The Rise of Informal Unions in the MENASA Region
This article examines the nature of informal marriages using data from a 2018 survey of over ten thousand Facebook users in seven Muslim-majority countries: Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Palestine, Tunisia, and Turkey. The article explores current attitudes toward...![[video] Mollā Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911](https://janetafary.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2025-02-10_13-45-09.jpg)
[video] Mollā Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911
A dialogue between Janet Afary (Religious Studies) and Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies) about Afary’s new book, Mollā Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911. In the early twentieth century, a group of artists and intellectuals reinterpreted the...
It’s Not Only About the Evil: Gender Beliefs in Six Muslim-Majority Countries
Western depictions of gender relations in Muslim-majority societies reflect two widespread assumptions, shared even by many academics. The first assumption is that the Muslim world is uniformly gender-traditional, meaning that opinions on gender issues are presumed...
Social Democracy in the Constitutional Revolution – Deylaman Magazine
انقلاب روسی 1905 با مجموعهای از انقلابها در ایران (1906)، ترکیه (1908)، مکزیک (1910) و چین (1911) دنبال شد؛ انقلاباتی که مرحله جدیدی در تاریخ جهان در حال توسعه شناخته میشوند و ایدئولوژیهای رقیب- ناسیونالیسم، دموکراسی، مذهب و سوسیالیسم- را به یک مواجهه و رویارویی...
