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Islamic Visions of the Outcome of the Recent Arab Revolutions

The second Policy Paper written by Sheikh Chafiq Jaradi, General Director of the Institute of Sapiential Knowledge in Beirut, exclusively for Conflicts Forum.
Follow this link to download ‘Islamic Visions of the Outcome of the Recent Arab Revolutions’.
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Gender Discourse and Islamist Perspectives on Feminism: second Monograph out now

The second in a series of Monographs on gender discourse and Islamist perspectives on feminism to be published by Conflicts Forum.
Follow this link to download the second Monograph, ‘A Study on Women in Islam: An Islamic Vision of Women From the Viewpoint of Contemporary Shi’i Scholars in Lebanon’.
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Gender Discourse and Islamist Perspectives on Feminism

The first in a series of Monographs on gender discourse and Islamist perspectives on feminism that will be published by Conflicts Forum.
Follow this link to download the first Monograph, ‘Islamist Women’s Activism in Occupied Paletine, parts I and II’
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Why Can’t Muslim Societies Be More Like a Globalised West?

Commentary by Alastair Crooke
New Global Studies Vol. 3 : Issue 2, Article 4. Published by The Berkeley Electronic Press
BEIRUT – Many commentators on Islam make the same mistake: They instinctively assume that Muslim resistance to western globalisation reflects the inability of Muslims to accept the social and structural change that ‘modernity’ requires. Muslims, in this […]

The essence of Islamist resistance: a different view of Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas

By Alastair Crooke, New Perspectives Quarterly, June 2, 2009
Most Western analysts of political Islam make the same mistake. They instinctively assume that conflict with the West has mainly to do with specific foreign policies, particularly of the U.S. with respect to Israel, the Arab world and Iran, and, if those changed, all would be well.
In […]

‘Resistance’ is the essence of Islamism

By Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, April 22, 2009
Once in a while a wave of ideas sweeps across societies and countries, and when combined with political and social activism it changes global history for a time. We are living through such wave now in the global Islamist movement that has swept across much of […]