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The investigation of social collapse, an integral component of social evolutionary trajectories, has been hampered by difficulties in setting appropriate spatial and temporal scales for the resolution of demographic and socioeconomic change. This dissertation takes a diachronic …

Identicide is the conscious intent to destroy the physical manifestations of a society in order to destroy cultural identity and to erase any signs of previous existence. When a community is affected by identicide, and significant cultural places and symbols are destroyed, there…

This study discusses status of women in contemporary Islamic societies. The approach adopted to develop the discussion is an analytical one. Because of the wide controversy over status of women in Muslim societies, particular and deliberate emphasis is given to the Islamic rules…

The present studies tested the generalizability of a Multidimensional Individual Difference Acculturation (MIDA) model that was developed and validated in Canada by Safdar, Lay, and Struthers (in press) with a sample of Iranian immigrants. Three studies were designed (1) to exam…

This dissertation investigates the reasons behind the support of political Islam in the eight Muslim societies. Three main arguments are tested at the individual level. The result shows that the explanations of religious attachment and premodernist predisposition are much more p…