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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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Javanese Islamic Mysticism in the Perspective of Serat Wirid Idayat Jati
Javanese Islamic mysticism is a unique branch of Islamic mysticism, which reflects a harmonious combination of Islamic teachings and Javanese culture.
Radea Yulli Hambali +2 more
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BEAUTY AND ITS PROJECTION IN CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC TRADITION
1st Meetingof Poetic Expressions: Saying the Same in Different Ways, Beauty, Sublime, Creativity in Islamic and Occidental Culture -- AUG 13-14, 2009 -- Ctr Promot Cross Cultural Understand, Hanover, NHThis essay deals with the conception of beauty and ...
Turker, Habip
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What Does Intarsia Say? Materiality and Spirituality in the Urbino Studiolo☆
Abstract Upon entering the Urbino studiolo of Federico da Montefeltro, the visitor is struck by a material‐charged environment. Surprisingly, only a few scholars have addressed one prominent aspect of the decorative scheme, namely, the feature of intarsia as a medium. Even so, it remains on the sidelines of the discussion.
Matan Aviel
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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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DIALECTIC OF THEOLOGY AND MYSTICISM IN ISLAM: A STUDY OF IBN TAYMIYYA [PDF]
Islamic theologians and sufi orders are rarely considered to have totally different ways of of discovering the truth of God. In the view of Ibn Taymiyya, on the contrary, Islamic theology and mysticism, both together strive to deliver people to ...
Sangkot Sirait, Sirait, Sangkot
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أعمدة التصوف الإسلامي في ميزان المستشرقين أبن عربي أنموذجاً
Generally ,the Islamic mystical studies are the most important and essential studies in the field of the historical thought . so there is no doubt that the mysticism may rise for the hieghest range in the humanistic thought and the best one .
مشتاق بشير الغزالي
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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Personalised Perception: The Effect of Personality on the Sensory Effects of Psychedelics
ABSTRACT Introduction Psychedelics induce a wide range of sensory distortions and hallucinations (henceforth ‘distortions’). Yet, little is known about factors that influence the occurrence of certain distortions. Extra‐pharmacological variables including personality traits have been found to correlate with the occurrence of different subjective ...
Alexander Boardman +2 more
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Mysticism and the renewal of Islamic literature
Literature has been a medium to express and explore the depths of human life and Truth. This is accurate of Islamic literature, produced across the globe over hundreds of years.
Altabaa, Homam, Hamawiya, Adham
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