78012- Front Cover 12/24/15 01:23 PM Page 1 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC SOCIAL SCIENCES VOLUME 35WWW FALL 2018 NUMBER 4 In this issue EDITORIAL AMERICAN JOURNAL ARTICLES OF Aristotelian Dialectic, Medieval Jadal, and Medieval Scholastic Disputation Mohammad Syifa Amin Widigdo ISLAMIC Islam and Support for Gender Inequality among Women in Turkey: Comparing Attitudes across Institutional Contexts SOCIAL SCIENCES John P. Bartkowski, Gabriel A. Acevedo, Gulcimen Karakeci, and Favor Campbell BOOK REVIEWS FORUM The Alchemy of Domination, 2.0? 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It was established and registered in the United States CopyJay Editor Willou Basit Kareem Iqbal and Muslim Studies (NAAIMS). It re- Isla of America at the beginning of the fifteenth hijrī century (1401/1981) with Jay Willoughby UniversityBook of California, Review Berkeley Editor Book Revie Mahdi Tourage s status as an independent non-profit tain the following objectives: Book ReviewMahdi Edito Tou tax-exempt membership-based organ- 501. Book Review Editor run by a board of directors that is izati • To provide a comprehensive Islamic outlook through elucidating the Mahdi Tourage Younus Mirza Associate Editors every two years. NAAIMS encom- elec principles of Islam and relating them to relevant issues of contempo- Associate E Allegheny College Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad Haifaa Jawad the United States and Canada, and is pass rary thought. Associate Edi ors all scholars dedicated to promoting the ope Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad H MehmetEditorial Asutay BoardMarcia Hermansen f Islam and Muslim societies. It was es- stud • To regain the intellectual, cultural, and civilizational identity of the Imad-ad-DeanMehmet Ahmad AsutayHaifaa J Hussein A. AgramaAhmad Jonathan Yousif A. C. Brown d in 1972 by North American Muslim tabli ummah by conducting research in the humanities and the social sci- Mehmet Asutay AhmadMarcia Y University of Chicago Georgetown University s for the sole purpose of establishing an scho ences. Ahmad Yousif Ahmed El Shamsy Marcia Hermansen International Advisory Board ic forum where scholars could meet an- aca University of Chicago Loyola University Chicago to debate social issues from an Islamic nual International A Sherman Jackson Ousmane Kane • To rectify the methodology of contemporary Islamic thought in order International Advisor Khurshid Ahmad M. Kamal Hassan tive. pers Khurshid Ahmad University of SouthernAkbar California Ahmed HarvardMohammad Divinity H.School Kamali to enable it to resume its contribution to the progress of human civi- lization and give it meaning and direction in line with the values and Khurshid AhmadAkbar AhmedM. Kam AndrewManzoor F. March Alam ShuruqEnes Naguib Karic S produces and disseminates aca- NA objectives of Islam. AkbarManzoor Ahmed AlamMoham KhaledYale University Blankinship LancasterSeyyed University Hossein Nasr esearch on Islam and the diverse lived dem ManzoorTaha Alam J. al-AlwaniEnes KaE KatherineErmin Bullock SinanovićJames P. Piscatori nce of Muslims. Its conferences, lec- exp Taha J.Zafar al-Alwani Ishaq AnsariClovis C InternationalCharles Butterworth Institute of IslamicAnne SofieThought Roald ward programs, research activities, and ture The institute seeks to achieve its objectives by: Zafar IshaqKhaled Ansari BlankinshipSeyyedS Ahmad Davutoglu Tamara Sonn tions promote reflective and analytical publ Khaled BlankinshipKatherine BullockJames P.J InternationalJohn L. Esposito AdvisoryAntony Board Sullivan through the disciplines of the social sci- stud • Holding specialized academic conferences and seminars. KatherineCharles Bullock ButterworthAnne So KhurshidMehdi Ahmad Golshani MehdiSayyid Golshani M. Syeed nd humanities. enc Charles ButterworthAhmad DavutogluTamara T Akbar Ahmed M. Kamal Hassan • Supporting and selectively publishing works of scholars and re- Ahmad DavutogluJohn L. EspositoAntony Manzoor Alam Mohammad H. 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