La mousson, pluie des agriculteurs et vent des marins by Françoise Aubaile-Sallenave

“…But monsoon obliges the travelers to accomodate to its very particular annual calendars : it directs the boats alternatively from west to east and from east to west.The cultural frame of the paper focalizes the arabo-muslim world of the 8th-16th, 18th centuries, with glimpses on the other cultures (in term of boats, travels, travelers, products).We shall evocate the action of the monsoon on the land and the adaptation of the small farmers to those rains, but also the good and bad consequences of those rains for the societies.We also shall evocate the steps of the trade (chinese, indian, arabic, persian, then portuguese, english and french), some great oriental and occidental travelers, their aims.For the Europeans in the Indian Ocean, that monsoon route has been first the alternative to the inside asiatic route, the silk route. …”
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KADIN-MERKEZLİ BİR İSLÂMÎ TEOLOJİ İNŞASINA DOĞRU MU? by Adnan Bülent Baloğlu

“…Such efforts and activities started in the West are also gaining popularity in the Muslim world. An overwhelming number of Muslim women theologians and researchers devoted themselves to the understanding and interpretation the religious texts, and produced a large number of works dedicated to the subject-matter. …”
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A Review of "The Challenge of Modernity, the Quest for Authenticity in the Arab World " by Ahmad Biglari, Ebrahim Barzegar

“…The author has analyzed the notion of intellectuals in the Muslim world since the beginning of facing with two layers of the Western modern civilization, the colonial and technological progress. …”
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The Phenomenon of «Islamic State» by A. V. Fedorchenko, A. V. Krylov

“…Current goals ofjihadists include the use of a power vacuum, bringing chaos in the various territories in the Muslim world, and prepare the ground for the transition to the ultimate goal of the program, namely the re-establishment, as it is declared, of the powerful theocratic state - the Caliphate, in the likeness of that which existed in Middle Ages, during the victorious Muslim conquests in the VII-IX centuries. …”
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Volga Bulgaria and the Near East (Egypt and Syria) in the 10th – early 13th century (based on archaeological materials) by K.A. Rudenko

“…In addition, the Syrian influence on the sphere of Bulgarian culture and craft proceeded through Syrian masters who lived in various parts of the Muslim world, including in Central Asia and Iran, with whom the Volga Bulgaria had close ties. …”
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How to Improve the Science and Engineering Education in Islamic Countries? by Zekai Şen

“…After long centuries of slackness, the higher education is gaining momentum in the Muslim World which is striving to effect comprehensive developments in the present century. …”
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The evolution of hospitals from Antiquity to the Renaissance by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…During the Golden Age of Islam the Muslim world was clearly more advanced than its Christian counterpart with regard to the magnificent hospitals which were built in various countries, institutions which eventually became the true forerunners of the modern teaching hospital. …”
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Islam and survivals of pre-islamic beliefs in the Gol­den Horde on the materials of architectural funeral structures by Zilivinskaya E.D.

“…Along with the forms of memorial buildings typical for the Muslim world, there were buildings of archaic appearance in the ulus of Jochi. …”
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ISLAMIC ECONOMY IN «ISLAMIC STATE»: IS IT POSSIBLE? by R. I. Bekkin

“…However, in none of the three, the experiment was successful. Afterwards, the Muslim world has not undertaken to build a financial system based on the principles of Islamic economics and finance any more. …”
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MUSLIM POLE OF THE WORLD ECONOMY AND THE GENIE OF GLOBALIZATION by L. L. Fituni, I. O. Abramova

“…In contrast the process of Muslim’s world achieving a new qualitative status of a global economic power center (not to speak about its competition with other old and new powers for a place within a new global economic order), is practically absent from the Russian and international research.The authors propose a vision of a new quality of Muslim economies in the global balance of power, in emerging model of the global world order, in financial globalization and global governance – the gradual consolidation of the Muslim world. The article argues that this process is still very far from reaching mature forms. …”
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Kazakh khans of the 15th–17th centuries in the scientific heritage of Shigabutdin Marjani by Atygayev N.A.

“…This is explained by the fact that he was a representative of the Muslim world and wrote his works for the Muslims. Therefore, unlike other Russian historians of the 19th century, he writes “Kyrgyz”, and uses the authentic name of the nation “Kazakh” that was accepted among Muslim nations. …”
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Probing the Relationships Between Mandaeans (the Followers of John the Baptist), Early Christians, and Manichaeans by Brikha H. S. Nasoraia

“…Mandaean culture and the Mandaic Aramaic language was of high report in the so-called Patristic period covered by this Special Issue, even in the Arabian Peninsula up until the rise of Islam (634 CE onward), and Mandaeans were honored as a third “People of the Book”—the Sabians (<i>Ṣābeʾun; or ṣobba</i> in modern Iraqi Arabic)—in the Qur’an (2:62; 5:69; 22:17); in the Muslim world, many Mandaic speakers switched language to colloquial Iraqi Arabic and (Arabicized) Persian. …”
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Islam in Front of the Challenges of Modernity: World Politics, State System, Public Opinion by V. V. Orlov

“…In the second book the authors emphasize the role of Islamic factor in domestic political life of specific countries and regions of the Muslim world. The authors focus on fundamental issues of constitutional law, functioning of supreme state bodies, building of parties and political systems. …”
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أسلوب التعامل مع الخلافات الفقهية: مراجعة كتاب الموافقات للإمام الشاطبي. دار الكتب العلمية، ٢٠٠٥، ٥٨٠ صفحة، ISBN: ٢-٧٤٥١-١٥٣٠-٨، (غلاف صلب)... by Muhammad Najib Abdullah, Muhammad Nazir Alias, Syaryanti Hussin, Ibrahim Zakariyya Moosa

“…This work is found to be beneficial and deserving of further scholarly attention to address the reprehensible differences in the Muslim world. Finally, this research provides a valuable contribution to the international scholarship on Islamic jurisprudence and legal theory, by shedding light on a critical and timely issue of sectarian divisions, and highlighting the constructive approach proposed by a prominent Islamic scholar, Imam al-Shatibi, to address this challenge.   …”
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De quelle nostalgie l’utopie andalouse d’Aragon est-elle le miroir ? by Stéphane Baquey

“…This nostalgia of what could have happened, being dislocated in the culture of the Muslim worlds, also leads to reconceive the claims of a universalism which would not take into account as a prerequisite a principle of hospitality.…”
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The Golden Horde through the eyes of Contemporaries and Eyewitnesses by Ivanov V.A.

“…The purpose of the study: To show how the Golden Horde was seen – its population, its way of life, appearances, occupations – by representatives of the European (Catholic) and Eastern (Muslim) worlds. Their impressions, set out in the corresponding narratives, not only created the image of this state, but also influenced later ideas about the peoples who inhabited the eastern steppes – “Tartaria”. …”
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