korangy: “Poetics of Islam in Contemporary Women Poets of Iran: A Morphological and Historical Perspective (17^th-21^st cc)” 
•  Aminah B. McCloud : “Studying Muslims in the 21st Century”
• Carrie Konold: “Shari’ah and the Secular State in Senegal: Understanding Citizen Preferences for Islamic Family Law”
• Cemil Aydin: “Global Identity of the Muslim World: The Legacies of the Late 19^th Century Intellectual History”
• Ehsan Moghaddasi: “A Comparative Study between Secularism and Political Islam and the Downfall of Secularism During Khatami’s Presidency”
• Ermin Sinanovic: “Multiple Modernities and the Discourse of Developmental Islamic Revivalism”
• Hanadi Al-Samman: “US Muslim Women’s Movements and the Politics of Islamic Feminine Hermeneutics”
• Helena Cobban (www.JustWorldNews.org): “Changing Perceptions of the Palestinian Question in the US”
• Jacquelene Brinton: “Utilizing the Sermon to Incorporate Change: Shaykh Sha‘rawi’s Epistemological Enforcement of Ulama Authority”
• Juliane Hammer: “Activism as Embodied Tafsir: American Muslim Women’s Discourses on Authority, Leadership and Space”
• Junaid S. Ahmad: “The Islam Industry in America: Neo-Orientalism in Popular and Academic Discourse”
• Khaled Troudi: “Hermeneutical Aspects of the Qur’anic Narrative: The Function of Coherence and Style”
• Mahmoud M. Ayoub: “Islam and Secularism”
• Marianne Farina: “New Strategies in Religious Education: The Case of Pursuing Meaning and Method for Engagement with Modernity”
• Michelle D. Byng: “Symbolically Muslim: Media, Hijab, and the West”
• Mucahit Bilici: “Muslim Time in America”
• Mumtaz Ahmad: “Ulama and their Attitudes Toward the US: Evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan”
• Noor Mohammad Osmani, Abu Umar Faruq Ahmad, and Md. Yousuf Ali: “The Political Role of Muslim Women: Between Traditional Texts and Changing Realities”
• Norbani Binti Ismail: “Muslim Women and Religious Authorities in Malaysia’s Mass Media”
• Richard J. Cohen: “Sufism and Syncretism in Early Indo-Islamic Literature: Maulana Da’ud’s Chandayan as Exemplary Text”
• William B. Quandt: “Obama’s Approach to the Muslim World: What lies Behind the Change in Rhetoric”