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Recycling European Narratives in South Korea’s ‘Refugee Crisis’: Islamophobia, #MeToo, and Yemeni Refugees on Jeju Island (2021)
Journal Article
Sheikh, F. (2021). Recycling European Narratives in South Korea’s ‘Refugee Crisis’: Islamophobia, #MeToo, and Yemeni Refugees on Jeju Island. Asiascape: Digital Asia, 8(3), 211-239. https://doi.org/10.1163/22142312-bja10015

2018 was a politically tempestuous time for South Korea as a little over 500, mostly male, Yemeni asylum-seekers landed on Korea’s Jeju Island. Their unexpected arrival caught Korean society, already in the midst of its own #MeToo wave off guard, res... Read More about Recycling European Narratives in South Korea’s ‘Refugee Crisis’: Islamophobia, #MeToo, and Yemeni Refugees on Jeju Island.

Feminist Ethnography in South Korea: Documenting Conversion to Islam in "Multicultural" Korea and the Gendered Struggle for Belonging (2021)
Journal Article
Sheikh, F. (2021). Feminist Ethnography in South Korea: Documenting Conversion to Islam in "Multicultural" Korea and the Gendered Struggle for Belonging. European journal of Korean studies, 21(1), 233-257. https://doi.org/10.33526/ejks.20212101.233

This paper presents a feminist ethnographic account of the gendered struggle for belonging in “multicultural” Korea through an in-depth case study of a Korean Muslim woman convert and her family. Centering the informant and her family’s narratives, I... Read More about Feminist Ethnography in South Korea: Documenting Conversion to Islam in "Multicultural" Korea and the Gendered Struggle for Belonging.

Structural Coherence in the Qur’an: How to See the Connections (2020)
Book Chapter
Abdel-Haleem, M. (2020). Structural Coherence in the Qur’an: How to See the Connections. In M. Klar (Ed.), Structural Dividers in the Qur'an. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003010456-12

This article deals with a feature of the Qur’an’s style which I identified and named ‘Suspension of composition patterns’. Richard Bell had commented on Qur’an 2:238-39, a passage on prayer, which he thought had no connection with the preceding mater... Read More about Structural Coherence in the Qur’an: How to See the Connections.

Sūrat Maryam (Q. 19): Comforting Muḥammad (2020)
Journal Article
Abdel-Haleem, M. (2020). Sūrat Maryam (Q. 19): Comforting Muḥammad. Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 22(2), 60-85. https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2020.0425

Mary is a very important figure in the Qur'an, in which she is mentioned by name 34 times. In addition to passing references, such as in Q. 23:50 and Q. 66:12, two important Qur'anic pericopes are devoted to her: Q. 3:33–50 and Q. 19:16–36. Over and... Read More about Sūrat Maryam (Q. 19): Comforting Muḥammad.

The Genealogy of Terror: How to distinguish between Islam, Islamism and Islamist Extremism (2018)
Book
Wilkinson, M. L. N. (2018). The Genealogy of Terror: How to distinguish between Islam, Islamism and Islamist Extremism. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315514451

In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, the events of 9/11, 7/7, the War on Terror and the Caliphate and atrocities of the so-called Islamic State have dominated Western consciousness and wreaked havoc in parts of the Muslim-majority wo... Read More about The Genealogy of Terror: How to distinguish between Islam, Islamism and Islamist Extremism.

Factoring-in Faith Fairly: A Contribution from Critical Realism to the Authentic Framing of Muslims-in-Education (2017)
Book Chapter
Wilkinson, M. L. N. (2017). Factoring-in Faith Fairly: A Contribution from Critical Realism to the Authentic Framing of Muslims-in-Education. In M. Mac an Ghaill, & C. Haywood (Eds.), Muslim Students, Education and Neoliberalism Schooling a 'Suspect Community (67-84). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56921-9_5

Classical sociology has tended to reduce faith and the human dimension of the spirit to other experiential factors and this reductionism is problematic for researchers of young Muslims, for whom faith is an elemental and causally determinate factor i... Read More about Factoring-in Faith Fairly: A Contribution from Critical Realism to the Authentic Framing of Muslims-in-Education.

An Islamic perspective: What does Islam offer to the contemporary debate? (2016)
Book Chapter
Scott-Baumann, A., & Cheruvallil-Contractor, S. (2016). An Islamic perspective: What does Islam offer to the contemporary debate?. In S. Heap (Ed.), The Universities we Need: Theological Perspectives (124-142). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315547480

Islam has a long and rich intellectual tradition that is embedded in its religious texts and in its history as a world religion, and which together with confessional approaches to the study of religion encompasses a diverse range of what we today und... Read More about An Islamic perspective: What does Islam offer to the contemporary debate?.

Reclaiming the Common Sacred Ground: the past, present and future of comparative Jewish-Muslim Education (2016)
Book Chapter
Wilkinson, M. L. N., & Sokolow, M. (2016). Reclaiming the Common Sacred Ground: the past, present and future of comparative Jewish-Muslim Education. In J. Meri (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations. Routledge

It is axiomatic that education is both political and philosophical-theological activity. It is political in that any human grouping prepares its young and, to a lesser degree, its mature members either to replicate and/or to transform its received kn... Read More about Reclaiming the Common Sacred Ground: the past, present and future of comparative Jewish-Muslim Education.

Islamic Education in Britain: new pluralist paradigms (2015)
Book
Scott-Baumann, A., & Cheruvallil-Contractor, S. (2015). Islamic Education in Britain: new pluralist paradigms. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474219761

The Western world often fears many aspects of Islam, without the knowledge to move forward. On the other hand, there are sustained and complex debates within Islam about how to live in the modern world with faith. Alison Scott-Baumann and Sariya Cont... Read More about Islamic Education in Britain: new pluralist paradigms.

The Metaphysics of a Contemporary Islamic Shari'a: A MetaRealist Perspective (2015)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, M. L. N. The Metaphysics of a Contemporary Islamic Shari'a: A MetaRealist Perspective. Journal of Critical Realism, 14(4), 350-365. https://doi.org/10.1179/1476743015Z.00000000074

The philosophy of metaReality and, in particular, ideas of transcendence can ‘underlabour’ for the re-enchantment of Islamic praxis, ethics and law by helping to uncover in a systematic, non-arbitrary way the spiritual objectives (maqāsid) inherent i... Read More about The Metaphysics of a Contemporary Islamic Shari'a: A MetaRealist Perspective.

A Fresh Look at Islam in a Multi-faith World: a philosophy for success through education (2014)
Book
Wilkinson, M. L. N. (2014). A Fresh Look at Islam in a Multi-faith World: a philosophy for success through education. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315745657

A Fresh Look at Islam in a Multi-Faith World provides a comprehensively theorised and practical approach to thinking systematically and deeply about Islam and Muslims in a multi-faith world. It makes the case for a contemporary educational philosophy... Read More about A Fresh Look at Islam in a Multi-faith World: a philosophy for success through education.

Helping Muslim boys succeed: the case for history education (2014)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, M. L. N. (2014). Helping Muslim boys succeed: the case for history education. The Curriculum Journal, 25(3), 396-431. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585176.2014.929527

Recent research suggests that Muslim boys have become the ‘New Folk Devils’ of British education, who are characterised by resistance to formal education, especially at secondary level, and under‐achievement. Since the 1990s, British Muslim boys woul... Read More about Helping Muslim boys succeed: the case for history education.

The concept of the absent curriculum: the case of the Muslim contribution and the English National Curriculum for history (2014)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, M. L. N. The concept of the absent curriculum: the case of the Muslim contribution and the English National Curriculum for history. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 46(4), 419-440. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2013.869838

This paper introduces the concept of the absent curriculum on the premise that the study of curriculum has been prone to privileging curricular presence to the exclusion of curricular absence. In order to address this imbalance and to articulate a th... Read More about The concept of the absent curriculum: the case of the Muslim contribution and the English National Curriculum for history.