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1 – 10 of over 1000This paper seeks to analyze the manner in which an immigrant community (South Asian Shia Muslims) deploys religious institutions as a coping mechanism to survive in a demanding…
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Purpose
This paper seeks to analyze the manner in which an immigrant community (South Asian Shia Muslims) deploys religious institutions as a coping mechanism to survive in a demanding and culturally alien environment.
Design/methodology/approach
The analysis is derived from an ethnographic examination of a community of South Asian Shia Muslims in the United States.
Findings
The paper focuses on three elements of organizational coping. First, communities struggle with the promises and perils of transnationalism. Second, the coming of age of children, whose life experiences do not involve dislocation, produce interesting generational engagements. Finally, the community is often challenged by the nuanced task of political engagement with the broader society.
Research implications
An in‐depth focus on employment‐related experiences of Shia Muslim diaspora in the West may be a fruitful area for future research.
Practical implications
Employers and governments ought to pay attention to internal heterogeneity of Muslims in understanding and managing diversity.
Originality/value
This is a seminar paper on Shia Muslim diaspora in the USA and relates the study to the realm of workplace diversity.
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Pakistan's present war against extremists has many folds and sheds. The country's initial participation in the Afghan War in 1979 later gave birth to different extremist trends in…
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Pakistan's present war against extremists has many folds and sheds. The country's initial participation in the Afghan War in 1979 later gave birth to different extremist trends in the country. State patronage of the extremist Wahabi Islamists during the Afghan jihad opened another conflict in Pakistan, and things became more complicated. The combination of external and internal factors gave birth to the worst kind of conflict, which now has not only become dangerous for the country's own existence but also a major threat for global peace. The Afghan jihad initially started as a war against Soviet occupation and later became the hub of global jihad-war against infidels.
This chapter analyzes how external factors promoted internal contradictions in Pakistan due to which the country became not only an exporter of jihadis for the world but also the worst kind of sectarian conflicts, including. Shia–Sunni, Deobandi–Wahabi clashes, entered into in the past two decades. Such a strong link exists with Pakistan's official support to global jihad. Draft sectarian groups now head to head with their opponents have killed thousands of members of rival sectors, have strong support from external sympathizers, and have spread in the country. The well planned terrorist activities of these groups reflect the fact that support to these groups in the past is now leading to a severe crisis in Pakistan. The nexuses of these indigenous extremists like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen with external terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan of Tahir Yuldasher Chechen Guerilla War has led to several bloody clashes in the country and outside.
The Kurdish referendum has complicated Abadi’s efforts to win reselection after provincial and national elections, expected in April 2018. Abadi -- an Arab Shia -- is vying for…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB224556
ISSN: 2633-304X
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In 2022, the community’s Ashura observances passed off relatively smoothly under Taliban protection. The Taliban said this year that restrictions were necessary to ensure security…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB281357
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Sadr’s resignation was triggered by his failure to form a government after ten months. His attempts have resulted in a hardening of divisions within the Shia community. The latest…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB272656
ISSN: 2633-304X
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The rise of Iraq's Shia militias.
The border has been closed for 27 years, since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. The move has prompted speculation about whether it might alter the regional balance of power…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB224319
ISSN: 2633-304X
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The Taliban have increasingly fraught relations not only with Shia, most of whom are ethnic Hazaras, but also with other marginalised communities, including Salafis -- a small…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB285955
ISSN: 2633-304X
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IS has long-standing ties with Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and is increasingly reaching out to Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), LeJ’s parent organisation. SSP and LeJ seek the…
He stated that the Iraqi army and police "are the ones that will enter Mosul, not others", emphasising the exclusion of the Shia Popular Mobilisation Units (PMUs), which have…