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Sport in Islam and in Muslim communities
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Taylor and Francis Group
, 2015 , Book)
As Islam's visibility in global society increases, Muslim populations grow, and Muslim countries compete to take up positions at the heart of global sport, the interplay between sport and Islam becomes ever more illuminating. ...
Editorial Introduction: Asian Sport History and Culture in the Twenty-first Century
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Taylor and Francis Group
, 2020 , Other)
When the proposal for a new journal dedicated to the analysis of Asian sport history and culture, (in partnership with its parent journal, the International Journal of the History of Sport) was first mooted, its endorsement ...
Sport and international relations in North Africa
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Taylor and Francis Group
, 2018 , Book chapter)
Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia share the same history of French colonial presence. While Algeria was simply annexed to become part of the French territory and divided into three provinces, Tunisia and Morocco were under the ...
Sport in the African World
(
Taylor and Francis Group
, 2018 , Book)
Sport has been a component of African cultural life for several hundred years. In today's globalized world, Africans and Africa have become a vital part of the international sporting landscape. This is the first book to ...
Sport and political transition in Tunisia: Another terrain of competition between Islamists and seculars
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Taylor and Francis Group
, 2015 , Book chapter)
This chapter reports on a research project that focused on how policy makers perceived and responded to the sporting needs of Muslim communities in Norway. A unique trait of Norwegian sport policy is that sport organizations ...
Sport and Muslims or Muslims in sport, post-9/11
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Taylor and Francis Group
, 2016 , Book chapter)
This chapter organizes three aspects: hijab and the ‘Islamization’ of sport; Arab-Muslim investment in sport as a means for ‘soft power’; and sport and the question of integration of Muslims as a challenge to citizenship ...
Sport and the ‘question’ of Islam in Europe
(
Taylor and Francis Group
, 2020 , Book chapter)
The aim of this chapter is to examine how the debate about Islam in Europe is affecting the discourse on sport and Islam and Muslim communities. Recent sources of tensions occurred around the question of Islam including ...
Islamic sport marketing or sport marketing in Muslim cultures and communities
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Taylor and Francis Group
, 2015 , Book chapter)
As naming is categorising and, in turn, categorising is excluding, there have been many discussions about the respective definitions of marketing and sport marketing, their differences, their communalities, their practices, ...
The Development of Urban to Support Sport Tourism in Qatar, A Case Study: West Bay North Beach
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Qatar University Press
, 2021 , Poster)
Sports the travel industry is recognized as movement that includes either watching or taking part in a game while staying outside of the sightseers' typical environmental factors. Major games, like the football, Olympic ...
Sport at Home, Sport in the World: Evaluating Qatar’s Sports Strategy from Above and Below
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Springer
, 2021 , Book chapter)
This piece is an overview of actors and policies concerning sport in the nation of Qatar. In recent years, sports have been given high priority in government attempts to raise exposure of the nation internationally. Many ...