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‘He Seems Like a Morisco to Me, / Even in the Way He Talks’: Articulating morisco Difference in Lope de Vega and Cervantes

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between 1609 and 1614, after over a century of forced conversions, cultural oppression and inquisitorial persecution, Spain expelled its morisco subjects. Despite being baptised Christians, the descendants of Spain's Muslim population had been deemed incapable of sincerely following the Christian faith and assimilating into society due to ...
Elizabeth Liliann Blakemore
wiley   +1 more source

Women's contraceptive knowledge, attitudes, and practices in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia: a scoping review. [PDF]

Reprod Health
Chengane S, Sabra R, Foster AM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Framing Peninsular Crypto‐Jews as Part of the Sephardic Diaspora

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When we talk about the Sephardic diaspora, we often talk about Iberian conversos who leave the Peninsula, supposedly to live openly as Jews in places like Algiers, Venice, Amsterdam or the Ottoman Empire. But what about those conversos who continued to identify in some way as Jews but who remained in Spain and Portugal?
David A. Wacks
wiley   +1 more source

How golden age Arab-Islamic scholars revolutionized sleep physiology and dream analysis. [PDF]

J Taibah Univ Med Sci
BaHammam AS.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Converso Diaspora and Iberian Empires

Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Whereas there is no consensus among contemporary scholars in defining the Converso diaspora and its criteria of belonging, most of them highlighted its geographical, economic, cultural and political dependence on early modern Iberian empires.
Claude B. Stuczynski
wiley   +1 more source

Roadmap for a Systems Biology Initiative in Iran. [PDF]

J Med Signals Sens
Kamali Z, Jalilvandnejad A, Falenji B, Zarei P, Lotfi M, Hadizadeh F, Vaez A.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Political Naturalisation: Conscripting Transit Citizens in the United Arab Emirates

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since its formation, the United Arab Emirates has sought to construct a cohesive sense of national identity among its citizens, centred on a system of material and legal privileges granted exclusively to Emirati nationals. A pillar of its nation‐building project was the strict exclusion of foreigners from citizenship and the upholding of a ...
Mira Al Hussein
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing peak demand forecasting with adaptive FastICA-transformer and entropy-based model customization. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Saeed F, Aldera S, Alkhatib M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Shaping Arab Identity Through the Beautiful Game: A Heterotopic Analysis of the 2022 World Cup

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar functioned as a heterotopic space through which Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) identities were publicly articulated, negotiated and made visible. Drawing on Foucault's notion of heterotopia and Lefebvre's understanding of space as socially produced, the paper approaches the ...
Ghufrane Daymi
wiley   +1 more source