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Inter-confessional relations in Iran and their influence on the situation in the region
The paper is devoted to the analysis of different faiths in Iran and to the official national policy. These problems are extremely important for Iran, because religious controversies are associated with national and religious contradictions there.
N.M. Mamedova
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Qraquyunlus` Shi`ism (1374 – 1466) [PDF]
Various researchers have considered Qraguyunlus “Imami Shi`ites”, “radical Shi`ites” and some others know them as Sunnis. By studying criteria and characteristics of Shi`ism and matching those with Qraquyunlus, we can prove them as Shi`ites, but they are
a Montazerqaem, m Shahmoradi
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Embodiment and Ambivalence: Emotion in South Asian Muharram Drumming [PDF]
Musi
Wolf, Richard Kent
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Abstract Vatican II's declaration on the Jews, absolving them from collective guilt of deicide, marked a significant turning point in Catholic theology. Arab governments tended to perceive this development as evidence that Catholics (or Christians generally) were taking the side of Zionist Jews in the Arab‐Israeli conflict.
Amir Krispel
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Sectarian conflict in Saudi Arabia, "Shiite question"
The article deals with the the problems of Shiites community in Saudi Arabia. To this end, issues such as the position of the Shiites in the KSA, the problem of their participation in the public life of the kingdom, the growing protest movement in this ...
A. V. Fedorchenko
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Humanitarianism as a Weapons System [PDF]
One important theme in Rosa Brooks’s How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything is that in Iraq and Afghanistan the United States has increasingly given the military reconstruction tasks that seem more like civilian jobs.
Luban, David
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Transnational Nationalisms Reflections on Nationalism and Territory in Globalization
ABSTRACT Transnational practices redefine nationalism: a nonterritorial sense of belonging for groups and extraterritorial sovereignty for states. Territory is at the core of the analysis in both cases. For groups and communities' transnationalism leads to a new imagined community guided by an “imagined geography” that is not territorial.
Riva Kastoryano
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A Forced Union: Exploring the Consequences of India's Removal of Jammu and Kashmir's Special Status
ABSTRACT This article adds to academic literature interested in two core questions: What happens to residents as a result of an annexation? And how do aggressor states maintain control over an annexed territory where there is a history of insurgency and mobilization for independence?
Serena Hussain
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Conflicts and Religions: The Case of Syria and Iraq
Religion is at the heart of the lacerating conflicts in Iraq and Syria today. In both countries the matter at hand is the fracture between the two main branches of Islam.
Pierre-Jean Luizard
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Back to the future : the Arab uprisings and state (re)formation in the Arab world [PDF]
This article contributes to debates that aim to go beyond the “democratization” and “post-democratization” paradigms to understand change and continuity in Arab politics.
Adham Saouli +21 more
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