Sociology
S. Shari’ati Mazinani; S. Ebrahimzadeh
Abstract
In recent decades, Maktab Qur'an(MQ),founded by Ahmad Muftizadeh (Iranian Sunni Kurdish scholar and political activist) in 1977,as the oldest Iranian Sunni Islamist group, has experienced different phases in its evolution, bothstructurally and discursively. In this study,using grounded theory,we have ...
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In recent decades, Maktab Qur'an(MQ),founded by Ahmad Muftizadeh (Iranian Sunni Kurdish scholar and political activist) in 1977,as the oldest Iranian Sunni Islamist group, has experienced different phases in its evolution, bothstructurally and discursively. In this study,using grounded theory,we have examined the social mechanisms affecting Iranian Sunni Kurds' tendency to Islamist movements (MQ as the case study, in the fourth phase of its structural evolution since1995). This study argues a major reason for Sunni Kurds’ orientation to Maktabis a tendency among people to live in a "community", and what makes this community ideal is a collective life that strengthenspersonal relationships and collective solidarity. Also, the dominant social relationships in society have moved toward a kind of "societal" relationshipcharacterized by impersonal relationships, alienation and increasing individualism. In this study it is argued that while the influence of societal world is increasing, some of its alienated inhabitants try to leave it and dwell in a new community. Therefore, currently, due to lack of other supportive structures in today's Iranian society, MQ, with its community-like characteristics, functions as a kind of haven for Iranian Sunni Kurds who feel alienated from the individualistic society.This is a new kind of "Hijra" in our modern era, which is not place-based but is rather characterized by transformations in Maktabi Muslims’ social ties and beliefs, which virtually provide them with a new Ummah–MaktabQur’an–to live in.
Mahnaz Farahmand; Yasin KhorramPoor; Zohre Parsaeeian; Farzane Mandegari
Abstract
During the last decades, the institution of family and kinship system effecting from entry modernization process, has experienced so many change and evolutions. so transition of our society from traditional to modernity has been caused to family institution and its functions are severely changed, for ...
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During the last decades, the institution of family and kinship system effecting from entry modernization process, has experienced so many change and evolutions. so transition of our society from traditional to modernity has been caused to family institution and its functions are severely changed, for this respect, the article attempts for explores this issue whether components of modernization have had role in the kinship support of Yazd families or not? Finding of the article which have collected of survey method, questionnaire tool and sampling of multiple cluster among 384 Yazd families, show that response to this question is positive. In this manner, between background variables (means income, age and sex) and kinship support was a significant. Relationship certainly it must states that age variable communicates a significant and inverted relationship with kinship support, and education with kinship support didn’t show relationship. Among components of modernization, there wasan inverted and significant relationship between vertical individualism, mercantilism, collectivism with kinship support. Likewise, between pluralism and kinship support was a positive and significantrelationship. Among modernization components, the rationality variable and horizontal individualism didn’t have relationship with kinship support. As well as, results of regression showed that the study explains variance of kinship support more than 17% among Yazd families.
