Principled Democracy in the Thought of Morteza Motahhari by Seyed Ebrahim Sarparst Sadat

“…The hypothesis of the article is that it is possible to find a pattern for religious democracy in the thought of the religious scholars such as Morteza Motahhari, which served as a pioneer for theoretical debates in this field. …”
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Nature and definition of a religious phenomenon by Anatolii M. Kolodnyi

“…Historically, there were and there are only some specific species, confessions. Religious scholars count more than five thousand of them.…”
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Scientific Astronomical Criteria for the Crescent Visibility and Actual sighting. by Majeed M. Jarad

“…To reach such criteria requires cooperation between the scientific astronomers and the religious scholars in order to narrow the differences and inequalities that often happening. …”
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Understanding sacred objects: towards and anthroologucal theory of religious meaning by Salazar, C

“…These modes of experience include different forms of communication in which their performative component trumps their propositional content, modes of communication that are normally defined as ‘symbolic languages' when religious scholars try to translate them into explicit verbal statements, that is, into a set of propositions. …”

Religious Discourse and the Public Sphere in Contemporary Pakistan by Muhammad Qasim Zaman

“…This article examines some of the ways in which the traditionally educated Muslim religious scholars, the `ulama, of Pakistan have articulated their conceptions of the Islamic scholarly tradition and how their modes of discourse compare and compete with those of other religious intellectuals. …”
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ISLAMIZATION AND THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY OF JAMBI MALAY by Saidina Usman, Nori Nopita Sari, Teguh Adimarta

“…Not a few also disagree that Islam was brought to the archipelago by traders, but rather by religious scholars from Arabia. This paper is not to discuss the pros and cons of this theory, but focuses on the relationship between trade activities and Islamization in the Jambi remoted area. …”
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عصر حاضر میں بچوں کا جنسی استحصال اور والدین کی ذمہ داریاں: اسلامی نقطہ نظر by Dr. Frahat Alvi, Muhammad Qaisar Zaki, Bisma Khalid

“… The greatest degree of responsibility lies on both parents and teachers to impart sex education to their children. The Religious scholars, teachers and parents are responsible for imparting sex education to children. …”
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Textual exegesis of Malay translations of Arabic Hadith text as toolsteaching in social and religious by Abdul Majid, Latifah, Hussin, Haziyah, Kurt, Nurullah, Abdul Majid, Mohd. Nasir

“…It also identifies that the development of the Hadith in Malaysia and its significance for Malay Muslims was signified by several issues raised by Malay religious scholars. This includes the consciousness and critique of Malay Muslims on the misconduct in their lives, as well as the national awakening particularly since the introduction into Malaysia of the twentieth century ‘reformist’ movement, serious polemics have arisen among Malay scholars between Youth Group (Kaum Muda) and Old Group (Kaum Tua).…”

The New PAS: Re-defining the Future of Islamist Politics by Yang Razali Kassim

“…Through secret ballot, the party rank-and-file fortified the ongoing shift away from orthodoxy, while carefully preserving the collective charisma of the ulama class of senior religious scholars. If the last party elections two years ago started this reformist trend with the rise to prominence of the technocrats and professionals, the 53rd muktamar or general assembly saw the emergence of a new breed of clerics with a reformist image – the “young ulama”.…”
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A Comparative Study of the Crimes Leading to the Death Penalty in the Quran, Zoroastrian Legal Sources, and the Penal Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran by Fariba Sharifian, katayoun Fekripour, Azadeh Heidarpour

“…By studying antient Zoroastrian texts, we face a variety of crimes and punishments such as murder, robbery, adultery, magic, rape, and assault that were always considered to be the worst offenses. Zoroastrian religious scholars wrote books on crimes and their punishment in this world and the hereafter. …”
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The truth of the secrets of worship (prayer, Hajj) from the point of view of Ayatollah Javadi Amoli and comparison with the view of Imam Khomeini and the miracle of the architectur... by Farideh Poursayahi, Maryam Bakhtiyar, Farajallah Barati

“…According to religious scholars and mystics, every worship is the heart and secret that scholars and mystics have tried to identify the secrets in it based on their intellectual and mystical, moral, knowledge and epistemological systems . …”
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THE IMPACT OF RELIGIOUS TOURISTS’ SATISFACTION WITH HAJJ SERVICES ON THEIR EXPERIENCE AT THE SACRED PLACES IN SAUDI ARABIA by Thowayeb H. HASSAN, Ahmed Hassan ABDOU, Mostafa A. ABDELMOATY, Mohamed NOR-EL-DEEN, Amany E. SALEM

“…National authorities can effectively improve the spiritual experience by providing comfortable means of transportation and reliable religious scholars to guide the pilgrims at different sacred destinations.…”
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Who Defines Islam? Critical Perspectives on Islamic Studies by Abdessamad Belhaj

“…It is argued here that, despite modernization, religious scholars and learning centers in the Muslim world still define, to a certain extent, the main curriculum of texts and interpretations of the Muslim tradition within the discipline of Islamic studies. …”
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Female Leadership in Shia Islam: Women on the Way from Mujtahid to Marja’ by Akif Tahiiev

“…Marja’ al-taqlid are Shia religious scholars of the highest level, something which takes decades to achieve. …”
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Toward Understanding a Black Spiritual Left: the Spirituality of Howard Thurman and the Black Lives Matter Movement by Larry Perry

“…Though Thurman’s more popular book-length works have gained attention from religious scholars, his essays “Mysticism and Social Change” (1939)—found in Volume two of the Howard Thurman Papers—and “Mysticism and the Experience of Love” (1961) expose how Thurman’s mysticism could be used as a tool in the fight against oppression. …”
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Modernism and Postmodernism by Abdul Muhaimin

“…The study primarily focuses on the related issues in Pakistani society and explains the role and the influence of religious scholars of their understanding of the terms modernism and postmodernism. …”
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Boundary Work in Japanese Religious Studies: Anesaki Masaharu on Religious Freedom and Academic Concealment by Avery Morrow

“…Accordingly, I examine boundary work by one of Japan’s founding religious scholars. It appears that Anesaki Masaharu engaged in two types of boundary-making: disputation of the type of authority being used by religious groups, and criticism of concealment within the academic context. …”
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The ulama, the state, and politics in Malaysia by Abdullah, Walid Jumblatt

“…This paper investigates the relationship between the state and Islam in Malaysia under the previous Barisan Nasional (BN) regime, focusing on the role of the ulama (Islamic religious scholars). Interactions between the ulama and the state redefine, or have the potential to do so, the contours of both the state and Islam. …”
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Between Islam and the nation; nation-building, the ulama and Alevi identity in Turkey by Lord, C

“…This article analyses the relationship between Islam and nationalism by considering the role of the ulama in Turkey, housed within the Presidency of Religious Affairs (PRA). The ulama – religious scholars and experts of Islamic law – in Muslim majority contexts are typically closely linked with the state and play a key role in shaping the boundaries of Islam and of what is Islamically acceptable. …”

Pendekatan Fenomenologi dalam Studi Islam by Sihabuddin Sihabuddin

“…In fact, the correlation between religion and science is something that is very likely to be carried by religious scholars, including in Islam. Understanding of the Islamic religion which has tended to be “theologically-normative” for decades has closed Islamic thinkers to study the phenomenon of Islam, such as understanding the practices of religious teachings that tend to be ritualistic in each of the Muslims themselves. …”
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