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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 541-553, July 2026.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Al-Awqafs (Endowments) in Iraq during the First Abbasid Era " Awqaf (Endowments) for the Service of Pilgrims as a Model" (132-232AH/750-847AD) [PDF]
Ziglôbitha, 2023 : This study deals with the issue of AL-waqf (endowment) in Iraq during the first Abbasid era, where it highlights the manifestations of endowment established by the caliphs of that era on the Iraqi pilgrimage route to achieve the comfort of pilgrims, i ...
Bachir BOUGAADA
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The Provenance of Silver in the Viking‐Age Hoard From Bedale, North Yorkshire
Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S4, Page S86-S106, July 2026.ABSTRACT The acquisition of silver was a key motive propelling the Viking expansion out of Scandinavia; identifying the sources of Viking silver during the early part of the Viking Age can provide critical insights into the relative significance of western European and eastern, Islamic wealth in the Viking expansion.
Jane Kershaw +5 more
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The Damhus Hoard: New Insights Into Some of the Earliest Viking Silver Coinage
Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue S4, Page S71-S85, July 2026.ABSTRACT In 2018, a hoard totalling 266 silver Viking Age coins was discovered near Damhus, south of Ribe (Denmark). The coins belong to the early ninth‐century ‘KG 4’ series, with the vast majority, 262 coins, identified as having Face/Forward Looking Deer on the obverse/reverse.
Thomas Birch +8 more
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The Abbasid Era and the Dynamics of Medical Science
Journal of World Future Medicine, Health and NursingThe peak of the glory of Islam can be seen from the progress of the Abbasid Dynasty during the leadership of Harun Ar-Rasyid. Because of the rapid progress in all fields, this era was nicknamed as The Golden Age (Golden Age). This progress is seen in various fields ranging from education, economy and infrastructure, making the Abbasid Dynasty highly ...
Moch. Said +2 more
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Modern Theology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 667-685, July 2026.Abstract Vatican II's declaration on the Jews, absolving them from collective guilt of deicide, marked a significant turning point in Catholic theology. Arab governments tended to perceive this development as evidence that Catholics (or Christians generally) were taking the side of Zionist Jews in the Arab‐Israeli conflict.
Amir Krispel
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Sociology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 6, June 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines gender diversity in Islamicate societies across historical and contemporary contexts, emphasizing the interplay between social norms, religious frameworks, and structural power. It addresses the methodological challenge of avoiding anachronistic applications of modern categories such as “gender” and “sexuality” to Muslim ...
Vanja Hamzić
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 299-322, May 2026.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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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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