Abstract The Qajar dynasty was a time of civil wars as well as the wars against Russia, meanwhile, Qajarid Shahs, understanding the power of sublime art both in internal and external political relations, tried to expand and renew the style of the mural decorations which is the issue of this article. Increasing the relations with European countries like England and France, Fath Ali Shah and ...

Please do not cite without permission The concept of 'tradition' is used in a range of different ways within studies of British politics. Despite this there have been only a few attempts to theorise notions of tradition within British political science. Furthermore the different concepts of tradition forwarded by conservatives, interpretivists and realists have each been contested. This paper e...

Developing an argument based in theories of democratic consolidation and religious competition, and discussing the reasons for the secularist opposition to the government, this article analyses how government by a party rooted in moderate Islamism may affect Turkey’s peculiar secular democracy, development and external relations and how Muslims in the world relate to modernization and democracy...

The study in the current article intends to explore conception of presence Islamic religious movement known as Muhammadiyah, which still remains this day relation life Muslim community, including its socio-religious, cultural, economic, and political aspects. Accordingly, a proper understanding Muhammadiyah is not only achieved through approach, but also by examining social-historical condition...

The article examines the political practices of Ukrainian Muslims. It covers three main streams behavior: a) predominantly apolitical Islam Muslim organizations connected with transnational Sufi movement Al-Ahbash, b) activism global Brotherhood network, c) radical (jihadist) a small part Muslims represented by immigrants from North Caucasus and Crimea. employs Kasper Mathiesen's concept "tradi...

in this paper attempts have been made to study the discourses dominating political islam to answer these questions: how can one categorize these diverse political islam discourses? what are the similarities and differences among these discourses in general, and with the islamic revolution discourse in particular? the research methodology employed for this study is historical-comparative and the...

Through intellectual and doctrinal foundations of the Muslim world that Islam is derived Admen, ideas and movements throughout history have always been transformational. Regional, and new developments anticipated in the gradual transformation of some kind of social reform and a new orientation in the field of social regeneration based Barmen various countries and peoples of the Islamic world ca...

The status of Islamic women varies in different Muslim countries, which interpret Islamic religion and law differently, especially with regard to their attitudes toward women. Most of these Islamic countries have specific beliefs about women and have restrictions concerning them. Gender stereotypes of Islamic women have their origin in the evolution of the Muslim religion. This is similar to th...

In central Java, Sunan Kalijaga is the most famous of wali. According to some accounts he was inventor slametan, Javanese wayang play, and state ceremonies Demak Mataram. Islam in Java by no means a waning religion but vital living faith providing guidelines for ethics inspiration aesthetics; Islamization not completed historical event an ongoing process. concerns particular segment society its...