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Reality and the Unseen in the Early Fatwas of al‐Manār

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
This article explores how discussions of the unseen in the fatwa section of Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā's journal, al‐Manār, related to larger processes of rationalization, epistemological boundary‐making, and modernization occurring at the turn of the twentieth century. A discursive analysis of a subset of fatwas published between 1903 and 1914 suggests that
Alice Catanzaro
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The Racialisation of Rape: A Far‐Right Tool for Boundary‐Creation Across Borders

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Far‐right parties and movements have increasingly come to incorporate ideas of gender equality into their political agendas. While seemingly out of concern for women's rights and safety, these issues are in reality seldom more than a veil to further the stigmatisation of Muslim men.
Mathilda Åkerlund
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Oscillating Whiteness: A Conceptual Framework for Analysing Transnational Ethno‐Racial Privilege

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article advances oscillating whiteness as a conceptual framework for analysing ethno‐racial privilege across geopolitical settings. The framework theorizes whiteness as a dynamic resource governed by four mechanisms: recognition (how bodies are classified as white), performativity (how whiteness is enacted through cultural scripts ...
Reza Hasmath
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To be(long) or not to be(long): Literature and community

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Over several decades, the modern world's intensified mobility has prompted a broad interest in community studies in the social sciences, which address in new ways the topics of place, belonging, and identity formation. Such topics being salient to literature and literary studies as well, the overall aim of the article is to extract a selection
Svend Erik Larsen
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Traceability as evidence for timber legality: Institutional competence and legal design under the ITTA

Review of European, Comparative &International Environmental Law, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how traceability records acquire legal significance under the International Tropical Timber Agreement (ITTA) and domestic and regional timber‐legality regimes. It argues that traceability systems should be understood as evidentiary infrastructures whose legal relevance depends on institutional competence, lawful authority
Marcelo Feitosa de Paula Dias
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‘He Seems Like a Morisco to Me, / Even in the Way He Talks’: Articulating morisco Difference in Lope de Vega and Cervantes

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between 1609 and 1614, after over a century of forced conversions, cultural oppression and inquisitorial persecution, Spain expelled its morisco subjects. Despite being baptised Christians, the descendants of Spain's Muslim population had been deemed incapable of sincerely following the Christian faith and assimilating into society due to ...
Elizabeth Liliann Blakemore
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Noah's Raven, Noah's Son: The Metamorphoses of Blackness in Early Modern Readings of Genesis 8‐9

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past half‐century, scholars have offered various theories to explain when and how an aetiology for black skin became part of the reception history of the so‐called Curse of Ham in Genesis 9—a text that does not include any reference to skin colour.
Ashleigh Elser
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Intersex Across the Interstellar: The Andromeda Constellation in Medieval and Early Modern Astronomical and Astrological Treatises

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
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Framing Peninsular Crypto‐Jews as Part of the Sephardic Diaspora

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When we talk about the Sephardic diaspora, we often talk about Iberian conversos who leave the Peninsula, supposedly to live openly as Jews in places like Algiers, Venice, Amsterdam or the Ottoman Empire. But what about those conversos who continued to identify in some way as Jews but who remained in Spain and Portugal?
David A. Wacks
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Languages, Memory and Religion: The Literature of the Morisco Diaspora

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Literature written by the Moriscos during their diaspora in North Africa, especially in the 17th century, offers three fundamental pillars for its analysis: the languages in which it is written, their emotional and intellectual relationship with their land of origin and their host countries, and, finally, religion.
Luis Bernabé Pons
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