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Rethinking Islamist Politics: Culture, the State and Islamism (2006)
Book
Ismail, S. (2006). Rethinking Islamist Politics: Culture, the State and Islamism. I.B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755609611

This text revisits the main arguments and explanatory frameworks that have been used since the 1970s to understand Islamic activism, moderate as well as militant and violent, and proposes a rethinking ofIslamist politics. Linking macro-level explanat... Read More about Rethinking Islamist Politics: Culture, the State and Islamism.

Rethinking Islamist Politics. Culture, the State and Islamism (2003)
Book
Ismail, S. (2003). Rethinking Islamist Politics. Culture, the State and Islamism. I.B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755609611

This text revisits the main arguments and explanatory frameworks that have been used since the 1970s to understand Islamic activism, moderate as well as militant and violent, and proposes a rethinking ofIslamist politics. Linking macro-level explanat... Read More about Rethinking Islamist Politics. Culture, the State and Islamism.

Islamic and Christian heterodox water cosmogonies from the Ottoman period-parallels and contrasts (2001)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2001). Islamic and Christian heterodox water cosmogonies from the Ottoman period-parallels and contrasts. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 64(1), 19-33. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0041977x01000027

This article explores some important parallels and differences between certain Eastern Christian and Islamic heterodox (Alevi/Kizilbash, Yezidi and Ahl-e Haqq) cosmogonies, which shared and developed old cosmogonic themes such as the ‘primal ocean’ a... Read More about Islamic and Christian heterodox water cosmogonies from the Ottoman period-parallels and contrasts.

The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy (2000)
Book
Stoyanov, Y. (2000). The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy. Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300190144

This fascinating book explores the evolution of religious dualism, the doctrine that man and cosmos are constant battlegrounds between forces of good and evil. It traces this evolution from late Egyptian religion and the revelations of Zoroaster and... Read More about The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy.