Scholarship

The Balkan Encyclopedia of Islam: An encyclopedia of 6-8 volumes that will be the main gateway for research on the intellectual tradition of any given culture and geographical area of the Balkans. Projected to be the main reference for making policies, developing curriculum, having global communications, searching out clues for foreign policies and nation building. It aims to be the primary authority over other sources of reference and the port of entry, so to speak, for exploring and identifying other worlds. “The Balkan Encyclopedia of Islam” (BEI) will bridge the Balkan cultures and traditions and be a tool for further research and identification. This encyclopedia can do all this and more.

Cataloging and Digitizing the unpublished manuscripts (“Arabic, Ottoman-Turkish & Persian Manuscripts in Macedonia”), partly housed at the National and University Library “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Skopje, North Macedonia.

Book entitled: Islamic Civilization or Civilization of Islam: Conceptual and Contextual Reexamination. This study critically examines and analyzes the theoretical and practical aspect of “Islam” and/or “Civilization”, where it offers a new and an original approach to this field of studies. It aims to “correct” some misconceptions, misunderstandings, and misinterpretations of Islam as a civilization.

Book entitled: A History of Ijazah Tradition in the Muslim World: From Mindanao to Morocco. A comprehensive study of this tradition with special reference to the ijāzahs found and collected from different parts of the Muslim world. The study analyzes the origin of this tradition, its development, its significances and its general influences.

Book entitled: The Ottoman-Malay Relations: A Refreshing Studies on the Two Different Muslim Worlds. This research aims to study the long time neglected topic of the relations between the two Muslim worlds, one in the east and the other in the west, both in the periphery of the heartland of the Islamic world yet very much important regions. The sources of this work will be mainly archival and individual materials supported by the other already available and/or published primary and secondary works.

Macedonian National Radio & TV (MRT); Aljazeera Balkans; Croatian National TV (HRT); Abu Dhabi TV; Sharjah TV; Malaysian National TV; etc.

“Zhvillimi i Arsimimit Tek Muslimanet”, Vepra, (December, 1999) [Albanian], Macedonia.

“Muslim Education: A Brief History”, Al-Hikmah, No. 1, year 6 (2000), Malaysia.

“Tradita e Ixhazetit tek Muslimanet”, Etika, Vol.: 1, No.: 1, (October - December 2005) [Albanian], Kosova.

“Üstâz İdriz Hoca Efendi el-Üskübî: Balkanlarda Son Osmanlı Tarzı Âlim (1936-2005)”, [Üstâz İdriz Hoca Efendi el-Üskübî: The Last Ottoman Styled Scholar in the Balkans], Köprü Dergisi, (March 2006), Macedonia.

“On Books and Najib Razak”, Quill, (April-June, 2009), Malaysia.

“GLOCAL SPECTRUM: Philanthropy vis-à-vis Syed Mokhtar Albukhary”, Forward, (July, 2009), Malaysia.

“GLOCAL SPECTRUM: On Conversion and Converts to Islam”, Forward, (August, 2009), Malaysia.

“GLOCAL SPECTRUM: Obama’s Next Speech in Kuala Lumpur?”, Forward, (September, 2009), Malaysia.

“GLOCAL SPECTRUM: Davutoglu’s Rise from IIUM Lecturer to Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister”, Forward, (October, 2009), Malaysia.

“GLOCAL SPECTRUM: Entrepreneurial Revival of the Tradition of Muslim Hammam (“SPA”)”, Forward, (November, 2009), Malaysia.

“Syed Mokhtar as a Major Malaysian Prolific Philanthropist”, Milenia Muslim, (December, 2009), Malaysia.

“Syed Mokhtar: A Life’s Journey of Goodwill”, Management (Malaysian Institute of Management [MIM]), (April-June, 2010), Malaysia.

“Malajzia Nje Vend Unik i Azisë”, Shenja (Monthly Albanian Political, Economic & Cultural Magazine), (May, 2011), Macedonia.

“A Proposal on ‘The Balkan Encyclopedia of Islam’”, Today’s Zaman (Daily), (21 July, 2011), Turkey. [Source (opens in a new tab)↗].

“Balkans between Two Worlds: Turkey and Europe”, Today’s Zaman (English Daily), (9 October, 2011), Turkey. [Source (opens in a new tab)↗].

“Towards Forging Better Public Relations between Turkey and the Arab World through Education”, Ortadoğu Business (The Magazine of Business, Economy and Politics), (March-April, 2012), Vol. 14, Turkey. [Source (opens in a new tab)↗].

“Merhametli Şehir Açısından Mimarlık ve Mühendislik”, Mimar ve Mühendis (The Magazine of Architects and Engineers Group), (March-April, 2012), Vol. 65, Turkey.

“Thesaret e Paharuara ne Maqedoni: Doreshkrimet Islame dhe fshehja e Tyre”, Revista Shenja (The Magazine in Albanian Language on Politics, Soceity, Economy, Culture, and Religion), (January, 2013), Vol. 21, Macedonia.

“Towards Forging Better Public Relations between the Muslim World and the Balkans through Education”, Ortadoğu Business (The Magazine of Business, Economy and Politics), (July, 2013), Vol. 23, Turkey. [Source (opens in a new tab)↗].

Charlene Tan, “Educative Tradition and Islamic Schools in Indonesia”, Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 14 (2014), pp. 47-62. Source (opens in a new tab)↗

Talip Ayar, “Bir Osmanli Muderrisinin Icazetnamesi ve Tarihi Kaynak Degeri Uzerine Bazi Mulahazalar”, Turkish Studies: International Periodical for the Language, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic, Vol.: 9/1, Winter 2014, pp. 43-62.

Muhammad Syukri Salleh, “Philosophical Foundations of Islamic Development: Khurshid Ahmad’s Conception Revisited”, International Journal of Education and Research, Vol.: 1, No.: 7, July 2013.

Adriano Remiddi, “Turkey in the Western Balkans: Between Orientalist Cultural Proximity and Re-orientation of Regional Equibliria”, Balkan Social Science Review, No.: 1, 2013.

Galip Veliu, “Balkan Diversity under Two Contradictory Philosophies of Ruling: Ottoman and Communist”, ADAM Academy Journal of Social Sciences, No.: 3, 2012.

Charlene Tan, Islamic Education and Indoctrination: The Case in Indonesia, New York: Routledge, 2011. Source (opens in a new tab)↗

Agostina de Cunha, “Turkey Is Moving in On The Balkans' Nascent Mining Industry”, Business Insider, 01 November 2011. Source (opens in a new tab)↗

Arber Berisha, “Perandoria Osmane dhe te Krishteret”, Published Graduate Thesis, University of Prishtina, 2010.

Syed Farid Alatas, An Islamic Perspective on the Commitment to Inter-Religious Dialogue, (Kuala Lumpur: International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies, 2008).

Mahathir Mohamad, Sfida, (Its Original English Title: The Challenge), Trans. By Brikena Qafa-Osmani, (Skopje/Shkup: Logos-A, 2006).

Syed Ali Tawfik al-Attas & Ng T. C., Abdullah Ahmad Badawi: Revivalist of an Intellectual Tradition, (Kuala Lumpur: Pelanduk Publications, 2005).

Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islami dhe Shekullarizmi, (Its Original English Title: Islam and Secularism), Trans. Into Albanian By Elma Brekolli, (Skopje/Shkup: Logos-A, 2005).

Isnani Abd al-Rahman Jamahali, Diplomatic Relations in Islam: Its History and Relevance to the Contemporary Muslim Society (Ummah), An Unpublished M.A. Thesis Submitted to the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC), International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, 2005.