Model Studi Hukum Keluarga Islam: Mencari Pijakan, Merespon Tantangan Zaman
This article offers a contextual study model on the Islamic law in Indonesia where Muslim people expect their religion to be able to adapt to the complex current developments, such as administrative affairs and state legislations, in the country.
JM Muslimin
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The Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan: the identity and social position of a once-dominant minority [PDF]
Based on recent empirical findings and field observations, this article examines the Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan. Nowadays numbering about one and a half percent of the population, the main threat to its continuity is not persecution nor ...
De Cordier, Bruno
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The Evolution of Talysh Ethnic Identity: From Soviet Manipulation to Contemporary Reality
ABSTRACT The article delves into the historical and contemporary aspects of the Talysh people's ethnic identity, tracing its evolution from the Russian Empire, through the Soviet Union's nationality policies, to the current situation in independent Azerbaijan.
Petr Kokaisl
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DİYARBAKIR HALK KÜLTÜRÜNDE ÖLÜMLE İLGİLİ İNANIŞ, ADET VE PRATİKLER
İnsan yaşamındaki geçiş dönemlerinin sonuncusu olan ölümle ilgili inanış ve uygulamalar toplumların önemli birer kültür göstergeleridir. Bunlar bize toplumların hem gelenekleri hem de inançları hakkında sosyolojik veriler sunar.
Asım Demir
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From Masada to Sarikamis: Trauma and Defeat Turns Into Heroic Resistance and Ontological Security
ABSTRACT This article traces the characteristics of the political discourse in the post‐modern era, which sees the necessity of using traumas and defeat to create national‐religious narratives. Through a critical discourse study of two case studies—the Battle of Masada (73 CE) and the Battle of Sarikamis (1914–1915), this article presents an analytical
Tarik Basbugoglu +3 more
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A Comparative Analysis of the Occasion of Revelation of the Verse of Almsgiving (2:274) in Sunni and Shia View [PDF]
There are many verses in the Holy Quran whose occasions of revelation have been attributed to Holy Prophet's household or Imam Ali (peace be upon them) in Shia narrative commentaries.
حامد دژآباد +1 more
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Despite a growth in fatalities resulting from organized violence with Shia–Sunni dimensions over the last two decades, in this study, we show, using existing data-bases on interreligious dialogue and peacemaking, that only less than two percent of the ...
D. Krause, Isak Svensson, G. Larsson
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Transnational Nationalisms Reflections on Nationalism and Territory in Globalization
ABSTRACT Transnational practices redefine nationalism: a nonterritorial sense of belonging for groups and extraterritorial sovereignty for states. Territory is at the core of the analysis in both cases. For groups and communities' transnationalism leads to a new imagined community guided by an “imagined geography” that is not territorial.
Riva Kastoryano
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The Endgame: America’s Exit from Syria [PDF]
Ever since the 2011 Arab Spring protests in Syria fueled civil war costing nearly half a million lives to date, the US response has been cautious indecision. Syria became a proxy war with Russia, Iran, Hezbollah, the Turks, ISIS, the Kurds, and the local
Thompson, Gray
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A Forced Union: Exploring the Consequences of India's Removal of Jammu and Kashmir's Special Status
ABSTRACT This article adds to academic literature interested in two core questions: What happens to residents as a result of an annexation? And how do aggressor states maintain control over an annexed territory where there is a history of insurgency and mobilization for independence?
Serena Hussain
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