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Economic Anthropology, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2026.ABSTRACT As the concept of sustainability became mainstream in development discourses from its environmentalist origins, it increasingly came to resemble the unchecked capitalist logics that it was originally meant to critique: Rather than reorganizing the economy, sustainability could be achieved through the economy as philanthropy became modeled on ...
Caitlyn Bolton
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Induced abortion in the world: 1. Perception of abortion throughout the centuries and by religions
International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, Volume 171, Issue 3, Page 1148-1155, December 2025.Abstract Induced abortion has religious, moral, and cultural dimensions that place it at the center of major ethical debates. The interest of women caught in the middle of this never‐ending controversy requires that a dialogue replaces current confrontation.
Giuseppe Benagiano +4 more
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The role of Friday sermon in shaping the opinion of the worshippers in Jordan [PDF]
, 2016 This field study investigates the intricate relationship between Friday sermon (khutba) and the worshippers' public opinion in Jordan. Prompted by the taboo label assigned to scholarship on khutba, it probes whether the agenda-setting, framing and ...
Madanat, Philip Odeh
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1003-1022, December 2025.Politics requires collective deliberation, but what happens when people cannot agree on how to deliberate? Anthropologists and other social scientists have urged us to look beyond the hegemonic liberal ideal of public reason, in order to recognize a plurality of publics, each held together by distinctive forms of reason.
Farhan Samanani
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The Social Role of Spiritual Communication: Authority as a Relationship between Shaykh and Follower in the Contemporary Ṭarīqa Shadhuliyya-Yashrutiyya in Amman, Acre and Jaffa [PDF]
, 2014 This study analyses the authority of Shaykh Ahmad al-Yashruti in Amman, Acre, and Jaffa. He is the master of the Shadhuliyya-Yashrutiyya, a Sufi ṭarīqa (brotherhood) which originated in Acre but is now based in Amman.
Sijbrand, Linda Marianne
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1041-1059, December 2025.Through the synagogue‐cum‐community space of St‐X in Marseille's infamous peripheral northern districts, local urban‐invested intercommunal communication and solidarity are generated via self‐help initiatives that particularize humanitarianism. Because of their traditionalist Jewish and Muslim religious anchorings and the stranglehold of laïcité over ...
Samuel Sami Everett
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El desarrollo del "conocimiento demostrativo" dentro de la tecnología y la jurisprudencia islámica y judía. Ya'qub al-Qirqisani [PDF]
, 2017 Esta tesis se enmarca en el contexto del intercambio cultural entre judíos y musulmanes en la Edad Media. Un elemento fundamental en el desarrollo de la actividad intelectual entre ambos grupos religiosos y que muestra el alto grado de interacción, fue ...
Ibrahim Mohamed Mohamed, Ramadan
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IMPLICIT COMPARISONS: VISUALITY AND THE INTERLINEAR MANUSCRIPT PAGE
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 145-173, December 2025.ABSTRACT A central question for European philology, informed by various agendas and ideologies, concerned comparison and the positing of hierarchies among languages. With this “traditional” question of philology in mind, but hoping to think in less traditional ways, this article asks how comparative understandings of Arabic and local languages of the ...
RONIT RICCI
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COSMOPOLITAN PHILOLOGY AND SACRED GRAMMAR
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 109-126, December 2025.ABSTRACT Persian developed a formal grammatical tradition comparatively late in its thousand‐year history as a lingua franca. This article takes up the emergence of Persian grammar within the larger trajectory of Persian philology. It explores questions about why and when such a tradition developed in Persian by closely analyzing the earliest formal ...
ALEXANDER JABBARI
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‘Do not say they are dead’ : the political use of mystical and religious concepts in the Persian poetry of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) [PDF]
, 2014 The Iran-Iraq war began on September 22, 1980 when Iraq attacked the border towns of Iran. The war lasted for eight years. The Iran-Iraq war is the longest conventional battle since World War II.
Nematollahi Mahani, M.A.
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