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Taming the nafs: Unbounded spirits and mental illness in militarized Pakistan
Ethos, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 401-415, December 2023., 2023 Abstract In Pakistan, jinn afflictions reveal the maddening effects of displacement, economic inequality, and household conflicts. In this article, I consider how healers treat conditions of the nafs (soul), specifically its impurity and corruption through material desires, as enhancing the susceptibility of clients to jinn affliction where healers ...
Sanaullah Khan
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The science of talismans today
History Compass, Volume 21, Issue 3-4, April 2023., 2023 Abstract The science of talismans was cultivated in Arabic, Greek, and Latin in the first millennium AD and entered European vernaculars in the seventeenth century. Its primary concern is the ability of images to produce effects in the world, even at a distance.
Benjamin Anderson
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Nursing Forum, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023 Aim. The objective of this article is to describe our innovative competency‐based approach to teaching nursing students about the autonomic nervous system (ANS). Background. Nurse educators require resources about pedagogical approaches related to ANS instruction. Design and Methods.
Anne M. Fink +12 more
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Diabetes Mellitus across the Arabo‐Islamic World: A Revolution
International Journal of Endocrinology, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023 Background. Mankind continues to suffer from the ever‐growing diabetes epidemic and the rapid rise of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). This metabolic disease has been studied since ancient civilizations. The Arabo‐Islamic civilization excelled in establishing some of the most notable discoveries and teachings that remained the blueprint for years to ...
Mohamad Fleifel +3 more
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Indoor Air, Volume 32, Issue 8, August 2022., 2022 Abstract The question of whether SARS‐CoV‐2 is mainly transmitted by droplets or aerosols has been highly controversial. We sought to explain this controversy through a historical analysis of transmission research in other diseases. For most of human history, the dominant paradigm was that many diseases were carried by the air, often over long ...
Jose L. Jimenez +22 more
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Beyond rules and norms: Heterogeneity, ubiquity, and visibility of groundwaters
WIREs Water, Volume 9, Issue 4, July/August 2022., 2022 Modern socionatural relations with groundwaters emerged only recently in the context of science and capitalism, and our cultural relations with them involve more than rules, norms and institutions for their governance. Recognition of the culturally constructed heterogeneity, ubiquity and visibility of groundwater may help to diagnose and address the ...
Casey Walsh
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The Concept of ‘Nature’ in Peripatetic Islamic Philosophers [PDF]
, 2018 In this study, lexical and terminological meanings of the term “nature” were analyzed and some Peripatetical Islamic philosophers’ opinions about this term were included.
Adıgüzel, Nuri
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On Types of Certainty: From Buddhism to Islam and Beyond [PDF]
, 2022 Studies the threefold hierarchy of certainty, from its origins in Mahāyāna Buddhism, through Islam, to 17th century China. This tripartite scheme may be traced back to the ancient Buddhist scheme of the threefold wisdom as systematized by Vasubandhu of ...
Chase, J.
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Bringing Things Back from Nothingness: The Restoration of the Non-Existent before and after Avicenna [PDF]
Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, 2022 This paper presents the evolution of the Islamic debates on i‘ādat al-ma‘dūm [restoration of the non-existent], examining the notion itself, the motives behind its adoption and rejection, and the arguments for and against its possibility.
Francesco Omar Zamboni
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Keeping Fit in Later Medieval England: Exercise for Man and Beast
History, Volume 107, Issue 376, Page 507-525, June 2022., 2022 Abstract This article begins by exploring ideas about physical exercise as outlined in the advice literature that circulated widely in late medieval and early sixteenth‐century England. Whereas other aspects of these popular guides to health have attracted considerable interest on the part of medical and cultural historians, recommendations about ...
Carole Rawcliffe
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