Environmental Politics in North and East Syria/Rojava: A Scoping and Conceptual Literature Review
ABSTRACT This article presents a scoping and conceptual literature review on environmental politics in North and East Syria/Rojava. The review aims to synthesize existing academic research in English on the interplay between armed conflict and environmental change in the region, focusing on the Kurdish‐led socio‐political model known as the Autonomous ...
Pinar Dinc +2 more
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What is a Multi‐Ethnic Party and How to Spot a Fake One?
Abstract Multi‐ethnic parties have been variously defined: as those which do not champion the interests of, or mobilize against, any specific ethnic group; as those with a recognisably cross‐communal leadership or membership; and as those which acquire some distribution of support across groups.
Jon Fraenkel
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Problematic Issues of Institutional Development of Islamic Associations in Contemporary Ukraine
The article analyzes the revival of the Islamic religion which began in Ukraine in the 1990s. The authors point to the problematic issues of the institutional establishment of Islamic associations in contemporary Ukraine.
Ismahilov, Serhii, Sagan, Galyna
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Islamic Revival among Second-Generation Arab-American Muslims: The American Experience and Globalization Intersect [PDF]
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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Islamic Environmentalism and Epistemic Waste
ABSTRACT Environmental ethics is concerned with how humans use and relate to the environment, including its conservation and protection. In recent decades, works on Islamic environmentalism have increased multiplied with efforts to ground an ethics based on the resources of the Islamic scholarly tradition.
Aysenur Cam
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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might
This essay examines how psychosocial forces shape will to fight through the Devoted Actor Framework (DAF). Devoted actors, bound by sacred, non‐negotiable ideals and fused group identities, pursue a quest for ontological significance that sustains conflict beyond material incentives.
Scott Atran
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ENGLISH- WAHBAH AL-ZUḤAYLĪ’S INTELLECTUAL HERITAGE: A DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Wahbah Al-Zuḥaylī (1932-2015) has widely and impressively enhanced Islamic laws and legitimate jurisprudential through a lot of his addresses and his books which bargain comprehensively with different implications for Islamic societies.
H. Syed Hamid Farooq Bukhari
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Sanctifying Minority Status in the Himalayan \u3ci\u3eUmmah\u3c/i\u3e: Eid al-Ghadeer Commemorations among the Shia in Leh, Ladakh [PDF]
Drawing on ethnographic data, this article argues that the Shia in Leh, Ladakh employ religious ceremonies such as Eid al-Ghadeer to construct a sense of sacred community and a sanctified minority status within the Himalayan ummah.
Singh, Rohit
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Abstract The Israel‐Palestinian conflict is one of the most well‐known and polarizing issues that has impacts on societies, and institutions beyond Israel, and Palestine. This interview with prominent social scientist Daniel Bar‐Tal, Professor Emeritus, School of Education, Tel Aviv University, focused on the situation in Israel and Palestine following
Daniel Bar‐Tal
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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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