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“American Islam”: The Politics of Religious Authenticity in Iran
Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 35, Issue 3, Summer 2026.ABSTRACT This article analyzes “American Islam” as a political category of religious authenticity in the Islamic Republic of Iran rather than as a fixed theological concept. Using a critical discourse‐analytic framework, it examines how Ayatollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Khamenei construct and operationalize the opposition between pure Muhammadan Islam ...
Fateh Saeidi
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Improvement in the English Translations of Albrecht von Haller's Usong (1771)
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 3-20, March 2026.Abstract The political novel Usong (1771), written by the Swiss physiologist Albrecht von Haller (1708–1777), is set in the fifteenth century and tells the story of a Mongolian prince who becomes the Emperor of Persia and redesigns the government of his empire to promote the happiness of his subjects.
Laura Tarkka
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Transatlantic Anti‐Catholic Networks, Bibles and School Disputes in the Nineteenth Century
Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 520-536, December 2025.In the later nineteenth century, British, Canadian and American Evangelicals set up transatlantic religious networks to fight the Catholic Church and to affirm their Protestant Anglophone identities. Accordingly, Evangelical militants perceived their struggle as being transnational despite the diametrically different State–Church relationship contexts ...
Geraldine Vaughan
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‘Zionism as the Legacy of Cyrus’: (Online) Proxy Nationalism of Diasporic Iranians
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 907-917, October 2025.ABSTRACT This paper focuses on examining the online activities of a group of diasporic Iranians who exhibit Israeli proxy nationalism online by openly expressing support for Israel and Zionism. By analysing posts, reposts and comments made on X after the Hamas‐led attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 using the hashtag #IraniansStandWithIsrael, the paper ...
Ladan Rahbari
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 233-257, September 2025.Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
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The Object Not of One's Desire: UK Service Club Membership Recruitment, Retention, and Public Image
Financial Accountability &Management, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 525-538, August 2025.ABSTRACT Membership organizations rely on maintaining and growing their membership base, both for financial stability and to allow them to increase their impact. UK service clubs are one such kind of membership organization that has suffered a decline in membership in more recent years and is seeking to address this to maintain their presence. However,
David Yates
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The Magistracy of Moses: The Old Testament in Local Government, 1689–1750
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 2, Page 199-215, June 2025.Abstract This article explores the popularity of Moses as a model for government in the early eighteenth century. It examines references to Moses in sermons preached at civic or political events such as assizes, elections of mayors, and meetings of reform societies.
Daniel Rignall
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A Dissenter in the Ranks: Barzillai Quaife's Mission to New Zealand
Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 442-455, December 2024.The arrival of the Congregationalist minister Barzillai Quaife in New Zealand in 1840 casts a new light on the established historiography on the role of missionaries in the colony at this time, revealing substantial (imported) divisions between Anglicans and Dissenting sects, resulting in a level of antipathy that (ironically) exceeded that which ...
Paul Moon
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Enlightened Declarations: Ottoman and Russian Proclamations in the Ottoman‐Russian War of 1768–1774
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 259-278, September 2024.Abstract This article analyses the Ottoman and Russian proclamations during the Ottoman‐Russian War of 1768–1774 to understand their similarities and differences in discourse and their intended audiences, with a special focus on the elites of the Ottoman Empire.
Yusuf Ziya Karabıçak
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Good Scientific Practice and Ethics in Sports and Exercise Science: A Brief and Comprehensive Hands-on Appraisal for Sports Research. [PDF]
Sports (Basel), 2023 Arora NK +7 more
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