Biography of the prophet muḥammad

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An Imaginary Byzantium in Early Islam: Byzantium as Viewed through the Sīra Literature

Religions
This article examines the emergence of new representations of Byzantium in early Arabic literature, with a focus on the Sīra, the biography of the Prophet Muḥammad.
Yassine Yahyaoui
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Red Maulanas: Revisiting Islam and the Left in twentieth‐century South Asia

History Compass, Volume 21, Issue 11, November 2023., 2023
Abstract In the early 20th century, colonised people across empires rejected their status quo with visions and articulations of different emancipatory futures. The more radical and creative of these projects fused socialist thought with national, cultural or religious traditions. Grounded in ideas of equality, redistribution and common ownership, these
Layli Uddin
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The Hamas war against Israel as reflected in the poetry written by its leaders during the First Intifada and the early years of implementation of the Oslo Accords

Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 340-360, Fall 2023., 2023
Abstract This article looks at Hamas's war against Israel through the lens of the poetry written by leading members of Hamas during the period 1987–1996 (from the founding of the organization through the early stages of the implementation of the Oslo Accords).
Elad Ben‐Dror
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In enemy hands: the Byzantine experience of captivity between the seventh and tenth centuries

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 430-458, August 2023., 2023
The present paper deals with forced migration experienced by subjects of the Byzantine Empire captured by foreign enemies in the context of warfare between the seventh and the tenth centuries. The focus of the first part is on the scenarios faced by individuals and groups when an enemy had taken control of a settlement or a larger territory. The second
Grigori Simeonov
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Islamic Traditionalists: “Against the Modern World”?

, 2023
The Muslim World, Volume 113, Issue 3, Page 333-354, Summer 2023.
Jacob Williams
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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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Spiritual and religious information experiences: An Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) paper

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 77, Issue 1, Page 40-61, January 2026.
Abstract This chapter examines the contours of the religious and spiritual information experiences subfield through a review and content analysis of selected contributions from the past two decades in both information science and related fields. The research question that guides this review is: How have spirituality and religion been conceptualized in ...
Nadia Caidi +4 more
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Karoline von Günderrode on Human Freedom

Philosophy Compass, Volume 21, Issue 1, January/February 2026.
ABSTRACT This essay examines how the engagement with Spinoza that resulted from the pantheism controversy shaped the philosophical outlook of Karoline von Günderrode. I focus on her Spinozist view of human freedom and contend that she understands freedom as a form of self‐determination that does not require the capacity to do otherwise.
Karin Nisenbaum
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Principled Pragmatism in Water Resources Research: An Historical and Philosophical Perspective on Studies in South Asia and Beyond

Water Resources Research, Volume 61, Issue 12, December 2025.
Abstract Principled pragmatism is a broad and expanding approach to water policy research, especially in the South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. These studies advocate policies that are both pragmatic, in the ordinary language sense of the term, and principled.
James L. Wescoat Jr., Basit Koshul, Abubakr Muhammad +2 more
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The public multiple: community organizing and fractal politics in East London Public multiple : organisation des communautés et politique fractale dans l'est de Londres

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 1003-1022, December 2025.
Politics requires collective deliberation, but what happens when people cannot agree on how to deliberate? Anthropologists and other social scientists have urged us to look beyond the hegemonic liberal ideal of public reason, in order to recognize a plurality of publics, each held together by distinctive forms of reason.
Farhan Samanani
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