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Heroism and Being-towards-Death: On Sacrificial Martyrdom in Contemporary Shiʿism [PDF]
Religions, 2023 This paper examines the philosophy of martyrdom, heroism, and death, with reference to Islam in general and Shiʿism in particular. This paper will be divided into two parts; the first will highlight the etymological and philosophical significance of the ...
Tareq Ayoub
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Making Shiʿism an Indian Religion: A Perspective from the Qutb Shahi Deccan [PDF]
ReOrient, 2020 Engaging an ethnohistorical approach, this essay examines how the Qutb Shahi sultans represented themselves locally and regionally through the use of built space, sponsorship of ritual and innovation of material ...
Karen Ruffle
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Shiʿi-Sufi Relations: The Imams of the Shiʿa in the Works of the Sufis of Khurasan [PDF]
Religious Inquiries, 2018 The relation between Shiʿism and Sufism has been long a matter of discussion among scholars, leading to a spectrum of views: some maintain that the two are identical, and, on the other extreme, some believe that they are totally divergent.
Mohammad Nasiri +2 more
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“God’s Favored Nation”: The New Religious Nationalism in Iran [PDF]
Religions, 2020 A new religious nationalism has evolved in the Islamic Republic of Iran as a means to reconcile the contestation between the Persian ethnic (Iraniyat) and the Islamic (Islamiyat) elements, which has marked Iranian nationalism since its inception. The new
Meir Litvak
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Conversions to Shiʿism in Italy and Editorial Ventures [PDF]
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and TransferThis article presents an in-depth analysis of two interrelated topics, namely Italians’ conversions to Shiʿism and their contribution to disseminating knowledge about Twelver Shiʿism in Italy.
Minoo Mirshahvalad
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The Origins of Twelver Shīʿism in Iran
Turkish Journal of Shiite Studies, 2021 The issue of the entry of Imāmite/Twelver Shīʿism into Iran is one of the most controversial issues in the History of Islamic Sects. According to the established general opinion, it is after the Safavids that the Shī’ite groups in question became the ...
Cemil Hakyemez
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Wasatiyya Discourse in Shi’i Islam: Ayatollah Montazeri and Human Rights Jurisprudence
Religions, 2022 There are significant differences of opinion about the successes and failures of Iran’s clerical government, but it can hardly be disputed that the experience has led to the flourishing of Shīʿī political thought.
Naser Ghobadzadeh
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and Minority: Twelver Shiʿism in the Turkish Public Sphere [PDF]
, 2023 Despite the growth in scholarship on diverse religious communities in Turkey, little attention has been paid to Twelver Shiʿi Muslims. Since the founding of the Republic, the Turkish state's foundational secularist agenda has attempted to control and ...
Stefan Williamson Fa +1 more
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The Topography of Corporal Relics in Twelver Shiʿism [PDF]
, 2020 International audienceAbstract Because of the plurality of the venerated figures, the holy places of Twelver Shiʿism are numerous. This paper focuses on places of devotion that are supposed to contain bodily relics and presents them in a schematic ...
Parsapajouh, Sepideh
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Kader, 2023 As one of the main tenets of mainstream Shiʿa, the radjʿa doctrine is potentially open to radical interpretations. In the background of this belief, the concept of ghayba (occultation) with the special meaning attributed to it has vital importance ...
Aydın Bayram
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