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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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The early Arabic versions of Job (first millennium C.E.) [PDF]
, 2010 This work makes a contribution to the history of the interpretation of Hebrew scripture by examining the earlier texts, produced by the linguistically cognate communities of Arabic-speaking Jews, Christians, and Muslims, of one of the ...
Blackburn, Steven P.
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On Line Recognition System for Arabic Handwritten Text
International Conference on Aerospace Sciences and Aviation Technology, 2003 This paper presents the design and the implementation of an On Line Arabic text Recognition system "OLAR" that is used for cursive handwritten recognition. In addition to Arabic characters, OLAR can recognize numerical characters, and special symbols.
M. Shaarawy, Aly Fahmy, M. Fouad
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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HATFormer: Historic Handwritten Arabic Text Recognition with Transformers
CoRRArabic handwritten text recognition (HTR) is challenging, especially for historical texts, due to diverse writing styles and the intrinsic features of Arabic script. Additionally, Arabic handwriting datasets are smaller compared to English ones, making it difficult to train generalizable Arabic HTR models.
Adrian Chan +4 more
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The relationship between working memory and reading comprehension in L1 Arabic and L2 English for Arabic speaking children [PDF]
, 2015 This mixed methodology research project comprised four studies that explored relationships between working memory and literacy, as well as the potential influence of home literacy, in L1 Arabic and L2 English children in grade six (aged 11) of mainstream
Elsayyad, H.M
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Character recognition system for pegon typed manuscript
HeliyonThe Pegon script is an Arabic-based writing system used for Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, and Indonesian languages. Due to various reasons, this script is now mainly found among collectors and private Islamic boarding schools (pesantren), creating a ...
Yova Ruldeviyani +5 more
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
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Arabic text recognition using genetic algorithm
, 1999 Text recognition is a challenging task when text contains overlapping and cursive characters. This dissertation addresses the task of recognizing Arabic text using genetic algorithms.
Al-Mutawa, Abdullah Mohamed,
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