Vol 4 No 2: Third Finnish Colloquium of Middle East and North African Studies
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Hezbollah's Military Intervention in Syria: political choice or religious obligation?
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)Hezbollah has been an important political and military actor in Lebanon and the Middle East since the mid-1980s. Its popularity grew especially after successfully deterring the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006. With the ... -
Arab revolts and 'Civil State': a new term for old conflicts between Islamism and secularism
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)The Arab revolts that erupted in late 2010, forcing from power the rulers of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen, and dragging Syria through a ferocious civil war, reactivated the public debate on government in Islamic countries. ... -
Islamic Feminism: transnational and national reflections
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)This article focuses on contemporary interpretive knowledge projects that engage critically with Islamic religious sciences, and which are driven by the question of gender justice. These projects, which have been loosely ... -
Strategic Engagement and Religious Peace-building: a case study of religious peace work in Jerusalem
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)This article argues for the importance of a dialogue for strategic engagement and presents an analytical approach to it with reference to three different peacebuilding strategies in terms of conflict resolution theories. ... -
Reflections. Remaking the City: Archaeological Projects of Political Import in Jerusalem's Old City and in the Village of Silwan
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)Since the mid-90s, archaeology has been a powerful tool for changing landscape and narrative in the Old City of Jerusalem and the village of Silwan – the "Historic Basin of Jerusalem". As archaeological excavations relate ... -
Secular and Religious Environmentalism in Contemporary Turkey
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)Turkish environmentalism is gaining ground but has not yet become a serious source of influence in society. The environmental movements have long been held as left wing politics and less religious, but today environmental ... -
Political Parties and the Production of Islam-Secularism Cleavage in Turkey
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)This study demonstrates how profoundly Turkey's main social clevage –Islam versus Secularism – is produced and reproduced by political parties in their attempts to form coherent sociopolitical bloc as a basis of mass ... -
The Role of the Temple Mount / Al-Haram Al-Sharif in the Deterioration of Muslim–Jewish Relations
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)For both Jews and Muslims the Temple Mount and the Old City of Jerusalem constitute highly important religious, cultural, political and national centres. For centuries Jews in the diaspora prayed in the direction of ... -
A Sacred Landscape: an enquiry into the 'cubas' of southern Portugal
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)The purpose of this article is to study cubas – small architectural structures known for their whitewash-painted domes – and specifically, those located in the kûra of Beja in Portugal. Although we can pinpoint the existence ... -
Jesus the Victimizer?
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)Jesus’ antagonistic encounters with the Pharisees serve traditionally as a basis for the poor relationship between Christianity and Judaism. The conflict stories epitomized by Jesus’ parables have been assessed as descriptions ... -
Ethnicity and 'the Myth of the Reborn Nation': investigations in collective identity, monotheism and the use of figurines in Yehud during the Achaemenid period
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)The myth of the reborn nation’ was one of the results of my recent research on figurines, the history of the religion of Yehud, and the rise of monotheism. The purpose of this paper is presenting a discussion about ‘the ... -
Jesus' Entry into Jerusalem
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)This article intends to contribute to the understanding of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem. The author studies the entry, which is found in all the Gospels, in its Jewish context. The author argues that Jesus’ entry into ... -
In the Footsteps of Bagira: ethnicity, archaeology, and ‘Iron I ethnic Israel’
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)This article has two aims. The first is to show that the search for ethnicity in archaeology is dependent on the way ethnicity is defined and on written sources. The second is to review studies of Iron Age I ‘ethnic Israel’. ... -
Editorial. Concord, Conflict and Co-Existence: religion and society in the Middle East and North Africa
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2014)This is the editorial for the special issue 'Concord, Conflict and Co-existence: Religion and Society in the Middle East and North Africa'.
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