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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Psalm 22 in the Light of René Girard’s Mimetic Theory
Bogoslovni VestnikThe article examines the narrative of Psalm 22 from the perspective of René Girard’s mimetic theory. First, the psalm is briefly contextualized in the Christian interpretive tradition, and its basic narrative structure is outlined. Next, based on Girard’
Krešimir Šimić, Davor Vuković
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«Non tanto per el guadagno quanto per l’onore». Marco Zoppo, the italian courts and the humanists
Intrecci d'arte, 2017 Through a comprehensive speech so far never carried out, this article intends to reconstract the close web of human and professional relations maintain by Marco Ruggeri, known as Lo Zoppo (1432/33 - 1478) with humanists, his contemporary literates and ...
Giacomo Alberto Calogero
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Aspects of the Rapid Development of Christian Religious Travel in the 4th Century A.D. [PDF]
, 2020 'People travelled for numerous reasons,' so J.W. Drijvers submits at the beginning of his piece on travel and pilgrimage literature. Be it ‘commerce, government affairs, religion, education, military business or migration,’ people ‘made use of the ...
Van der Molen, Jan M.
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Welcome to the Anthropozine! DIY Booklets as an Alternative to the Peer‐Reviewed Publication
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Peer‐reviewed publications remain the most accepted form of knowledge production and distribution in academia today. But such formal publications are often deeply exclusionary, especially for undergraduate and early graduate students as well as scholars tackling highly stigmatized subjects.
Nicholas C. Kawa
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Información, Cultura y Sociedad, 2002 Se reseña brevemente la actividad del hispanista francés Raymond Foulché-Delbosc y se describe la colección que logró formar; con especial énfasis en los ejemplares adquiridos por la Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina.
María Alejandra Plaza
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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Renovating and Expanding Special Collections Facilities at Towson University [PDF]
, 2010 In order to provide the university archives at Towson University with more space, the Library undertook a renovation of the archives. This article provides a brief history and overview of the Library and archives and details the renovation project which ...
Nasr, Nadia
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Medicine for the Material World
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It is clear that many of the inorganic materials of antiquity have been used both as medicines for human ills and also as agents in technological processes. This paper speculates that there might have been a stronger link between these two functions in the past, based on the concept of “active agents”—materials that are efficacious at curing ...
A. M. Pollard
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Neo lines: Alan Hollinghurst and the apogee of the eighties [PDF]
, 2005 When Alan Hollinghurst’s The Line of Beauty won the Booker Prize in October 2004, it sealed the arrival in fiction of a retrospective exploration of the 1980s which had already been unmistakable in British culture.
Brooker, Joseph
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