MUSLIM WOMEN IN THE NETHERLANDS AND THE INTER-CULTURAL DIALOGUE, IN: MUSLIM CHRISTIAN RELATIONS OBSERVED: COMPARATIVE STUDIES FROM INDONESIA AND THE NETHERLANDS, V. KÜSTER, R. SETIO (EDS.), (201-213). LEIPZIG: EVANGELISCHE VERLAGSANSTAT, 2014

In 1995, one of the Dutch Protestant newspapers, het Reformatorisch Dagblad, wrote that “Unlike their mothers, many Turkish and Moroccan girls now pursue advanced educations, a professional career, or both” (RD, p. 3). Now, almost two decades later, this wish that still seemed unachievable at the time, has become reality. Nowadays, Muslim women are active within all levels of Dutch society; creating venues of upward mobility for those following in their footsteps.

In this chapter, Tijani Boulaouali discusses the many ways in which Muslim women claim a space in and contribute to the various forms of dialogue that are being held within the Dutch context. Furthermore, he investigates the positions these women hold when operating in their own Muslim communities.

STATE AND RELIGION BETWEEN CONCEPTS' AMBIGUITY AND REFRENCE'S ABSENCE, MOHAMMED ABED AL JABRI AS AN EXAMPLE, IN: CONCEPTS OF STATE, ISLAMIC STATE, CALIPHATE STATE, RABAT: MOMINOUN WITHOUT BORDERS, 2015

In this chapter, Tijani Boulaouali discusses the Moroccan philosopher Mohammed Abed Al Jabri’s approach to the duality of religion and state, especially in his book Religion and State and the Application of Sharia, whose importance lies in the fact that he composed it after he had established a set of philosophical concepts, and developed a number of methodological mechanisms, which will enable him to dive Deep in the political, historical and religious problems such as the state, secularism, awakening, sectarianism, Sharia and others.
In his approach, Al Jabri is not only satisfied with the formal theoretical aspect, but also goes beyond it to the lived Arab reality through rational diagnosis and exploration of deep structures and hidden causes. Al Jabri is not only limited to defining and clarifying concepts, but also reveals the various ambiguities that permeate the Arab mind in understanding the issues of its reality through “criticizing reality” and “presenting the possible” from suitable alternatives to the contemporary Arab reality. Perhaps here lies the importance of Al Jabri's approach, which deals with the concept of the state in an objective and not emotional way, and corrects the philosophical and political concepts related to it in a rational and not random way.
Al-Jabri focuses greatly in his approach on three fundamental issues that are closely related to the duality of religion and the state and the issue of the application of Sharia. We have discussed each of them in a separate section. These three issues are: the dominance of the polemic discourse, the confusion of concepts, and the absence of the original reference.