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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and medical discourse from the nineteenth century, this article examines the colonial military enterprise of regulated prostitution in colonial ...
Sameera Chauhan
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of Kalam Sects' Content in Akidah Akhlak Learning at Madrasah Aliyah

open access: yesJournal of islamic education
The kalam science is a discipline of Islamic theology that focuses on explaining and defending the teachings of faith through a rational approach. The purpose of this study is to analyse the material of the kalam science genre in the learning of akidah ...
Muhammad Taslim, Putri Adona
semanticscholar   +1 more source

MECÂZÜ’L-KUR’ÂN’I ÇERÇEVESİNDE EBÛ UBEYDE’NİN TEFSİRCİLİĞİ

open access: yesSakarya Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2009
Abu „Ubaydah Ma„mar Ibn al-Muthanna is one of the most important early Arabic phi-lologists and scholars of the culture and history of the pre-Islamic Arabs. He is as well a multifaceted scholar who has contributed tremendously to Islamic culture and
Adem YERİNDE
doaj   +1 more source

Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
wiley   +1 more source

Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
wiley   +1 more source

The Relevance of Al-Syahrastani's Al-Milal wa Al-Nihal Methodology to Contemporary Islamic Historiography

open access: yesJUSPI (Jurnal Sejarah Peradaban Islam)
The purpose of this study is to analyse the methodology and contributions of Al-Syahrastani's book Al-Milal wa Al-Nihal in Islamic historiography. This study is a literature review or bibliographic study using a descriptive qualitative approach and ...
Abu Haif   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

Non‐Career Ambassador Appointments: Transformations in Turkish Diplomacy during the 1920s and 1930s

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract During the early years of the Turkish Republic, the establishment of foreign missions, the assignment of new diplomats to these missions as well as the inheritance of experiences, diplomats, buildings and other assets from the Ottoman Empire were matters of major political concern.
Evren Küçük
wiley   +1 more source

COSMOLOGICAL MARKINGS AND ERASURES: The Political Theology of State‐Led Gentrification and Heritagization

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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