supported by the German Research Foundation(DFG,463159331);H2020 Marie Sklodowska‐Curie Actions,Grant/Award Number:101025388.
The rivalry between Iran and Israel has intensified over the past decades.Iran has continuously expanded its involvement across the region,which has led to a‘balance of terror’between the two countries.Various incid...
Islamic fundamentalism is a reading of Islam,the Qur’an and hadiths,according to which a large part of these bases are nonhistorical,independent and immune to social and political changes and are applicable to all so...
The Islamic Movement of Sudan established the first Islamist regime in the Sunni Islamic world by a military coup.By seising state power,the Islamic Movement tried to overhaul the political system of Sudan.However,wha...
Western and Islamic societies suffer from a common ailment-their citizens are losing trust in the basic integrity of their political institutions.There is a growing sense that systematic injustices are the core reason...
The Arab world has witnessed two interrelated phenomena after the Arab Spring.The first is the aggravation of the crisis of the nationstate,where many states experienced failure and disintegration,such as Libya,Syria ...
sponsored by the programme‘Young Scholars Fellowship on Religion and the Rule of Law’(International Centre for Law and Religion Studies,Brigham Young University).
Since the rise of the Arab Spring,a series of social movements have led to a deterioration of political stability in some Arab countries.In the past decade,ordinary people in Arab countries have generally increased th...
Religious fundamentalism is a return to pure religious thought,beliefs,laws,and identity in the era of Islamic authority.Given the ever-growing spread of religious fundamentalism and revivalism in today’s world,espec...
the program‘Islamic Extremism Worldwide’,a key program supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China[Grant No.16ZDA096].
Previous studies of Islamism basically focus on representative scholars and their thoughts on Islamism.This article attempts to sum up the pivotal doctrines of Islamism and hopefully shed light on its future trends th...
The Islamic awakening demonstrates the following essential contradictions.First,it calls for the authentic return to Arab-Islamic heritage,while deeming as heretical several traditional doctrines;second,it strives for...
Constitutionalism has more than a century of history in the Muslim world.More recently,Iran and Iraq,two countries with populations comprised of Shi’a majorities with a strong presence in the layout of political powe...