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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"caliphate"”.
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The Attempt of a New Damascus: Cordoba Under the Caliphate
… in the form of Cordoba. In 929, a western caliphate was declared at Cordoba by 'Aba al-Rahman III. But the Cordoban caliphate was doomed to failure; a branch cannot become the tree to which it belongs.
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Cultural Achievements and Social Reality in The Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba 929-1031
… 711 and ending with the break up of the Umayyad caliphate in 1031. During this period, many scholars and commentators argue that there was a "Golden Age" of religious tolerance between Jews, Christians and Muslims. This supposed "Golden Age" was particularly evident in the tenth century under …
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The Digital Caliphate: critically examining the Islamic State’s use of cyberspace to advance it’s overarching goals
This literature based study will seek to critically examine the nuanced relationship between the Islamic State and the internet, particularly as a tool which has been exploited to further the groups wider goals. This study will endeavour to examine this complex relationship by analysing three key …
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The Role of Women in the Būyid and Saljūq Periods of the Abbasid Caliphate (339-447/9501055&447-547/1055-1152): The Case of Iraq
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'ABD Al-Rahman Al-Kawakibi's Vision for an Islamic Renaissance: Umm Al-Qura
… issue of which ethnic group should control the caliphate became pivotal.It's proposal for an Arab caliphate may have been inspired in part by a Young Turk plot to frighten the Sultan-Caliph Abdul Hamid into reinstating the constitution of 1876. However, as most of "Umm al-Qura" was written …
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The Caliph’s Prey: Hunting in the Visual Cultures of the Umayyad Empire
… produced throughout the early Islamic Umayyad caliphate (ca. 661750 CE) as a series of dialogs between the ArabMuslim conquerors and their conquered subjects. Through four case studies I argue that conquered peoples who have been excluded from considerations of Umayyad art and patronage played …
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Forbidden Love: The Arabic Influence on the Courtly Love Poetry of Medieval Europe
… Arabian love poetry of Spain during the Islamic caliphate. The theme of forbidden love graces the pages of many of the courtly love tales of chivalry that came out of medieval Europe. The Iberian Peninsula, the meeting point of France and Spain (the Pyrenees), harbored an exchange of culture in …
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Dragon of Skyros : a study on the cultures of the ninth century through creative fiction
… boon companion of the heir to the Abbasid Caliphate, to a far-travelling Scandinavian intersex v��lva accompanying multicultural Rus merchants into Austrvegr, to a Khazar shaman plagued by her dreams of destruction and her brother's illness, all of the characters in the novel intertwine …
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Ideological Foundations of Jihadist Organizations: Hizbullah, al-Qaeda, and IS
… inhabited territories, and IS seeks to create a caliphate within a large portion of the Middle East. The similarities and differences of these three organizations will be illuminated through this examination. The primary focus of the examination focuses on their religious teachings and discourse, …
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Utilizing Social Movement Theory to Examine Three Salafi Jihadist Groups, the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and ISIS: the Resource Mobilization Approach of Charles Tilly
… state from which they can recreate an Islamic Caliphate. From their first emergence to today, al-Qaeda has maintained its targets and systems of recruitment while the Taliban and IS have altered theirs due to changes in their situations. These findings are important for future research by …
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Asymmetries of Terror and Violence in the Space of Exception: The Colonised Other, the Two- Tiers of Sovereignty in International Law and the Emergence of Islamic State (IS)
… and events that led to the establishment of the Caliphate by Islamic State (IS) in 2014, examining the link between the phenomenon of imperialism and the ultimate rise of Islamic State. Given the devastation that has caused by terrorist activities, the source of terrorism and their grievances …
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THE STRATEGIC USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA BY THE ISLAMIC STATE: EXPLORING THE CONTENT AND TECHNOLOGY OF EXTREMISM
… world’s attention with the declaration of the Caliphate. IS showed significant success in exploiting the social media landscape to deliver costly signals that advanced its outbidding, intimidation, and polarization strategies. This thesis explored the nature of the content produced by IS from …
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The Edge of Glory: The ʿAbbāsid Turkic Guard in Third/Ninth-Century Praise Writing
… their actions as being in the interests of the caliphate and community. Furthermore, the objects of praise are lauded in direct relation to their positions of power. As individual Turks accrue influence, praise writing affiliates them with an ʿAbbāsid model of virtue and distances them from the …
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An Organizational Analysis of Al Qaeda in Iraq and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria
… into power and create small, quasi-legitimate caliphate. Although the group may be somewhat defeated in the region, the ideology will carry on. By using organizational theory, we can better compare both groups and learn from their strengths and weaknesses. Through analyzing this parallel case …
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Terrorism and contagion theory: examining the influence of ISIS on Boko Haram (2012-2016)
… objectives, including establishing an Islamic Caliphate run by Islamic laws. However, BH began as a non-violent group in 2002, owing to Nigeria's poor socio-political and economic conditions (internal factors). The group began to morph and imitate the activities, actions and rhetoric of ISIS, …
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Knowledge and Social Order in Early Islamic Mesopotamia (60–193 AH/680–809 CE)
… their power through forging alliance with the caliphate; how they established the legitimacy of their knowledge; and how they promoted their visions of social order. The first framework of knowledge is associated with the secretaries, as state bureaucrats, who helped transfer ancient …
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Christians in Al-Andalus ( 8th-10th centuries)
… living in Al-Andalus before the fall of the caliphate, early in the eleventh century. It begins with two eighth-century Latin chronicles and their wholly Christian response to the conquest and the period of civil wars which followed it. The reliability of Eulogius' testimony to the Cordoban …
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Atatürk Devrimleri ve Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı (1924-1938)
… were taken under the control of Caliphate and The Ministry of Religious Affairs which was composed of the people who were experts in their fields after the opening of the Turkish Grand National Assembly. Caliphate and The Ministry of Religious Affairs, which was a member of the gov-ernment …
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