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Removal of despotic political regime: the Abū Dharr’s legacy and its legitimacy
Published 2020“…This article is a humble attempt at highlighting the controversies regarding the legitimacy of popular resistance or revolutionary movement to bring down Muslim political regime that claimed to be despotic, unjust and even un-Islamic. Having the fact on the existence of another view by majority scholars that more inclined towards pacifist ideology which stressed on political stability as a prerequisite to prosperity, the article emphasizes more on the revolutionary school, while the second shall be highlighted when it is necessary for comparison. …”
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Effect of workplace incivility and despotic leadership on job satisfaction: mediating role of emotional exhaustion
Published 2019“…This study aims to investigate the effect of workplace incivility, despotic leadership and emotional exhaustion on nurses’ job satisfaction in public hospitals of Pakistan. …”
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Relationship between despotic leadership, psychological contract breach, perception of injustice and work engagement: the mediating role of perception of job insecurity
Published 2022“…The study aims to examine the effect of despotic leadership, perception of injustice, and psychological contract breach on employees’ work engagement. …”
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Islam and terrorism: beyond the wisdom of the secularist paradigm
Published 2006“…Violence is related to despotism, especially the despotism of hegemony. The US-led war on terrorism is not a simple struggle between good and evil. …”
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Faktor kegemilangan tamadun Islam : pengajaran dari masa lalu
Published 2009“…The author also relates the decline of Islamic civilization with the corruption in these foundations such as epistemological confusion, the loss of knowledge culture and social solidarity, the loss of adab or morality and the despotic nature of Muslim leadership.…”
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The heart made heavy, the heart made bold, the heart made strong: re-examining the 'hardened heart' motif in the Mighty Acts narrative (Ex. 7:8-11:10)
Published 2017“…This raises unsettling questions of the Lord’s justness in his restrictive, even despotic, hold over Pharaoh’s decisions – decisions which bring Pharaoh into opposition with the Lord. …”
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Embracing international human rights law: the Malaysian experience in navigating the dual quality of international law
Published 2019“…International human rights law is supposed to save the world population from the scourge of war, despots and other miseries. The international legal order after the end of the Second World War also promises equal sovereignty where all states are equal under international law in spite of inequality of population size, resources and military might. …”
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Democracy promotion as foreign policy: Temporal othering in international relations
Published 2016“…They operate with a particular conception of time and constitute a British, democratic, national identity by positing an “other” that is barbaric, alien, despotic, violent and backward. Such understandings are useful in wake of disaster, because they leave us with something to do: danger can be managed by bringing certain people and places up-to-date. …”
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Chinese legalism and Islamic views of justice: a comparison based on the political thought of Han Fei and Ibn Khaldun
Published 2025“…An important implication of this contrast is that both frameworks can, under certain conditions, legitimize authoritarian rule: in Legalist thought, through an unwavering focus on the ruler’s will, and in Islamic contexts, when religious law is manipulated to serve despotic ends. Understanding these convergences and divergences deepens our appreciation of how different cultural and historical settings shape the pursuit—and the potential pitfalls—of achieving justice.…”
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Conceptualising national interest in Nigerian foreign policy: A focus on Abacha Regime
Published 2016“…As it is not practicable to subject all states and governments to empirical details in a study, this research employs the concept of national interest to discern Nigerian foreign policy direction under the most “despotic regime” in Nigeria history, General Sanni Abacha, between 1993 and 1998.This is expedient given the continuous criticism of the regime from both academic and policy quarters in Nigeria and abroad.The regime is recorded to have the worst record in human right abuse and as such put Nigeria under pariah status in the comity of nations.The research is conducted to unravel how Abacha defined and conceptualised Nigeria’s national interests and how policies were formulated and implemented to achieved such interests. …”
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Seeing the world as creation: Christian sources for an environmentalist age
Published 2019“…But does Christianity – in its biblical, and ancient/early medieval sources that explain the notions of creation, human uniqueness, and purpose – really promote a vision of nature-culture dualism, despotic anthropocentricism, and thus natural disenchantment? …”
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Muslim world in encountering the challenges of global extremism and terrorism
Published 2019“…In the past, there have been despotic leaders, individuals, andgroups of people who used extremism and terrorism as a means to exterminate others in order to hold onto power and exert their dominance. …”
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Muslim world in encountering the challenges of global extremism and terrorism
Published 2019“…In the past, there have been despotic leaders, individuals, and groups of people who used extremism and terrorism as a means to exterminate others in order to hold onto power and exert their dominance. …”
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