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Shii News – ONLINE “Alevi Pasts Contested: Neglected Narratives and New Methodologies”

New Issue on “Alevi Pasts Contested: Neglected Narratives and New Methodologies” Edited by Markus Dressler & Hege Markussen, European Journal of Turkish Studies, Vol. 42, 2026, 98 Pages
This special issue aims to address persistent gaps in the historical record of Anatolian Alevi communities and to rethink how such gaps can be studied. The contributions engage diverse sources, including archival documents, oral traditions, poetic texts, and ritual practices, highlighting the productive inter-play between written and embodied forms of knowledge. The analyse the cultural memory in Alevi poetry, the ritual production of historical consciousness, and ethnohistorical reconstructions of community formation.
View: https://journals.openedition.org/ejts/10683

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Shii News – Hybrid: “Sunnis” and “Shiʿis” across History: Confessional Identities, Mutual Perceptions, and Academic (Mis)Conceptions” –

Tobunken Symposium “International Conference “Sunnis” and “Shiʿis” across History: Confessional Identities, Mutual Perceptions, and Academic (Mis)Conceptions”

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Shii News – ‘ Outspoken My Fight for Freedom and Human Rights in Afghanistan’ – S Samar

Outspoken

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Shii News – Online – ‘Two Opposing Pictures of the Imam in Contemporary Shiʿi Theology’ – Y Mirdamadi (7.9.26, 5pm UK time)

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Shii News – ‘Twelver Shia Beliefs and Religious Financing for Social Welfare’ – S R Jafree

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Shii News – ‘Safavid Iran From Rise to Collapse’ – R. Jafarian

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Shii News – ‘Shams al-Dīn al-Zarandī and his theorisation of Sunni imamophilism’ – R Mizukami

A Medinese scholar in Injuid Shiraz: Shams al-Dīn al-Zarandī and his theorisation of Sunni imamophilism

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Shii News – CfP: ‘Shiʿi manuscripts and archives from the medieval and early modern periods’ (Leiden, 8-9 December, 2026)

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Shii News – Latest Issue of JSIS (Journal of Shi’a Islamic Studies)

2025, Volume 18, Number 1-2, Spring 2025 (Published in 2026)

https://islamic-college.ac.uk/past-issues/

Symbolism and Allegory in Nāṣir Khusraw’s Safarnāmah: A Comparative Analysis with his Confession-Ode

Dawood Mirza

pp. 5-28

Grounded and Groundless Ontologies in Comparison: A Critical Re-Evaluation of Comparative Studies between Mullā Ṣadrā
and Heidegger

Boumediene Hamzi

pp. 29-96

From Moral Counsel to Political Vision: Khumaynī’s Intertextual
Engagement with Nahj al-Balāghah

Sara Abidi

pp. 97-122

Book Reviews

Ashura: Transcendence in Lament by Ayaz Ali and Saarah Bokhari, 2025

Babak Rahimi

pp. 123-127

Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life: New Frontiers in Science and Religion,
edited by Shoaib Ahmed Malik and Jörg Matthias Determann, 2024

Abdullah Ansar

pp. 127-134

The Fatimids: Portrait of a Dynasty by Delia Cortese, 2025

Amir De Martino

pp. 135-142

Malaika and the Seven Heavens: A Memoir of My Encounters with Islam by Toyin Falola, 2023

Huzaifa Dokaji

pp. 143-148

Marital and Sexual Ethics in Islamic Law: Rethinking Temporary Marriage by
Roshan Iqbal, 2023

Saba Fatima

pp. 149-152

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Shii News – ‘Between Orthodoxy and Reform: Theorizing the Suspension of Islamic Corporal Punishments in Shiʿi Theocracy’ – B Khodadadi

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