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Christians and Muslims of Sicily Under Aghlabid and Fāṭimid Rule: A Cultural and Historical Perspective

open access: yesReligions
Looking into early Christian–Muslim relations seems to be the outcome of greater interest in Islam transcultural encounters due to current issues of mass migration.
Nuha Alshaar
doaj   +1 more source

Pan-Arabism v. Pan-Africanism in the Sudan: The Crisis of Divergent Ethnic Ideologies [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
This article examines the nature and the extent of political and cultural conflict between Northern and Southern Sudanese. It describes and analyzes various attempts by Arab dominated regimes in the Sudan, since independence from Britain, to achieve ...
Majak, Jonathan
core   +1 more source

Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
wiley   +1 more source

Privilege Versus Right: Vigilantism Against Israel's Palestinian Citizens

open access: yesSociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses three core questions: What is the social origin of vigilantism? How do vigilantes justify extra‐legal violence and intimidation? What are vigilantism's long‐term effects? The analysis focuses on a period in which Israel's Palestinian‐Arab citizens increased their access to legal rights, social mobility, spatial ...
Gershon Shafir, Beatrice Waterhouse
wiley   +1 more source

Disavowal. Distinction and Repetition: Alain Badiou and the Radical Tradition of Antisemitism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
My focus in this chapter on the militant French philosopher, Alain Badiou, emerges from my work into the various ways that the Shoah has been incorporated into antisemitic ways of thinking.
Seymour, D.
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Is Virtue Good for You?

open access: yesJournal of Personality, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Does virtue benefit its possessor, or is it beneficial for others but not the self? We tested two highly influential theories that offer contradictory answers. In particular, we focused on three “hard cases” for the theory that virtue promotes well‐being—that is, three virtues that aren't obviously enjoyable (compassion, patience,
Michael M. Prinzing   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Syrian Christians (Shuwām) in the Nahda Movement of the 19th Century

open access: yesHitit İlahiyat Dergisi
After his invasion of Egypt in 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte departed the country in 1802. In 1805, Kavalian Mehmet Ali Pasha, who later became the Khedive of Egypt, took significant measures to modernize Egypt through the Nahda ...
Turgay Gökgöz
doaj   +1 more source

Meeting at Middle Ground: American Quaker Women’s Two Palestinian Encounters [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In the late nineteenth century the Palestinian town of Ramallah began receiving American missionary women who embodied their middle-class ideology of womanhood and ventured to discourse on Arab women and culture. Their conviction of the American woman as
Othman, Enaya
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The Contemporary Debate on Secularization and Its Cross‐National Variation: A Systematization Through Topic Modeling

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Secularization is a key concept in the social scientific study of religion, yet its meaning remains ambiguous due to varied definitions produced in the literature. This article aims to provide a data‐driven systematization of the debate on religious change by analyzing 1638 academic articles published between 2001 and 2022 using structural ...
Valeria Rainero, Ruud Luijkx
wiley   +1 more source

Islam, the Arabs and Umayyad Rulers according to Theophanes the Confessor’s Chronography [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Translated by Konrad FigatAs the Chronography of Theophanes the Confessor includes a lot of information about the foreign states and tribes which were connected with the Byzantine Empire.
Cecota, Błażej
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