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Scott Savran, Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative
Scott Savran, Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative: Memory and Identity Construction in Islamic Historiography, 750–1050. Culture and Civilization in the Middle East, 57 (London: Routledge, 2018), x + 248 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-74968-8. Price:
Ryan J. Lynch
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Respected and Ignored: British Women and the Arab Revolt (1936–39) in Mandate Palestine
ABSTRACT This article aims to reinsert British women and their perspectives into our understanding of anticolonial resistance in Palestine. Historiography on the Arab Revolt (1936–39) has previously been built from colonial state archives that disproportionally speak with a male voice and, as such, rely on certain gendered assumptions to describe the ...
Alex Worsfold
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Book Review of Peacock, Andrew C. S, Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy: Bal’am?’s T?r?khn?ma, London (Routledge), 2007.Peacock, Andrew C.
Karlıoğlu, Fatih
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Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
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Divine will in Islamic Historiography [PDF]
By: Esma One of the majar factors that has been taken up by many historians in various Islamic historiographical schools, and been based as grounds for the interpretation of different events in the history of Islam is "predestination and divine will". In
Esmail HaSsanzadeh
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Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power
Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
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Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’
ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
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ABSTRACT Indo‐Caribbean groups, who settled in the Caribbean via the colonial system of Indian indentured labour, have long been marginal in discussions of diaspora and Caribbeanness. This paper explores how Indo‐Guadeloupeans—from Guadeloupe, a current French overseas territory—articulate post‐indenture identities by developing two interrelated ...
Manuela Latchoumaya
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Commercial treaties and political transformation in Sulu and Southeast Asian littorals, c. 1830–1840
Abstract This article re‐examines an economic treaty concluded between Spain and the Sulu Sultanate in 1836. Analysing the Tausug (Jawi) and Spanish treaty versions alongside archival sources from Spain, the Philippines, and England, it traces the impact of indigenous agency beyond the formal signatories on economic and political transformations ...
Eleonora Poggio +2 more
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A Glimpse of the Works and Traditions of Seif ien Omar Tamimi Assadi (death c. 180 Hejri), with Emphasize on Tabari's History [PDF]
At its first stage, the Islamic historiography began in the oral form by the narrators of news known as Akhbari Traditionalists. These traditionalists mostly lived during later 1st century, 2nd century , and early 3rd century, and Ibn-Nadim has given a ...
Ali Salarishadi
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