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Addenda to Secondary Sources in Ismāʿīlī Studies: The Case of the Omissions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This bibliographic study identifies over 600 secondary sources published up to and including 2003 that have been omitted in previous bibliographies in Ismaili studies, namely, Farhad Daftary’s "Ismaili Literature: A Bibliography of Sources and Studies ...
Jiwa, Nawazali A.
core   +2 more sources

New Insights Into Early Islamic Hydro‐Agricultural Strategies in Northwest Arabia: A Geoarchaeological Study of al‐Bint Dam (Sadd al‐Bint)

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 5, September/October 2025.
ABSTRACT The Sadd al‐Bint is one of the largest known ancient dams in Saudi Arabia, and yet, its construction date, function and collapse remained uncertain. This study presents the first numerical chronology for the dam, integrating radiocarbon dating, Bayesian modelling, geomorphological analysis and hydrological modelling to reconstruct its history.
Bruno Depreux   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Advent of the Fatimids

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2002
Fatimid intellectual production contains some remarkable personal memoirs that deserve a joint study. The Kitab al-MunaJ?arat (The Book of Discussions) by lbn al-Haytham is one example of this kind ofliterature.
Maribel Fierro
doaj   +1 more source

Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062

open access: yesHistory, Volume 110, Issue 392, Page 459-473, September 2025.
Abstract The Byzantine emperor Alexios I's 1095 embassy to Pope Urban II has been characterized in three different ways: as a request for troops that inadvertently triggered the First Crusade, as a manipulation of western reverence for the Holy Sepulchre and as active Byzantine–papal collaboration.
JONATHAN HARRIS
wiley   +1 more source

Fâtımîler ile Endülüs Emevîlerinin Mücadelesinde Benî Hamdûn Ailesi

open access: yesDini Araştırmalar
Bu çalışma, 4./10. yüzyılda Şiî-İsmâilî Fâtımîler (297-567/909-1171) ile Sünnî Endülüs Emevîleri (138-422/756-1031) arasında gelişen siyasi, askerî ve mezhebî mücadelede Yemen asıllı Benî Hamdûn ailesinin rolüne odaklanmaktadır.
Fatmanur Kalan
doaj   +1 more source

Alison Ohta, J.M. Rogers, Rosalind Wade Haddon (eds.). Art, Trade and Culture in the Islamic World and Beyond. From the Fatimids to the Mughals. Studies Presented to Doris Behrens-Abouseif

open access: yes, 2018
With subjects ranging from mediaeval metalwork to early 20th-century architecture and a geographic horizon spanning between Europe and China, the essays in this volume reflect not only the multifarious scholarly interests of its dedicate but also the ...
I. Szántó
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Qāḍīs of Fusṭāṭ-Miṣr under the Ṭūlūnids and the Ikhshīdids: the Judiciary and Egyptian Autonomy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
International audienceThe second half of the third/ninth and the fourth/tenth centuries are of particular importance for the development of the judiciary in the central lands of the Abbasid caliphate.
Tillier, Mathieu
core   +2 more sources

The ‘Nation‐State Law’ and non‐Jews belonging in Israel: Druze loyalty, citizenship and positionality in the Jewish state

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 30, Issue 4, Page 666-682, October 2024.
Abstract This paper probes the relationship between nationalism and belonging. In the context of the enactment of the ‘Nation‐State Law’ in Israel, it addresses a twofold question: how do members of the Druze community articulate the minority group's sense of belonging to the national community, and what do their constructions of belonging suggest ...
Doron Eldar, Gay Young
wiley   +1 more source

The Abbasids and the Fatimids [PDF]

open access: yesتاریخ اسلام, 2006
The Fatimid rise to power coincided with the spread of their influence and territorial expansion into Abbasid controlled regions, and the inclination of the Muslim populace towards them.
Hediyeh Taghavi
doaj  

Masters of mudbrick: Geoarchaeological analysis of Iron Age earthen public buildings at Ashdod‐Yam (Israel)

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 35-62, January/February 2024.
Abstract Excavations at Ashdod‐Yam exposed a fortification system that features a massive mudbrick wall with large earthen ramparts laid on either side. This fortified horseshoe‐shaped enclosure once surrounded what was likely a human‐made harbor and an adjacent acropolis with complex earthen architecture, constructed and active during Iron Age IIB–C ...
Marta Lorenzon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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