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The immemorial Iranian nation? SchoolColonialism, nationalism, and modern islamic thought
In this paper, I will examine the influence of nationalism and colonial racial theories on modern Islamic thought in Muslim South Asia and the Middle...
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Strategies of religious tourism in Iranian and Islamic cities approaching Shiite pilgrimage culture
In Shiite culture, pilgrimage and shrines of Imams and Imams are very important. Shrines in Islamic Iranian cities have a special place in terms of...
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An ‘Epistemic Weight’ of Islamic Practical Theology in Contemporary Islamic Social Work
The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the main arguments in the development of Islamic social work practice. In this respect, Islamic practical...
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The opportunities and limits of Islamist ideological developments on the rights of non-Muslims and women
Most academic scholars of the Muslim Brotherhood and like-minded Islamist organisations seem to agree that these groups have come to accept the...
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The Muslim Brotherhood and women’s issues under Sadat: dogmas and discussions
This paper examines why the MB was cautious in its revision of views on women under Anwar Sadat when it was, at the same time, changing the way it...
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Conclusion: World Society and the Islamic Discourse of Modernity
The conclusion starts with a brief summary of the theoretical argument of the book on the connection between Muslim history and global modernity. The...
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Resurgence of Populism in Central Asia: Revival of a New Identity
Since the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Central Asian countries have witnessed dramatic transformation from socialist...
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Sufism and Islamic Market in Central Asia: From Kolkhoz to Halal Economy in Kazakhstan?
Through the transformation of solidarity groups in Kazakhstan and their confessionalization, we will try to see whether ‘Islamic economy’ offers a...
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Reframing al-Quds Day as a unifying Islamic symbol: the battle over Jerusalem between Iran and the Arab world
Since 1980, on the last Friday of Ramadhan, millions of Muslims all over the world have held parades to celebrate Jerusalem Day—al-Quds Day—to...
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Reviving the Legacy: Variant Trends of Islamic Revivalism in Kazakhstan
In this chapter, Malik investigates the meeting place between ethno-religious history and current social and political conditions in...
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Local Events as a Temporary Urbanism Tactic for Public Spaces Revival
One primary urban regeneration objective is to revive the city’s declined and sluggishly animated public spaces. Nevertheless, due to a lack of...
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Points of convergence: Islamist conceptions of citizenship and the struggle of Egyptian Christians for their rights as a religious group
The concept of an Islamic state has often been criticized on account of its failure to articulate full and equal citizenship for non-Muslims. It is...
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Muṭahharī’s approach to the right of women to issue fatwas
This article investigates Ayatollah Murtaḍā Muṭahharī’s approach to the right of women to issue fatwas. Muṭahharī (1919–1979) is one of the foremost...
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Divergent Views on the Historical and Present Relation of Shamanism and Islam in International Post-Colonialist Scholarship
In light of the long, complex history of Tsarist and Soviet ethnography among the Central Asian Muslim peoples, the question of ‘pre-Islamic...
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Anglophone Islam: A New Conceptual Category
The field of ‘Islamic Studies’, like ‘Religious Studies’, is a broad-church. It includes a number of epistemological and ontological positions...
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The Crisis of Identity: Bengali, Islamic or Islamist Extremism?
Bangladeshi Muslims—who represent roughly 90 per cent of the population—hold ambivalent views about their national identity, as discussed in this...
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Islamic Social Ethics, Social Work and the Common Good: Learning from Western Contexts
This chapter begins by looking at the changing landscape of social action and engagement, social capital and the role of faith groups and...
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From secularization to religious resurgence: an endogenous account
What accounts for the resurgence of religion in Muslim countries that pursue strict secularization policies? Theories of religious resurgence have...
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Radicalisation: old and new a comparative analysis of the Red Brigades and the Islamic State
This study aims to broaden and refine our knowledge on radicalisation by applying a different lens derived from communication sciences, it also aims...
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Religiosity of Migrants and Natives in Western Europe 2002–2018: Convergence and Divergence
Patterns of religiosity among both settled and migrant populations have been the subject of intense, and often conflicting, scholarly debate. In...
