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Arab Shia Islamism: Iraqi Shia Islamists and Hezbollah
2013The Iranian model of a Shia Islamist state was made possible only through the convergence of unique circumstances that do not exist in the Arab Shia milieu. For example, Iran has an overwhelming majority Shia population (slightly over 90 percent) and its 1979 revolution completely dismantled the monarchical order and established the Islamic republic ...
Kamran Bokhari, Farid Senzai
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ISIS Crimes Against the Shia: The Islamic State's Genocide Against Shia Muslims
Genocide Studies International, 2018This paper reconciles a substantial gap in legal scholarship: the Islamic State's (ISIS's) unrecognized genocide against Shia Muslims. Unlike ISIS's crimes against Yazidis, no substantial legal analysis on ISIS's Shia victims has been published. And while there are popular initiatives demanding ISIS's violence against Christians be recognized as ...
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Multivocality in Shia Seminary
Sociology of Islam, 2017The main claim of the present article is that a Shia theological seminary, contrary to the common depiction presented, is a multivocal institution. The tradition of multivocality does not appertain only to ʿulamāʾ. Young clergy and seminaries also have very different ideas concerning religious thought.
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2018
This collection seeks to advance our understanding of intra-Islamic identity conflict during a period of upheaval in the Middle East. Instead of treating distinctions between and within Sunni and Shia Islam as primordial and immutable, it examines how political economy, geopolitics, domestic governance, social media, non- and sub-state groups, and ...
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This collection seeks to advance our understanding of intra-Islamic identity conflict during a period of upheaval in the Middle East. Instead of treating distinctions between and within Sunni and Shia Islam as primordial and immutable, it examines how political economy, geopolitics, domestic governance, social media, non- and sub-state groups, and ...
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2023
The Making of Shia Ayatollahs offers both insider and outsider views of how a scholar becomes an Ayatollah in Shia Islam, how ayatollahs suggest diverse perspectives on faith, and how the grand ayatollahs are recognized by a balance of many factors including piety, scholarship, popularity and networking. This book consists of two parts.
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The Making of Shia Ayatollahs offers both insider and outsider views of how a scholar becomes an Ayatollah in Shia Islam, how ayatollahs suggest diverse perspectives on faith, and how the grand ayatollahs are recognized by a balance of many factors including piety, scholarship, popularity and networking. This book consists of two parts.
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10th International e-Conference on Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences: Conference Proceedings
This study presents the doctrinal and dogmatic differences related to Sunni-Shia antagonism. The Sunni-Shia dispute is a historical religious dispute between the two largest Islamic denominations. To a very large extent, it is based on the understanding of the concept of “sect” used for centuries by Sunni theologians of the Shiite school of dogma.
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This study presents the doctrinal and dogmatic differences related to Sunni-Shia antagonism. The Sunni-Shia dispute is a historical religious dispute between the two largest Islamic denominations. To a very large extent, it is based on the understanding of the concept of “sect” used for centuries by Sunni theologians of the Shiite school of dogma.
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