FRIGHT AND THE FRAYING OF COMMUNITY: Medicine, Borders, Saudi Arabia, Yemen
ABSTRACT This article addresses the psycho‐spiritual intersection of geopolitics and medicine in the borderlands between Yemen and Saudi Arabia, at the margins of war. Set in a Saudi Arabian Hospital in Jeddah, it examines patients’ demand for and physicians’ attempt to secure ‘afiya (psychic, physical, and spiritual well‐being) amid regional upheaval ...
ASHWAK SAM HAUTER
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The Imam’s Imamate in Sunni Sources
Followers of every Islamic school believe in a number of principles, including the belief in the Prophet’s (SAW) twelve successors and the leaders of the Islamic ummah. The significant principle of faith has its origin in successively transmitted riwāyahs narrated from the Messenger of God (SAW) and recorded in reliable sources by scholars of hadith ...
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The Theory of the Imamate for Al-Mawardi in his Book Al-Ahkam Al-Sultaniyyah Wa Al-Wilaayaat Al-Diiniyah [PDF]
الهدف الرئيس لهذا البحث هو رسم صورة واضحة المعالم حول فكرة الإمامة عند أبي الحسن الماوردي، بالاعتماد على كتابه "الأحكام السلطانية والولايات الدينية" تحديداً، نظراً لأهمية المعالجة الفقهية والفكرية التي قدّمها الماوردي في كتابه هذا في مسألة الإمامة، فقد ...
Btoush, Bassam, البطوش, بسام
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Is national identity in crisis? An assessment of national imaginations in the early 2020s
Abstract The current context of a worldwide pandemic has once again sparked debate about the bleak future of nationalism. For those who support this view, the fact that long‐lasting national identities are being decisively contested represents a major symptom of the crisis of nationalism, which the challenges associated with the coronavirus outbreak ...
Asier H. Aguirresarobe
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“I’m just an Imam, not Superman”: Imams in Switzerland [PDF]
Current debates on Islam in Europe often focus on imams as religious leaders and key figures in integration politics. Muslim associations undergoing processes of transformation and generational change have equally high expectations of imams. This article uses stakeholder theory to analyse the current situation of imams and draws on empirical material ...
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The Issue of the Appointment of the Position of Imamate [PDF]
The Imam has spiritual conditions and properties, which God Almighty knows; Like the infallibility and purity of the soul and the inner holiness and chastity that accompany the essence of the Imam and protect him from any unrighteous word or deed, and ...
Dr. Tofiq Asadov (Azerbaijan)
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A Comparative survey on Imamate from the Viewpoint of Allameh Hilli and Fazl Ibn Roozbehan with an Emphasis on the Books Nahj-ul-Hagh and Ibtal-ul-Batil [PDF]
It has long been a place of dispute amongst the Muslims whether Imamate is a position to be granted to Imam through election or appointment; on the one hand, the Imamyya School, based on a rational explanation, holds that Imam is to be immediately ...
ناصر شعبانی, Mostafa Soltani
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Professionalizing the Imam in Europe: Imam Training Programs as Sites of Deliberative Engagement [PDF]
This article discusses the first experiences of a supplementary imam training program that has been designed in the Netherlands for community-based imams, female religious leaders and mosque committee members. This “Professionalization of Imams in the Netherlands” program (PIN) was set up as a cooperation of the Representative Council of Muslims (CMO ...
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Reconstructing the Shi‘i Doctrine of Imamate Based on Alfred North Whitehead’s Process Philosophy [PDF]
The theory of Imamate in Imami theology faces explanatory challenges regarding the nature of the Imam's active presence in the world and the relationship between the static nature of the Imamate station and the dynamism of existence.
Mohammad Esmaeil Abdollahi
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Delicacies and Influential Factors of Propagating Religion in the Context of Cyberspace [PDF]
Today, with the advancement in the field of information and communication technology, the issue of the functioning of cyberspace has found a special place and importance that its role can not be ignored in propagating and promoting religion and promoting
Syed Mohsen Hosseini Safa (Iran) +1 more
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