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There is no Hotoke (仏) except Allah?: How Japanese Muslims Attempted to Comprehend Divinity in Islam

By Naoki Yamamoto  //  January 19, 2023January 23, 2023

This article is an introduction to the debate over the Japanese translation of the word “Allah” used by Dr. Mujahid Matsuyama, one of Japan’s leading experts in Islamic theology and jurisprudence. Matusyma Yohei writes essays on…

Reassessing Japan’s Islam Policy (Kaikyō Seisaku) in China during the Early Twentieth Century

By Shanoaha Smith  //  June 6, 2017June 6, 2017

Japan’s victory in the 1905 Russo-Japanese War prompted the cultivation of transnational ties between both Japan and the world of Islam and continued in earnest until the end of World War II. This relationship coincided…

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