Conciliation in the Qurʾan addresses an existing imbalanced focus in Islamic Studies on conflict in the Qurʾan, and moves beyond a restrictive approach to ṣulḥ (reconciliation) as a mediation process in...
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Shi’i children’s books participate in their readers’ formation by explaining and illustrating pious norms in terms of emotional attachments, rituals, and...
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The aim of this study is to understand how authenticity is evoked in a religious pilgrimage and the relationship between authenticity, rituals and...
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This book explores the socio-political conditions and cultural venues in which Islamic movements cease to confront and start to cooperate with secular states....
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The purpose of this study is to cover the meaning and role of the Qur'an in Shiite jurisprudence. Therefore, to achieve this purpose, the history of the compilation of the...
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The book entitled “Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces: Writing Feminist History through Biography in Fin-de-siecle Egypt” explores the writing and influence of the first Arabic-language global biographical dictionary of...
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Analysing two concepts of people’s role and the duties of religious democratic government from Imam Ali’s perspective is the aim of...
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This article attempts to clarify a number of issues pertaining to the actual attitudes and relationships between the marja'iyya and politics in Iraq.....
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The present book is an English translation of Sautu'l `Adalati'l Insaniyah, the biography of Imam Ali, written in Arabic by George Jordac, a renowned Christian author of...
Read More »Being Palestinian: Personal Reflections on Palestinian Identity in the Diaspora
In this groundbreaking volume, 102 Palestinians in North America and the United Kingdom reflect in their own words on what it means to be Palestinian in the....
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