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Yusuf-ı Meddah’s Mathnawi Titled “Dastan-ı İblis”
İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi, 2023 Yusuf-ı Meddah, a prominent poet of the 14th century, made significant contributions to the advancement of Turkish literature through his written and narrated works. Limited information is available about his personal life.
Ozan Kolbaş
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Can digitally‐enabled financial instruments secure an inclusive agricultural transformation?
Agricultural Economics, Volume 53, Issue 6, Page 953-967, November 2022., 2022 Abstract Research shows that risk management will be key if an agricultural transformation that includes the smallholder farm sector is to occur in sub‐Saharan Africa and South Asia. While the smallholder farm sector has historically had poor access to financial and other risk management tools, digital technologies are rapidly impacting the cost and ...
Michael R. Carter
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SHĪʿĪ READINGS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION: ṬABĀṬABĀʾĪ TO ḤAYDARĪ
Zygon®, Volume 57, Issue 2, Page 418-442, June 2022., 2022 Abstract Within the context of Islamic discourse about evolution, this is the first study that focuses exclusively on the views of Kamāl al‐Ḥaydarī (b. 1957), a prominent Shīʿī thinker of the contemporary period. Ḥaydarī develops his views from Muḥammad Ḥusayn al‐Ṭabāṭabāʾī (1904–1981), the author of the seminal exegesis The Balance in Interpreting the
Karim Gabor Kocsenda
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Theoria, Volume 88, Issue 1, Page 49-71, February 2022., 2022 Abstract Newly accessible source material calls for a revision of our picture of the more technical transmission of sceptical epistemologies in the intellectual landscape of early Islam. Abū al‐Qāsim al‐Balkhīʼs (ninth/tenth century) Book of Doctrines shows that naẓar as the basic argumentative method of kalām is defined by the encounter with a broad ...
Heidrun Eichner
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Oceania, Volume 91, Issue 2, Page 257-279, July 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT Building on Ferguson's account of ‘declarations of dependence’ and prior Melanesianist work on ‘humiliation’, I examine how enthusiasm for state‐formation among Korowai of Papua has been shaped by their understandings of self‐lowering as a politically complex way of influencing kin and equalizing relations.
Rupert Stasch
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Agricultural Economics, Volume 51, Issue 3, Page 475-488, May 2020., 2020 Abstract The digital revolution and the ongoing dissemination of mobile phones carry several prospects for smallholder farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa. Food insecurity and low dietary quality remain major issues among African smallholders. Mobile phones could potentially facilitate access to food markets and thus improve food security and nutrition, but ...
Martin C. Parlasca +2 more
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Agricultural Index Insurance for Development
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 199-219, June 2017., 2017 Index insurance is often promoted as a solution to many of the barriers that are thought to limit the supply of formal insurance coverage to smallholder farmers and livestock owners in developing countries. This manuscript summarizes the state of index insurance, paying special attention to the key challenges facing index insurance if it is to become a
Nathaniel Jensen, Christopher Barrett
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Can index insurance alter pastoralists' labor allocation decisions? Evidence from East Africa
Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, Volume 4, Issue 2, Page 206-222, June 2025.Abstract Social protection programs designed to reduce the impact of economic, climatic, and social shocks on vulnerable livelihoods are becoming more popular. This study explores the causal effects of index‐based livestock insurance (IBLI) programs that have been implemented among pastoralists in Ethiopia and Kenya.
Tekalign Gutu Sakketa, Lukas Kornher
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Transactions in GIS, Volume 29, Issue 4, June 2025.ABSTRACT Active transportation (AT) has become increasingly important due to its positive impacts on public health, reducing emissions, and promoting sustainable urban environments. This study examines how Light Rail Transit (LRT) stations in Edmonton, Canada, contribute to encouraging AT by evaluating nine criteria within three key categories ...
Amr M. Sakr +3 more
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Impact of index insurance on downside income risk: Evidence from northern Kenya
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, Volume 47, Issue 2, Page 863-891, May 2025.Abstract We assessed the impact of index‐based livestock insurance (IBLI) on household income and its higher‐order moments (i.e., variance and skewness). The study uses four waves of panel survey data from northern Kenya and applies a two stage least squares (2SLS) instrumental variables regression to estimate the causal impacts.
Kelvin Mashisia Shikuku, Ibrahim Ochenje
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