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Ayyām-e Fāṭimiyya as an Alternative ʿĀshūrāʾ: The Mourning of Fāṭima in Modern Iran

İslam Tetkikleri Dergisi
The mourning ceremonies performed in the month of Muḥarram constitute the most important element of Shīʿite public religiosity. The memory ofthe Karbalāʾ incident and the martyrdom of al-Ḥusayn b.
Zeynep Sena Kaynamazoğlu
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Study of Philanthropic Behaviour in Divine Economics Framework [PDF]

Philanthropic ...
Eatzaz Ahmad, Mahmood Khalid, Syed Nisar Hussain Hamdani   +2 more
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The Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan: the identity and social position of a once-dominant minority [PDF]

, 2016
Based on recent empirical findings and field observations, this article examines the Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan. Nowadays numbering about one and a half percent of the population, the main threat to its continuity is not persecution nor ...
De Cordier, Bruno
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Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 272-283, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
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New Developments in Aniconic Jaina Iconography [PDF]

, 2010
The article analyses for the first time the phenomenon of burial ad sanctos and of the necropolis in the aniconic Jaina traditions, which in certain respects serves as a functional equivalent of the temple city as the principla pilgrimage site, tīrtha ...
Flügel, Peter
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Managing death in exile

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract Managing Death in Exile is a theatrical performance that draws on ethnographic research with long‐term asylum‐seekers from sub‐Saharan Africa in Hong Kong since 2012. The performance told the story of Denise (pseudonym), who had to manage the illness, funeral, cremation, and repatriation of ashes of her good friend, Rosie (pseudonym). Dying in
Sealing Cheng
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Creative Nonfiction: The Christian Dior woman

Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract This work of creative nonfiction emerges from ethnographic research on Arab women's testimonies of their cancer experience conducted in 2016–2018. It focuses on the account of one Lebanese woman diagnosed with breast cancer and highlights her feelings, thoughts, and perceptions from the time of the initial medical examination through to final ...
Abir Hamdar
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Ethics of Leadership and Political Crisis in the Caliphate of Ali ibn Abi Thalib: A Socio-Civilizational Perspective

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This study examines the ethical dimensions of leadership and the political crises that occurred during the caliphate of Ali ibn Abi Thalib (656–661 CE) within the framework of early Islamic social history and civilization. The governance of Ali unfolded
Faisal Amir Toedien, Syamruddin Nasution
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Kasım en-Nahcuvânî’nin Kızılbaşlık Reddiyesi ve Sonraki Reddiyelere Etkisi

Turkish Journal of Shiite Studies
Kâsım en-Nahcuvânî’nin Risâle fî ahvâli’t-tâifeti’l-müştehirati bi-Kızılbaş adlı eseri, Safevîlere karşı kaleme alınan erken dönem reddiyelerden biridir. Nahcuvânî’nin kimliği hakkında yeterli bilgi bulunmamaktadır.
Amine Çelik Aydın
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Exiled From Their Own Lands: Indigenist Policies, Oil, and Colonial Plunder in 20th Century Venezuela

The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines the historical displacement of Indigenous peoples in Venezuela, focusing on the links between indigenist policies and the exploitation of natural resources, particularly oil, throughout the 20th century. Using a combined historical and ethnographic approach, it demonstrates how the formation of the Venezuelan nation‐state
Gabriel Tardelli
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