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The keyword Islam is tagged in the following 9 articles.

Book Review: The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future by Vali Nasr
April 23, 2012 - 1563 words | Book Reviews » Religion
In his book The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future Vali Nasr addresses an issue that is gaining increased importance in the contemporary coverage of global Islam: Sunni-Shia relations. Vali Nasr is a widely respected scholar who claims expertise... Read Article »

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Religion Islam Sunni Shia Conflict
Democracy and Islamism in Algeria: Islamocracy?
April 26, 2011 - 3007 words | International Affairs » Algeria
Following a successful war of liberation in 1962, Algeria successfully gained independence from France and an authoritarian social regime took power. The success of this government lasted into the 1980s, when Algeria’s oil reserves began to decline.[1] This was... Read Article »

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Arab World Democracy Algeria North Africa Islamism
Fascism: A Political Ideology of the Past
November 5, 2010 - 2821 words | History » Fascism
Fascism cannot adapt to, and exist under, certain prominent, contemporary conditions. Specifically, it cannot adapt to the strong democracies in which extreme right parties operate, nor to the ideology of radical Islamic groups. This paper begins by defining fascism... Read Article »

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Fascism Nazi Germany Fascist Italy Extreme Right Radical Islamic Groups World War II World War I
How to Think About Iran: Demystifying a Complex International Challenge
June 21, 2010 - 1188 words | Opinion » Iran
"When can we expect a pro-Western, pro-business government in Iran?" asks a US government official in the quasi-fictitious film Syriana. Today, it is highly probable that the same question is still being asked by anxious diplomats the world over. Iran’s nuclear... Read Article »

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Iran Iran Nuclear Weapons Iran And Israel Islamic Revolution Islamic Republic Iran Nuclear Program Iran U.S. Relations International Politics
A Response to Tanzimat: Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Pan-Islamism
May 14, 2010 - 3120 words | History » Tanzimat
Under the rule of the Sultan Abdul Hamid II in the late nineteenth century the concept of Pan-Islamism, the concept that all Islamic peoples should unite under the Caliphate, was used as a means of supporting the declining power of the Ottoman ruler. This was done... Read Article »

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Middle East History Ottoman Caliphate Sultanate Islam Pan-Islam Tanzimat Sultan Abdul Hamid II
Islamic Modernism: Responses to Western Modernization in the Middle East
May 10, 2010 - 1245 words | History » Islamic Modernism
By the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, a large part of the Muslim world had begun to lose much of its cultural and political sovereignty to Christian occupiers from Europe. This came as a result of European trade missions during earlier centuries that had... Read Article »

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Islamic Modernism Islamic Modernization Westernization Arab Modernism Middle East Western Modernization
The Position of Jews and Christians in the Ottoman Empire
May 4, 2010 - 1382 words | History » Ottoman Empire
The position of Jewish and Christian peoples under the Ottoman Empire is an issue that continues to be disputed today, almost a century after the official end of the Empire itself. Religious association typically determined status in the predominantly Muslim Ottoman... Read Article »

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Ottoman Empire Minorities Jews Christians Middle East Muslim Ottomans Jewish Judaism Islam Islamic Republic
Prompts for Progress: Feminism in the Islamic World
March 3, 2010 - 2830 words | Religious Studies » Women in Islam
From skimpy skirts to smoldering skivvies, American’s remember the 1960’s as a decade of social change and assertion of the rights and strengths of women. True to American style, the women’s movement was fought and won boldly and bluntly in the public... Read Article »

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Feminism Islam Women in Islam Women's Rights Religious Studies Women in Arab World Arab World Middle East
Examining the Radicalization of Chechen Separatists During the Resistance Movement
February 24, 2010 - 2724 words | International Affairs » Chechnya
The Chechen people have endured a long history of aggression, culminating at the end of the twentieth century during which a separatist struggle against Russia began, triggering the First Chechen War in 1994. At the onset of the Second Chechen War however, it became... Read Article »

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Chechnya Radicalization Separatism Resistance Terrorism Islam Russia Aslan Maskhadov