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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Islamic revolution"”.
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Negotiating the Politics of Representation in Iranian Women’s Cinema before and after the Islamic Revolution
… Iranian films that were produced before the Islamic revolution of 1979, to the skateboarding vampire girl who makes a feast out of abusive men in Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the representation of Iranian women on screen has changed drastically. This comparative study …
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The Dynamics of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)
<p>Since Iran's Islamic revolution in 1978, there has been a notable shift in how the country engages with the global community. This paper explores this transformation within the context of Iran's nuclear program, focusing on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed in Vienna in July …
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Empirical Essays in Earnings and Labor Markets in Developing and Transition Economies
… and female labor force participation in post-Revolution Iran. The Islamic Revolution of 1979 and a number of subsequent macro shocks dealt a huge blow to Iran's economy. In this paper we ask the question of how families and individuals have fared through these tumultuous times. Conventional …
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Post-revolutinary Iranian Theatre: Three Representative plays in translation with critical commentary
… of the theatrical activities in Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1978, and discusses how theatre works within the Islamic Republic of Iran. Firstly, in order to gain familiarity with the country's political institution, there is a brief political history of the Islamic Republic of Iran. …
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Asymmetry of will : the effect of religious radicalism on state military doctrine
… I examine the evolution of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. In particular I explore the effect of religious radicalism on Iran's acceptable casualty rates for its naval operations. A successful ideologically based strategy appears to have three …
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Shia Political Islam in Iran. A political and economic approach
… Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in 1920s, Iranian Islamic revolution in 1979, and some other Islamists groups like Hezbollah, and Al-Qaida highlighted the importance of Islamism. Moreover, forming the new Islamists in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen after the Arab uprising in 2010 which intensified the …
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Islamism and Women’s Movements in Iran: Hijab as a Burden of Representation
<p>Throughout history, Islamic discourse, political Islam, and the status of Muslim women have been subjects of study. Still, few research efforts have concentrated on the changes and dynamics between Islamic discourse and feminist resistance. Particularly in Iran, attention has primarily been …
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The Contribution of Islamic Banking to Economic Development (The Case of The Islamic Republic of Iran)
Abstract Islamic banking is a new industry which has attracted the attention of many economists in the world regarding its ability to operate successfully and its instruments for mobilising and allocating monetary resources (Deposits). Usually, in the majority of Islamic countries and in some …
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The Roots of Feminist Invocations in Post-Revolutionary Iran
… the transformation of Iranian society after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and its impact on the position of the Iranian woman have revealed that three and a half decades of efforts by the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) to institutionalize an archaic image of the ideal Muslim woman have produced …
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Transitions in domestic architecture and home culture in twentieth century Iran
… century through the first two decades of the revolution, this study also examines the impact of the Cold War on the daily life of Iranians. A showcase for the West's humanitarian efforts in the region, the "reform" of the Iranian home was first brought about by missionaries, architects, and …
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Explanation and Critique of the Iranian Reform Movement: Alternative Discourses for a Conservative Regime
… of the reform movement in Iran since the Islamic Revolution. It focuses on religious intellectual discourses in the context of the intellectual trajectory of Islamic thought from the revolutionary period to the post-revolutionary reformist phase. This thesis examines the role of the …
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Islam and Democracy. Prospects and Possibilities. A Critical Analysis of the Theory of the Religious Democracy of Dr Abdulkarim Soroush
… in the debate on Islam and democracy in the Islamic world. The research endeavours to answer several questions: How far has the debate on Islam and democracy developed? Was the Islamic revolution in Iran an Islamic revolution and has it been a step forward for democracy there and an example …
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Central - regional budget allocation process in Iran: a critical analysis
… planning in last decades (particularly after the Islamic revolution) is studied and the reason why access to the endowment of fossilized energy resources could not accelerate and pass current developing situation is reviewed. Then in chapters 2 and 3 a historical pathology of planning and …
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The role of parliaments in the resilience of non-democratic regimes : a case study of the Iranian parliament (Majles)
… Majles contributed to the resilience of post-revolutionary Iranian regimes. Inspired by the legislative institutionalization approach, three main characteristics are identified to explain the authoritarian legislatures: subordination as opposed to autonomy, exclusiveness as opposed to …
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Exploring the pattern of Islamic social movements : four case studies
This thesis is a study of Iranian-Islamic social movements. Iran has witnessed four major social movements in the late nineteenth and twentieth century. Except for the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79 which attracted a great deal of sociological attention, and the Constitutional Revolution which has …
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NATIONAL SELF AND NARRATIVE OF IDENTITY: CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONALISM IN MODERN PERSIAN LITERATURE AND FILM
… works representing or alluding to the pre-Islamic legacy and the political conditions of Iran. Through discursive analyses, it shows that these works in new political conditions change the orientation and main thrust of their message, and use or allude to the same pre-Islamic legacy for …
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Religion and the legitimation of the state: the development of political thought in contemporary Shi’ism (Case study Iran 1979-2004)
… of developing a democratic discourse within the Islamic context. It focuses on the evolution of the political thought in Shi'i Islam in the context of Iran after the Islamic revolution of 1979. The reconciliation between religion and democracy is argued to be a two-phase process: in the first …
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Islam and International Relations: Towards an Alternative Conception of Universality
<p>This dissertation develops an Islamic Theory of International Relations (ITIR) based on modifying the classic Islamic categories of <em>Dar al Harb and Dar al Salaam</em>. The main purpose of this dissertation is to use categories of Islamic political thought not derived from Western …
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Legitimacy of power in the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
… to the creation of the constitutional law of the Islamic republic of Iran, I (the author) noticed a series of ambiguous and often contradictory points in its contents. Discovering the roots and the causes of such contradictions became my priority. After the Iranian Revolution (1979) intellectuals …
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Dual Intransigence: An Assessment of the US-Iran Conflict and Prospects for Rapprochement
… what America’s options are in dealing with the Islamic Republic. Specifically the researcher addresses the consequences of a strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, conducting a discourse analysis for the purposes of demonstrating the polarizing affect this issue has had on some of the leading …