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Sharing a Taste? Material Culture and Intellectual Curiosity around the Mediterranean, from the Eleventh to the Sixteenth Century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Within the context of a research project that seeks to explore new concepts and, possibly, arrive at more productive paradigms, it is interesting to observe the degree to which the study of the transfer of artefacts between the Islamic Middle East and ...
Contadini, Anna
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The Enlightenment: A Beginner's Guide

open access: yes, 2010
Blamed for the bloody disasters of the 20th century: Auschwitz, the Gulags, globalisation, Islamic terrorism; heralded as the harbinger of reason, equality, and the end of arbitrary rule, the Enlightenment has been nothing if not divisive.
O'Hara, Kieron
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Islamic Morality in Late Ottoman “SECULAR” Schools [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Recent scholarship has taken great strides toward integrating the history of the late Ottoman Empire into world history. By moving beyond the view that the West was the prime agent for change in the East, historians have shed new light on indigenous ...
Fortna, Benjamin
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Spartan Daily, October 5, 1994 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
Volume 103, Issue 24https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/8594/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, School of Journalism and Mass Communications
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From noble Muslims to saracen enemies: Thomas Stamford Raffles’ discourse on Islam in the Malay world [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This article examines the development of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles’ discourse on Islam as practised by the Malays. It is argued that this discourse shifted from admiration of Islam to the belief that it had brought detriment to the Malay World. Such
Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied,
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ISLAMIC ELEMENTS IN TRADITIONAL INDONESIAN AND MALAY THEATRE [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
From the earliest times, traditional theatre in Southeast Asia has been shaped by a wide range of religious and cultural influences—those deriving from animism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, as well as from Chinese and western traditions.
Ghulam-Sarwar Yousof
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Julius Nyerere's Philosophy of Education: Implication for Nigeria's Educational System Reforms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Nyerere’s philosophy of education is one of the most influential and widely studied theories of education. Policy-makers have continued to draw from it for policy re-engineering.
Ibanga, Diana-Abasi
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Time in Early Modern Islam: Calendar, Ceremony, and Chronology in the Safavid, Mughal and Ottoman Empires [Book Review] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article reviews the book 'Time in Early Modern Islam: Calendar, Ceremony, and Chronology in the Safavid', Mughal and Ottoman Empires, by Stephen P ...
Drury, Abdullah
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Refractory concrete: A material that offers new ceramic opportunities. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Refractory concretes (RC) are industrial materials used most commonly in high temperature applications, primarily in the steel and glass industries. In most cases they are a mix of refractory aggregate’s chosen for specific hot engineering applications ...
Alkandari, Fahad, Bremner, Alasdair
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The application of islamic arts decoration in mosque interior : a case study of the traditional mosque in Melaka / Norzalifa Zainal Abidin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This research discussed the concept of ‘Tawhid’ as the doctrine in Islam; and the way Islam perceives Beauty in its decorative arts as a mean of contemplation and Remembering Allah.
Zainal Abidin, Norzalifa
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