the purpose of the present paper is to focus on the eleventh year of the islamic calendar in order to achieve a new reading of the ridda / apostasy movement and to prove that the quraysh caliph had meant by islam to address most of the arabs living in the arabian peninsula. due to the prominence and representation of the elements of politics and power, this study looks through a discursive lens...

0736-5853/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd doi:10.1016/j.tele.2011.02.001 E-mail address: [email protected] Since the introduction of the Internet in Iran, Iranian women have used this medium not only as a means of accessing and disseminating information but also as the means of voicing their concerns about discriminatory laws and to participate in public discourse. In Iran, the Internet ...