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Tagging the Emirate: Language, Coordination and the Taliban's Digital Pursuit of Legitimacy

open access: yesGlobal Policy, Volume 17, Issue 3, Page 487-497, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how political actors leverage social media in Afghanistan as a tool for political legitimation. Framing social media as a potential supply of legitimacy, it analysed X (formerly known as Twitter) content posted by the former Afghan government, humanitarian and Taliban political accounts between January 2020 and December ...
Hannah Oates
wiley   +1 more source

A study of the status of women in Islamic law and society with special reference to Pakistan. [PDF]

open access: yes, 1980
LD:D50752/84 / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited ...
Saifi, Samar Fatima., Saifi, S.F.
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Pure‐istan: Gender and Genocide in Pakistan

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines the ongoing genocidal violence against the Baloch nation. It highlights how the Pakistani state has weaponized Islamic doctrine to construct a vision of a homogenized, “purer, more Islamic state” that excludes and others those deemed incompatible with its vision of purity. This logic of purification is deeply gendered.
Bramsh Khan
wiley   +1 more source

COSMOPOLITAN PHILOLOGY AND SACRED GRAMMAR

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 109-126, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Persian developed a formal grammatical tradition comparatively late in its thousand‐year history as a lingua franca. This article takes up the emergence of Persian grammar within the larger trajectory of Persian philology. It explores questions about why and when such a tradition developed in Persian by closely analyzing the earliest formal ...
ALEXANDER JABBARI
wiley   +1 more source

Provincialising Early Feminism: A View from the Middle East

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 591-605, July 2025.
Abstract ‘Provincializing Europe’, derived from Dipesh Chakrabarty's work of that name, argued that an imagined ‘Europe’ was a founding myth for modernity. While not mentioning feminism, this analysis is a valuable starting point for tracing the path of the term ‘féminism’ from France to Britain to the Ottoman Empire and from the USA to the Arab world –
Ruth Roded
wiley   +1 more source

FROM ETERNITY TO APOCALYPSE: TIME, NEWS, AND HISTORY BETWEEN THE MUGHAL AND BRITISH EMPIRES, 1556–1785

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 201-228, June 2025.
ABSTRACT The eighteenth‐century origins of colonial orientalism in India spurred not just the translation of Indian texts but the production of interstitial histories, works that were forged in the intellectual culture of the Mughal Empire and created by individuals who explicitly sought to inform and influence their new colonial patrons.
Abhishek Kaicker
wiley   +1 more source

Transliterated multilingualism/globalisation: English disguised in non‐Latin linguistic landscapes as new type of world Englishes?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 34, Issue 3, Page 1183-1204, August 2024.
Abstract English has, for historical reasons, risen to global prominence as the unchallenged lingua franca internationally. World Englishes (WE) has, as a result, established itself as a visible line of research, exploring localised/indigenised varieties of English from around the world (e.g.
Chonglong Gu, Syed Abdul Manan
wiley   +1 more source

Theory in Poetic Form: Responding to The Book of Clouds

open access: yes
Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 913-923, December 2025.
Oludamini Ogunnaike
wiley   +1 more source

پاکستان میں تہذیبی تناظرات

open access: yes, 2018
Culture is the creative and social quest, dialect and tastes esteemed by a society or class as in the arts, etiquette, attitude, dress and mode of life.
Dr. Musarat Bano
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Problems Faced by Minorities: A Research Study : اقلیتوں کو درپیش مسائل: تحقیقی مطالعہ

open access: yes
This research paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the various challenges faced by minorities around the world. Beginning with the literal and conceptual definitions of minorities, the author highlights their historical and social relevance in ...
Ammara, Dr. Tahira Iqbal
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