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STUDY OF MULTIPLE BODILY HARM IN SHI‘I JURISPRUDENCE AND THE IRANIAN LEGAL SYSTEM

JOURNAL OF SHARIAH LAW RESEARCH, 2020
Abstract When the body of a person in a single accident hits more than one damage, This question arises whether compensation can be claimed for all losses? For example, if both wisdom and eyesight of a person are defected as a result of a strike, in this case, whether these damages must be summed up and condemn the responsible of the damage to ...
Abbas Mirshekari, Ali Abedi
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Early Hanbalism and the Shi‘a

2011
Sunnis and Shi‘is have fought each other in the streets of Baghdad and burned down each other’s quarters since the early decades of the fourth century Hijri (tenth century CE.).1 Intercommunal fighting, often labeled by chroniclers as fitna (civil strife), reached a peak between the years 972 and 974.
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The Wahhabiyya and Shi‘ism, from 1744/45 to 2008

2011
Wahhabi anti-Shi‘ism has gained increased attention in the international media since 2005, just as the civil war in Iraq has increased the wider public‘s awareness of the confessional divide between Shi‘is and Sunnis in the Muslim world. Indeed, the Sunni Jihadists of al-Qa‘ida in Mesopotamia (al-Qa‘ida fi Bilad al-Rafidayn) even declared an all-out ...
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Religious Extremism and Ecumenical Tendencies in Modern Iraqi Shi‘ism

2011
After the British army completed the occupation of Iraq in November 1918, and throughout the existence of the modern Iraqi state, grass-root cooperation, coexistence, and even intermarriage between Sunni and Shi‘i Arabs became commonplace in the large cities — theological differences notwithstanding.
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Unity or Hegemony? Iranian Attitudes to the Sunni-Shi‘i Divide

2011
Ever since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iran has striven to fulfill the role of flagship of Islamic revival and leader of the Muslim world. As with the Soviet Union in its heyday, there have been times when domestic preoccupations distracted the Iranian administration from this central objective, and other times when regional or international ...
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The Ottoman Dilemma in Handling the Shi‘i Challenge in Nineteenth-Century Iraq

2011
The establishment of the Safavid dynasty in Iran in 1501 resulted in continuous rivalry and friction between the Ottomans and Safavids over the control of the Baghdad area, where six of die Twelver Shi‘a Imams were buried. Baghdad was crucial for the Safavids for two reasons.
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The Responsibilities of Political Office in a Shi‘i Caliphate and the Delineation of Public Duties under the Fatimids

2011
The Fatimids rose to political dominion in North Africa in 909. The new caliph, al-Mahdi, was already imam of the Shici followers but, until then, he had not actually ruled a politically defined territory. However, he and his successors thereafter were both imams in the religious sense and also rulers of an empire that grew from its original base in ...
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Debating the “Awakening Shi‘a”

2014
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Kurds, Persian Nationalism, and Shi’i Rule

2014
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The Story of the Shi’a

2013
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