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Civil Society Iraq: Location Influences on Outgroup Perception (June 2004) [PDF]
, 2004 A significant research question in the immediate post-war (May 2003) environment of Iraq was: "How do Iraqis’ location affect expressed perceptions of threat from outgroups?" We collected 479 surveys of Iraqi opinions, in five locations (in Iraq ...
Gresham, Dr. JN
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Pakistan in 2009: Tackling the Taliban? [PDF]
, 2010 Party-based political competition played an important part in shaping key events in Pakistan in 2009. This article examines the impact of party-based competition on the much-delayed restoration of Supreme Court Chief Justice Mohammad Iftikhar Chaudhry ...
Nelson, Matthew J.
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Iran's Forward Defense in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Middle East Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines Iran's security and defense initiatives in sub‐Saharan Africa between 1990 and 2024 and how they reflect the extraterritorial application of the regime's forward defense doctrine. In response to the long‐term erosion of its homeland defense capabilities since the Iran‐Iraq War of the 1980s—driven by infrastructure ...
Ariel Limanya Limbu, Ronen A. Cohen
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A Study and Critique of the «Tark-i Awlà» Approach in Justifying Prophets' Lapses [PDF]
Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2018 Ḥossein Atrak* Received: 10/07/2017 | Accepted: 06/10/2018 Abstract This article delves into the study of the term «tark-i awlà» (abandoning performance of that which is better and doing that which is less than better) as an approach for ...
hossain Atrak
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The crisis of federalism and electoral strategies in Iraq [PDF]
, 2015 After uprooting Saddam Hussein from power, establishing democracy in Iraq has been declared among the most important objectives of the U.S.-led Coalition.
Pearson, Frederic, Salamey, Imad
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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American Journal of Islam and Society, 2013 This book will be of interest to scholars in a variety of fields and disciplines: Islamic studies (history, thought, institutions, and modern developments), history, religion, anthropology, and sociology, to name a few that immediately come to mind.
Todd Lawson
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Religia, 2020 This article aims to examine Al-Shawkani's theological thinking in Fath al-Qadeer exegesis which allegedly underwent a shift of thought from Zaydi (the Fivers) to Ash’ary (the Twelver) Shi’i sect. Fath al-Qadeer exegesis is Al-Shawkani's masterpiece in the field of commentary.
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How do Perceptions of Outgroups Indicate Barriers to Civil Society in Iraq? [PDF]
, 2005 At the Iraq "liberation" in 2003, many of us asked, "Is there really hope for civil society to emerge from the chaos?" We guessed about how Sunni, Shi'a and Kurdish factions could be brought together, and if it was likely that ethnic conflicts would ...
Gresham, Dr. JN
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, 2018 This study examines shifts in governmental religion policy and societal discrimination against religious minorities in Muslim-Majority states after the Arab Uprisings by using the Religion and State round 3 (RAS3) dataset for the years 2009-2014 and by ...
Akbaba, Yasemin, Fox, Jonathan
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