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Nīshāpūrī Scholars in The Formation of Sunnī Scholarship in The Eleventh Century [PDF]

, 2017
The role of Nīshāpūrī medieval scholars in the tenth-eleventh century in the formation of Sunnī orthodoxy has been rarely discussed. The existing scholarship focuses primarily on the local history of Nīshāpūr and other parts of eastern Muslim world or ...
Widigdo, Mohammad Syifa Amin
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The Fatwās of ʿAbd al-Ḥayy of Farangī Maḥall and the Formation of Sunnī Identity in British India

Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 2021
In the second half of the nineteenth century in British India, a rapidly-evolving political and cultural landscape drove Muslims to re-evaluate their relationships with other groups in the Subcontinent.
Muhammad Ahmad Munir, Brian Wright
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The Shapers of Memory: The Theatrics of Islamic Historiography [PDF]

, 2018
This paper employs and describes an experimental methodology of viewing medieval Arabic authors through the lens of stage actor performance theory. In particular, it argues that semi-canonical writings, such as al-Ṭabarī’s History of the Prophets and ...
Hagler, Aaron M
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Approaches of the Imāmī Shīʿa to the Qurʾān in the Context of the Allegation of Distortion and the Collection of the Qur’ān

Usul İslam Araştırmaları, 2021
: Narratives regarding the allegations of distortion of the Qurʾān is a matter which has been uttered by some orientalist all along. Gist of the matter is based on that the Qurʾān revealed to the Holy Prophet by Allāh is even more than the one that we ...
Süleyman Yıldız
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Is Every Ṣūfī a Shīʿī? The Example of al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī Based on His Views in Nawādir al-uṣūl Regarding the Concepts of Walāyah-Imāmate and Ahl al-bayt-Companions

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There are significant similarities between Ṣūfī thought and Shīʿa, if not in all aspects, at least in some. These similarities are more apparent in the theories such as mahdism, imāmate/walāyah, and al-Nūr al-Muḥammadī. As a matter of fact, within Shīʿa,
Mahmut Demir
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Power-Sharing in Bahrain: A Still-Absent Debate [PDF]

, 2015
Bahrain was among the first Arab Spring countries in which mass protests arose in February 2011. The authoritarian monarchy, which excludes vast segments of society from fair political and economic participation, opted for the use of force to suppress ...
Busafwan, Abbas, Rosiny, Stephan
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Law, bioethics and society: Jewish and Islamic approaches to fertility treatments and human germline genome editing [PDF]

, 2023
In 2018, the Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui announced the birth of the first genetically modified babies; this broke an international moratorium. When the Russian biologist Denis Rebriko reported similar intentions, ethicists and legislators began ...
Goodwin, Vanessa
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Short back and sides: were the Qalandars of late Safavid Iran domesticated? [PDF]

, 2017
Qalandars have often been depicted in negative terms in medieval and pre-modern literature by Sufis themselves, clerics and historians. Treatises composed by Qalandars are rare, thus the possibility of producing a balanced survey of their form of ...
Ridgeon, Lloyd
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Transnational Karbala: From Rebellion to Reconciliation

Religions
This article for the first time examines the activities of transnational information campaigns initiated by young Shiʿa Muslims across European, Russian, and Armenian cities. These campaigns aim to disseminate knowledge about Imam Hussain and his mission
Minoo Mirshahvalad
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Mehmet Nur Akdoğan. Tarihsel ve Aktüel Boyutlarıyla Gadîr-i Hum. Ankara: TDV Yayınları, 2021.

Turkish Journal of Shiite Studies, 2021
Başta İmâmiyye Şîa’sı olmak üzere neredeyse tüm Şiî gruplara göre Hz. Peygamber Veda haccı dönüşü (18 Zilhicce 10/17 Mart 632), dinlenmeye pek de elverişli olamayan Gadîr-i Hum denilen yerde önemli bir konuyu bildirmek için konaklamış ve bu sırada ...
Sümeyye Ulu
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