The presence of Shii communities in Europe is increasingly felt, especially as they establish independent religious and social infrastructures. Supporters different Shii–Islamist political parties have established transnational links connecting diasporic with their countries origin. These shaped been by religious, dynamics the Middle East. This article examines how lamentation poetry performed ...

Social Network Analysis is a compilation of methods used to identify and analyze patterns in social network systems. This article serves as a primer on foundational social network concepts and analyses and builds a case study on the global Islamist terrorist network to illustrate the use and usefulness of these methods. The Islamist terrorist network is a system composed of multiple terrorist o...

after 50 years of  hegemony of  the  mubarak authoritarian discourse in egypt, the people of this country were able to challenge the hegemony of authoritarian discourse. with the fall of the mubarak regime, the muslim brotherhood seized power. a year after  that muslim brotherhood coming to power, the group, due  to the  incompetence in accordance with the political and economic conditions, lac...

Some contemporary social phenomena, despite secularization, are still linked to religion. However, this same secularization seems have accompanied a progressive process of religious illiteracy. Therefore, the capacity address inspired issues is lower than magnitude problems at work, be violent right-wing movement and Islamist terrorism or ethical debates on beginning end life, name but few. Hen...

Ever since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, and even more so since the spectacular attacks by Qa‘idat al-Jihad against the U.S. on 9/11, there has been an ever-growing flood of academic and journalistic publications devoted to radical Islam. Unfortunately, much of that literature has embodied problematic conceptual perspectives that can best be characterized as ‘Islam bashing’, ‘Islam apologism’, o...

Malaysia is known to have a diverse population across the racial and religious spectrums. However, majority of identifies as Malays, and, thus, legally, Muslims too. Although development Malay identity had begun immediately after World War II, stark division between non-Muslims came out 1971 New Economic Policy that prioritized in name reducing poverty stabilizing country. With Malay-nationalis...