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1) Subject: JAIS Announcement: Szyska article
2) Subject: JAIS Announcement: Simpson article

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Date: 05 Apr 2000
From: Joseph Norment Bell <joseph.bell at msk.uib.no>
Subject: JAIS Announcement

JOURNAL OF ARABIC AND ISLAMIC STUDIES
http://www.uib.no/jais
http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/jais

The final Adobe Acrobat version of Christian Szyska's article "Desire and
Denial: Sacred and Profane Spaces in 'Abd al-Hamid Jawdat al-Sahhar's Novel
_In the Caravan of Time_" in vol. 2, 1998-99 has been posted at our
Norwegian site along with a hastily corrected HTML version.

Joseph Bell

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Date: 05 Apr 2000
From: Joseph Norment Bell <joseph.bell at msk.uib.no>
Subject: JAIS Announcement

JOURNAL OF ARABIC AND ISLAMIC STUDIES
http://www.uib.no/jais
http://enlil.ff.cuni.cz/jais

The pre-publication version of Erica Sapper Simpson's article "Islam in
Uzbekistan: Why Freedom of Religion is Fundamental for Peace and Security in
the Region" has been posted to the Norwegian site today.

ABSTRACT: This paper is dedicated to the people in Uzbekistan, known and
unknown, whose future depends on peace and stability in the region. I wrote
this paper with two different readers in mind: for the first reader, this
paper provides an introduction to the current struggle in Uzbekistan between
the traditional values of the non-governmental form of Islam and the modern
values of the secular government; for the second reader, who is familiar
with this struggle, this paper presents and defends one side of the
debat--the traditional values of the independent form of Islam. A discussion
of the dilemma posed by this struggle, which is common in many emerging
nations, is beyond the purpose of this paper. In the interest of fairness,
however, a response would be in order on the problems faced by a newly
emerging government with a predominantly Muslim population with the
different trends and the varying degrees of fervor and activism one is
witness to in such populations. In other words, the current Uzbek regime
should also be evaluated in terms of realpolitik. In this way, both sides of
the Uzbek question might be revealed for all interested readers.

Joseph N. Bell

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