Essays about: "Ulama"

Found 2 essays containing the word Ulama.

1. 1. ‘War of Theology’: The Theological Aspect of the Split between Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State in Iraq in 2013.

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Centrum för Mellanösternstudier

   Author : Orwa Ajjoub; [2018]
   Keywords : Social Sciences;

   Abstract : On the morning of the 8th of April 2013, the world woke up to Abu Bakr Al- Baghdadi, the leader of what was called the Islamic State in Iraq or ISI, announcing the expansion of his group from Iraq into Syria. Al-Baghdadi also announced the merger of ISI and Jabhat al-Nusra (JN) into a new group called the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham or ISIS. READ MORE

3. 2. TheIranian Nexus: Peace as a Substantive and Complex Value in the History of Iran

   University essay from Malmö högskola/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Siavosh Bigonah; [2017]
   Keywords : Foucauldian methods; Iran; Cosmopolitanism; Safavid; Peace; Security networking; Literary humanism; Shi i; Zarif; History; Foreign policy; Ulama;

   Abstract : This study explores Iran’s political and cultural history in order to better understand the country’s current stance on international politics and peace. This study asks: what defines peace in Iranian discourse? To this end, this thesis employs a Foucauldian archaeological and genealogical methodology on historical research and contemporary primary sources. READ MORE