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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AHMAD IBN HANBAL [PDF]
Ahmad ibn Hanbal is the founder and leader of the Hanbali school of law and the Ahl-al-Hadith who at the peak of the Abbasid and Mu'tazili scholars' power achieved prominence by defending the principle of the Eternity of the Ghur'an and his steadfastness
Zahra Roohollahi Amiri
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Some remarks about sectarian movements in al-Andalus [PDF]
pdfEstudio de las sectas islámicasen los primeros siglos de al ...
Aguadé Bofill, Jordi
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
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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On Ideas in Motion in Baghdad and Beyond [PDF]
Note on Damien Janos (ed.), Ideas in Motion in Baghdad and Beyond. Philosophical and Theological Exchanges between Christians and Muslims in the Third/Ninth and Fourth/Tenth Centuries, (Islamic History and Civilization.
Martini, Cecilia
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Ancestral Irrigation and Women's Political Empowerment
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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Islamic Contributions to Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues [PDF]
The normative practice in the history of science in the West is to start with the Greeks and then jump to the European Renaissance, both studied as a background for the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century.
Iqbal, Muzaffar
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Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax
Abstract This article discusses the relationship between the systemization of kharāj (land tax) and the higher objective of Islamic law or Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa. After the conquest of Sawād region (located in modern‐day southern Iraq), the First Caliph ʿUmar (634 ‐ 644 CE) introduced a new approach to the distribution of ghanīmah (spoils of war), leaving ...
Öznur Özdemir, Mehmet Asutay
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Reflection of Iranian Culture andTradition in the Poetry ofAbbasid Era [PDF]
With coming of the Abbasids to the throne and the presence of Iranians in the administrative structure of their government, the grounds were set for a cultural-literary movement.
Rouholah Sayadinezhad1 +1 more
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Translation theory and practice in the Abbasid era [PDF]
textThis paper explores the theoretical approaches to translation and the dynamics of language politics during the ʻAbbāsid-era translation movement through the lens of three prominent figures of the ʿAbbāsid era, Ḥunayn ibn Isʹhāq, Mattā bin Yūnus
Goodin, Katherine Sproul
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Islamic Environmentalism and Epistemic Waste
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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