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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Shi'ism"”.
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The Effect of the Sunni-Shi'a Conflict in Shaping Arab Countries' Response to the Shi'a Crescent and a Nuclearizing Iran
This paper examines the Sunni-Shi'a divide within Islam and the role it plays in shaping Sunni Arab governments' response to the rising "Shi'a crescent” and a revolutionary Shi'a Iran. Sunnis have politically dominated every country in the region, except non- Arab Iran, since their initial victory …
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The lonely goddess : the lack of benevolent female relationships in Hindu and Shi'ite mythology
… identify the lack of benevolent female relationships in the development of religious mythology. The study explores two diverse belief systems, Hinduism and Shi'ism, in order to demonstrate that the feminine is reduced to a subservient and controlled creative force across different religious and …
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Following Sayyida Zaynab: Twelver Shi‘ism in Contemporary Syria
Outsiders, such as Lebanese and Syrian Shi‘is often refer to Twelver Shi‘is in the Syrian shrine-town as ‘traditional,’ and even ‘backward.’ They are not the only ones. Both Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah ‘Ali Khamenei have called the bloody flagellation practices, which have only increased in …
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Teorie dell’autorità e del potere nell’Islam sciita secondo l’opera di ʿAlī Fayyāḍ
… of power and authority from a specific Shīʿa perspective. This will make it possible to reconstruct the nature of the relation between authority and religion, as well as its narration inside Hezbollah human environment, also with a view to comprehending the theory of po-litical …