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From Calligrapher Scrivener to Trained Clerk: Education, Career and Social Promotion of the Officers in the Secretarías del Despacho

Studia Historica: Historia Moderna, 2017
The bureaucratic habitus, like the judicial one, was a system of durable dispositions that disciplined the praxis and the representation of the actors.
M. Victoria LÓPEZ-CORDÓN CORTEZO
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Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
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Inscribed Memory: Calligrapher Hafız Osman and His Attributed Inscriptions

Kadim
Kitabes (inscriptions) serve as lasting testaments to cultural, artistic, and historical narratives, preserving heritage for future generations. This study examines two inscriptions in Üsküdar attributed to the renowned calligrapher Hafız Osman Efendi ...
M. Fatih Çalışır, Elif Kurumehmet
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Revised proposal for encoding the Adlam script in the SMP of the UCS [PDF]

, 2014
This is a proposal to encode the Adlam script in the international character encoding standard Unicode. The script was published in Unicode Standard version 9.0 in June 2016.
Everson, Michael
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Reconceptualising Motivation as Material‐Semiotic Entanglements: Translanguaging in Graduate TESOL Education

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Multilingual students in Anglophone universities often operate in survival mode. While translanguaging supports learning, critical gaps remain in understanding how translanguaging pedagogies transform and sustain motivation in English‐dominant contexts.
Melissa Jufenna Slamet, Julie Choi
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The Status of Hagia Sophia Big Roundels From Past to Present Through Photographs and Engravings

İslam Tetkikleri Dergisi, 2021
The Hagia Sophia Holy Grand Mosque is an important work of architecture in art history. Moreover, many architects have tried to match or exceed its greatness.
Ahmed Zahid Çelebi
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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
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Retracted Article: Taj Mahal is the Crystallization of Iranian Architecture and a Symbol of God's Throne on Earth

ARCHive-SR, 2023
The Taj Mahal is basically related to the idea of Islamic architecture; although the influence of Islamic architecture on the Taj Mahal is clearly visible, traces of the influence of Iranian, Hindu, British, and Akbari architecture are evident in its ...
Shaham Asadi
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The Crafts Study Centre [PDF]

, 2008
The Crafts Study Centre is a specialist university museum open free to the public as well as a research centre of the University for the Creative Arts.
Olding, Simon, Vacher, Jean
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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