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The impact of the Najaf environment on the emergence and development of its scientific and literary councils

open access: yesآداب الكوفة, 2015
Najaf is one of the three cities of the civilizational triangle (Al-Hirah, Kufa, and Najaf) that are located in one geographical area, which was called (Al-Zahr), dating back to ancient times, in which palaces, monasteries, temples, and castles were ...
عقيل الخاقاني
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À l’horizon d’Aros, une lecture des coordonnées de My Lady of Aros de John Brandane

open access: yesÉtudes Écossaises, 2012
Shortly after World War I, John Brandane joined in the founding of the National Theatre of Scotland. As early as 1920–21 he wrote and staged comedies and tragedies necessarily dealing with Scottish topics, while using, as a recurrent background, Aros ...
Jean Berton
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The Qur’anic hapax legomenon "sִamad" in Medieval Arab-Christian apologetics [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология
The situation that emerged in the period of VIII-X centuries, when representatives of the Abbasid dynasty (750-1258), who had recently come to power, began to actively encourage the conversion of non-believers to Islam, prompted representatives of ...
Vladislava Shtefan
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Doğu Hıristiyanlığı İçinde Süryaniler ve Süryani Okulları

open access: yesBurdur İlahiyat Dergisi
Süryani hıristiyanlar, Doğu’da Filistin ve civarında, Suriye’de, Irak’ta Hıristiyanlığın ilk yayıldığı coğrafyalarda yaşayan eski bir topluluktur. İki bin yıla yaklaşan tarihiyle Süryani edebiyatı, telif ve tercüme birçok eseri miras bırakmıştır.
Abdullah Dilek
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Les Essays at Removing National Prejudices against a Union (1706-1707) de Daniel Defoe : essais ou pamphlets ?

open access: yesÉtudes Écossaises, 2011
As part of the mission to promote the Anglo-Scottish Union (1707) which had been entrusted to him by Robert Harley, Defoe wrote several works, including six Essays at Removing National Prejudices against a Union.
Yannick Deschamps
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Jacobitism [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Joining the fray of scholars addressing the controversial question of the meaning of Jacobitism, Pittock (literature, U. of Strathclyde) offers an account of the movement, both as a political and cultural phenomenon, concentrating on its Scottish, English, and Irish forms. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Sweden and the Jacobite movement (1715-1718) [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Română pentru Studii Baltice şi Nordice, 2010
During the second decade of the century of the Enlightenment, a short interesting episode occurred between the Kingdoms of Britain, Sweden and the Russian Empire.
Costel Coroban
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Queen Anne's Wardrobe: Fashion, Sartorial Politics, and the Representational Strategies of the Last Stuart Queen

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
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Accent Change in the Wake of the Industrial Revolution: Tracing Derhoticisation Across Historic North Lancashire

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th‐century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur, and where it is not. Using recordings from 27 speakers, we first analyse coda rhoticity in north Lancashire, UK. The speakers were born 1890–1917
Claire Nance, Malika Mahamdi
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‘In the Manner of the Ancient Jewish Historians’: Parody and Satire, Panegyric and Censure in Eighteenth‐Century Mock Chronicles

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 233-257, September 2025.
Abstract In mid‐eighteenth‐century Europe, anonymous authors produced parodic satires masquerading as earnest exemplars of the chronicle form. Couched in an antiquated, quasi‐biblical register, these mock chronicles drew flimsily fictional portraits of modern life.
Zachary Garber
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