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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 299-322, May 2026.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Ancestral Irrigation and Women's Political Empowerment
Kyklos, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 377-398, May 2026.ABSTRACT This paper advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the adoption of irrigation agriculture during the preindustrial period is a predictor of contemporary cross‐country variation in women's political empowerment. Countries whose populations historically relied on irrigation agriculture as their primary subsistence mode tend to ...
Roberto Ezcurra
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Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 520-539, April 2026.ABSTRACT Facing a novel plague pandemic, military invasions, and political–economic transformations, societies of the eastern Roman (Byzantine) empire had to adapt to a variety of pressures and new ways of exploiting their natural environments during the mid‐1st millennium CE.
Cristiano Vignola +7 more
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The position of the Abbasid Caliphate concerning the intellectual deviation [PDF]
مجلة جامعة الأنبار للعلوم الإنسانيةObjectives: This research investigates the most important efforts made by the Abbasid Caliphs against the people of innovation and deviation. They had successful efforts throughout the Abbasid era to eliminate the deviants and prevent them from carrying ...
Asia Fahd, Mudhir Ali
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A Comparative Study of Political Thought of Shiite and ISIS [PDF]
پژوهشنامه کلام تطبیقی شیعه, 2019 Political Islam after the Islamic Revolution in the Islamic Republic became a concrete entity and in political marketing, the public opinion of the Islamic world became a consuming commodity for Muslims in the Muslim world who have always been frustrated,
Tahereh Sharif, Ebrahim Barzegar
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Enduring Crises of the Nation‐State: How Spatial Imaginations Reshape Identity and Dis/Unity
Geography Compass, Volume 20, Issue 3, March 2026.ABSTRACT This article reframes the contemporary “crisis” of the nation‐state not as a simple erosion of sovereignty but as a problem of spatial misalignment: adaptive states remain strategically embedded in dense transnational regimes, yet domestic legitimacy falters when unitary national imaginaries confront heterogeneous, multi‐sited social realities.
Erdem Bekaroğlu, Suat Yazan
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Decolonial limits to Henri Lefebvre's spatial revolution
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 1, March 2026.Short Abstract This commentary appreciates Hamish Kallin's (2024) account of the prospects for reconciliation of anarchist and Marxist approaches via engaging Henri Lefebvre's work, but signals equivocation about Lefebvre triggered by his depictions of colonialism, Islam and the tropics. I argue that these are inconsistent with ongoing decolonial moves
James D. Sidaway
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Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, Volume 114, Issue 2, February 2026.ABSTRACT Bone tissue regeneration for large defects presents a significant challenge, demanding scaffolds that combine robust mechanical support alongside a bioactive environment. Hydrogels represent a promising solution for bone regeneration due to their biocompatibility, tunable properties, and crosslinked three‐dimensional (3D) networks mimicking ...
Mona Gibreel +8 more
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COSMOPOLITAN PHILOLOGY AND SACRED GRAMMAR
History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 109-126, December 2025.ABSTRACT Persian developed a formal grammatical tradition comparatively late in its thousand‐year history as a lingua franca. This article takes up the emergence of Persian grammar within the larger trajectory of Persian philology. It explores questions about why and when such a tradition developed in Persian by closely analyzing the earliest formal ...
ALEXANDER JABBARI
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RUDN Journal of World HistoryThe significance of the research topic is predetermined by the importance of Caliphatism as a phenomenon of social thought in the history of Islam. The purpose of this study is to analyze the regional specifics of the perception of the institution of ...
Svetlana A. Kirillina +2 more
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