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Amateur justice in Carolingian Bavaria
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 497-521, November 2025.This paper examines judges and judgement in Bavarian dispute charters from the first decades of the ninth century. It argues that justice in Carolingian Bavaria was an amateur affair, in which of primary importance was the ability to create a stable consensus around an outcome. Accordingly, distinctions between judges and other participants in judicial
Amos Bronner
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A “Documentary Turn” in the Medieval History of Egypt and Syria?
History Compass, Volume 23, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.ABSTRACT The field of medieval Middle East history has seen a renewed attention to the use of documentary sources in recent years. These sources have long seen some neglect, and their interpretation has suffered from a stubborn narrative of paucity that has tended to relegate them to the fringe of this history. With the impact of other scholarly trends
Daisy Livingston
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Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax
The Muslim World, Volume 115, Issue 4, Page 295-319, Autumn 2025.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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Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 5, September/October 2025.ABSTRACT The Sadd al‐Bint is one of the largest known ancient dams in Saudi Arabia, and yet, its construction date, function and collapse remained uncertain. This study presents the first numerical chronology for the dam, integrating radiocarbon dating, Bayesian modelling, geomorphological analysis and hydrological modelling to reconstruct its history.
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RELIGIOUS QUARRELS IN BAGHDAD (232-656 A.H.) [PDF]
تاریخ اسلام, 2005 Sectarian quarrels; that happened under particular religious, political and economic conditions, were the most important factor in shaping Baghdad's history between 232 to 656 A.H.With the establishment of the Abbasid caliphs in Baghdad, the capital of ...
Mansooreh Karimi Ghahi
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10. YÜZYILDA BATÎHA’DA HÜKÜM SÜREN BİR ARAP EMÎRLİĞİ: ŞÂHÎNÎLER
History Studies, 2023 Batîha, Fırat ve Dicle nehirlerinin aşağı kısmında geniş bir bataklık alanı kaplamaktadır. Antik Çağlardan önce oluşan bölgenin ilk ıslah faaliyetleri Sâsânîler devrinde başlamıştır.
İsmet Burak Batır
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A Transformation in Islamic Thought: The House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Hikmah) in the Context of Occidentalism versus Orientalism [PDF]
, 2011 dr Ismail Tas, Konya Universitesi Ilahiyat Fakultesi Meram Yeniyol Cad. 136/A 42090 Meram, Konya, TurkeyThe House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Hikmah) was built first as a library where the books on the sciences of the Ancients were kept.
Tas, Ismail
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THE COLLAPSE OF TURKISH POWER IN ABBASIDS AND THE FATE OF TURKS (232-447/945-1055)
, 2012 At the last decade of Turkish influence period at the Abbasid State between (232-334/749-945), we have seen the Caliphs attemting to some actions on account of failing to establish the peace. That last operation of the Caliphs resulted in vesting all the
Mehmet Sen
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Provincialising Early Feminism: A View from the Middle East
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 591-605, July 2025.Abstract ‘Provincializing Europe’, derived from Dipesh Chakrabarty's work of that name, argued that an imagined ‘Europe’ was a founding myth for modernity. While not mentioning feminism, this analysis is a valuable starting point for tracing the path of the term ‘féminism’ from France to Britain to the Ottoman Empire and from the USA to the Arab world –
Ruth Roded
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تاریخ اسلام, 2005 The forgotten University of Jundi Shapur had played a very significant and valuable role in pre-Islamic Iran, particularly during the Sassanian period. Numerous documents testify to the brilliance of this advanced Sassanid scientific center in philosophy,
Seyyed Asghar Mahmood-Abadi
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