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Diabetes Mellitus across the Arabo-Islamic World: A Revolution. [PDF]
Int J Endocrinol, 2023 Background. Mankind continues to suffer from the ever‐growing diabetes epidemic and the rapid rise of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This metabolic disease has been studied since ancient civilizations. The Arabo‐Islamic civilization excelled in establishing some of the most notable discoveries and teachings that remained the blueprint for years to ...
Fleifel M, Fleifel B, El Alam A.
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Art History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 714-748, September 2023., 2023 The most remarkable feature of the Hammelburg Mahzor, a fourteenth‐century German High Holiday book, is the inclusion of zoocephalic figures: humans with beastly heads. The purpose of this essay is to explore the semiotics and phenomenology of this specifically Jewish visual idiom, and to suggest that its presence lies at the intersection of language ...
Elina Gertsman
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The politics of street names: Reconstructing Iran’s collective identity
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 23, Issue 2, Page 122-143, September 2023., 2023 Abstract With the radical political change in 1979, Iran's revolutionary state assumed the responsibility of re‐rewriting the past history to forge a new sense of belonging, a particularly collective religious (Shia) identity. It launched a complex process of forgetting and remembering to first eliminate the national (Persian), non‐religious memories ...
Ehsan Kashfi
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In enemy hands: the Byzantine experience of captivity between the seventh and tenth centuries
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 430-458, August 2023., 2023 The present paper deals with forced migration experienced by subjects of the Byzantine Empire captured by foreign enemies in the context of warfare between the seventh and the tenth centuries. The focus of the first part is on the scenarios faced by individuals and groups when an enemy had taken control of a settlement or a larger territory. The second
Grigori Simeonov
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From Cosmopolitan to Vernacular in the Language Sciences: A Global History Perspective
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 18-37, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Sheldon Pollock's justly famous work on cosmopolitan orders and processes of vernacularization in the worlds of Latinity and Sanskrit invites questions of a comparative and global‐historical character. I will raise such questions in the context of the Persianate cosmopolitan order, especially as exemplified by the early modern Ottoman Empire ...
Michiel Leezenberg
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The archaeological and scientific analysis of blue‐decorated ceramics in the Tang and Song dynasties
Archaeometry, Volume 64, Issue 6, Page 1394-1410, December 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper reviews studies of Tang and Song blue‐and‐white porcelains, both archaeologically and scientifically, based on published data, and compares blue‐and‐white with sancai, which represents the earliest use of cobalt pigment in Chinese ceramics.
Yun Zhang, A. Mark Pollard
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Patricia Crone and the “secular tradition” of early Islamic historiography: An exegesis
History Compass, Volume 20, Issue 9, September 2022., 2022 Abstract Patricia Crone famously identified three distinct sub‐traditions within early Islamic historiography: a “religious tradition”, a “tribal tradition”, and a “secular tradition”. Whereas the first is extremely unreliable and the second is partially unreliable regarding early Islamic history in general (c.
Joshua J. Little
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An introduction to the thematic and native periodization of Iran's history [PDF]
تاریخ نگری و تاریخ نگاری, 2022 The main problem of the current research is whether it is possible to present an indigenous periodization of the history of Iran in addition to the European-oriented periodization.
Hassan Hazrati
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Journal of Universal History Studies, 2019 Despite the fact that Abbasi Caliphate had had lost its socio-military power throughout the Islamic territory even prior to the advent of Saljuqi dynasty, it still preserved a great deal of its spiritual authority.
Seyed Abolghasem Foroozani
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DINASTI THULUNIYAH SANG PEMBANGUN PERADABAN DI MESIR
Batuthah, 2022 The Thulunid dynasty was the earliest manifestation of the political crystallization of the uncontrolled Turkish element at that time. the sudden emergence in the heart of the caliphate of the Abbasid dynasty was the beginning of the emergence of other ...
Alif Rohmah Nur Habibah, Mukarromah
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