Domesticating the Islamic in/of the Middle East
This paper tackles the problematics of domesticating the Islamic identity-strand of the Arab Middle East in metropolitan translation in post-Arab Spring Egypt.
Riham Debian
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An Exegetical Analysis of the Story of Sulaymān and the Queen of Sheba from the View of the Qur’an and Its Comparison with the Old Testament [PDF]
Received: 2020/5/3 | Accepted: 2020/11/7The story ofSulaymān and the Queen of Sheba has been narrated in the Noble Qur’an and the Old Testament as one of the profound stories among the thinkers.
Syed Hussain Hosseini Bajdani +3 more
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Common Hoopoe Upupa epops was thought to breed in Bangladesh but with no confirmed records. The observation presented in this paper of a breeding pair with its chick at Satchari National Park in northeastern Bangladesh is the first confirmed breeding ...
Sabit Hasan +2 more
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Massive nest-box supplementation boosts fecundity, survival and even immigration without altering mating and reproductive behaviour in a rapidly recovered bird population. [PDF]
Habitat restoration measures may result in artificially high breeding density, for instance when nest-boxes saturate the environment, which can negatively impact species' demography.
Karine Berthier +3 more
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Threshold Responses of Bird Communities to Human Footprint: Testing the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis and Implications for Biodiversity Conservation. [PDF]
Human activities, quantified by the Human Footprint Index (HFP), drive biodiversity declines, with birds serving as sensitive indicators of ecosystem health. In northeastern Inner Mongolia, Threshold Indicator Taxa Analysis (TITAN) identified a community composition shift at HFP ≈ 14, with species‐specific thresholds ranging from 3.37 to 43.22 ...
Yang X +5 more
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Patches of bare ground as a staple commodity for declining ground-foraging insectivorous farmland birds. [PDF]
Conceived to combat widescale biodiversity erosion in farmland, agri-environment schemes have largely failed to deliver their promises despite massive financial support.
Michael Schaub +9 more
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Green Wood-hoopoe Phoeniculus purpureus observed drinking [PDF]
First record of Green Wood-hoopoe ...
Solomon, Derek
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The authors studied for six years the effects of tree thinning and of undergrowth control in a coastal pinewood of Central Italy. The changes induced by cultivation activities have caused a significant contraction of richness abundance and diversity, not
Amalia Castaldi, Gaspare Guerrieri
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Attar’s Mantegh-al-teir and Dialogism [PDF]
Dialogism is one if those theories in which the language and speech are seen as a social phenomenon. This theory which has had a significant impact on later critics and theorists has opened up new horizons for reading different texts through two main ...
ahmad razi
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Abstract This article traces the social life of medieval Persian poetry as it is repurposed within Los Angeles's Iranian diaspora. Based on 5 years of immersive ethnography in private erfān classes and mystical assemblies, I argue these gatherings function as contemporary diasporic courts, mobilizing core texts within a spiritual marketplace structured
Zia Khoshsirat
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