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F IS FOR FALCON: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ‘NOVELLE’

German Life and Letters, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article takes a closer look at the Boccaccio story upon which Paul Heyse based his famous ‘Falken‐Theorie’ of the ‘Novelle’. The essay then links Boccaccio to a general account of storytelling as an aid to survival amid the hostility of nature and human circumstances.
Michael Minden
wiley   +1 more source

Multiple Invisibility: An Intersectional Perspective on the Invisible Work of Palestinian–Arab Women in Israel

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although there is extensive research on invisible work and its relation to labor market performance, understanding this phenomenon from the perspective of women in multiple hierarchical positions in the Middle East remains limited. This study integrates a situated intersectionality perspective with the literature on invisible work mechanisms ...
Maha Sabbah‐Karkabi, Amit Kaplan
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The Problem of Empiricism in Comparative Political Research by Muslims

American Journal of Islam and Society, 1992
The Islamic critique of the dominant Euro-American paradigm in the study of politics has so far focused on the subfields of political philosophy, as in the articles of Abul-Fadl, of public administration, and of international relation.
Theodore P. Wright
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Muslim Poets Under a Christian King: An Intertextual Reevaluation of Sicilian Arabic Literature Under Roger II (1112–54) (Part II)

Mediterranean Studies, 2019
ABSTRACT:Throughout the twelfth century, a number of Arabic-speaking Muslims produced poetry in the court of the Normans of Sicily. This article examines literary figures active under Roger II in the context of their interlocutors, professional colleagues, and other contemporaries around the western Mediterranean and North Africa.
openaire   +1 more source

A Conversation With David Bellhouse

International Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary David Richard Bellhouse was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on 19 July 1948. He studied actuarial mathematics and statistics at the University of Manitoba (BA, 1970; MA, 1972) and completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, in 1975. After being an Assistant Professor for 1 year at his alma mater, he joined the University of Western ...
Christian Genest
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Framtidsförväntningar och fiendebilder. Samtida muslimsk och kristen apokalyptik

Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2013
The purpose of this article is to analyze and compare some of the popular, and yet marginalized apocalyptic narratives in contemporary Muslim and Christian thought.
Jakob Wirén
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Thematic and Structural Unity of Q 79 (al-Nazi'at): An Intratextual and Intertextual Analysis

QiST
This article will examine a variety of topics within QS. al-Nāzi'āt (79), such as the sura's word choices and linguistic characteristics, its structure and literary forms, its place in the Qur'an chronologically, its similarities to other suras from the ...
Hamdi Putra Ahmad
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The Role of Dice in the Emergence of the Probability Calculus

International Statistical Review, EarlyView.
Summary The early development of the probability calculus was clearly influenced by the roll of dice. However, while dice have been cast since time immemorial, documented calculations on the frequency of various dice throws date back only to the mid‐13th century.
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
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Need for Affect, Problematic Social Media Use and the Mediating Role of Fear of Missing Out in European and Arab Samples

Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 2023
Areej Babiker,1 Mohamed Basel Almourad,2 Constantina Panourgia,3 Sameha Alshakhsi,1 Christian Montag,4 Raian Ali1 1College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar; 2College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University ...
Babiker A, Almourad MB, Panourgia C, Alshakhsi S, Montag C, Ali R   +5 more
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'The Authentic Garden', verslag van het symposium gehouden naar aanleiding van het 400-jarig bestaan van de Leidse Hortus Botanicus

Bulletin KNOB, 1990
Centuries old gardens, witnesses of sometimes millennia old cultures threaten to vanish all over the world. Since the still remaining gardens gradually meet with appreciation, further research has to be executed to preserve and restore them in a ...
Corinne J. Sieger
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