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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Mahri Oral Poetry and Arabic Nabaṭī Poetry: Common core, divergent outcomes

Arabian Humanities, 2015
The collections and critical studies of Bedouin vernacular poetry from the Arabian Peninsula (nabaṭī poetry) published over the last century have revealed it to be a dynamic cultural practice whose regional specificities are secondary to its overall ...
Samuel Liebhaber
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Some observations on the poetical language of love songs in in the dialect of the Jbala (Northen Morocco) [PDF]

, 2006
Este articulo trata sobre canciones populares de tematica amorosa en dialecto arabe yebali. Para ello, nos serviremos de material adicional extraido de algunos dialectos arabes.
Gintsburg, Sarali
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In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
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Mollamma at and Mothallathat or Bilingual and Trilingual poetries [PDF]

Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2003
Molamma , a type of Persian poetry, which consists of one Persian line followed by an Arabic one, is found in the works of traditional Persian poets.
manoochehr daneshpajuh
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Memories of Home: Reading the Bedouin In Arab American Literature [PDF]

, 2008
In an urban neighborhood with a large Jewish population near my home, there is an Arabic restaurant. Name, menu and ownership mark its ethnic identification, yet its politics are otherwise obscured.
Wardi, Anissa J., Wardi-Zonna, Katherine
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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What we leave behind: poetry, music, and Seamus Heaney [PDF]

, 2017
Seamus Heaney’s death in late summer, 2013, came as a shock and is now a residual sadness. I miss his guidance, his humanity, his humor. Heaney’s presence, through the poems, has been a richly-colored thread connecting each stage of my life—or at least ...
Tyler, Meg
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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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Palestinian improvised-sung poetry : the genres of Ḥidā and Qarrādī : performance and transmission [PDF]

, 1989
The improvised-sung poetry of the Palestinians is a living tradition of oral poetry, extemporized impromptu in the colloquial Arabic of the Palestinians.
Sbait, Ḍirghām Ḥ.
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