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Collectivized Identity among Shi’a Imami Isma’ili Muslims of Calgary:Implications for Pluralism and Policy

open access: yes, 2016
Installés au Canada depuis une trentaine d’années, les musulmans ismaéliens de secte Shi’a Imami à Calgary sont caractérisés par une grande diversité. Le critère déterminant de l’identité collective dans une société démocratique libérale plurielle est ...
Murji, Rani, Hébert, Yvonne M.
core   +2 more sources

Investigating the Effect of Shiite Texts on the Imam Ali's (AS) Iconography in Thamesbi's Falnama [PDF]

open access: yesهنر اسلامی, 2018
Shiite texts contain a collection of Quranic exegesis, beliefs and narratives. They are result of centuries of Shiite efforts, especially Shi'a scholars, by collecting resources, reviewing content, and then writing and compiling them.
Zahra Shaghelani poor   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

open access: yesStudies 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
wiley   +1 more source

THE SUNNI-SHI‘AH CONFLICT AND THE SEARCH FOR PEACE IN INDONESIA

open access: yesJOURNAL OF INDONESIAN ISLAM, 2013
This article attempts to scrutinize the phenomenon of theological contestation in Indonesia, as represented by the Sunnite and Shi’ite conflict in the region of Sampang, East Java. The conflict has occurred due to Muslims’ inability to withstand the differences among them, so that violence is considered a way of final settlement.
openaire   +3 more sources

A Comparative Analysis of the Views of Qom & Nishapur Imams' Sahabeh about Imamate [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش های تاریخی, 2017
During the late 2nd century, Qom and Nishabur were of most important cities which housed numerous Shi'a scholars who collected Imams' Hadiths. Although there were fundamental differences between the social textures of Imams Sahabeh regarding rationality ...
Majid Sadeghani   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Little Fish in Big Ponds: The Pathways to Inclusion for Micro‐Minorities in Power‐Sharing Societies

open access: yesSwiss 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Origins of the Shi‘a

open access: yesAmerican 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Pitfalls of Ethnic Aggregation: Iranians And Afghans, And The Problem Of ‘West Asian’ Category In Canada

open access: yesCanadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT In the Canadian community of official statistics producers and users, there has been an ongoing debate about the feasibility of using ‘visible minority’ categories to capture the experiences of Canada's racial minorities. Rarely, however, has this issue been examined from a factual angle; that is, the success of those categories in capturing ...
Hamid Akbary   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Philosophical Rationalism in Shia Kalam [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2017
One important question that the emergence of philosophical or rational Kalam has raised is what rationalism in the so-called Kalami (theological) schools actually means.
Seyed Mohammad Ali Dibaji
doaj  

When are identity‐based groups harmful to democracy? Victimized majority narratives and Muslim groups in Indonesia

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract When are identity‐based groups harmful to democracy? We argue that identity‐based groups become harmful to democracy when they engage in and promote victimized majority narratives—portraying the majority as being removed from power and sidelined by minority groups.
Nathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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