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Cambio y estabilidad política en las monarquías del Golfo tras la Primavera Árabe
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CIDOB BARCELONA CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
, 2015 , Article)
The states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), aided by their rentier nature, have survived as authoritarian regimes until now. Nevertheless, the desire of significant sectors of society for political liberalisation was ...
Kuwait Islamists: From Institutionalized to Informal Opposition
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ministry of research, science and technology
, 2019 , Article)
This article analyses the evolution of the Islamist political associations and groups, both Shiites and Sunnis since the independence of Kuwait in 1962 to the last legislative elections which was held in 2016. It tries to ...
Culture, social contestation and Turkey's failed coup: The rivalry of social imaginaries
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SETA
, 2016 , Article)
This article explores the processes involved in the emergence of rival social imaginaries, as they develop in a cultural ecosystem, relating it to Turkey’s failed coup. To accomplish that, it unravels how people construct ...
المذهبية في المشرق العربي الحديث: الحالة العثمانية الصفوية
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المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات
, 2015 , Article)
تحتل المذهبية مساحة واسعة في النقاشات السياسية والدينية في منطقة المشرق العربي منذ اوائل عقد الثمانينات من القرن العشرين حيث وقعت الثورة الاسلامية في ايران. ومع تطور الاحداث السياسية زادت المساحات التي يشغلها النقاش المذهبي ...
إيران والأزمة الخليجية: المكاسب والخسائر
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المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات
, 2017 , Article)
تسلط الورقة الضوء على محددات الموقف الإيراني من الأزمة الخليجية الرامي إلى منع أيّ تغيير في الجغرافيا السياسية في المنطقة، كما تقف على مكاسب طهران من استمرار الأزمة نتيجة خسارة الرياض بعض حلفائها التقليديين في منطقة الخليج ...
Critiquing the Modern Western Theory of Knowledge and Insights into a Qur’anic Epistemology
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International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
, 2012 , Article)
This article compares and contrasts a western post-Enlightenment theory of knowledge with a Qur’anic epistemology. It first analyzes the development of post-Enlightenment epistemology, which resulted in the disappearance ...
Islam, Religion and Society: The Movement for Pakistan
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Common Ground Research Networks
, 2012 , Article)
The relationship between the sacred and temporal has been an enduring phenomenon throughout history. Both in ancient and medieval times, religion and the formation of society, including the politicization of religion into ...
The Dynamics of Ideological Rivalry in the Middle East
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Publisher Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
, 2014 , Article)
This article focuses on analysing political culture for understanding the dynamics of ideological rivalry in the Middle East. It reviews the concept of political culture and locates, therein, constant references to the ...
Islam, the West and ‘Man’ in the State of Nature
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German Orient-Institute
, 2014 , Article)
What is the natural condition of human beings in the state of nature? What are the circumstances that exist in the state of nature and what may one, convincingly, claim in regards to human nature? Or, better still, how do ...
The Post-Enlightenment Moral Crisis and the Emergence of Secular Tyranny in the Middle East
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the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
, 2017 , Article)
This article explores humanity’s ethical transformation during Europe’s post-Enlightenment era and assesses its impact upon the origins and development of secularism. Thereafter, it investigates how secularism was introduced ...