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Contemporary issues in Islamic thought [PDF]

, 2018
This book contains selected research papers which were submitted to the 3rd International Social Science Conference - Islamic Thought & Understanding (ISSCITU 2018), organised by Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Perlis and The Office of the Sultan ...

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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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The Critique Theory of “The Incompatibility of the Translation Movement from Beit- al -Hikmah” in the Book of “Greek Thought and Arabic Culture” by Dimitri Gutas

Journal of Research on History of Medicine, 2018
The study of the impact of Beit Al-Hakma on the translation movement, is one of the most recent challenges faced by scholars in the history of the golden age of Islam.
Kamran Mahlooji, Mahsima Abdoli
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Rejuvenating Islamic thought [PDF]

, 2018
This book content selected research papers which were submitted to the 3rd International Social Science Conference - Islamic Thought and Understanding (ISSCITU 2018), organized by Universiti Teknologi Mara Perlis (UiTM) and the Office of Sultan Haji ...

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Divine Self‐Placement, Sacred Placemaking: The Virgin of El Rocío and Territorial Custodianship in Early Modern Spain

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This essay argues that the Rocío hallazgo legend employs divine self‐placement to turn territorial uncertainty into sacred stewardship. The Virgin's miraculous refusal to move establishes the marshlands of Las Rocinas as a communal religious site, transforming a marginal and legally ambiguous area.
Adriano Duque
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Readings in Islamic da'wah

, 2009
This book contains a collection of twenty essays on a wide range of topics ranging from theory, principles and practices of Islamic da'wah to a wide spectrum of audience which include leaders, women, youth, children, prisoners Christians, Jews and ...

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Islamic domestic courtyards

, 2020
This book discusses the uniqueness of courtyard in Islamic domestic architecture. It focuses on its origins and diverse functions, and maintains that it has cultural, environmental, structural and above all, religious connotations as the message of Islam
Spahic, Omer
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Carl Schmitt's International Order: A Decolonial Reappraisal

Constellations, EarlyView.
Andrea Mura
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