Pre-Eighteenth-Century Traditions of Revivalism: Damascus in the Thirteenth Century [PDF]
This article examines whether it is possible to trace eighteenth and nineteenth-century revivalist thought to earlier ‘medieval’ examples. The discussion is centred on the issue of ijtihad/taqlid, which featured prominently in revivalist thought.
Hirschler, Konrad
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Selahaddin Eyyûbi, yazar Abdul Rahman Azzam, çeviren Pınar Arpaçay (İstanbul: Alfa Yayıncılık, 2015)
Mısırlı tarihçi Abdul Rahman Azzam, Saladin adlı eserinde Selâhaddîn-i Eyyûbî’nin başarısının temel nedenlerini IV. (X.) ve V. (XI.) yüzyıllarda İslam dünyasında ortaya çıkan Sünnî uyanışın siyasî ve entelektüel boyutları bağlamında yeniden ...
Bedrettin Basuğuy
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Literary Modernity between Arabic and Persian Prose: Jurji Zaydan's Riwayat in Persian Translation [PDF]
Our understanding of nineteenth-century literary practice is often mediated by the national literature model of study that continues to govern discussions of modern literature. Put differently, contemporary evaluations of literary texts of the nineteenth
Kamran Rastegar
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Evolution of Islamic Madrasas in the Kazakh Steppe: Historical and Theological Perspectives [PDF]
Islam places a premium on literacy and the transmission of knowledge. Early Islamic education began in mosques, with circles where instructors taught Qurʼanic recitation, law and poetry. By the 10th century these circles evolved into independent madrasas
Arailym Shanbayeva +4 more
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Language attitudes and religion: Kurdish Alevis in the UK [PDF]
In this article I report on results of a Matched Guise Tests (MGT) study investigating attitudes towards Bohtan (BHKr) and Maraş Kurmanji (MRKr) spoken among the UK diaspora.
Yilmaz, B., Yilmaz, B.
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Educate to Hate: the use of education in the creation of antagonistic national identities in India and Pakistan [PDF]
In states that are diverse, issues of national identity formation and who belongs and how they belong can, and often does, change over time. The article analyses how education was used as a tool to artificially create antagonistic national identities ...
Lall, Marie-Carine
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Blood revenge and violent mobilization: evidence from the Chechen Wars [PDF]
Despite a considerable amount of ethnographic research into the phenomena of blood revenge and blood feud, little is known about the role of blood revenge in political violence, armed conflict, and irregular war.
Aliyev, Huseyn, Souleimanov, Emil Aslan
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Meir Hatina, associate professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies and director of the Levtzion Center for Islamic studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, explores the evolving perceptions of martyrdom in modern times and their relevance on ...
Showkat Ahmad Dar
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Christian political participation in the Arab world [PDF]
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McCallum, Fiona
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Salafism in Nigeria: Islam, Preaching, and Politics
The global spread of Salafism, though it began in the 1960s and 1970s, only started to attract significant attention from scholars and analysts outside of Islamic studies as well as journalists, politicians, and the general public following the September
Christopher Anzalone
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