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More Than a Game: Football and Ethnic Contestation in Contemporary Iran
Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 34, Issue 4, Fall 2025.ABSTRACT This study examines a particular form of ethnic resentment, namely the use of sport as a medium for expressing repressed ethnic feelings. It focuses on how a sports club, going beyond mere entertainment and athletics, becomes a center for disseminating ethnic sentiments. Specifically, it explores the role of Tractor, a football club founded in
Ehsan Kashfi
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‘Western Seminary’: on transnational Shiite higher education in Britain
, 2015 In this article the author delves beneath the surface of Shiite higher education in Britain to discover whether it constitutes a case for ‘European Islam’.
Matthijs Van Den Bos +1 more
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The Role of Women in Extension of Muharram Rituals at Naseeruddin Shah's Period [PDF]
تحقیقات تاریخ اجتماعی, 2013 Naseeruddin Shah's period, is a turning point in history of awakening of Iranians and extension of sciences and penetration of new thoughts, and therefore expansion of public affairs.
Alireza Vaseei, Zeynab Skandari
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SHIITE ISLAMISM AS A POLITICAL FACTOR
Manuscript, 2019 The article deals with the characteristic features of Shiite Islamism as a modern religious and political movement. The authors analyse the classical Muslim conceptions of relationship between secular and spiritual authorities distinguishing between the models adopted in Sunnism and Shiism.
Stanislav Igorevich Sulimov +1 more
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Autoethnographic Reflections on EFL Writing Development in a Theocracy
TESOL Journal, Volume 16, Issue 2, June 2025.ABSTRACT Developing writing skills in a foreign language is a highly value‐laden practice that is susceptible to the influence of the dominant ideological narratives of a given context. This influence is typically echoed in policies and practices informing the role, scope, and place of writing in curriculum and pedagogy.
Bakhtiar Naghdipour
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The Imamate as the ground of Shiite teo political discourse (Theory and practice)
, 2019 Şia’da imamet, bir inanç esası olmasının yanı sıra bizzat günlük yaşama yansıyan bir politik söyleme sahiptir. Bu nedenle ilgi odağı olmuştur. Söz konusu ilgi sadece tarihsel ve nazari bir inanış biçimi açısından değil; aksine günümüz İran siyasetinin ...
Bozan, Metin
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Nehcü’l-Belâga ve Kaynakları Sorunu
Turkish Journal of Shiite Studies, 2019 Müslümanların on dört asırdan fazla devam edegelen tarihsel süreçlerinde yüzlerce mezhep ortaya çıkmıştır. Bunların çoğu tarihin dehlizlerinde kaybolup gitmiş; bazıları ise yaşama imkânı bularak günümüze kadar var olmuştur.
Hasan Apaydın
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History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 201-228, June 2025.ABSTRACT The eighteenth‐century origins of colonial orientalism in India spurred not just the translation of Indian texts but the production of interstitial histories, works that were forged in the intellectual culture of the Mughal Empire and created by individuals who explicitly sought to inform and influence their new colonial patrons.
Abhishek Kaicker
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Banal Nationalism, 30 Years On—A Review
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 9-17, January 2026.
Michael Billig, Michael Skey
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Middle Powers and Limited Balancing: Syria and the Post‐October 7 Wars
Middle East Policy, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 120-133, Summer 2025.Abstract This article contends that to explain the grand strategies of states in the Middle East, we must employ the concept of middle powers. Analyzing the case of Syria between 2011 and 2021, it finds that these actors preferred a strategy of limited balancing against direct threats to their national security.
Chen Kertcher, Gadi Hitman
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