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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article investigates companionate processes of self‐making in a religious community of Catholic nuns in eastern Indonesia. I argue that the sociality of the convent establishes a unique context for understanding the effects of one's company on processes of self‐becoming.
Meghan Rose Donnelly
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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The Revival of Sacred Essence of Nature, the Solution to Environmental Crisis [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2019 Environmental degradation has become one of the biggest challenges of the contemporary world because of the bad consequences of mankind and it is nothing more important for the survival of the whole system of nature, including man.
Farshad Tohidnia +2 more
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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Nothing but the truth: the Sufi testament of 'Aziz Nasafi [PDF]
, 1996 `Aziz Nasafi is among the most important Islamic mystics of the medieval period. His achievement was to integrate various ideas, including those of Ibn `Arabi and Najm al-Din Kubrä into a coherent whole, providing Persian speaking Sufis with an ...
Ridgeon, LLoyd
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A Comparative Study of Al-Ghazālī’s and Ibn Barrajān’s Approaches to the Divine Names [PDF]
ادبیات عرفانیThis research presents a comparative analysis of two seminal works: Al-Ghazālī’s Maqṣad al-Asnā and Ibn Barrajān’s Sharḥ Asmā’ Allāh al-Ḥusnā. The central question addressed is how methodological differences – Al-Ghazālī’s approach of īḍāḥ (clarification)
Elham Rezvani moghadam
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Applying the Place of Islamic Mysticism and Zen Buddhist Ideology in Sohrab Sepehri's Paintings [PDF]
هنر اسلامی, 2020 Painting and poetry, as two arts that are closely related to one's thoughts and interests, are a reflection of common religious beliefs and associated symbols.
Fataneh Jalal Kamali +3 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
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On 3‐MMC: A Cathinone I Have Come to Know and Love
Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article attempts to complicate the mythology of a compound in a state of becoming. I will trace lightly its origins as a cultural disruptor and how I am implicated in this imperative. Introducing you to 3‐MMC will require multiple modes of storytelling and taking of liberties, drawing on literature reviews, practice‐based research, prose,
Carmen Ostrander
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An analytical perspective on the position of the mystical "name of Dahr" in mystical ontology [PDF]
حکمت اسراThe nature of this name is one of the abandoned chapters in the written works of theoretical mysticism. Although” Ibn Arabi “ and the early commentators of his school left short lines introducing this name in their epistemological heritage, but the ...
Mahdi Hassan Ahangari +2 more
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