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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
wiley   +1 more source

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, Dinara Dmitrievna Tregubova   +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
wiley   +1 more source

FROM ETERNITY TO APOCALYPSE: TIME, NEWS, AND HISTORY BETWEEN THE MUGHAL AND BRITISH EMPIRES, 1556–1785

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
wiley   +1 more source

Banal Nationalism, 30 Years On—A Review

Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 9-17, January 2026.
Michael Billig, Michael Skey
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

A Shiite Islamic Grounding for Comparative Theology: Insights from Catholic and Shiite Sources

Christianity in the Middle East
This article represents the first systematic grounding of comparative theology in the sources of Shiite Islam. While contemporary comparative theology has taken form mainly within the framework of Christian teachings and by Christian comparative theologians, particularly Francis X.
Mostafa Rastegar, Ahmad Reza Meftah, Mehrab Sadeghnia   +2 more
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Sunnite-Shiite Polemics in Norway

FLEKS - Scandinavian Journal of Intercultural Theory and Practice, 2016
As a result of the so-called Islamic State’s expansion in Syria and Iraq, Sunnite-Shiite polarization appears as an increasingly relevant topic, including among Muslims in Europe. Taking into consideration that this is a relatively new manifestation of intolerance in the West, such intra-Islamic tensions remain an under-researched subject and are ...
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TÜRKİYE’DE VE DÜNYADA SEÇİM KAVRAMI VE OLGUSUNUN GELİŞİMİ

Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2019
Seçimlerin yapılmadığı bir ülkede demokrasiden bahsedebilmek mümkün değildir. Ne var ki seçim olgusu tek başına demokrasiyi garanti etme de yeterli olmayacağı gibi seçimlerin belli ilkelerden yoksun olarak yapılması da seçimlerden beklenen amacın ...
Şükrü Nişancı, Abdülkadir Özdemir
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POLITICIZATION OF THE SHIITE COMMUNITY IN LEBANON

Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. International relations, 2023
B a c k g r o u n d . The experience of the development of Lebanese society as a social system shows that the political stability of deeply divided societies largely depends on the nature of the external factor. On the one hand, the exaggerated reaction of communities to events in Lebanese society as challenges aimed at restricting their interests led ...
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