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Ancestral Irrigation and Women's Political Empowerment
Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 377-398, May 2026.ABSTRACT This paper advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the adoption of irrigation agriculture during the preindustrial period is a predictor of contemporary cross‐country variation in women's political empowerment. Countries whose populations historically relied on irrigation agriculture as their primary subsistence mode tend to ...
Roberto Ezcurra
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Peace &Change, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 272-274, October 2026.
Tom Woerner‐Powell
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Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S1, Page S103-S115, April 2026.ABSTRACT Twelve metal artifacts from recent excavations at the Sasanian archaeological site of Jahāngir in western Iran have been analyzed. These items include both decorative and utilitarian artifacts. The samples were examined using micro‐X‐ray fluorescence (μ‐XRF), scanning electron microscopy with energy‐dispersive X‐ray spectroscopy (SEM‐EDS), and
Omid Oudbashi +2 more
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Al-Jami'ah: Journal of Islamic Studies, 2016 This article discusses the contributions of the Abbasid caliphs to the architectural development of the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah. Those contributions began almost as early as the Abbasid caliphal government had officially emerged as the successor to ...
Spahic Omer
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Islamic Environmentalism and Epistemic Waste
Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 414-437, December 2025.ABSTRACT Environmental ethics is concerned with how humans use and relate to the environment, including its conservation and protection. In recent decades, works on Islamic environmentalism have increased multiplied with efforts to ground an ethics based on the resources of the Islamic scholarly tradition.
Aysenur Cam
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Archaeological Geology of Jurash, ʿAsīr Province, Southwestern Saudi Arabia
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 230-244, November 2025.ABSTRACT The Jurash archaeological site is located on Wādī Bīshah near the city of Khamīs Mushayt in southwestern Saudi Arabia. It has a fort and other remains from the pre‐Islamic period (third century bc to early seventh century ad) and a settlement with two mosques from the Early Islamic period (early seventh to early 11th centuries ad).
James A. Harrell
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Breeze of Continuity: New Evidence for the Occupation of Jumeirah Throughout the Islamic Period
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 306-327, November 2025.ABSTRACT The Jumeirah Archaeological Research Project seeks to reassess the long‐term occupation of Jumeirah through an integrated study of three key archaeological sites—Jumeirah 1, 2 and 3. This study builds upon previous excavations and archival data to refine the chronology of the settlement and examine whether these sites functioned as a single ...
Karol Juchniewicz +4 more
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Comparative Study of the Objectives and Principles of Invitation Organization of Abbasids and Ishmaelite [PDF]
تاریخ اسلام, 2015 Abbasid and Ishmaelite tried to furtively develop invitation organization towards the actualization of their objectives. The comparison of the objectives and principles of these two organizations and discovering the similarity and difference aspects of ...
Ja’far Sharifi +2 more
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L’identification en justice à l’époque abbasside
Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2010 This article investigates through biographical and legal Iraqi sources how the main protagonists of the judiciary under the Abbasids in the 2nd-4th/8th-10th centuries were identified, both in proceedings and in communication between judges.
Mathieu Tillier
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Amateur justice in Carolingian Bavaria
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 497-521, November 2025.This paper examines judges and judgement in Bavarian dispute charters from the first decades of the ninth century. It argues that justice in Carolingian Bavaria was an amateur affair, in which of primary importance was the ability to create a stable consensus around an outcome. Accordingly, distinctions between judges and other participants in judicial
Amos Bronner
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