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Heritage and Myths: The «Kingdoms of Faith» of Medieval Spain Through the Prism of Contemporary Debates on Interreligious Dialogue

open access: yesИбероамериканские тетради
Book review: Catlos B.А. Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Muslim Spain. – Moscow: Medina ID, 2024. – 608 p.The Muslim period in the history of Spain is mostly associated with Moorish art and the brutal but just Reconquista that culminated with the ...
M. V. Silantieva, D. S. Gorshenyov
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May I pick your brain? Local minds as living cadastres in a Portuguese eleventh‐century lawsuit

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 231-253, May 2026.
In the context of a dispute with the monastery of Lorvão, in the late eleventh century, the monks of Vacariça, near Coimbra (modern Portugal), carried out a field enquiry in the village of Recardães. This was part of a failed attempt to repossess a number of land plots that they claimed were theirs, but had lost control of.
Julio Escalona
wiley   +1 more source

ISIS's caliphate utopia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The Islamic Caliphate championed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is an imagined construct that never existed in Islamic history. Muslim scholars and the larger Muslim community should not only reject the ISIS' Caliphate but also debunk ...
Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq

open access: yesEarly 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
wiley   +1 more source

Succession to the caliphate in early Islam [PDF]

open access: yes, 1980
This thesis will examine the succession to the Islamic Caliphate as it existed during the time of the orthodox Caliphs (632-661)
al-Kathiri, Faisal H.
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The position of the Abbasid Caliphate concerning the intellectual ‎deviation [PDF]

open access: yesمجلة جامعة الأنبار للعلوم الإنسانية
Objectives: 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]

open access: yesپژوهش‌نامه 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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Ancestral Irrigation and Women's Political Empowerment

open access: yesKyklos, 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Abbâsid Caliphate under the Mamluk State and in the Islamic world: The relation of sultanate and caliphate [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Moğollar 1258 yılında Bağdat’ı işgal etmek ve Abbâsî halifesini öldürmek suretiyle Abbâsî hilafetine son vermişlerdir. Memlûk Sultanı Baybars 1261 yılında Abbâsî soyundan bir kişiyi Kahire’de halife ilan ederek Abbâsî hilafetini yeniden canlandırmış ...
Uzun, Kâzım
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Reconstructing post‐crisis recovery in the hinterlands of Constantinople: A high‐resolution first‐millennium CE pollen record from Lake Yeniçağa (NW Türkiye)

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

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