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The Theoretical Challenges of Salafism for the Islamic World [PDF]

Journal of Islamic Political Studies
The main objective of this research is to explore and critically analyze the intellectual and theological foundations of the Salafist movement, which has had a significant impact on the Islamic world, particularly in the Middle East, over the past one ...
Seyyed Mohsen Tabatabaie Far
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Religious institutions and authoritarian states : Church-state relations in the Middle East [PDF]

, 2012
The churches in the Middle East are generally perceived to be supportive of the authoritarian states in the region. The motivations for this strategy and its successes and limitations in the context of the authoritarian environment and the religious ...
McCallum, Fiona
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The Theological Thought of Fazlur Rahman: A Modern Mutakallim

American Journal of Islam and Society, 2018
Reading the book under review has truly taken me down memory lane. Some 20 years ago I encountered the academic study of Islam primarily through reading the books of Professor Fazlur Rahman (including the ‘Serbo-Croatian’ translation of his book Islam ...
Adis Duderija
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The Negotiation of Religious Identity of Muslim Women in Leh District, Ladakh [PDF]

, 2020
This paper examines the negotiation of religious identity among Sunni Muslim women in Leh, Ladakh. Although Muslims in Leh share the same socio-cultural environment with Buddhists, the differences between the two communities have become more pronounced ...
Rehman, Samina
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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The Socialist Impact on Christian-Muslim Shared St. Naum Monastery

, 2020
Shared religious places may be provocative phenomena—for the members of the sharing communities as well as for uninvolved observers. An increasing number of research literature focusing on the contesting character of such places and the consequences for ...
Reuter, Evelyn
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DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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Islamic Revival among Second-Generation Arab-American Muslims: The American Experience and Globalization Intersect [PDF]

, 2004
This article examines the chain of events that facilitated an Islamic revival among second-generation Arab-American Muslims. Based upon research in metropolitan Chicago, it argues against trends in the literature that described Western-born Muslims as ...
Cainkar, Louise
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Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
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Funeral ritual complex Mukharramlik in Derbent: main development trends in the XX and early XXI centuries

Кавказология
The article is devoted to the study of the mourning ritual complex Muharramlik in Derbent, which is a central event for the local Shiite community. The author analyzes its transformation in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, highlighting the key factors
Ekaterina L. Kapustina
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