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Identity, culture and democratization: the case of Egypt [PDF]
This article seeks to present an alternative approach to understanding the failure of democratization in the Arab world by locating the problem of democracy-building within the logic of the process of reproducing national identity and culture.
Pratt, Nicola Christine
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Samuel Johnson’s view about Oduduwa in connection with the origins of the Yoruba
The most favourable explanation pertaining to the Yoruba origin is that of the Oduduwa tradition according to which he is the original ancestor of the Yoruba people.
Agai M. Jock
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PECULIARITIES OF BIBLICAL THEMES IN THE COPTIC TEXT “THE MYSTERIES OF JOHN THE APOSTLE” [PDF]
The article deals with the analysis of biblical themes in the Coptic apocryphon the detailed title of which can be translated as “The Mysteries of John, the Apostle and Holy Virgin, That (the mysteries) Were Taught to Him in Heaven”.
Evgenia S. Kalchenko
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Coptic SCRIPTORIUM: Digitizing a Corpus for Interdisciplinary Research in Ancient Egyptian
Coptic, having evolved from the language of the hieroglyphs of the pharaonic era, represents the last phase of the Egyptian language and is pivotal for a wide range of disciplines, such as linguistics, biblical studies, the history of Christianity ...
Amir Zeldes +3 more
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From 3ptl-to passive : incipient, emergent and established passives [PDF]
This paper explores, in some detail, the development of third person plural impersonal constructions into passive ones with the aim of determining the conditions most conducive to the emergence of a canonical passive, i.e.
Siewierska, Anna
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The status of the Arabs and their influence in the Abbasid era 132-232 AH [PDF]
The Quraysh are considered the dearest Arab tribes in pre-Islamic times and Islam. They have prestige, wealth, leadership, and religious sovereignty, and they remained so throughout the era of the Rashidun, unchallenged by them.
Salah Al-Hidary
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ABSTRACT In recent decades, Egypt has been a place of refuge for many individuals fleeing political upheaval, including Sudanese, Syrian, Yemeni, Iraqi, and Palestinian communities. The influx of Sudanese refugees since 2023 has further increased the country's refugee population.
Nevine Nizar Zakaria, Heba Alders
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The Egyptian-Coptic language: its setting in space, time and culture
Eitan Grossman, Tonio Sebastian Richter
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Remains of Gnomic Anthologies and Pagan Wisdom Literature in the Coptic Tradition [PDF]
It is well known that a complete and satisfying “history of Coptic literature” is still a desideratum. Among the other causes contributing to the difficulty of such an enterprise are the fragmentary status of the codices which preserve the texts and the ...
Buzi, Paola
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Relative Chaoticity of Natural Languages
This paper presents a novel approach to analyzing and grouping natural languages based on the degree of their chaoticity. It clusters 52 languages from 18 language families, according to the value of the entropy–complexity pair, to reveal the chaotic properties of semantic trajectories.
Assel S. Yerbolova +6 more
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