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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Religious aspects - Islam"”.
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The Authority of Traditional Islamic Leaders: A Sociological Study of Kyai's Authority in Pesantren
1 PDF file (vi, 101 leaves ; 28 cm)
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The beef debate: Religion, history, and harmony in India
1 PDF file (v, 117 pages)
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Ibn Arabi's Sufi and poetic experiences (through his collection of mystical poems Tarjuman al-Ashwaq)
This study is a theoretical research concerning Ibn Arabi's Sufi experience and his philosophy of the "unity of being" (also his poetical talent). I therefore adopted the historical and analytical methodologies to analyse and reply on the questions and suggestions I have raised in this paper. Both …
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Islam, sex, and sect : a quantitative look at women's rights in the Middle East.
In this paper I analyze Islamic Social Attitudes Survey (ISAS) data to see the effects of religious tradition and religious practice on attitudes about women's rights among 1139 college students in Kuwait. Specifically, I test whether religious sect, religious school of thought, political identity, …
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Legacies of Colonial History: Region, Religion and Violence in Postcolonial Gujarat
… idea of Gujarat, I argue that violence against religious minorities is an effect of both secular nation-building and of religious nationalist mobilization. Given this entanglement, I suggest that we rethink the oppositional relationship between religion and the secular in analyzing violence …
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Perceptions of the veil among a group of Sudanese women: a qualitative study
The Islamic dress code has been forcibly imposed on the women in Sudan, since 1983, and many feminists researchers have criticized the practices of the veil as a tool to oppress women. This study aimed to explore a group of Sudanese women, currently living in South Africa, experiences and …
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Positive Muslims: a critical analysis of Muslim AIDS activism in relation to women living with HIV/AIDS in Cape Town
… that while norms and values articulated in religious texts inform the ideological approach of the organisation's AIDS prevention model. This is due to the pragmatic approach adopted by Postive Muslims which recognises that the articulated norms and values do not always conform to the …