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From 'Alī to Dante's «Alì» : a Western Medieval Understanding of «Shī'a» [PDF]
, 2016 This paper focuses on the figure of Alì, found along with Maometto and sowers of scandal and schism in Dante's Divina Commedia (Inferno 28). While early commentators on the poem variously identify Alì as a companion or disciple of Maometto's, or his ...
Di Cesare, Michelina
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Muslim Diasporas and the Politics of Belonging: Ibadi and Ismaili Pasts and Presents in East Africa
Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.ABSTRACT This article examines the Ibadi and Ismaili Muslim communities in East Africa—particularly in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania (including Zanzibar)—and their distinct religious, social, and economic roles. Even as minorities within predominantly Sunni contexts, both groups have shaped the region through migration, commerce, and international ...
Kimberly T. Wortmann
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The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections [PDF]
, 2015 The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology first opened its doors in 1915, and since then has attracted visitors from all over the world as well as providing valuable teaching resources. Named after its founder, the pioneering archaeologist Flinders Petrie,
Stevenson, AE
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Geoarchaeology, 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
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Byzantium and the Crusades: Constantine X's Embassy to Honorius II in 1062
History, 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
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Mahdawiyyah in the Islamic West [PDF]
تاریخ اسلام, 2014 The idea of Mahdawiyyah (belief in the Coming of the Promised Mahdi) is a major Qur’anic, hadithic, theological, and political concept and a pillar in the history of Islam.
Mohammad Reza Pak
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, 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
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Nations 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
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The Role of Fatimids in the Propagation of Narrative Sciences [PDF]
تاریخ اسلام, 2015 The present article is to study the written legacy of Fatimid Shiites in Egypt concerning the narrative sciences. Narration is considered as the most important foundation of propagation of religious and biological sciences.
Hasan Gaffarifar, Safura Salariyeh
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The position of the Atabic of Damascus on the Crusader invasion of the Levant 497-549 / 1103-1154 AD [PDF]
آداب الرافدين, 1979 Prior to the Crusader invasion, the Levant region was experiencing a state of complexity surrounding its political, economic and religious situation, as it was governed by different powers, and internal disputes often characterize that difference, at a ...
Durieed Nory
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