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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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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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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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The Features of Fatimid's Historiography in Islamic Historiography Discourse [PDF]
تاریخ نگری و تاریخ نگاری, 2018 Researchs on the historiography of the Ismâilis has been less successful among scholars in this field due to the loss of a significant amount of their works.
Ali Babaei Siab +2 more
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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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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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Geoarchaeology, 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
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Les relations entre les Zirides et les Fatimides à la lumière des documents épigraphiques
Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2016 The Fatimid and Zirid inscriptions, listed on the monuments and in the cemeteries of Tunisia, constitute a real mirror on which are reflected the moments of stability or tension which governed the relations between Ifrīqiya and Cairo (10th-11th century).
Lotfi Abdeljaouad
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Norman-Fatimid Conflict on Sicily and its Impact on International trade in the Mediterranean
, 2021 After the seized power from the majority, the Fatimids deliberately extended their political and military power to the island of Sicily, they were appointed in its rule by governors from the Caninae whose rule extended for nearly a century, and the ...
Ahmed Thehaib Hadi
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