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An Imaginary Byzantium in Early Islam: Byzantium as Viewed through the Sīra Literature
ReligionsThis article examines the emergence of new representations of Byzantium in early Arabic literature, with a focus on the Sīra, the biography of the Prophet Muḥammad. This historical investigation leads to a dual conclusions that the Arab perception of Byzantium not only forged an “imaginary Byzantium” but also marked the emergence of Arab self ...
Yassine Yahyaoui
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Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2016 The article investigates the ways through which peculiar representations of the late Ancient World passed to the Middle Ages. Among them, the astrological discipline is one of the favorite vehicles.
Ezio Albrile
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Dacians, Varangians, Vlachs and The Golden Bough
Swedish Journal of Romanian StudiesThe essay interprets four parts of Mihai Sadoveanu’s 1933 enigmatical novel The Golden Bough. The Dacian section focuses on the way geographical, historical, ethnical and social guide marks are introduced to define an uncertain moment in history, the ...
Lucian Vasile Bâgiu
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Literary, Found and Research Poetry: New Approaches to Representations of Aging and Aged Care. [PDF]
Gerontologist, 2023 Holland-Batt S, Miller E.
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The Day They Brought Ol' Liberty Down: The Reality of the Threat. [PDF]
Postdigit Sci Educ, 2021 McLaren P.
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Guiding differently for travelling like them: the Egyptian-Ottoman publicist Safa and his 1913 Arabic guidebook to the late Ottoman capital. [PDF]
J Tour HistOkan OC.
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Plague, Religion and Urban Space in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp. [PDF]
Soc Hist MedCoomans J +3 more
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Whatever the cost: Grain trade and the Genoese dominating minority in Sicily and Tabarka (16th-18th centuries). [PDF]
Bus HistIodice A, Piccinno L.
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