Ayang Utriza Yakin

Research Fellow of RSCS @UCLouvain_be Belgium § Postdoctoral Fellow of ELIPS @ScPoBx France § Wakil-Rais Syuriah PCI-NU Belgia, 2021-2023.

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A must-read book! https://t.co/wiAx64IrVq (from X)

Mary in the Qur'an: Friend of God, Virgin, Mother book cover

Muna Tatari, Klaus von Stosch, Peter Lewis(you?)

A sensitive consideration of Mary, mother of Jesus, in the Qur’an. An entire chapter (surah) is dedicated to her, and she is the only woman mentioned by name in the Qur’an—indeed, her name appears more frequently than that of either Muhammad or Jesus. From the earliest times to the present day, Mary, the mother of Jesus, continues to be held in high regard by Christians and Muslims alike, yet she has also been the cause of much tension between these two religions. In this groundbreaking study, Muna Tatari and Klaus von Stosch painstakingly reconstruct the picture of Mary that is presented in the Qur’an and show how veneration of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Roman Catholic Church intersects and interacts with the testimony of the Qur’an. This sensitive and scholarly treatise offers a significant contribution to contemporary interfaith dialogue.

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Recommended by Ayang Utriza Yakin

I just received 2 out of 12 books from @uvapress. "Beyond the Pale" resulted from 5 years historical research project on "War, Independence, and Dutch Extreme Violence in Indonesia 1945-1950." A must-read book! @KITLV_KNAW @KITLVJakarta @NIODamsterdam https://t.co/zvZsu4JYFt https://t.co/6bVm9GXtzM (from X)

Beyond the Pale: Dutch Extreme Violence in the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949 (Onafhankelijkheid, Dekolonisatie, Geweld en Oorlog in Indonesië 1945-1950) book cover

Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV) Kon. Inst. v. Taal-, Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie (NIMH), Holocaust- en Genocidestudies NIOD Inst. v. Oorlogs-(you?)

Dutch Edition/Nederlandse editie: Over de grens On 17 August 1945, two days after the Japanese surrender that also brought an end to the Second World War in Asia, Indonesia declared its independence. The declaration was not recognized by the Netherlands, which resorted to force in its attempt to take control of the inevitable process of decolonization. This led to four years of difficult negotiations and bitter warfare. In 2005, the Dutch government declared that the Netherlands should never have waged the war. The government’s 1969 position on the violence used by the Dutch armed forces during the war remained unchanged, however: although there had been ‘excesses’, on the whole the armed forces had behaved ‘correctly’. As the indications of Dutch extreme violence mounted, this official position proved increasingly difficult to maintain. In 2016, the Dutch government therefore decided to fund a broad study on the dynamics of the violence. The most important conclusions of that research programme are summarized in this book. The authors show that the Dutch armed forces used extreme violence on a structural basis, and that this was concealed both at the time and for many years after the war by the Dutch government and by society more broadly. All of this – like the entire colonial history – is at odds with the rose-tinted self-image of the Netherlands.

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Fresh from the oven: a must-read book from Prof. Baudouin Dupret @ScPoBx @CNRS @Qawamiblog @BrillPublishing https://t.co/7NqOGdEZVx (from X)

State Law and Legal Positivism The Global Rise of a New Paradigm (Legal History Library, 55) book cover

Badouin Dupret, CNRS, and Jean-Louis Halpérin, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris.(you?)

There was a truly global revolution that reflected a Great Divide between ancient and new legal regimes. The volume emphasizes its depth and scale and explores the phenomenon in the contexts of Morocco, Egypt, India, the Ottoman empire, China, and Japan.