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The State of Belief’s Logical and Rational Principles of Twelver Shi’a in Western Studies on Shi’ism [PDF]
Surveying western studies on Shi’ism, this paper seeks to investigate the western scholar’s knowledge about the logical and rational principles of Twelver Shī’a (Adl and Imama).
Maryam Saneapour
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Et fortsatt stabilt Saudi-Arabia?
Forholdet mellom Saudi-Arabias shi’a-minoritet og staten, representert ved kongefamilien, har til tider vært spent, men stort sett stabilt. Diskriminerende praksiser og sekterisk vold i nabolandet Irak kan true denne stabiliteten.
Nils Lahlum
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Hizbollah–Syrian Intelligence Affairs: A Marriage of Convenience
Since the 1980s, Hizbollah has emerged as the guardian of Lebanon's Shi'a and a stalking horse for Iran. Syria, though allied with Tehran, seeks to manage Hizbollah's freedom of action in Lebanon and is eyed cautiously in Damascus.
Carl Anthony Wege
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Iraq bleeds: the remorseless rise of violence and displacement [PDF]
“I will never believe in differences between people,” the young man said. “I am a Sunni and my wife is a Shi’a. I received threats to divorce her or be killed. We have left Dora now [a once-mixed, now Sunni-dominated neighbourhood in central Baghdad]. My
Ashraf al-Khalidi, Victor Tanner
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The Shi‘a in Modern South Asia
The volume at hand brings together recent advances in and new avenues for the study of both Ithna ‘Ashari and Isma‘ili Shi‘ism in South Asia. As Francis Robinson notes in his introduction, the region’s roughly 60 million Shi‘as were grossly neglected in ...
Philipp Bruckmayr
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Intellectual Foundations of Human Rights in the Ideology of Shi'a Islam [PDF]
The present study seeks, through a descriptive-analytical method, to elucidate the intellectual foundations of human rights based on the ideology of Shi'a Islam, utilizing the most important Shi'a sources, namely Nahj al-Balāgha, Risālat al-Ḥuqūq ...
AbdolMahdi Arabshahi Moghadam +1 more
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Trans* en Iran : jurisprudence médicale et pratiques sociales en matière de changement de sexe
Iranian legislators have been silent about the legal understanding of trans* (sexuality or gender) and sex change. Meanwhile, sex-change surgery has been debated within Shī‘a Islamic jurisprudence for about half a century ago focusing only on its ...
Zara Saeidzadeh
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This article aimed to analyze Shi'a da'wah in Karang Gayam and Blu'uran-Sampang-Madura Villages using the theory of religious moderation from the Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia.
Hasiolan Nasution +3 more
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A Conversation with Professor Abdulaziz Sachedina on Shi’a
Abdulaziz Sachedina is one of the prominent scholars in the field of Islamic Studies in the West. He continues his studies and classes at the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University in Virginia, USA and at the Religious ...
Betül Yurtalan
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