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Societal Change and Values in Arab Communities in Israel: Intergenerational and Rural–Urban Comparisons [PDF]

, 2014
This study tested and extended Greenfield’s theory of social change and human development to adolescent development in Arab communities in Israel undergoing rapid social change. The theory views sociodemographic changes—such as contact with an ethnically
Ganayiem, M, Greenfield, PM, Igbaryia, R, Manago, AM, Weinstock, M   +4 more
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In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
wiley   +1 more source

The Arabic legal documents of Toledo: the merging of legal cultures in a society in transition

Hispania Sacra
The Arabic documents from Toledo mirror a mosaic of laws and legal customs, together with the merging of laws and legal systems. Indeed, Christians, Muslims, and Jews of Toledo continued writing their legal documents in Arabic, following the pattern of ...
Rocío Daga Portillo
doaj   +1 more source

Post-9/11: Making Islam an American Religion

Religions, 2014
This article explores several key events in the last 12 years that led to periods of heightened suspicion about Islam and Muslims in the United States.
Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Nazir Nader Harb
doaj   +1 more source

ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

Bayn Narayn, entre deux feux : Les mobilisations des chrétiens palestiniens en Israël

Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2020
This article proposes an analysis of the forms and modes of action among Palestinian Christians in Israel. Faced with strong feelings of vulnerability and confronting rising sectarianism and political Islam, Christian Palestinians are at the heart of ...
Camille Levy
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Ajami scripts in the Senegalese speech community [PDF]

, 2010
Wolofal (from Wolof: Wolof language or ethnic group and ‘-al’: causative morpheme) is an Ajami writing (a generic term commonly used to refer to non-Arabic languages written with Arabic scripts) used to transliterate Wolof in Senegal.It results from the ...
Ngom, Fallou
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DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
wiley   +1 more source

Processing Tools for Greek and Other Languages of the Christian Middle East [PDF]

Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, 2018
This paper presents some computer tools and linguistic resources of the GREgORI project. These developments allow automated processing of texts written in the main languages of the Christian Middel East, such as Greek, Arabic, Syriac, Armenian and ...
Bastien Kindt
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited

Arabian 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