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Obesity from a sign of being rich to a disease of the new age: A historical review. [PDF]
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
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STATE FORMATION IN CENTRAL AND WEST ASIA DURING THE 10th-13th CENTURIES
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
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The Qurʾan and Arabic Poetry [PDF]
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
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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]
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
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THE FORTRESS OF BASH - TABIYA [PDF]
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
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An ʿAqaba/Ayla‐type amphora in the sultanate of Oman
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 Most of the find data lie buried in unpublished work regarding recent excavations at ʿAqaba/Ayla.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
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Education during the Arab Renaissance and Its Path to the West [PDF]
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
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Examining Futuwwa Organizations Using Process Tracing
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
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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 Types of the Islamic Pottery Discovered in Saudi Arabia
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
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