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What can Nabataean Aramaic tell us about Pre‐Islamic Arabic?
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 158-172, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Nabataean Aramaic contains a large number of loanwords from Arabic. Together with other evidence, this has been taken as an indication that the Nabataeans used Aramaic as a written language only, while a Pre‐Islamic variety of Arabic was their spoken language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
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The fall of Merovingian Italy, 561–5
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 543-562, November 2023., 2023 After the end of the Gothic War in the mid‐sixth century, northern Italy remained divided between the Merovingian Franks and the eastern Roman Empire. In the 560s the Frankish territories were finally taken by imperial armies, but the end of Merovingian Italy is variably dated between 561 and 565.
Sihong Lin
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From Cosmopolitan to Vernacular in the Language Sciences: A Global History Perspective
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 18-37, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Sheldon Pollock's justly famous work on cosmopolitan orders and processes of vernacularization in the worlds of Latinity and Sanskrit invites questions of a comparative and global‐historical character. I will raise such questions in the context of the Persianate cosmopolitan order, especially as exemplified by the early modern Ottoman Empire ...
Michiel Leezenberg
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A Paleo‐Arabic inscription on a route north of Ṭāʾif
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 202-215, November 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper will produce a new edition of the Rīʿ al‐Zallālah inscription, discussing in detail its paleographic features and content, and the ramifications it has on our understanding of the linguistic and religious milieu of the sixth–early seventh century Ḥigāz.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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Linguistic purism as resistance to colonization
Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 315-334, June 2022., 2022 Abstract As the Mongolian language is equated with ethnic survival in Inner Mongolia, the metadiscourse of Mongolian linguistic purism has become a vital tactic for enacting Mongolian identity and creating a counterspace against Chinese linguistic and cultural hegemony.
Gegentuul Baioud, Cholmon Khuanuud
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Why Did the Origenist Controversy Begin? Re‐thinking the Standard Narratives
Modern Theology, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 318-337, April 2022., 2022 Abstract The Origenist controversy at the end of the fourth century was largely played out within a monastic context, and had, moreover, an immediate and extensive impact on the movement. In spite of this, studies of the controversy and its causes have mainly focused on the dogmatic issues foregrounded in the controversy, neglecting the more ...
Samuel Rubenson
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 120, Issue 1, Page 128-183, March 2022., 2022 Abstract The system of adversative conjunction in the Old Church Slavic Gospels is characterized by two pure adversatives, nŭ and the much less frequent obače, together with two other forms, a and že, which are employed with equal or greater frequency in non‐adversative conjunctive roles. The relationship between nŭ and a is complex.
Jared S. Klein
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Transnational literary exchange in the early modern Low Countries
Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 8-26, February 2022., 2022 Abstract Dutch culture in the Golden Age has long attracted the attention of scholars working in early modern European history, and the centrality of the urban culture of the Dutch Republic, especially in Holland, in European and global affairs has been frequently noted.
Jan Bloemendal +2 more
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On Some Sceptical Elements in Barhebraeus
Theoria, Volume 88, Issue 1, Page 226-243, February 2022., 2022 Abstract This paper shall look briefly into the treatment of some topics related to scepticism in general in works by Barhebraeus, the famous Syrian Orthodox polymath and theologian (1226–1286). He addresses scepticism both directly by a discussion of sensory and intellectual fallacies or sceptical scenarios as well as indirectly by the definition of ...
Jens Ole Schmitt
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Contemporary art and the geopolitics of extractivism in Turkey's Kurdistan
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 929-943, December 2021., 2021 Challenging the Eurocentrism of aesthetics and/or the neoliberal post‐political paradigm remain important indicators of art's critical (geo)political potential. However, a fuller appraisal of the criticality in question also requires asking if and to what extent such challenges redistribute agency vis‐à‐vis power relations grounded in extractivism as a
Eray Çaylı
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