Causal Analysis of Religious Violence, a Structural Equation Modeling Approach
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عنوان ژورنال: Al-Jami'ah: Journal of Islamic Studies
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2338-557X,0126-012X
DOI: 10.14421/ajis.2015.532.413-437