Securitization of Islam: A Vicious Circle [PDF]
, 2014 Diverse Islamic groups have triggered a "revival of Islam" in Central Asia in the last decades. As a result, there has been a general securitization of Islam by the governments: not only do they combat the terrorist Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan but ...
Lenz-Raymann, Kathrin
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“Good” or “Saint” Janibek Khan (1342–1357) in the Oral Historical Memory of the Nomads-Kazakhs
Золотоордынское обозрение, 2021 Research objectives: To identify the main reasons for the formation of the cult of Janibek Khan of the Golden Horde in the oral historical memory of the nomadic steppe tribes which was embodied in the narrative tradition of Kazakhs from the fifteenth to ...
Erofeeva I.V.
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“We are against Islam!”: The Lega Nord and the Islamic folk devil [PDF]
, 2012 © 2012 the Author(s). This article has been published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. Without requesting permission from the Author or SAGE, you may further copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the article, with the ...
Alberto Testa +5 more
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Association, a narrative-dramatic trick for “goriz” (breakout) metadrama in Ta’zie [PDF]
Literary Arts, 2019 Ta’zie, in the word, means mourning and to hold mourning ceremony for remembrance of deaths and in term refers to a kind of ritual show based on Karbala event and the martyrdom of Emams and other religious events and historical, mythologic and slangy ...
Hamed Norouzi, Mofid Shateri
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Istanbul in Albanıan Folk Epics And Folk Songs
, 2023 Istanbul is of special importance for the history of Turks and Muslims. Hence it has been an important center of politics, culture and knowledge in general for Albanians. This is best seen in popular literature in Albanian language.
Abdulla HAMİTİ +3 more
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Jathilan Horse Dance: Spirit Possession Beliefs and Practices in The Present-Day Java
IKAT: The Indonesian Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2018 Jathilan is one of the names for traditional Javanese trance dance which takes its roots in the most archaic levels of local culture but remains very popular nowadays.
Eva Rapoport
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Five Great Families and Telepathy: Folk Religion and Buddhism in Neo-Dongbei Fiction by Zheng Zhi
, 2022 The 2010s has witnessed the visibility of literature based on China’s Northeast (Dongbei), exemplified by literary works composed by Zheng Zhi, Ban Yu and Shuang Xuetao, viz. the ‘three masters of Dongbei Renaissance’.
Wang, Aiqing
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Cultural Identity and the Comparative Study of Text and Image in the Lithographed Manuscript of Amir Arsalan Namdar [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i AdabīThe story of Amir Arslan Namdar is one of the famous folk stories of Persian literature from the Qajar era and one of the most famous romance stories that marks the transition from the short story to the novel.
Mahmonir Shirazi, Maryam Hoseini
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Analyzing the Myth of Fairies in Bakhtiari Folk Literature and Literary Texts: Shahnameh and Samak-e Ayyar [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i AdabīBakhtiari people consider fairies to be beautiful and charming creatures that appear to young people, often in the woods at night, and cause them harm.
Mahmood Aghakhani Bizhani, Najmeh Dorri
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ReligionsThis study examines the theological structure of Tengrism, understood here as a heuristic term for the broader Tengri-centered early Turkic belief system, its historical transformation, and its continuity in post-Islamic Turkic culture and folklore from ...
Fuzuli Bayat, Haktan Kaplan
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