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Yang Liangyao's Mission of 785 to the Caliph of Baġdād: evidence of an early Sino-Arabic power alliance? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The primary focus of this article is the information provided in a tomb stele (shendao zhi bei 神道之碑) of a Chinese eunuch, a certain Yang Liangyao 楊良瑤 (736–806), that will be comparatively analysed against the background of the political landscape under ...
Schottenhammer, Angela
core  

Administrative Traditions of the Majority World: A Commentary and Future Research Agenda

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decolonising public administration is an urgent and necessary endeavour. In this short article we argue that we cannot, however, settle for shallow decolonialisations. We argue that the specific iterations of bureaucracy evidenced in post‐colonial states across the majority world can be conceptualised through the lens of administrative ...
Ibrahim Bornoma   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited

open access: yesArabian 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
wiley   +1 more source

Mutasim and the Policy of Transition of the Capital City [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌های تاریخی ایران و اسلام, 2012
Nearly 75 years after the foundation of Baghdad as the Abbasids' capital by the Caliph Mansur,the policy of the transition of the capital was adopted by one of his successors namely Mutasim.He transferred the political center of his caliphate to the new ...
علی ناظمیان فرد
doaj   +1 more source

The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
wiley   +1 more source

HARUN AR-RASYID

open access: yesHunafa: Jurnal Studia Islamika, 2006
Harun ar-Rasyid was the third caliph of Abbasid. He served as a very predominant caliph in his time. Moreover, it was in his rule that, in Asia, there were many achievements in various sectors of life such as in economy, agriculture, science, and ...
Kasmiati Kasmiati
doaj   +1 more source

Characterization of Human Group 9 Innate Lymphoid Cells in Response to Allergen Immunotherapy in Patients With Allergic Rhinitis

open access: yesAllergy, EarlyView.
We aimed to report the existence and profile of group 9 innate lymphoid cells (ILC9s). Overall, ILC9 proportions in AR patients show differences compared to healthy subjects and responder SCIT patients. IL‐9 expression decreases after siRNA inhibition of Bach2 suggesting Bach2 could display as a transcription factor of ILC9.
Ya‐Qi Peng   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Ottoman Empire and the Christians

open access: yesForum Theologicum Sardicense
The current paper analyses the basic principles of the status of Christians as "People of the Book" in the Ottoman Empire. Moreover what is examined is the application of Islamic Law and the model set by the Arab caliphate for regulating the coexistence ...
Ventzislav Karavaltchev
doaj   +1 more source

Appointment of Ali Rida as Crown Prince between politics and faith (201-203AH/817-819AD)

open access: yesZanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2023
Although the Abbasid call began under the slogan of ‘’The satisfaction from the family of Muhammad’’, against the Umayyad state, at the beginning of the second century AH, with the establishment of the Abbasid state, the bloody conflict intensified ...
Bakhtyar Abdullah kareem
doaj   +1 more source

The 'Pharaoh' Anecdote in Pre-Modern Arabic Historiography [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article examines the development of the pharaoh as a literary figure in Arabic historiography between the third/ninth and the ninth/fifteenth centuries.
Hirschler, Konrad
core   +1 more source

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