The Anatomy of a Regicide Attempt: Shāhrukh, the Ḥurūfīs, and the Timurid Intellectuals in 830/1426–27 [PDF]
, 2013 This article provides a contextual analysis of the assassination attempt on the Timurid ruler Shahrukh’s life on 21 February 1427 in Herat. According to the contemporary Timurid chroniclers, Ahmad-i Lur, a Hurufi by profession, tried to kill ...
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From Weight Watchers to State Watchers: Towards a Narrative of Liberalism [PDF]
Alan Kahan’s Mind vs. Money: The War between Intellectuals and Capitalism (Transaction Publishers, 2010) treats intellectuals as a class, and tells of intellectuals’ yearning to play the role of cleric and of aristocrat. Kahan says that intellectuals are
Klein, Daniel B.
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Conversion Calls for Confrontation: Facing the Old to Become New in the Work of James Baldwin
, 2014 Book Summary: The recognition and study of African American (AA) artists and public intellectuals often include Martin Luther King, Jr., and occasionally Booker T. Washington, W.E.B.DuBois, and Malcolm X.
Melton, McKinley E.
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The Death of the Concerned Intellectual? [PDF]
, 2005 This paper offers a definition of the intellectual covering both professional and moral dimensions: An intellectual is a specialist who creates and communicates symbolised knowledge as means of living, and hopefully intervenes in social and political ...
Feng, C
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Los intelectuales colombianos y el dilema de la construcción de la identidad nacional (1850-1930)
European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 2011 Colombia’s intellectuals and the dilemma of constructing a national identity (1850-1930)The article explores and analyses the different discursive approaches produced by the main representatives of the Colombian intellectuals in relation to the theme of ...
Carlos Andrés Charry Joya
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Race and religion in the Victorian age: Charles Kingsley, Governor Eyre and the Morant Bay Rising
, 2011 A consideration of the ideological issues surrounding the controversy of Governor Edward Eyre's draconian reaction to the Morant Bay rising in Jamaica in 1865, and of the responses to it of a number of mid-Victorian intellectuals, including Charles ...
Fraser, Robert
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Prophets and Priests of the Nation: Naguib Mahfouz’s Karnak Café and the 1967 Crisis in Egypt [PDF]
, 2009 Similarities between religion and nationalism are well known but not well understood. They can be explained by drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's sociological theory in order to consider symbolic interests and the strategies employed to advance them.
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Castoriadis and social theory:from marginalization to canonization to re-radicalization [PDF]
, 2015 This chapter examines Cornelius Castoriadis's trajectory from obscurity and the margins of post-war French intellectual and political milieu to the misappropriation and canonization of his thought after the 1970s and argues for a re-radicalization of his
Memos, Christos
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Australian Journal of Physiotherapy, 1969 The aim of this paper is to discuss some general aspects of intellectual retardation, the physiotherapist's role in the treatment of children suffering the effects of this handicap and to mention briefly some of the techniques and problems of physiotherapy for these children.
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Cádiz : apertura de España a la modernidad
Revista de Derecho Político, 2011 Análisis de las causas que hicieron posible la Constitución de 1812, las consecuencias de las mismas, la incidencia de la guerra junto a un proceso revolucionario, el papel e los intelectuales en este proceso, las contradicciones del momento histórico y ...
José Peña González
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