Power-sharing Islam?

Power Sharing in Politics

After a brief description of a representative selection of power indices and a discussion of the notion of power in collective decision making, the paper discusses the modelling of power of an individual or collective agent as identified with the potential or factual effect the decision of this agent has on the outcome. It demonstrates that the distribution of power is crucially dependent on th...

Islam Almasri_TOCSJ

Recently, a number of methods have been proposed to improve image retrieval accuracy by capturing context information. These methods try to compensate for the fact that a visually less similar image might be more relevant because it depicts the same object. We propose a new quick method for refining any pairwise distance metric, it works by iteratively discovering the object in the image from t...

Active power sharing in microgrids

This chapter studies the problem of frequency regulation and active power sharing in inverter-based microgrids with time-varying voltages. Building upon the result in the previous chapter, we propose the design of internal-model-based controllers and analyze it within an (incrementally) passivity framework. A small case study indicates the effectiveness of the proposed solution. 3.1 A microgrid...

Islam in local contexts: Localised Islam in Northern Pakistan

As Clifford Geertz remarked in his Islam Observed (1968), the idea of a ‘changing’ religion is a contradiction in terms, as religion is fundamentally concerned with what is permanent and eternal. Still, one way to come to terms with religious change is to consider the many ways that religion is interpreted, by laymen and scholars alike. Social anthropologists like myself have naturally found a ...

Islam in the West: From Immigration to Global Islam