Meta-learning for fake news detection surrounding the Syrian war. [PDF]
Abu Salem FK +5 more
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State and religion : considering indonesian islam as model of democratisation for the muslim world [PDF]
This recognition is because Indonesia has hinted more progress and improvement in democracy and human rights than other Muslim countries such as Turkey, Egypt and Pakistan.
Hasyim, Syafiq
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Russia’s ‘Middle East’: the escalation of religious conflicts in the Northern Caucasus. OSW Commentary Number 207/04.04.2016 [PDF]
The eastern part of the Northern Caucasus (Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia) is becoming an increasingly distinct region in cultural, civilisational and social terms when compared to the rest of the Russian Federation. The situation on the ground there
Falkowski, Maciej
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Drugs behind the veil of Islam: a view of Saudi youth. [PDF]
Jiang G, Tang S, Jiang Q.
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From Karachi to San Bernadino: In Quest of an Alternative Discourse on Terrorism [PDF]
During my recent trip to Pakistan to attend an international educational and cultural conference in Karachi, I had an interesting discussion on the Paris attacks. A warm and friendly American academic colleague suggested how terrorism could be attributed
Syed, Jawad
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Mapping extremist forums using text mining [PDF]
Political opinions far from what is considered normal, a distorted view of reality, and hatred to certain other groups are spread amongst political extremists like Islamists and White Supremacists. Demonstrations and violence performed by some members of
Attestog, Targeir +1 more
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Hashimite depictions of Wahhabi Islam as a rhetorical front in the late Ottoman period
This article frames the late-Ottoman Hashimite-Sacudi rivalry in the Arabian Peninsula as an ideological struggle in terms of competing notions of Islamic modernity and civilisation.
Sami Jiryis Sweis
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Instability, economic stagnation and the role of islam in the North Caucasus [PDF]
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, the North Caucasus is known as a politically unstable region and as a melting pot for terrorism and all kinds of criminal activity, reaching from drugtrafficking and illegal arms trade to hijacking and extortion ...
Dobler, Constanze
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Countering Islamic conservatism on being transgender: Clarifying Tantawi's and Khomeini's fatwas from the progressive Muslim standpoint. [PDF]
Zaharin AAM, Pallotta-Chiarolli M.
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Salafism, Wahhabism and Radical Islam
Although the term ‘Salafism’ has sometimes been applied to certain nineteenth to twentieth-century Islamic modernist thinkers, including the Egyptian Grand Mufti Mohammad ‘Abduh (d.1905) and Rashid Rida (d.1935), Salafism actually takes its origins from Ibn Taymiyyah’s (d.728/1328) essentially deconstructionist stance towards Islam’s scholastic legacy.
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