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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause

History, Volume 111, Issue 396, Page 347-368, June 2026.
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
wiley   +1 more source

USING THE PAST IN RESEARCH STRATEGIES: INTERPRETATION EXPERIENCE STATE IDEOLOGY OF SHAH’S IRAN IN 1925-1979

Вестник Мининского университета, 2017
This paper considers questions related to the use of the past for research strategies in the interpretation the character the state ideology monarchical Iran during the reign of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1925-1979.
E. B. Boev
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“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: EDOARDO GRENDI, MICROANALYSIS, AND GENERALIZATIONS*

History and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 237-256, June 2026.
ABSTRACT “The normal exception” has long been a slogan of microhistory. This oxymoronic phrase is the iconic rendering of an incidental sentence that appeared in a 1977 article by Edoardo Grendi. His article, titled “Micro‐analisi e storia sociale” (Microanalysis and Social History), is cited more often than it is read.
FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO
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Humanism at the Council of Constance. Diego de Anaya, Classical Manuscripts and Education in Salamanca

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 469-488, June 2026.
Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Iranian Followers of Imam Javad PBUH Regarding the Historiography in Abbasid Era [PDF]

تاریخ اسلام, 2016
The study of various activities of Imam’s followers illustrates the new dimensions of Shiite history. The role of Imams’ Iranian followers is deserved to be studied in many aspects. Of their role is their impact on the historiography. Based on the report
Seyed Mustafa Tabatabaee, Seyed Ahmad Aqili, Samaneh Hajjarpoor Khalaj   +2 more
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The impact of archaism discourse on Iranian medical historiography from the Achaemenid period. [PDF]

J Med Ethics Hist Med, 2021
Kasiri M.
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Historiographical Analysis of Farag Fouda’s Thought in Kebenaran yang Hilang

Journal of Islamic Civilization
Kebenaran yang Hilang (KYH), a historical work by Farag Fouda, has garnered significant criticism, especially from Islamist groups, due to its unconventional methodologies and Fouda’s lack of formal training as a historian.
Haukil Hannan, Akhmad Najibul Khairi Syaie   +1 more
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Clinical Applications of the History of Medicine in Muslim-Majority Nations. [PDF]

J Hist Med Allied Sci, 2023
Weber AS.
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Al-Ḍaḥḥāk bayna al-Sard al-Fārisī wa al-‘Arabī fī al-Turāth al-Islāmī: Taḥlīl Tārīkhī wa Muqāranah Fikrīyah

Indonesian Journal of Islamic Literature and Muslim Society
The legend of al-Dahhāk represents one of the most complex mythological narratives transmitted through both Persian and Arabic Islamic historiography.
Tawfeeq Rashid Yousif
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