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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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Comparative Analysis of wilāya in the Formative Period of Shiʿism and Sufism
, 2014 This thesis looks at the development of the concept of wilāya within the formative period of Sufism and Shiʿism particularly the period between the 2nd/8th and the 4th/10th centuries.
Shayesteh Ghofrani (21995930)
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European Shiʿism - peripheral engagement and religious retention
Book synopsis: The presence of Shiʿite communities in Western Europe dates to the late nineteenth century, with Britain as the primary destination for immigration, as well as notable communities developing in Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, the ...
Van den Bos, Matthijs
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The Topography of Corporal Relics in Twelver Shiʿism
, 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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The media contest during the Iran–Iraq war:The failure of mediatized Shiʿism [PDF]
, 2020 This article explains why Iran was unsuccessful in its efforts to persuade Shiʿi Iraqis to support Iran during the critical early years of the Iran–Iraq war.
Kalantari, Mohammad
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and Minority: Twelver Shiʿism in the Turkish Public Sphere
, 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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Components of the Theory of Imamate in the Kitāb Akhbār al-Qāʼim by ʻAllān al-Kulaynī al-Rāzī (fl. 279 AH) with an Emphasis on the Imamate of the Twelfth Imam [PDF]
پژوهشنامه کلام تطبیقی شیعهThe doctrine of Imamate in Imami Shiʿism underwent a fundamental transformation during the second half of the third/ninth century, coinciding with the Minor Occultation (al-Ghayba al-Ṣughrā).
Hamid Bagheri
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Controversies in Formative Shiʿi Islam
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2017 Research into the formative period of Shiʿi Islam has come a long way in the last couple of decades. This welcome development has been inspired, in particular, by the work of Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, whose main insight has been to posit that “ancient ...
Sajjad Rizvi
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The Imam\u27s return: Messianic leadership in late medieval Shiʿsm
, 2021 Although a majority of Shiʼi intellectual activity in the period of occultation (ghayba) has been carried out by scholars primarily categorized as mujtahids, there have also been individuals who have considered themselves divinely inspired beyond the ...
Bashir, Shahzad
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To characterize the demographic, clinical, and laboratory features of the Chinese patients of genetic Creutzfeldt‐Jakob disease with T188K variant (T188K‐gCJD), the most common subtype of genetic prion diseases (gPrDs) in China. Methods In this nationwide retrospective study, data from 98 genetically confirmed T188K‐gCJD patients ...
Chun‐Jie Li +11 more
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