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Taqiyyaand Identity in a South Asian Community

, 2011
The Guptīs of Bhavnagar, India, represent an unexplored case oftaqiyya, or precautionary dissimulation, and challenge traditional categories of religious identity in South Asia.Taqiyyais normally practiced by minority or otherwise disadvantaged groups of
Shafique N. Virani
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Ayyām-e Fāṭimiyya as an Alternative ʿĀshūrāʾ: The Mourning of Fāṭima in Modern Iran

İslam 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
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Examining the Nature and Definition of Imamate in the ‎Views of Khajeh Nasir and Ibn Arabi [PDF]

Theosophia Islamica
A fundamental step in researching the intersection of Islamic mysticism (Irfan) and theology (Kalam), and in bridging these two disciplines regarding the concept of Imamate, is to ascertain if a shared understanding of Imamate's essence exists between ...
Vahideh Akrami
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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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بررسی مبانی مشروعیت شرط فاسخ در فقه شیعه دوره44 شماره4 سال1391

, 2013
A little deliberation on the contents of the contracts concluded between the real and legal persons reveals that nowadays the nullifying condition is gradually being included as one of the conditions of contracts.
گلباغی ماسوله, سید علی جبار
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The ‘Wazirganj Terror Attack’: Sectarian Conflict and the Middle Classes

South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2015
On 16 January 2013, a Sunni real estate developer opened fire at a Shi’a religious assembly in Wazirganj, a mixed neighbourhood in old Lucknow, India, killing one and injuring two. At its core, this was a business rivalry gone awry, but was soon labelled
Raphael Susewind
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Study and Critique of Misconceptions against Sheikh Saduq’s Authenticity and Reports [PDF]

تحقیقات علوم قرآن و حدیث, 2017
Among the most important and hard-working Shi'a traditionists (muḥaddiths), it should be mentioned of Sheikh Ṣadūq in the fourth hijrī century, whose works are extended to tree hundreds. Although he has a great position in Shia', some Shi'a simple-minded
Rasul Mohammadjafari, morteza ohadi
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Little Fish in Big Ponds: The Pathways to Inclusion for Micro‐Minorities in Power‐Sharing Societies

Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Emergent critique of consociations has focused on how micro‐minority ‘others’ are frequently excluded from the opportunities presented by power‐sharing systems, with dominant elites shutting them out. Therefore, a key question is: how do the political elites of micro‐minorities gain more meaningful inclusion by adopting or navigating the ...
Aleksandra Zdeb, Drew Mikhael
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Functional Neutrality in the Arab World: The Case of Oman

Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Winter 2026.
Abstract Oman's position of neutrality came under direct strain at the start of the Iran War, as the Islamic Republic launched retaliatory strikes on its territory and maritime infrastructure. The attacks came despite Muscat's careful maneuvering within the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict and its mediating in regional disputes and facilitating US‐Iran ...
Gadi Hitman, Eyal Rubinson
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