Intellectual Discourse is a highly respected, academic refereed journal of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). It is published twice a year by the IIUM Press, Research Management Centre, IIUM, and contains reflections, articles, research notes and review articles representing all the disciplines, methods and viewpoints relevant to all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world.
©IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia
Intellectual Discourse is abstracted in International Political Science Abstracts, Peace Research Abstracts Journal, the Muslim World Book Review, the Bibliographyof Asian Studies, and Index Islamicus and is available in EBSCO Publishing’s library reference databases.
ISSN 0128-4878
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Intellectual Discourse
Editor: Abdul Rashid Moten
Associate Editors: Noraini M. Noor; Saodah Wok Book Review Editor: Thameem Ushama
Editorial Board M. Kamal Hassan Zafar Afaq Ansari Hazizan Md. Noon
Badri Najib Zubir Hassan Ahmad Ibrahim
International Advisory Board
Taha Jabir al-Alwani Ishaq Farhan Abdul Haq Ansari
USA Jordan Saudi Arabia
Khurshid Ahmad Gamal Attia Zafar Ishaq Ansari Pakistan Egypt Pakistan Chandra Muzaffar Anis Ahmad M.H. Faruqi Malaysia Pakistan UK
CONTENTS
Book Reviews Articles
1
25
43 War on Terror: Fantasy and Fiction Behind the Mythology of Terrorist Financing
El-Fatih A. Abdel Salam
Objectivity and the Scientific Study of Religion Anis Malik Thoha
Research Notes
Making Sense of ×ijÉb and NiqÉb in Contemporary Western Societies
Abdul Kabir Hussain Solihu
“Licentious Barbarians”: Representations of North African Muslims in Britain
Aimillia Mohd Ramli
The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State By Noah Feldman
Abdul Rashid Moten
The BayÑah as a Politico-Legal Principle: The Prophet (SAW), the FuqahÉ’ and the RÉshidËn Caliphs
Muhammad Yusuf Faruqi 65
83
107 April 2009 “Tri-elections” in Malaysia: Maintaining
the Status Quo
Tunku Mohar Mokhtar 93
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115 Deepening Democracy in Indonesia? Direct Elections
for Local Leaders (Pilkada)
By Maribeth Erb and Priyambudi Sulistiyanto (eds.) M. Moniruzzaman
Islamic Da≤wah: Theory and Practice By Sohirin M. Solihin
Munawar Haque 119
The Next 100 Years: A FORECAST for the 21ST Century By George Friedman
Abdul Wahid Jalal 111
