中东与伊斯兰研究(英文版)最新文献

{"title":"A Preliminary Study on the “Islamic State” Thought in Modern Islamism","authors":"Ruiheng Li","doi":"10.1080/19370679.2016.12023291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19370679.2016.12023291","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: As a significant idea in the ideology of modern Islamism, the terminology of “Islamic State” has strict political meanings beyond its cultural meanings. The formation and development of the “Islamic State” thought are closely linked to the reality of the environment and situation changes in the Muslim world, which gives it the characteristics of stability and change. As an important political role in the Middle East, modern Islamist forces. ambition and efforts to establish an “Islamic State” has a major effect on regional and even global situations over a long period of time. Thus, understanding the “Islamic State” thought and its theoretical and realistic dilemmas will be an indispensable step to understand conditions in the Middle East.","PeriodicalId":63464,"journal":{"name":"中东与伊斯兰研究(英文版)","volume":"10 1","pages":"20 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19370679.2016.12023291","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59951512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Islamic State” and the Transformation of Islamic Discourse in the Middle East","authors":"H. Hassan","doi":"10.1080/19370679.2016.12023290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19370679.2016.12023290","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to highlight the origin and evolution of the “Islamic State” (IS) with special focus on the root causes that helped construct its Islamic narrative, such as the idea of the Islamic caliphate. It argues that IS has not concealed all other jihadist groups, and it is just a new face of the same idea associated with political Islam: Salafi-Jihadism. This paper also tries to analyze the changing face of global jihadism through a comparative approach of Al-Qaeda and IS. It has been shown that while both groups have common ideological beliefs, they are in many ways different. By studying and analyzing the Islamic discourse of many Jihadist groups in the Middle East, the paper has showed a case of acute obscurantism which is reflected on the statements and behavior of these groups. However, they are open to communicate between their organizations. For the counter extremism initiatives, the threat of IS and its affiliated groups is not decreasing, but it is changing. What is needed in the region in order to fight this monster is a moment of reflection and reckoning by all Muslims. It requires a revolution in the dominant religious discourse.","PeriodicalId":63464,"journal":{"name":"中东与伊斯兰研究(英文版)","volume":"10 1","pages":"1 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19370679.2016.12023290","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59951428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Root of Religious Extremist Thought and Sino-Arab Cooperation on Deradicalization","authors":"Lirong Ma, Siyu He","doi":"10.1080/19370679.2016.12023294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19370679.2016.12023294","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Islam is a religion that advocates peace and abides by “the doctrine of balance”. However, religious extremism is a “tumor” for the development of Islam, and leads to an alienation of Islam. After the 9/11 attacks, Islamic extremism reappeared, mainly reflected in: 1) the teachings of Islam being distorted, and the civil movement of the Islamic revival leading to the mire of extremism; 2) Jihad ideology of Islam being misread, and the Islamic revival tending to be politicized and increasingly extreme; 3) Al-Qaeda, the “Islamic State” (IS) and other terrorist organizations were rapidly expanding, which drove Islamic extremism globally. The causes of the above circumstances are complex and have far-reaching impacts. The religious extremism has stolen the discourse right of the interpretation of scriptures, resulting in the formation of religious extremism discourse. This became the deep-rooted reason of trends of religious extremism, and also led to the necessity of launching de-radicalization policies. In global anti-terrorism activities, China showed its uniqueness in seeking to play a constructive role in coordinating efforts of three major international anti-terrorist groups. This paper holds that cooperation between China and the Middle East countries on de-radicalization activities could focus on measures such as creating shared consensus in anti-terrorism, advancing the interpretation of scriptures, improving religious dialogue mechanisms, and highlighting the unique role of patriotic religious leaders and other initiatives, in order to effectively prevent religious extremism from expanding.","PeriodicalId":63464,"journal":{"name":"中东与伊斯兰研究(英文版)","volume":"10 1","pages":"100 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19370679.2016.12023294","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59951964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Building an “Outer Space Silk Road”: China’s Beidou Navigation Satellite System in the Arab World","authors":"Degang Sun, Yuyou Zhang","doi":"10.1080/19370679.2016.12023286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19370679.2016.12023286","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Navigation satellite systems are the symbols of states’ hard power, and so are the assets of science and technology diplomacy. In the new era, the structure of great powers’ navigation satellite systems is characterized by “one superpower” (the US GPS), “multi-pillars” (EU’s Galileo, Russian GLONASS and Chinese Beidou), and “multi-centers” (Indian regional navigation satellite system and Japanese quasi zenith navigation satellite system). Beidou is of great significance to promoting “One Belt and One Road” Initiative in the Arab world, and the essential measures to deepen the strategic partnership between China and the Arab League in inter-connectivity; it will also be an essential step for Beidou’s “going global” strategy in the long run. The implementation of Beidou’s projects in the Arab world is confronted with four dimensions of challenges of political, security, judicial and socio-cultural risks. Its implementation follows an incremental principle, choose pivotal states, create a radiation effect, which will lay a foundation for Beidou to open the West Asian and African market in the years to come.","PeriodicalId":63464,"journal":{"name":"中东与伊斯兰研究(英文版)","volume":"10 1","pages":"24 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19370679.2016.12023286","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59951210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Turkey Dream” and the China-Turkish Cooperation under“One Belt and One Road” Initiative","authors":"Tao Zan","doi":"10.1080/19370679.2016.12023287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19370679.2016.12023287","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Since the Justice and Development Party (AKP)’s coming to power in 2002, Turkey has experienced a decade of high-speed development under the leadership of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s political group. After outstanding economic and social achievements of the past years, the ruling party of Turkey put forth ambitious visions, plans and objectives, including the centennial political vision of 2023, sexcentenary outlook of 2053 and millenarian objective of 2071, all of which could be summarized as “Turkey dream”. The proposing of “Turkey dream” is both an elaboration of Turkey’s politicians for increasing their popularity among people and a reflection of Turks’ self-confidence after a decade of development. In terms of cooperation under the framework of the “One Belt and One Road” initiative, it is important for China to understand Turkey’s social and economic development strategy. When studying Turkey’s advantages and problems, China needs to pay special attention to Turkey’s soft power in Eurasia. The proceeding of the “One Belt and One Road “initiative in Turkey and even in the Middle East will benefit from exploring the possibility of cooperation on improving both sides’ international influence and on the fight against terrorism.","PeriodicalId":63464,"journal":{"name":"中东与伊斯兰研究(英文版)","volume":"10 1","pages":"50 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19370679.2016.12023287","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59951298","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"China’ s Role in BRICS & Relevance to GCC-China Relations: Complementarities & Conflicting Interests","authors":"B. Sultan","doi":"10.1080/19370679.2016.12023283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19370679.2016.12023283","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: BRICS is indeed viewed as one of the manifestations of ‘Rise of the Rest’ as against the West. In this milieu, China remains the main vehicle of this change in global transformations. Concurrently, GCC was seen broadly as a consortium of the era when the West required venturing with the oil producing countries. Nonetheless, there is potential for improvising connectivity between the GCC and the BRICS in the backdrop of complementarities and dealing with differences. This is true because, on one hand, BRICS is rapidly gaining a central control in international development and cooperation. While on the other hand, GCC countries remain the focal point of the world in terms of energy supplies. Their amalgam can further strengthen the place these blocs enjoy in the globe at large. Furthermore, with the ‘Dawn of the Asian Century’ , China is flexing its muscles as an economic giant quite aptly. Since the formulation of its policy of ‘opening up’ to the world, China has pursued a global agenda of connectivity and growth. Consequently, this rapid development is in consonance with unrestricted energy supply. This is where the GCC countries, especially Saudi Arabia as a major oil exporting country to China, play an important part. In fact, the very rise of BRICS coincides with a radical change in its relations with other countries, specifically with the GCC. For instance, China has succeeded in displacing traditional economic powers, such as Japan, the EU and the US, from the list of the GCC’ s largest trading partners over the past five years. China has also been successful in completing joint strategic agreements, demonstrated most recently by the Chinese-Kuwaiti joint investment of $9 billion (Dh33.05 billion) in petrochemicals and oil products. In this regard, this article aims at answering questions like, can this makeup be interpreted as a more strengthened China-GCC relations? What are the complementarities of both China and the GCC in the realm of political, social, economic and security affairs? And are there any conflicting interests?","PeriodicalId":63464,"journal":{"name":"中东与伊斯兰研究(英文版)","volume":"10 1","pages":"71 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19370679.2016.12023283","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59951079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Understanding between Peoples” of China and the Middle East Countries","authors":"Jun Ding","doi":"10.1080/19370679.2016.12023281","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19370679.2016.12023281","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The Middle East is a natural ally of China in the “One Belt and One Road” construction. The “understanding between the peoples” of China and the Middle East countries not only has the profound historical basis, but also has strong realistic motives. The great blueprint of the “One Belt and One Road” will link the pursuit of the Middle East people in peaceful development with Chinese people’s dream in national rejuvenation, bringing new opportunities and endowing new connotation for mutual “understanding between peoples” on both sides. However, there is a large gap between the actual demand of the “One Belt and One Road” construction and the existing state of affairs in the understanding between the Chinese and Middle Eastern people. There are not only a lot of problems, but also many interferences and blocking factors. In the context of the “One Belt and One Road”, to further promote the “understanding between peoples” of China and the Middle East countries is a huge and systematic civilizational project, which needs in-depth research and understanding.","PeriodicalId":63464,"journal":{"name":"中东与伊斯兰研究(英文版)","volume":"10 1","pages":"20 - 45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19370679.2016.12023281","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59950997","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The New Silk Road in West Asia under “the Belt and Road” Initiative","authors":"X. Qian","doi":"10.1080/19370679.2016.12023277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19370679.2016.12023277","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: From the perspective of energy, the construction of a shortcut, through which the oil pipeline can be directly extended to the Persian Gulf through Pakistan, is very beneficial to China's energy supply security. With “the Belt and road” Initiative, if China is able to build China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and Gulf Pearl chain, China would play an influential role in the Arabia Peninsula, as well as in Africa. Pakistan and the Six Gulf Countries are located in the western intersection zone of the belt and road, which makes them important partners of China in promoting “the Belt and Road” Initiative. Once the New Silk Road is built, not only China and its partners can mutually benefit, but also West Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asian economies can be more closely integrated, an occurrence which will continue to enhance and enrich cooperation in “the Belt and Road” Initiative, and to broaden and extend the building space in it.","PeriodicalId":63464,"journal":{"name":"中东与伊斯兰研究(英文版)","volume":"10 1","pages":"26 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19370679.2016.12023277","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59950354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhancing the Transparency of Sovereign Wealth Funds: From the Middle East to China","authors":"Jin Zhang","doi":"10.1080/19370679.2016.12023279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19370679.2016.12023279","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Sovereign wealth funds, as an active participant in the global capital market, have attracted increasingly more attention from both academicians and practitioners. The opacity of the funds is one of the hot issues. A greater transparency is needed for the Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) in the Middle East when they play an increasingly important role in the global capital market. By reviewing the transparency standards and examining the performance of SWFs in the region on information disclosure, this article lists the political, economic and cultural causes of the opacity and justifies the varieties in transparency. It also finds that the legitimacy of these funds should not be challenged because the political motivation does not necessarily change their market attributes. Although effective management of the funds requires improvement of transparency, the transparency standards should be moderate in the context of economic integration and financial globalization, hence international governance is a must. In addition to the reflection on the role of IFSWF in international governance, some lessons and suggestions are given to China’s SWFs at the end of the paper.","PeriodicalId":63464,"journal":{"name":"中东与伊斯兰研究(英文版)","volume":"10 1","pages":"120 - 90"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19370679.2016.12023279","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59950457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Confronting Religious Extremism in the New Silk Web","authors":"C. Ramsey","doi":"10.1080/19370679.2015.12023273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19370679.2015.12023273","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The rise in religious extremism is highly documented, but not well understood. The most frequently cited explanations are economic and sociological. However, the specific role of religion has received far less attention and is often glossed within social-scientific analysis. The aim of this paper is to elucidate the rise of religious ideology in pre-modern Indian Muslim thought and to draw attention to the importance of religious narratives in causing and possibly resolving violent religious extremism in Southwest Asia. This historic setting, more than any other, informs the trajectory of competing religious expressions of Islam. Two positions are considered because of their polar responses to similar phenomenon. These proceed from the same school of thought, and overlap considerably in the use of interpretative methodologies, yet they articulate radically different visions for fidelity to Islam. One has been used to legitimize and mobilize extremist violence in order to establish a righteous society, the other to advocate for a pluralistic participation with the secular state. Their shared roots allow for a juxtaposition that allows for a cursory description of the challenges faced within the Muslim community to retain fidelity to some most cherished values. It is argued that within the Muslim religious intellectual tradition there are ample resources to support a dynamic and pluralistic society. The identification and promotion of these values is essential to halting the spread of violent extremism. Interventions need to promote proponents of this narrative and avoid practices that further alienate and limit the natural outworking of this dialogue within Muslim communities.","PeriodicalId":63464,"journal":{"name":"中东与伊斯兰研究(英文版)","volume":"12 1","pages":"59 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19370679.2015.12023273","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59949872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}