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Evolving Currents in Salafism and Shi’ism: ‘The function of transmitted knowledge and of intellectual knowledge within the Islamic revival’
Conflicts Forum’s latest Monograph, from a meeting held in Beirut, May 2009
The papers published here in this small volume are from a meeting held in May 2009 which looked at evolving currents in Salafism and Shi’ism. The purpose of the meeting was to address the future – and what this imminent future might bring to […]
Posted: March 15th, 2010 under MONOGRAPHS, Salafism, Shiites.
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Why the Saudi Shiites Won’t Rise Up Easily
A Conflicts Forum Monograph, by Leo Kwarten*, June, 2009
Shiite citizens face considerable religious, political and social discrimination in Saudi society. In the 1970s and 1980s, this situation has instigated bloody street protests and Shia calls for an Islamic revolution. Although the Saudi Shiites have considerably moderated their position since, these incidents still feed speculations about […]
Posted: June 12th, 2009 under MONOGRAPHS, Saudi Arabia, Shiites.
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