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Confrontation and Reconciliation Efforts in the Sunni-Shia Conflict in Indonesia

FiTUA
The Shia minority group in Indonesia has experienced marginalization. Differences in beliefs compared to the majority (Sunni) have sometimes resulted in acts of persecution, intimidation, and perceptions of secondary status.
Zaimul Asroor, Cemal Sahin
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ISLAMIZATION, SHIA, AND IRAN: The Historical Background of Shia-Iran Sensitive Issues

Islamuna: Jurnal Studi Islam, 2020
After the Syrian civil war broke out in the year 2011, many news outlets around the world have accused the Iranian Shia regime of interfering in the region by means of promoting sectarian violence. The chain of issues can be tracked back to emergence of Iran as an Islamic Republic in 1979 after which many countries including Pakistan and Indonesia ...
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Little Fish in Big Ponds: The Pathways to Inclusion for Micro‐Minorities in Power‐Sharing Societies

Swiss 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

Effect of Arab Spring on Shia Crescent [PDF]

, 2020
In Iran, the Islamic Revolution took place under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini. After the Iran islam revolution, Iran has been trying to expand Shi'ism with the policy of idealism in the Middle East Region.
Kurudal, Orhan
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The Pitfalls of Ethnic Aggregation: Iranians And Afghans, And The Problem Of ‘West Asian’ Category In Canada

Canadian 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, Omid Asayesh, Abdolmohammad Kazemipur   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Political 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, Jessica Soedirgo   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who Is Smuggler? Contradictory Positions and Unsettled Roles in Smuggling Assemblage on the Balkan Route

Global Networks, Volume 26, Issue 3, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article reconceptualizes migrant smuggling along the Balkan Route through the lens of the smuggling assemblage, which captures the fluid, relational and context‐dependent nature of clandestine mobility. Based on multi‐sited ethnographic fieldwork between 2020 and 2023 across six countries, including 85 semi‐structured interviews and ...
Muhammed Yasir Bodur, Mustafa Ammar Kılıç   +1 more
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Iran and the Shia of Iraq

, 2005
"The rise of Shia influence in Iraqi politics has caused suspicion among (predominantly Sunni) Arab leaders and Western analysts alike. Questions arose how strongly Iran will be able to influence Iraqi affairs. Views on Tehran’s influence are divided: some point out that the Shia of Iraq are so different from the Iranian that Tehran wields only a ...
Posch, Walter
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Inheritance Law Interpretation in Sunni and Shia: A Cross-Madzhab SDGs Perspective

Profetika
Objectives: This study aims to compare Sunni and Shia interpretations of Qur'anic verses on inheritance, focusing on the concepts of ‘ashabah (Sunni) and qarābah (Shia).
Kerwanto
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Shia Ismaili Leadership : Past and Present

American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 2016
The self-declaration of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as khalīfah in 2014 has onceagain brought to the fore the topic of Muslim leadership. There are numerousforms of leadership in Muslim societies today. Apart from presidents, primeministers, kings, emirs, and shaykhs, religious heads like the Shaykh al-Azharas well as certain Sufi shaykhs and pirs have ...
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