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Recension : Paul Yule (éd.), Late antique Arabia : Ẓafār, capital of Ḥimyar : Rehabilitation of a “Decadent” Society : Excavations of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 1998-2010 in the Highland of the Yemen, Abhandlungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden (2013), 310 p

open access: yes, 2013
International audienceCompte rendu de l'ouvrage de Paul Yule (éd.), Late antique Arabia : Ẓafār, capital of Ḥimyar : Rehabilitation of a “Decadent” Society : Excavations of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 1998-2010 in the Highland of the ...
Schiettecatte, Jérémie
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Islam and tattooing: an old question, a new research topic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Most Muslim theologians have argued on the basis of the ḥadīth-literature that tattooing is ḥarām (forbidden), but it is nonetheless possible to find both historical and contemporary examples indicating that, at different times and in different places ...
Larsson, Göran
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Aziz al-Azmeh, The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: Allāh and His People [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Aziz al-Azmeh aims his T h e Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity at two of the most important questions concerning Middle Eastern history: how did the Muslim faith arise, and what was the role of the Arab people in the venture of Islam?
Webb, Peter
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Review of Haggai Mazuz, The Religious and Spiritual Life of the Jews of Medina [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Reviewed book: Haggai Mazuz The Religious and Spiritual Life of the Jews of Medina. (The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 38) Leiden: Brill, 2014. ISBN 978-90-04-25062-8.
Lindstedt, Ilkka Juhani
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Arabic Fatḥ as ‘Conquest’ and its Origin in Islamic Tradition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The Arabic term fatḥ (pl. futūḥ) is often translated as “conquest,” but this meaning is not intrinsic to the root f-t-ḥ either in Arabic or in other Semitic languages.
Donner, Fred M.
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Writing melancholy : the death of the intellectual in modern Arabic literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
textIn this study on the depiction of the death of the Arab intellectual in elegiac writings since 1967, I examine the ways in which modern and contemporary Arab writers who identify with different literary and historical generations have mourned and ...
Halabi, Zeina G.
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Cultural Diversities: The Implications for Radicalization Theory & Practice on Pakistani College Campuses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article was prepared for a 2018 conference convened at AIR University Islamabad on ‚Radicalization: Perceptions, Realities and Challenges of Campus Life‛.
Hermansen, Marcia
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The return of the sacred: Collective action of Copts during Muslim Brotherhood rule [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The outbreak of the Arab Spring and the subsequent overthrow of Mubarak in 2011 gave ‎way to the rise of Islamists to power. The Muslim Brotherhood’s regime was perceived ‎by the Coptic community, in particular, as a real threat to Copts’ collective ...
El Shamy, Alaa
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Rejecting shirk and promoting tawḥid? A critical examination of the motivation and objective of the iconoclasts in Bamiyan (2001) and Timbuktu (2012) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This thesis critically examines the main motivation and objective given by Islamic puritans to justify the destruction of sites of memory in Bamiyan (2001) and Timbuktu (2012).
Litoing, Nougoutna Norbert
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