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The Pitfalls of Ethnic Aggregation: Iranians And Afghans, And The Problem Of ‘West Asian’ Category In Canada

open access: yesCanadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT In the Canadian community of official statistics producers and users, there has been an ongoing debate about the feasibility of using ‘visible minority’ categories to capture the experiences of Canada's racial minorities. Rarely, however, has this issue been examined from a factual angle; that is, the success of those categories in capturing ...
Hamid Akbary   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

nsExplanation of the Issue of Raj'at in Majma' al-Bayan by Tabarsi and Response to Alusi's Objections [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌نامه کلام تطبیقی شیعه
-IntroductionBelief in Raj'ah (the return) is a distinctive doctrine within Shi'a Islam, to the extent that some scholars identify Shi'ism primarily by its belief in Raj'ah (Dhahabi, n.d.: 2/9).
سید محمد تقی موسوی کراماتی   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Comparative Analysis of the Views of Qom & Nishapur Imams' Sahabeh about Imamate [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش های تاریخی, 2017
During the late 2nd century, Qom and Nishabur were of most important cities which housed numerous Shi'a scholars who collected Imams' Hadiths. Although there were fundamental differences between the social textures of Imams Sahabeh regarding rationality ...
Majid Sadeghani   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Evolution of UAE's Africa Foreign Policy: Motivations, Strategies and Challenges

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Recent studies on the foreign policies of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries attribute their increasing involvement in Africa to security and economic considerations. However, only a few studies have investigated the foreign policies of the individual GCC countries in more detail for confirmation. Hence, using a neorealist perspective on
Osman Antwi‐Boateng   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hizbollah–Syrian Intelligence Affairs: A Marriage of Convenience

open access: yesJournal of Strategic Security, 2011
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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When are identity‐based groups harmful to democracy? Victimized majority narratives and Muslim groups in Indonesia

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract When are identity‐based groups harmful to democracy? We argue that identity‐based groups become harmful to democracy when they engage in and promote victimized majority narratives—portraying the majority as being removed from power and sidelined by minority groups.
Nathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Iraq bleeds: the remorseless rise of violence and displacement [PDF]

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2007
“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
doaj  

Diasporic Futures and Transnational Hope Among Iraqis in Sweden and Denmark

open access: yesPopulation, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Iraqis in Sweden and Denmark, this paper examines diasporic narratives of hope that surrounded the removal of the Saddam Hussein regime in 2003 as well as the mass protests that swept Iraq in 2019, situating this hope against an overarching narrative of despair, expressed as a simultaneous sense of ...
Alice Al Maleh
wiley   +1 more source

Flavonoids in Nasal Therapeutics: Biological Activities, Delivery Challenges, and Formulation Strategies–A Systematic Review

open access: yesPhytotherapy Research, Volume 40, Issue 7, Page 4676-4709, July 2026.
Overview of the therapeutic potential of flavonoids in nasal delivery systems, highlighting their benefits to the human nasal cavity, and applications in the treatment of respiratory and brain‐related diseases. ABSTRACT Flavonoids represent a significant group of secondary metabolites.
Jeniffer Viviana Ramirez Hernández   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The State of Belief’s Logical and Rational Principles of Twelver Shi’a in Western Studies on Shi’ism [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت معاصر, 2014
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
doaj  

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