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Other Visions of the Economy: NGOs and Transformations of Islamic Charity in North India
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 2, November 2025.ABSTRACT This article explores how new Islamic charity NGOs in India are transforming age‐old practices of obligatory Islamic almsgiving (zakat). This transformation reconfigured the ritual of zakat from its historical emphasis on local giving among kin and neighbors to an NGO‐based developmentalist process.
Christopher B. Taylor
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A “Documentary Turn” in the Medieval History of Egypt and Syria?
History Compass, Volume 23, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.ABSTRACT The field of medieval Middle East history has seen a renewed attention to the use of documentary sources in recent years. These sources have long seen some neglect, and their interpretation has suffered from a stubborn narrative of paucity that has tended to relegate them to the fringe of this history. With the impact of other scholarly trends
Daisy Livingston
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After the Caliphate: Changing Mobilization in the Swedish Salafi-Jihadist Environment following the Fall of ISIS [PDF]
, 2022 Marco Nilsson, Henriette Frees Esholdt
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Muslim Diasporas and the Politics of Belonging: Ibadi and Ismaili Pasts and Presents in East Africa
Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.ABSTRACT This article examines the Ibadi and Ismaili Muslim communities in East Africa—particularly in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania (including Zanzibar)—and their distinct religious, social, and economic roles. Even as minorities within predominantly Sunni contexts, both groups have shaped the region through migration, commerce, and international ...
Kimberly T. Wortmann
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The position of the Abbasid Caliphate concerning the intellectual deviation [PDF]
مجلة جامعة الأنبار للعلوم الإنسانيةObjectives: This research investigates the most important efforts made by the Abbasid Caliphs against the people of innovation and deviation. They had successful efforts throughout the Abbasid era to eliminate the deviants and prevent them from carrying ...
Asia Fahd, Mudhir Ali
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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 22, Issue 3, September 2025.ABSTRACT A previous paper described and challenged Girard's extensive revisions and rejections of psychoanalytic ideas, further elucidating some of his egregious misunderstandings and erroneous claims. This paper continues by dissecting his problematic claims about religion, especially his dubious insistence that Christian revelation is the only ...
Jerry S. Piven
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A Comparative Study of Political Thought of Shiite and ISIS [PDF]
پژوهشنامه کلام تطبیقی شیعه, 2019 Political Islam after the Islamic Revolution in the Islamic Republic became a concrete entity and in political marketing, the public opinion of the Islamic world became a consuming commodity for Muslims in the Muslim world who have always been frustrated,
Tahereh Sharif, Ebrahim Barzegar
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Banal Nationalism, 30 Years On—A Review
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
Michael Billig, Michael Skey
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Dynamics of Social Cohesion in Post‐Conflict Mosul: Group Perspectives, Challenges and Facilitators
Journal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 35, Issue 5, September/October 2025.ABSTRACT While social cohesion is a widely researched phenomenon, its dynamics warrant further examination in post‐conflict societies. The study explored perceived social cohesion indicators in subcommunities in post‐conflict Mosul and provided contextual understanding of its facilitators and barriers. In addition to a quantitative household survey (N =
Kristina Jadranović +3 more
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 5, September/October 2025.ABSTRACT The Sadd al‐Bint is one of the largest known ancient dams in Saudi Arabia, and yet, its construction date, function and collapse remained uncertain. This study presents the first numerical chronology for the dam, integrating radiocarbon dating, Bayesian modelling, geomorphological analysis and hydrological modelling to reconstruct its history.
Bruno Depreux +13 more
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