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Rethinking Political Islam in Iran: Contestation, Authority, and Reform
Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Autumn (Fall) 2026.Abstract Political Islam in Iran is frequently portrayed in Western scholarship and policy discourse as a unified and rigid ideological system rooted in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. However, this article contends that it operates as a plural and internally contested field in which state‐directed, reformist‐clerical, and civic interpretations compete ...
Nagapushpa Devendra
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Forms of Contemporary Poetry in Jalal Barzanji's Poems
Zanco Journal of Humanity SciencesOf course, every literary text in general and poetry in particular has two aspects and has (form) and (content). be of great importance, on the other hand; Forms of text, especially poetry, are constantly changing and are a reason for poets to renew ...
Kamaran Aba-bakr Khudhur Khoshnaw +2 more
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“A Place Where Freedom Means Something”: James Baldwin's Global Maroon Geographies
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract Despite his vocal support for the Algerian revolution, Palestinian liberation, and the South African anti‐apartheid struggle, James Baldwin has continued to be regarded as a thinker whose work predominantly revolved around themes of civil rights, cross‐racial dialogue, and integration.
Ida Danewid
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Enduring Crises of the Nation‐State: How Spatial Imaginations Reshape Identity and Dis/Unity
Geography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article reframes the contemporary “crisis” of the nation‐state not as a simple erosion of sovereignty but as a problem of spatial misalignment: adaptive states remain strategically embedded in dense transnational regimes, yet domestic legitimacy falters when unitary national imaginaries confront heterogeneous, multi‐sited social realities.
Erdem Bekaroğlu, Suat Yazan
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Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.Abstract This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non‐standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently ...
Patrick C. Lewis
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New Arabic Records From Cairo on Supernovae 1181 and 1006
Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 346, Issue 9, November 2025.ABSTRACT The remnant of the historical supernova SN 1181 is under discussion: While the previously suggested G130.7+3.1 (3C58) appears too old (3000–5000 year), the unusual star IRAS00500+6713 with a surrounding nebula (Pa‐30) has an expansion age not inconsistent with a SN Iax explosion in ad 1181 under the assumption that neither acceleration nor ...
J. G. Fischer +3 more
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پژوهشنامه ادبیات کردی, 2017 The present paper seeks to explore the poetical premises and stylistic features of the works of Ruwange and Kifri, as two major literary schools. Both schools played a highly significant role in the literary development of Kurdish poetry from 1970 to ...
Seyed Bakhtiar Sadjadi
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The German Quarterly, Volume 98, Issue 2, Page 91-108, Spring 2025.Abstract This essay explores the disturbing presence of anti‐Black language and tropes in Emine Sevgi Özdamar's recent, celebrated novel Ein von Schatten begrenzter Raum. Drawing on Toni Morrison's classic analysis in Playing in the Dark, I argue Özdamar's anti‐Blackness is characterized by a double‐valence: on one hand, Özdamar's anti‐Blackness ...
Barbara N. Nagel
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Sufi Warriorism in Muslim Southeast Asia
Sociology Lens, Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 502-516, December 2024.Abstract Sufism (tasawwuf) has been characterized in the extant literature as a pacifist strand in Islam that has shaped the landscapes of Muslim Southeast Asia (also known as the Malay World) since the last five hundred years. This article challenges such historiographical interpretation by examining the multifarious circumstances that motivated Sufis
Khairudin Aljunied
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Places between vanishing and appearing compass and sense in the Iraqi Kurdish poetry translator
مجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2019 Longer Kurdish poetry translator important tributary of the tributaries of the Iraqi culture contemporary , and a wealth of knowledge rich experiences of an important segment of the Iraqi people , nicked culturally with the languages and cultures of the ...
صلاح كاظم هادي
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