Abstract Shiʿa Muslims constitute 10–15% of Danish Muslims, but until recently they lacked public visibility. Within the last decade, number mosques and other places worship in Denmark has doubled, change terms group’s presence is even more significant than this. This article compares Denmark’s leading organisation with its Sunni counterpart physical participation life. It discusses based on co...

The Afghan resistance sees its struggle more in terms of a "holy war" (jihad) than as a war of national liberation. In a country in which reference to the "nation" is avery recent phenomenon, where the State is perceived as exterior to society and where allegiance belongs to the local community, Islam remains the sole point of reference for all Afghans. It is only in the southern Pushtun tribal...

Abstract In recent years, a growing number of activists in Afghanistan have been proactively self‐identifying as Sunni Hazaras. The trend demonstrates an important shift that illuminates how ethnic boundaries may change and evolve response to elite politics state policies Afghanistan. Many the communities are subjects new collective identity discourses share commonalities, including shared beli...

Nizārī Ismāʿīlīs, who established an autonomous structure centered in Alamūt by organizing the geographies of Rudbar, Quhistan, Daylam, and Syria between 1090 1257, have been one movements practicing method taqiyya most strictly. This they practiced against all Sunni or non-Sunni authorities was utilized as a way protecting their lives, property, doctrine, traditions both within themselves outs...