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, 2019 Looking at the architectures of governance that have characterized the Islamic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), this essay explores the ways in which imperial inventories of colonial institutions come to influence and arbitrate contemporary ...
Rexhepi, P.
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Education, Social Mobility and Religious Movements: A Theory of the Islamic Revival in Egypt
Social Science Research Network, 2013 This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt ...
Christine Binzel, Jean-Paul Carvalho
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Opportunities for the Labour Party: Football, Class and Community Renewal
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that football represents an underutilised opportunity for the Labour Party to anchor a wider programme of civic renewal. In many working‐class communities, the decline of trade unions, working men's clubs and other associational spaces has eroded collective life, leaving football clubs as rare institutions where dignity ...
Sam Taylor Hill
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Iranian Muslim Reformists and Contemporary Ethics; Revival of “Utilitarianism" [PDF]
, 2017 This paper raises a moral issue for contemporary post-revolutionary Muslim intellectuals in Iran. According to traditional Islamic teachings, ethics enables people to transcend from this mundane world and offers guidance on ways to improve virtues.
Dabbagh, Hossein
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Anthropologists, in common with social theorists more generally, have often understood social life as an emergent phenomenon grounded in practices of creativity and improvisation. Where stasis and continuity feature, these are often presented as illusory manifestations of underlying processes of ‘invention’, or as external impositions upon otherwise ...
Paolo Heywood, Thomas Yarrow
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ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE AND THE PROSPECT OF ITS REVIVAL TODAY
Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 2011 This paper discusses the meaning of Islamic architecture and some of its salient characteristics. The discussion is divided into the following sections: (1) The meaning of Islamic architecture; (2) Islamic architecture as a means, not an end; (3) Two ...
Dr. Spahic Omer
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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American Journal of Islam and Society, 2003 The dynamics of Islamic revival/activism have been the subject of renewed interest in the aftermath of the 9/ I I tragedy. Most of this interest has been confined to media sound bites that present little or no appreciation for the linkages between cause ...
Sajjad Idris
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Problematic Issues of Institutional Development of Islamic Associations in Contemporary Ukraine
, 2020 The article analyzes the revival of the Islamic religion which began in Ukraine in the 1990s. The authors point to the problematic issues of the institutional establishment of Islamic associations in contemporary Ukraine.
Ismahilov, Serhii, Sagan, Galyna
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Islam in the contemporary world: Western image and Muslim ideology [PDF]
, 2005 The issue of Western perceptions of Islam, and concerns about Islamic ideology vis-à-vis the relation of Muslims to the West, constitute topics of ongoing concern both for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. They have come to the fore in a dramatic sense this
Pratt, Douglas
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