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Insight Into Body Size Evolution in Aves: Based on Some Body Size‐Related Genes

open access: yesIntegrative Zoology, Volume 20, Issue 6, Page 1124-1135, November 2025.
These findings provide new insights into the genetic determinants of body size evolutionary mechanisms in Aves. ABSTRACT Birds exhibit remarkable variations in body size, making them an ideal group for the study of adaptive evolution. However, the genetic mechanisms underlying body size evolution in avian species remain inadequately understood.
Chaoyang Luo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Possession and Jinn [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2005
Najat, Khalifa, Tim, Hardie
openaire   +4 more sources

Cin ve Şeytanların Şihâb Yıldızlarıyla Yakılması Konulu Âyet ve Hadislerin Tespiti ve Tahlili

open access: yesBurdur İlahiyat Dergisi
Âyetler ile rivayet ve tarih kaynaklarının bildirdiğine göre Hz. İsa’dan önce cin ve şeytanlar, semadan çaldıkları bilgileri yalan-yanlış malumatlarla karıştırarak yeryüzünde irtibat hâlinde oldukları kimselere iletirlerdi.
Murat Bahar
doaj   +1 more source

Using new literatures as a resource in fostering cross cultural awareness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper is based on the premise that the wealth of new literatures in English that are available in several countries of Asia and South East Asia today can serve not only to provide students access to the rich and varied cultural life of the people in
Rubdy, Rani Sumant
core  

Jinn n’ (No Freshly Squeezed) Juice

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2010
Liquor stores, or more colloquially “corner stores,” in Detroit, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Washington, and other major metropolitan cities located in economically under-served, urban, majority-black neighborhoods have been purchased by
Maytha Alhassen
doaj   +1 more source

Age‐based δ15N and δ13C values of otolith organic matter reveal trophic ecology in marine fishes

open access: yesLimnology and Oceanography Letters, Volume 10, Issue 5, Page 734-744, September 2025.
Abstract Fish inhabiting similar environments face space and resource constraints, develop diverse feeding strategies, and adjust their trophic niches during ontogeny to reduce competition. To investigate this process, we reconstructed the trophic trajectory of five species of the family Sciaenidae by analyzing δ13C and δ15N values in otolith organic ...
Mu‐Ting Li   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review: Lisa Mackenrodt, Swahili Spirit Possession and Islamic Healing in Contemporary Tanzania: The Jinn Fly on Friday (2011) Buchbesprechung: Lisa Mackenrodt, Swahili Spirit Possession and Islamic Healing in Contemporary Tanzania: The Jinn Fly on Friday (2011)

open access: yesAfrica Spectrum, 2013
Review of the monograph:Lisa Mackenrodt, Swahili Spirit Possession and Islamic Healing in Contemporary Tanzania: The Jinn Fly on Friday, Hamburg: Verlag Dr.
Jigal Beez
doaj  

Describing Hadith Narrators as "Devils" or "Jnn": Implications for Accrediting & Discrediting Narrators [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Islamic Studies, 2014
The research aims to study the Hadith narrators whom critics described as devils or jinn. It inVol.ves the investigation of their status and the impact of the description on evaluating their credibility.
Tariq Oudah Abdullah Al-Oudah
doaj  

An emergent affliction in today’s Egypt

open access: yesMedicine Anthropology Theory, 2018
This article examines the emergence and constitution of a new affliction category in contemporary Egypt: wahm, meaning (self-)illusion, locally defined as the condition of being falsely convinced one is possessed by spirits called ‘jinn’, all the while ...
Ana Vinea
doaj   +1 more source

Toward an Ethnography of God

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 541-551, September 2025.
ABSTRACT In recent years, anthropologists and theologians have been engaging in conversation with one another. Building on, and branching out from, that conversation, this article calls for a careful ethnographic engagement with not just “God talk” (the literal meaning of theology) but also with the figure of God itself.
Amira Mittermaier
wiley   +1 more source

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