Culture & development
- The Hajj: responding to fact rather than fiction
- This brief estimates the impact on pilgrims of performing the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. The authors explain that accounts from pilgrims stress that the Hajj leads to a feeling of unity with fellow Muslims, but outsiders have sometimes feared that this could be accompanied by antipathy toward non-Muslims.
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- The Hajj: responding to fact rather than fiction
- ( D. Clingingsmith;A.I. Khwaja;M. Kremer / Dubai School of Government , 2008)
- This brief estimates the impact on pilgrims of performing the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. It results from a survey of 1605 successful and unsuccessful Sunni Hajj applicants from Pakistan, five to eight ...
- Zanzibar's Muslims and global trends in Islam
- ( S. Turner / Danish Institute for International Studies , 2008)
- In recent years there has been a revival of Islam in Zanzibar, with heated debates about the nature of Islam and its role in society. This paper explores the nature of Islamic revival in Zanzibar, its...
- Does Islam have an impact on development?
- ( J-P. Platteau / Economic Research Forum, Egypt , 2008)
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What role has Islam historically played to promote or inhibit development? In this paper, the author presents a critical examination of the contention that Islam’s inherent merged relationshi...
- Taking a detailed look at Jordan’s democratic development
- ( T.H. Kanaan;J.A. Massad / Jordan Center for Public Policy Research and Dialogue , 2008)
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This paper examines the specific case of Jordan’s democratic development in relation to the predictions resulting from applying the Badawi-Makdisi global model to Jordan. In so doing, the pap...
- Still a way to go for Arab human rights on the internet
- ( A. A-A. Hamada;G. Eid;M. Hakem / The Initiative for an Open Arab Internet , 2007)
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Censorship in the Arab world is still rife, extending to all forms of media including print, television, radio and internet. However, the internet has also become a tool used to get around this cen...
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