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, 2011 Educação Superior::Ciências Humanas::HistóriaPresents a course about the causes, course, and consequences of the American Civil War with the Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and ...
Blight, David
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Mediterranean Europe: Pilgrims and warriors, warrior pilgrims
Ad Limina, 2010 The article begins with an analysis of the relation between space, time and pilgrimage within “various strata and social classes”. From these considerations there first and foremost derives a clear division between on the one hand rural pilgrimage ...
Benedetto Vetere
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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Reflection of Historical Context in Elegies of Holy Defense (1980-1985) [PDF]
Literary Arts, 2016 Poetry of Holy Defense is a stream of contemporary literature and a branch of Islamic Revolution poetry which began with the war between Iran and Iraq, with an interactive relationship between the war and literature.
Sepideh Yeganeh +2 more
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Qital and Jihad: The Faces of Holy War in Islam
[Introduction] When reviewing Muslim sources on the early Crusades, what seems to set apart the Third Crusade from the earlier ones is a focus on the concept of “holy war” which seems to be absent from earlier Crusades.
Nkurumeh, Emeka
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Amid the general sense of worry that large language models will soon drown out human voices, some researchers are optimistic that machine learning will allow humans to listen to and understand animal voices to an unprecedented extent. As part of a broader project aimed at interspecies communication, a loosely connected set of animal behaviourists, AI ...
Courtney Handman
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The Concept of Jihad and Qital in the Perspective of Islam and Christianity: A Comparative Analysis Between Hadith and the Gospel in the Context of Indonesia [PDF]
Pharos Journal of TheologyThe concepts of jihad and qital in Islam and their Christian equivalents are often debated, especially in the context of religious pluralism in Indonesia. In public discourse, these two terms are often misunderstood as legitimising violence, whereas both
Muhammad Sabir +6 more
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Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (On Ethnicity, Religion and War) [PDF]
The Ottoman Empire had a profound impact in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa at the apogee of its power, covering the era between 1453 C. E. and 1699 C. E. In this paper, I exploit the empire’s unique culture and institutions to examine the roles
Iyigun, Murat
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