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Oral Diseases, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Many countries have implemented health technology assessment of their public medical insurance programs owing to rising social security costs from ageing populations and expensive emerging medical technologies. Clarifying factors that affect health utility scores is essential for implementing treatments that reflect social values ...
Masashi Sasaki +7 more
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Voices from the minority: Understanding the acculturative experiences of British Shia Muslims
Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, EarlyView.Abstract Objectives The aim of this research was to understand the acculturative experiences of British Shia Muslims, with hopes for practitioners to better understand how to support this population. Design Qualitative methodology was used, utilising semi‐structured interviews. Braun and Clarke's (Thematic analysis: A practical guide, Sage Publications
Mahdiyah Datoo, Sanaa Kadir
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nsExplanation of the Issue of Raj'at in Majma' al-Bayan by Tabarsi and Response to Alusi's Objections [PDF]
پژوهشنامه 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
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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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Hizbollah–Syrian Intelligence Affairs: A Marriage of Convenience
Journal 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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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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Iraq bleeds: the remorseless rise of violence and displacement [PDF]
Forced 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
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Et fortsatt stabilt Saudi-Arabia?
Babylon, 2016 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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Historical Course and Deficiencies of Comparative Interpretation from the 4th to the 6th Century A.H. [PDF]
پژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2017 Comparative studies are the blessed events in the contemporary period that put humanities at the departure point for a dramatic progress. The various branches of religious studies, including the interpretation of the Quran, can be one of the ...
Mohammad Kazem Shaker, Ensiyeh Asgari
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