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Institute of Muslim
Minority Affairs
Introduction
After twenty-seven years of its establishment, the Institute of Muslim
Minority Affairs remains the only scholarly institution
dedicated to the systematic study of Muslim communities in non-Muslim
societies around the world. The Institute has
indeed helped open up a new area of specialization. Through
holding international conferences, in the pages of our Journal of Muslim
Minority Affairs and the publications under the Institute's Book
Series, the minority condition is studied in all its dimensions, historic,
demographic, social and economic, in addition to examining the abstract and
conceptual aspects that define and explain the minority situation. Our research interests extend to include non-Muslim
minorities living in Muslim societies, interfaith dialogue with the
objective of promoting understanding and the study of Muslim minority women
who face particular and complex challenges to their minority existence
while maintaining their Islamic identity.
The Institute remains committed to the pursuit of objective and scholarly
research on the situation of Muslim minorities and through its Journal
provides a forum for a frank but responsible discussion of issues relating
to Muslim minority experience. Our Journal
of Muslim Minority Affairs is the only scholarly journal studying
these communities, and the cumulative index of its twenty-six volumes shows
that we have gathered here a wealth of information on Muslim communities in
contemporary societies, that cannot be found anywhere else in documented
form. Articles published in JMMA are
abstracted or indexed in eighteen different publications in USA, UK,
the Netherlands, France, Germany
and Malaysia. In the USA alone these publications include the
Sociological Abstracts, IBBR, The Middle East Journal, The Muslim World,
Social Planning, Policy and Development Historical Abstracts, America:
History and Life, Religion Index 1: Periodicals, Index to Book Reviews in
Religions and Public Affairs Information Service, Inc., (PAIS).
Membership
The objectives of the Institute are to generate and stimulate research and
to encourage exchange and cooperative relations among persons engaged in
the scientific study of Muslim minority communities. Persons
sharing these objectives and concerns are eligible for membership in the
Institute. Membership benefits include annual
subscription to the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs,
reduced rates for books and monographs published under the IMMA Book
Series, and information on seminars and conferences sponsored by IMMA.
To register as a member of the Institute, please return the attached
Membership Application form to our London
address. You may also return the application form
by e-mail and send the check/bank draft or signature authorization for
credit card payment by mail to our London
office. Check/bank drafts should be made payable
to the "Institute
of Muslim Minority Affairs".
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