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Iran's Forward Defense in Sub‐Saharan Africa

open access: yesMiddle East Policy, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines Iran's security and defense initiatives in sub‐Saharan Africa between 1990 and 2024 and how they reflect the extraterritorial application of the regime's forward defense doctrine. In response to the long‐term erosion of its homeland defense capabilities since the Iran‐Iraq War of the 1980s—driven by infrastructure ...
Ariel Limanya Limbu, Ronen A. Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the Effect of Shiite Texts on the Imam Ali's (AS) Iconography in Thamesbi's Falnama [PDF]

open access: yesهنر اسلامی, 2018
Shiite texts contain a collection of Quranic exegesis, beliefs and narratives. They are result of centuries of Shiite efforts, especially Shi'a scholars, by collecting resources, reviewing content, and then writing and compiling them.
Zahra Shaghelani poor   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Life of Nasir al-Din al-Hilli al-Kashi, a Little-Known Commentator of the Tajrid al-Aqa'id Literature, His Academic Lineage, and His Works [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
A leading commentary of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's Tajrid al-'aqa'id is Shams al-Din al-Isfahani's commentary Tasdid al-qawa'id fi Sharh Tajrid al-'aqa'id .
Yetim, Muhammed
core   +1 more source

James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

open access: yesThe Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
wiley   +1 more source

Ayyām-e Fāṭimiyya as an Alternative ʿĀshūrāʾ: The Mourning of Fāṭima in Modern Iran

open access: yesİslam Tetkikleri Dergisi
The mourning ceremonies performed in the month of Muḥarram constitute the most important element of Shīʿite public religiosity. The memory ofthe Karbalāʾ incident and the martyrdom of al-Ḥusayn b.
Zeynep Sena Kaynamazoğlu
doaj   +1 more source

The Origins of the Shi‘a

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2013
This book will be of interest to scholars in a variety of fields and disciplines: Islamic studies (history, thought, institutions, and modern developments), history, religion, anthropology, and sociology, to name a few that immediately come to mind.
Todd Lawson
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

A Forced Union: Exploring the Consequences of India's Removal of Jammu and Kashmir's Special Status

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article adds to academic literature interested in two core questions: What happens to residents as a result of an annexation? And how do aggressor states maintain control over an annexed territory where there is a history of insurgency and mobilization for independence?
Serena Hussain
wiley   +1 more source

Fâtımîler’in Nesebi Hakkındaki Tartışmalar

open access: yesCumhuriyet İlahiyat Dergisi
Şiîliğin İsmâilîlik koluna mensup olan ve kendilerini Hz. Peygamber’in kızı Hz. Fâtıma’ya nispetle Fâtımîler (297-567/909-1171) olarak adlandıran hanedanlığın bağlı bulunduğu nesep hakkında İslâm tarihinde olumlu olumsuz pek çok söz söylenmiş, üzerinde ...
Furkan Erbaş
doaj   +1 more source

Philosophical Rationalism in Shia Kalam [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2017
One important question that the emergence of philosophical or rational Kalam has raised is what rationalism in the so-called Kalami (theological) schools actually means.
Seyed Mohammad Ali Dibaji
doaj  

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