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Using a selection of blogs from Iran and Indonesia, this chapter will discuss how blogs function as a means for organizing and assimilating experience as well as voicing opinions. The assessment will show how blogs provide Muslim writers a key means for discourses both with the political and...
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Comparativism is not only a means for political change, but also a heuristic tool for the legal historian within explanatory contexts. The comparability of the Islamic and Jewish legal systems in the medieval period is a typical case for comparative legal history repeatedly mentioned both by...
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this is not a simple dichotomous clash, as many countries around the globe display similar attitudes to Islam. Moreover the … original thesis fails to identify the primary cultural fault line between the West and Islam, concerning the social issues of … gender equality and sexual liberalization. The values separating Islam and the West revolve far more centrally around Eros …
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The simmering debate in Europe about multiculturalism versus assimilation has now come to a boil. The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, famously stated in October 2010 that “multiculturalism in Germany (Multikulti) had failed, completely failed”. In February 2011, both Prime Minister David...
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Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
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Drawing on recent cross-nationally comparative survey data of the Turkish and Moroccan second generation in five European cities, this study examines the patterns of identification with ethnic, religious, national and city identities. We take a comparative perspective and analyse data from five...
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