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Obesity from a sign of being rich to a disease of the new age: A historical review. [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Sci Rep, 2023
Abstract Background and Objective Obesity has historically been seen as a sign of wealth and social privilege, as can be inferred from studying the ancient works. We aimed to report the causes, diagnostic approaches, and treatment among the authentic books of traditional Iranian medicine.
Marghoub S   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

STATE FORMATION IN CENTRAL AND WEST ASIA DURING THE 10th-13th CENTURIES

open access: yesӘл-Фараби Атындағы Қазақ Ұлттық Университеті хабаршы шығыстану сериясы, 2022
During the period beginning form the 10th century until the Mongol conquests, a series of states emerged in Central Asia and West Asia. These states were different from their predecessors, the Abbasid Caliphate and its successor states, as well as from ...
K. Atik
doaj   +3 more sources

The Qurʾan and Arabic Poetry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This chapter reviews recent scholarship on the interface between the Qur’an and Arabic Poetry, from pre-Islamic times to the modern period. It shows that Arabic poetry has for long been engaged in an inter-textual dialogue with the Qur’an which has taken
Sperl, Stefan
core   +1 more source

From Money to Merely a Precious Metal: A Historical Journey of Gold in Muslim World and Gold’s Price Correlation with Other Financial Indicators in the Contemporary Financial System [PDF]

open access: yesTürkiye İslam İktisadı Dergisi, 2023
For many centuries Islamic coins, such as the dīnār (pl. danānīr), have attracted the attention of historians and chroniclers. The initial appearance of Islamic coinage came as a response to economic requirements prevailing in the Middle East following ...
Kamola Bayram, Adam Abdullah
doaj   +1 more source

THE FORTRESS OF BASH - TABIYA [PDF]

open access: yesآداب الرافدين, 1972
The fortress is situated in the city of Mosul on the westside of the Tigris river, built on a hill near to the bank of the river. The founder of the for- tress is unknown and the time in which it was built is also unknown. But from the references we have.
T. R. Yawer
doaj   +1 more source

An ʿAqaba/Ayla‐type amphora in the sultanate of Oman

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 119-127, November 2023., 2023
Abstract Antique trade amphorae illuminate a little understood but important find category for Arabia, still in the twilight of publication. Most of the find data lie buried in unpublished work regarding recent excavations at ʿAqaba/Ayla. Recent research has verified mineralogically the origin of these documents and their dating.
Paul A. Yule
wiley   +1 more source

Education during the Arab Renaissance and Its Path to the West [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Islamic Thought, 2019
Islam was at the origin of schools, during the Umayyad and Abbasid periods, as every Moslem had to know how to read the Koran. In different regions, namely Spain, public schools were free, and education went beyond the teaching of the Scriptures ...
LOULOU AL-AKL KHOURY
doaj   +1 more source

Examining Futuwwa Organizations Using Process Tracing

open access: yesSosyal Siyaset Konferansları Dergisi, 2022
This paper examines futuwwa [young manliness/chivalry] organizations in the following four different styles: (1)pre-Islamic futuwwa, (2)Abbasid futuwwa, (3)Sufi futuwwa, and (4)Akhi futuwwa organizations.
Onur Dündar
doaj   +1 more source

‘The Breath of Every Living Thing’: Zoocephali and the Language of Difference on the Medieval Hebrew Page

open access: yesArt 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Types of the Islamic Pottery Discovered in Saudi Arabia

open access: yesJournal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2019
Firstly:The Pottery-Types during the Prophetic and the Caliphate Periods:There is no detailed accounts regarding the literature of the early Islamic pottery in general, however, during the Prophetic and the Caliphate periods in particular.
Mohamed al-Thenyian
doaj   +1 more source

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