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Questioning the “classical” in Persian painting: models and problems of definition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In scholarship on Persian book arts, paintings have tended to be organized according to a rise-and-fall model. Within this overarching framework, the Ilkhanid period represents the birth of painting and the Qajar era its supposed decline, while Timurid ...
Christiane Gruber
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Islamic Political Theology

open access: yesSt Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
The central idea within Islamic political theology is that sovereignty, or the authority of final judgment, in nature as well as law, belongs to God. At its heart lies God’s revealed command rather than a logically derived corollary of God’s nature or ...
Ovamir Anjum
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The Middle East Justice & Reconciliation Initiative [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Report on Muslim/Christian faith-based reconciliation dialogue in Cyprus - this report includes a description of faith-based reconciliation methodology in relation to The Middle East Justice & Reconciliation ...
Brian Cox
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The Globality of Islam: Sharia as a Nigerian 'Self-Determination' Movement [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper was produced as part of a project at the University of California, Santa Cruz titled Globalization, State Capacity and Islamic Movements. The objective of this paper to assess how globalization and Islam impact the capacity of national states ...
Paul Lubeck, Ronnie Lipschutz and Erik Weeks
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Women and Politics in Kuwait [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
On May 17, 2008, Kuwait conducted its Twelfth election of its National Assembly. The most remarkable aspect of the election was the active participation of women, who gained their right to vote in May 2005.
Olimat, Muhamad S.
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The Islamic State as an empire of nostalgia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Primary empires were the product of internal development and self-sustaining through the exploitation of their own resources, but there were also historically a large number of “shadow empires.” These were imperial polities that were the products of ...
Barfield, Thomas
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Kantian Nonideal Theory and Nuclear Proliferation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Recent revelations of Iran’s hitherto undisclosed uranium enrichment programs have once again incited western fears that Tehran seeks nuclear weapons’ capability. Their fears seem motivated by more than the concern for compliance
Doyle, Ii, Thomas E.
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