Shari’ah – also spelled Sharia (pathway in Arabic), the fun…
Shari’ah – also spelled Sharia (pathway in Arabic), the fundamental religious concept of Islam: its moral & ethical system, namely its law, systematized during the 2nd and 3rd centuries of the Muslim era (8th–9th centuries ce)
Read DetailsThe AKP political party in Turkey was founded in 2001 and it…
The AKP political party in Turkey was founded in 2001 and it included new urban class solidarity-based groups with rural origins and a shared Islamic ethos. These groups had been culturally and economically excluded by the Kemalist elite. [Founded in 2001 by members of a number of existing conservative parties, the party has won pluralities in the five most recent legislative elections, those of 2002, 2007, 2011, June 2015, and November 2015.]
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