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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

Proposal for encoding the Mandaic script in the BMP of the UCS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This is a proposal to encode the Mandaic script in the international character encoding standard Unicode. This set of characters was published in Unicode Standard version 6.0 in October 2010.
Everson, Michael
core  

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

open access: yesInternational 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

Brevi riflessioni sull’uso della letteratura nella didattica della lingua araba

open access: yesLinguae &: Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne, 2019
This paper aims at investigating the role of Arabic Literature in Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language, from the first manuals and grammars to the new tools, from the grammar-translation method to the digital storytelling approach.
Angela Daiana Langone
doaj   +1 more source

DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

open access: yesInternational 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

Automatic Era Identification in Classical Arabic Poetry

open access: yesApplied Sciences
The authenticity of classical Arabic poetry has long been challenged by claims that some part of the pre-Islamic poetic heritage should not be attributed to this era.
Nariman Makhoul Sleiman   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

South Arabian and Yemeni dialects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
It has traditionally been assumed that with the Islamic conquests Arabic overwhelmed the original ancient languages of the Peninsula, leaving the language situation in the south-western Arabian Peninsula as one in which dialects of Arabic are tinged, to ...
Watson, JCE
core  

Patterns and Functions of Total Reduplication in Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic:

open access: yesLinguistik Online, 2019
In this paper, we investigate the form, salient patterns and core functions of word-level total reduplication in Classical Arabic (CA) and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).
Mohammed Modhaffer   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical Practice Guidelines on Normal Labour and Childbirth: A Systematic Review

open access: yesBJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) are essential for promoting evidence‐based maternal and neonatal care, but inconsistencies in recommendations can be confusing. Objectives To analyse the quality and reporting of international CPGs for normal birth and summarise the recommendations.
María Loreto Hernández‐Martínez   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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