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Caliphate and imamate : an anthology of medieval Muslim texts on political theology
One of the most enduring sources of conflict among Muslims is the question of power and authority after the Prophet Muhammad. This anthology of classical Arabic texts, presented in a new English translation, offers a comprehensive overview of the early ...
Husayn, Nebil, Anṣārī, Ḥasan
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The Syrian War: religious & political representations [PDF]
Issue title: Preludes to the Islamic State: contextualizing the rise of extremism in the Syrian UprisingThe analysis of the social media content of: Syrian & foreign - opposition & loyalist - official & informal will allow us to understand the extent to
Valter, Stéphane
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Political discourses on Alevis and Alevism during AKP era [PDF]
Turkish secularism has been employed as a foundation of modernization since the founding of the Turkish Republic. But it has also been criticized severely, given its dilemmas.
Selçuk, Elif
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A Reconsideration of the Sunni-Shi\u27a Divide in Early Islam
The purpose of this thesis is to explain how and why many modern Twelver Shi\u27a, Sunni, and Western scholars have structured political and religious conflict during the formative era of Islam (610-945 C.E.) around a partisan Sunni-Shi\u27a divide that ...
Bufano, Michael
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Transmitting Sunni learning in Fatimid Egypt: the female voices [PDF]
In this chapter I propose to investigate the contribution of women as transmitters of Sunnī learning in Egypt under the Fāṭimids as part of a broader project I am conducting on the intellectual history of Sunnism in Fāṭimid Egypt.
Cortese, D.
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The Conception of Sunnism and Debates on Sectarian Identity in Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār’s Manṭiq al-Ṭayr
This study examines the life, works, and, in particular, the sectarian identity of Farid al-Din Attar, one of the most influential figures of thirteenth-century Islamic thought and Sufi literature, whose affiliation has long been debated in academic ...
Mehmet Sever
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The Concept of the “Islamic Caliphate” Since the Prophet Muhammad Till “The Islamic State”
The concept of the Islamic Caliphate is tightly connected to Islam and the activity of the Prophet Muhammad. The formation of the ruling system became the most important part of the history of Islam.
Tinatin Karosanidze +1 more
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"HISTORY OF FORMATION OF SUNNI IN ISLAM"
The paper highlights the stages of the development of the direction “Ahl al-Sunna wa al-Jama`a” known as Sunnism in academic societies in Islam as well as the various names given to this direction.
SAGDIEV, KHABIBULLO
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This article examines Aḥmad al-Ṣāwī’s articulation of Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamāʿah theology in his Ḥāshiyat al-Ṣāwī ʿalā Tafsīr al-Jalālayn. Living during the transition from late premodern Islamic traditionalism to the modern period, al-Ṣāwī witnessed ...
Abdul Waris Marsyam, Makmur
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Haider, Najam, Shī'ī. An Introduction, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2014, 264p.
During the formative period of Islam, in the first centuries after Muhammad's death, different ideas and beliefs abounded. During this period two particular intellectual traditions emerged, Sunnism and Shī'ism.
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