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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

open access: yesThe Muslim World, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Javanese Islamic Mysticism in the Perspective of Serat Wirid Idayat Jati

open access: yes
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

open access: yes, 2011
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☆

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

DIALECTIC OF THEOLOGY AND MYSTICISM IN ISLAM: A STUDY OF IBN TAYMIYYA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
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

open access: yesمجلة كلية الفقه, 2014
         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
doaj   +1 more source

Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Personalised Perception: The Effect of Personality on the Sensory Effects of Psychedelics

open access: yesDrug and Alcohol Review, Volume 45, Issue 5, July 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Mysticism and the renewal of Islamic literature

open access: yes, 2019
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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