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Genetics of infertility and “assisted fertilization” in the Bible: The case of Abraham and his family

open access: yesAndrology, EarlyView.
Abstract Couple infertility is a very ancient medical condition. One of the first descriptions of familial infertility/subfertility is contained in the first book of the Bible, Genesis, written in the 10th century BC and reporting tales from the oral tradition even occurred about 800 years earlier.
Manuela Simoni   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Glass, porcelain and revive the heritage of Islamic architecture and its usage in architectural facades of villages west coast tourist in Egypt

open access: yesJournal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2016
The Islamic Art from the world's most popular arts and the longest for so It has provided us with the history of the Egyptian Islamic civilization with many religious and civilian facilities, which includes masterpieces of Islamic Art, And return value ...
Marwa Sadek
doaj   +1 more source

Islamic Revival among Second-Generation Arab-American Muslims: The American Experience and Globalization Intersect [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This article examines the chain of events that facilitated an Islamic revival among second-generation Arab-American Muslims. Based upon research in metropolitan Chicago, it argues against trends in the literature that described Western-born Muslims as ...
Cainkar, Louise
core   +1 more source

The geographies of the Information Research Department: Intelligence, diplomacy and the British secret state

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper develops a historical and political geographical analysis of the UK Foreign Office's Information Research Department (IRD). Empirically it is grounded in archival study of IRD files concerning operations in Ghana and South Africa during the Cold War and specifically the 1960s and 1970s.
Ben Gowland
wiley   +1 more source

Heresy or Hermeneutics

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 1995
Islam/Islamism The debate I shall discuss here arose following Cairo University's decision to refuse tenure to a professor of Arabic language and literature, Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, in light of an unfavorable report by the tenure committee entrusted to ...
Charles Hirschkind
doaj   +1 more source

Religious institutions and authoritarian states : Church-state relations in the Middle East [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The churches in the Middle East are generally perceived to be supportive of the authoritarian states in the region. The motivations for this strategy and its successes and limitations in the context of the authoritarian environment and the religious ...
McCallum, Fiona
core   +1 more source

China's Belt and Road Initiative in Pakistan: Bureaucratic Coordination and Chinese State‐led Development Abroad

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines China's bureaucratic approach to international development cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative, focusing on bureaucratically structured policy coordination as a core mechanism. It highlights the central role of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) — China's top economic planning agency — in ...
Hong Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Adulthood denied: youth dissatisfaction and the Arab Spring [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This repository item contains a single issue of Issues in Brief, a series of policy briefs that began publishing in 2008 by the Boston University Frederick S.
Mulderig, M. Chloe
core   +2 more sources

The Hunt In Arabic Poetry: From Heroic to Lyric to Metapoetic

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2018
In his book, The Hunt in Arabic Poetry: from Heroic to Lyric to Metapoet- ic, Jaroslav Stetkevych traces the evolution of Arabic hunt poetry from its origins as an integral part of the heroic ode (qaṣῑda) to becoming a genre by itself (ṭardiyya) during ...
Gaby Semaan
doaj   +1 more source

Egyptian Enlightener Rifa‛a at-Tahtawi [PDF]

open access: yes
From the 19th c. in Arab countries, first of all, in Egypt, Syria and Lebanon, the political, economic and cultural life begins to revive, which is known as the Revival (the "Nahda"). In this process enlighteners played the crucial role.
Murman Kutelia
core   +1 more source

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