These are web addresses where some more of my published works, which I have not reproduced in full because they may be subject to the publishers copyright or those of colleagues, may be found.
Progress, Perfection, Faith and Religion.
http://www.almahdi.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=326&Itemid=132
M. A. Evans (2011)
In the academic study of religions it has been noted that syncretic and cultic religions seek to validate, for emic and etic consumption, their truth claims with constructed mythologies and hagiographic fables. Contemporary scholars have described this process without making truth value judgements in reference to ‘Celtic Christianity’ (Bowman 2002), ‘Wicca’ (Pearson 2002) and ‘Islam’ (Forward 1994). This essay considers and evaluates one Islamic ‘truth’, the perfection or completion of the religion and the consequences of the constructed historical narrative derived from a particular and restricted Muslim interpretation of ‘perfected’ together with the effect of this upon the perceived credibility and trustworthiness of Muslims in the encounter of religions and cultures. Evidence will be offered that the ‘Islamic Golden Age’ is a factoid similar to the modern concept of ‘Celtic’ questioned, as factoids inevitably are, by historians (James, 1999, 228-230). The essay concludes with the assertion that Muslims should adopt an emic account of Muslim history that conforms to historical facts that are interpreted in comparison to the radical urban paradigm for Islamic society and governance delineated by Qur’anic texts and Prophetic example (Ibn Ashur 2006) if it is to be considered as a ‘genuine’ and respected partner in informed plural societies.
Set in Concrete: Muslim and Christian Encounters over Words (2009)http://www.heythrop.ac.uk/fileadmin/documents/hirepl/words_in_action/TIS_12.pdf
Sayyed Nadeem Kazmi and Shaykh Muhammad Amin-Evans
Nadeem Kazmi is founder and director of Britslam Partnership
Muhammad Amin-Evans is the Consulting Editor of ‘Shia Affairs Journal’
Al-Mahdi Journal, 11 issues 2001-2003
The site is cluttered with advertising due to not paying rent but there is lots to read from many excellent writers.
There are many books and journals that address themes within the broad study of Islam and Muslims but to date there has been no journal or other concentrated effort to assemble information upon Shi’ism as an identity, distinct politically, religiously and culturally from other forms of Islam. Literature that does focus upon Shi’ism is disproportionately the product of propaganda and counter-propaganda rooted in Islamic sectarian polemics or a neo-orientalism developed from Christian and Muslim encounter (polemic)........
City shows way towards peace and tolerance.
Article from: The Birmingham Post (England) Article date:March 7, 2003