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Navigating the Path to Sustainable Rurbanity: The Assemblage of Livelihood Pursuits in E‐Waste Hubs of Urban Accra

open access: yesGeo: Geography and Environment, Volume 13, Issue 1, January‐June 2026.
Short Abstract The paper uses assemblage theory to analyse the interconnectedness and interdependencies of various economic practices, social networks and environmental factors governing e‐waste recycling in Accra (Ghana). Employing a mixed methods approach, data were collected through stratified random sampling, resulting in a total of 420 respondents
Khiddir Iddris   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trade and Geography in the Economic Origins of Islam: Theory and Evidence [PDF]

open access: yes
This research examines the economic origins of Islam and uncovers two empirical regularities. First, Muslim countries, virtual countries and ethnic groups, exhibit highly unequal regional agricultural endowments.
Alireza Naghavi   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

The Ismailis as a Minority Group in Afghanistan: A Study of Their History and Contemporary Religious Life

open access: yesKocaeli İlahiyat Dergisi
Afghanistan is one of the most complex countries in Central Asia, with its ethnic and sectarian diversity, and these differences have often led to conflicts.
Faruk Mergen
doaj  

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

open access: yesİslam 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
doaj   +1 more source

Short‐Term Sustainability: Neoliberal Philanthropy, Dependency, and Divine Economics in Islamic Zanzibar

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT As the concept of sustainability became mainstream in development discourses from its environmentalist origins, it increasingly came to resemble the unchecked capitalist logics that it was originally meant to critique: Rather than reorganizing the economy, sustainability could be achieved through the economy as philanthropy became modeled on ...
Caitlyn Bolton
wiley   +1 more source

Entrepreneurship‐As‐Struggle: The Crises and Politics of Entrepreneurial Becomings

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Entrepreneurship among marginalized people in Bangladesh involves social, political, and cultural struggle against immediate crises of poverty and enduring crises of class, caste, religious, and gendered exclusions. Drawing on 25 months of ethnographic research among entrepreneurs in rural Bangladesh and the life stories of 137 entrepreneurs ...
Grace Mueller   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kendi Kaynakları Işığında İbâdiyye’nin Rü’yetullah Konusundaki Görüşleri

open access: yesDüzce İlahiyat Dergisi
İbâdiyye, İslâm tarihinde ortaya çıkan ilk mezheplerden olan Hâricîlerin alt fırkalarından biri olarak kabul edilmektedir. İbâdîler; mezheplerinin (kendi ifadeleriyle) teşekkül ettiği İslâm tarihinin erken dönemlerinden itibaren imamlarının, liderlerinin
Mehmet Hanifi Yoldaş
doaj   +1 more source

Criminalising religious pluralism : the legal treatment of Shiites in Malaysia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Shia teachings and doctrine are currently being socially-constructed as a new threat to the survival of Sunni Islam, followed by the majority of Muslims in Malaysia.
Quraishi, MM, Samuri, MA-A
core   +1 more source

Hindu–Muslim Alliances at Ahmedabad's Double Frontier

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of double frontiers—urban sites where capitalist accumulation and ethno‐territorial ordering are articulated—to examine communal capitalism as a mode of authoritarian rule in contemporary India. Focusing on Ahmedabad, India's most segregated city, it shows how segregation shifted after the 2002 pogrom from ...
Shrey Kapoor
wiley   +1 more source

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