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Iraq bleeds: the remorseless rise of violence and displacement [PDF]

Forced Migration Review, 2007
“I will never believe in differences between people,” the young man said. “I am a Sunni and my wife is a Shi’a. I received threats to divorce her or be killed. We have left Dora now [a once-mixed, now Sunni-dominated neighbourhood in central Baghdad]. My
Ashraf al-Khalidi, Victor Tanner
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US Foreign Policy and the Gulf States: Changing Dynamics in a Multipolar World

World Affairs, Volume 188, Issue 4, Winter 2025.
ABSTRACT This article focuses on US foreign policy toward the Gulf from Obama's Pivot to Asia to the initial period of the second Trump administration. It situates the role of the US within the broader context of the global energy transition and the Gulf states as geopolitical actors in a multipolar world order.
Steven Wright
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Islamic Insights on Assisted Reproductive Technology: Navigating Sunni and Shi’a Perspectives

RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of Multidisciplinary
In recent decades, the issue of infertility has become a medical and social challenge. Couples facing infertility strive to address this issue by employing assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs).
Saima Shafi
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Religeopolitics and the Affective Spatialities of Faith: Rethinking Religion in Geopolitical Analysis

Geography Compass, Volume 19, Issue 12, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This article introduces religeopolitics as a conceptual framework for analyzing how religious actors participate in the production of geopolitical space through affective, embodied, and relational practices. It positions religion as a constitutive element of geopolitical analysis rather than an exceptional or marginal category within it. While
Tanner Morrison
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Book review: the new sectarianism: the Arab uprisings and the rebirth of the Shi’a-Sunni divide by Geneive Abdo [PDF]

, 2017
In The New Sectarianism: The Arab Uprisings and the Rebirth of the Shi’a-Sunni Divide, Geneive Abdo argues that growing tensions between Sunni and Shi’a Islam have become the primary conflict and challenge within the Middle East. While Abdo’s analysis of
Kumar, Nagothu Naresh
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Sünni-Şiî Geleneğinde Muhkem ve Müteşâbih Olgusu –İbn Âşûr ve Tabâtabâî Örneği- / The Fact of Muhkam and Mutashabih in Sunni-Shia Tradition -The Case of Ibn Ashur and Tabatabai- / -ظاهرة المحكم والمتشابه عند السنة والشيعة -مثال ابن عاشور والطباطبائي

İlahiyat Akademi, 2019
Muhkem ve müteşabih terimlerini tanımlamada görülen farklılıklar Tefsir problemleri arasında yer almaktadır. Bazı Tefsir problemlerine yaklaşımları arasında farklılıklar bulunan Sünnî ve Şiî geleneğine mensup müfessirlerin muhkem ve müteşâbih ile ilgili ...
Mansur Yayla
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Islamic Environmentalism and Epistemic Waste

Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 414-437, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Environmental ethics is concerned with how humans use and relate to the environment, including its conservation and protection. In recent decades, works on Islamic environmentalism have increased multiplied with efforts to ground an ethics based on the resources of the Islamic scholarly tradition.
Aysenur Cam
wiley   +1 more source

The State of Belief’s Logical and Rational Principles of Twelver Shi’a in Western Studies on Shi’ism [PDF]

حکمت معاصر, 2014
Surveying western studies on Shi’ism, this paper seeks to investigate the western scholar’s knowledge about the logical and rational principles of Twelver Shī’a (Adl and Imama).
Maryam Saneapour
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From Rebuilding to Restoring Political Order: A New Agenda for Failed Arab States

Middle East Policy, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 3-17, Winter 2025.
Abstract A new approach to rebuilding collapsed states is being trialed in the Arab world, most conspicuously by the Trump administration but with broad international support. This replaces the previous model—favoring democratic building blocks like inclusion, compromise, reconciliation, accountability, and citizenship—which is now seen as too costly ...
Guilain Denoeux, Robert Springborg
wiley   +1 more source

What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1554, Issue 1, Page 66-86, December 2025.
This essay examines how psychosocial forces shape will to fight through the Devoted Actor Framework (DAF). Devoted actors, bound by sacred, non‐negotiable ideals and fused group identities, pursue a quest for ontological significance that sustains conflict beyond material incentives.
Scott Atran
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