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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Shi'i"”.

  1. The Anatomy of Shi'i Shrine Cities: Pivots in World Politics

    Parkes, Aidan2023

    This thesis is about the enduring importance of Shi'i shrine cities in world politics. Shrines are important sites of religious identity that are often analysed from a single perspective of conflict, clerical authority, or collective identity in the literature. This thesis overcomes this gap in …

    aus-cath Repository record

  2. The Anatomy of Shi'i Shrine Cities: Pivots in World Politics

    Parkes, Aidan2023

    This thesis is about the enduring importance of Shi'i shrine cities in world politics. Shrines are important sites of religious identity that are often analysed from a single perspective of conflict, clerical authority, or collective identity in the literature. This thesis overcomes this gap in …

    anu Repository record

  3. Imami-Shi'i ritual in the context of early Islamic jurisprudence.

    Howard, Ian Keith Anderson.University of Cambridge1975

    cambridge

  4. Sectarian Homes: The Making of Shi'i Families and Citizens under the French Mandate, 1918-1943

    Sayed, Linda2013

    … focuses on the legal recognition of the Shi'i sect by the Mandate state as a pivotal point in generating increased sectarian awareness, particularly as it related to the domain of the family. I analyze the impact this had on the space of the family during the French Mandate and the …

    columbia-diss Repository record

  5. We Can Do Very Little With Them: British Discourse and British Policy on Shi'is in Iraq

    Furrow, Heath A.Virginia Tech2019

    … British officials' discourse on Sunni and Shi'i Islam in early mandate Iraq. It also explores the role that this discourse played in informing the policy decisions of British officials. I argue that British officials thought about and described Sunni and Shi'i Islam through a lens of …

    vt Repository record

  6. The Howzevi (Seminarian) Women in Iran: Constituting and Reconstituting Paths

    Tawasil, Amina2013

    … and the howzeh setting, their social relationships, and the greater Iranian society at large by exploring resources available to them within a set of constraints. These limitations were often not only self-imposed but also intensified with increased access to particular networks. In the …

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  7. The new citizens : a study of the architectural identity of public philanthropic institutions built by two Isma'ili communities in contemporary Bombay

    Basrai, ZameerMassachusetts Institute of Technology2009

    … so. Both institutions were built by Shi'i Isma'ili communities, the hospital by the Bohras and the school by the Khojas. Both buildings represent a significant phase in the history of these mercantile communities in Bombay where their emergence as public philanthropists echoes the …

    mit Repository record

  8. NATIONAL SELF AND NARRATIVE OF IDENTITY: CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONALISM IN MODERN PERSIAN LITERATURE AND FILM

    AHMAD, RAZIThe University of Arizona.2011

    … dissertation looks at the dialectical relationship between Persian literary 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 …

    arizona-thes Repository record

  9. Marriage and celibacy in mediaeval Islam : a study of Ghazali's Kitāb ādāb al-nikāḥ'

    Immenkamp, BeatrixUniversity of Cambridge1995

    … is therefore devoted to analysing the relationship between the two texts. Ghazali's argument in favour of marriage in the Kitab adab al-nikah is informed by a pragmatic and positive attitude towards sexuality, according to which a healthy, balanced life included sex. This attitude to sexuality …

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  10. Religion and the legitimation of the state: the development of political thought in contemporary Shi’ism (Case study Iran 1979-2004)

    Alsaif, T.M.University of Westminster2005

    … 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 phase, religion is integrated into the state in order to bring about a …

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  11. THE FORMATION OF CLASSICAL IMĀMĪ EXEGESIS: Rawḍ al-jinān wa-rawḥ al-janān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān of Abū al-Futūḥ Rāzī (d. in or after 552/1157)

    Ardehali, Mohammadreza2018

    … the beginning of the 5th/11th century a paradigm shift from intellectual esoterism to rational exoterism in Imāmī exegesis occurred. This paradigm shift began with al-Maṣābīḥ of al-Wazīr al-Maghribī (d. 418/1028) and fully developed later in al-Ṭibyān of al-Ṭūsī (d. 460/1067). My dissertation also …

    toronto-retro Repository record

  12. SUNNI AND SHI’I SECTARIAN VIOLENCE IN IRAQ DURING THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD (2003- 2005): IMPLICATIONS FOR DEMOCRACY AND DIALOGUE

    Laudisio, AndieleighTemple University. Libraries2023

    … of an identity struggle between Sunni and Shi’a groups within Iraq, and connect this phenomenon to issues of hegemony and democracy. The discussion of Sunni and Shi‘i relations in Iraq as it relates to the Iraqi reconstruction period involves numerous areas of discipline including politics …

    temple Repository record