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Islamic Contributions to Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues [PDF]
, 2012 The normative practice in the history of science in the West is to start with the Greeks and then jump to the European Renaissance, both studied as a background for the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century.
Iqbal, Muzaffar
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Remains of Gnomic Anthologies and Pagan Wisdom Literature in the Coptic Tradition [PDF]
, 2017 It is well known that a complete and satisfying “history of Coptic literature” is still a desideratum. Among the other causes contributing to the difficulty of such an enterprise are the fragmentary status of the codices which preserve the texts and the ...
Buzi, Paola
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Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
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Public Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The representative bureaucracy literature asserts that minority personnel in public organizations can promote their social group either through their own behavior or by influencing other staff members or focal citizens. However, these phenomena have not been examined in wartime settings in ethnically homogeneous and heterogeneous organizations.
Maayan Davidovitz, Chen Schechter
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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The Mozarabs in the kingdom of León: 8th-11th Centuries
Studia Historica. Historia Medieval, 2011 The text is a summary of a research about Arabic onomastics which appears in the Leonese charters until 11th Century. The outcome of the analysis of the data is the existence of a Berber settlement in the Duero basin, although this explanation does not ...
Javier FERNÁNDEZ CONDE
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Language and identity in the Assyrian diaspora [PDF]
, 2001 published or submitted for publicationis peer ...
McClure, Erica F.
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The Arabic Dialect of Christian Kuwaitis
Journal of Semitic StudiesAbstract Kuwait is home to a Christian minority, with approximately 285 Christian Kuwaitis among its 4.9 million inhabitants. These Christians migrated to Kuwait from southern Turkey and Iraq in the early 1900s, bringing with them their Anatolian and Iraqi Arabic dialects. Over time, the community acquired Kuwaiti nationality and largely
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When does the story end? Presence, the present and ‘the contemporary world’
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract We write and read ethnography in the wake of time passing: a fact that has long thrown up a host of epistemological and ethical issues for the doing of anthropology. In this essay I revisit this classic problem—the problem of the ethnographic present—asking what happens when we rethink the relationship between ‘the present’ and ‘presence’, the
Michael Edwards
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