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The Impact of Bektashi Penetration on the Ottoman Empire

open access: yesAl-Tahrir, 2022
This article aims to explain the role of Bektashi Sufism. It was practiced for centuries in the Ottoman Empire and is considered a branch of the Ja’fari school of Shia.
Meirison Meirison   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The rights of women in Islam: Examples of Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran [PDF]

open access: yesSociološki Pregled, 2016
When we look at the rights and status of women in Islam, it is necessary to carefully look at the different interpretations within the framework of Islamic religious schools (madhhabs), their interpretation of various aspects of Islam with aspects of ...
Gregorian Meril
doaj   +1 more source

Crush The Sunnis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The article argues that Iraq\u27s Sunni population must be made to pay for the murderous years of the Baathist regime and should be left stateless and bereft of power.
Kurth, James
core   +1 more source

Islamic Public Administration in Practice: The Taliban's “Gender Apartheid” Governance in Afghanistan

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the Taliban's post‐2021 governance model through the Islamic Public Administration (IPA) framework, focusing on justice, equality, and women's inclusion. It asks: (1) How does the Taliban's governance align with core IPA principles?
Parwiz Mosamim   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Algunas manifestaciones de la libertad de conciencia en una sociedad globalizada

open access: yesRevista Vasca de Administración Pública, 2014
Two recent decisions by the European Court of Human Rights show how the influence of the peculiarities of different cultures can have an impact in the exercise of the religious freedom. One of the cases offers the case of a religious group in Holland and
Lorenzo Martín-Retortillo Baquer
doaj   +1 more source

Sanctifying Minority Status in the Himalayan \u3ci\u3eUmmah\u3c/i\u3e: Eid al-Ghadeer Commemorations among the Shia in Leh, Ladakh [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
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
core   +1 more source

Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

open access: yesGender &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
wiley   +1 more source

Issues of gender, reflexivity and positionality in the field of disability : researching visual impairment in an Arab society [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article examines how the social and cultural context influence the way in which field research methods are utilized. Research methods need to be modified to meet the sensibilities and sensitivities of particular social groups and settings. Through a
Ahmed, Dunya Ahmed Abdullah   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

open access: yesInternational 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
wiley   +1 more source

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