Målet for denne artikkelen er å undersøke hvordan norske muslimske familier orienterer seg mellom sunni-islamsk og vestlig visuell tradisjon, de forholder til dilemmaer som oppstår når tradisjoner divergerer, konstruerer sin visuelle religiøse identitet lever i diaspora. Artikkelen baserer på empiri fra intervjuer med tjue unge informanter. De forklarer at deres klassifiserer bilder to hovedkat...

A web of corruption involving the Assad family, the security apparatus, and their business cohorts has been a major factor behind the outbreak of the Syrian revolt that started in 2011. UN-facilitated talks between the regime and the opposition are set to convene in Geneva in January 2016, after the refugee crisis in Europe and Russia’s entry into the Syrian war prompted a renewed international...

Although the tactic of suicide terrorism is thousands of years old, it has appeared in Iraq at unprecedented levels. The predominance of suicide terrorism in the insurgency has led scholars to embrace two diametrically opposed theoretical frameworks. Whereas Huntington’s framework explains suicide terrorism in Iraq as the result of a clash of civilizations between the Western and Islamic worlds...

sura al-insan (76) is among suras sent down to praise imam ali and the household of the holy prophet. numerous hadiths, opinions, and sources denote that. however, some sunni sources have ignored that because of treating that sura as being maccan. relying on sunni sources, gathering hadiths and opinions on chronological order of descend of meccan and medinan suras, and hadiths concerning causes...

I the first weeks of the Syrian uprising that began in March 2011, religious symbols and figures rapidly emerged as important components of the movement. Allah Akbar (“God is the Greatest”) was often shouted, along with liberal slogans like “God, Syria, Freedom, and that’s it!” Certain Muslim scholars or ulama became iconic figures of the protests, and many demonstrations took place in and arou...

1 Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 2 James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University, Houston, Texas, United States of America, 3 Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, Texa...

AbstractThe objective of this study is to evaluate the suitability Shia and Sunni's respective justifications for companions. This uses a hermeneutic approach qualitative library research design. The findings support belief that companions can be any person, whether or not they are Muslims regardless their moral behavior. also holds who do name reject Ali as caliph have betrayed Prophet's wishe...