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The lack of theory to guide empirical investigation in areas like incorporating Islamic beliefs in a stress inoculation program for Muslims has inhibited the systematic development of an applied research agenda.
We hope that these measures will expand our knowledge about the Islamic personality and the causes and behavioral consequences of stress affecting Muslims.
Khan also discusses how “mainstreaming” and “resonance” are the ob jectives of the Islamic enculturation of a Muslim society.
He closes his article by pro- viding a methodological framework for research on Muslim minorities to identify specific problems which require indepth investigation and analysis.
In the previous selection, he discussed the source methodology of the faqih and the methodology of ijtihad for those contemporary social scientists in- terested in applying them to the Islamization of Knowledge in general and to his/her own specialty in particular.
In order, these issues are how Islam deals with social change, the transformation of a non»Is1amic economic system into an Islamic one, the role of Islam in the Middle East, and Muslim women and social justice.
Our seminar and conference reports also reflect several on-going discussions among Muslims, such as whether or not Islam permits political pluralism, the Islamization of Knowledge and how it affects historical and political analysis, and how Islam deals with ethnicity in Africa and the Mid» dle East.
We have included this report to inform our readers about the current situation of Arabic and Islamic studies among the Muslim community of South Africa.