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Forum Theologicum SardicenseThe earliest Christian perspective on Islam is that of St. John of Damascus, whose argument is fundamentally theologically oriented. This research focuses on Heresy 101: Ishmaelites, analyzing the doctrinal differences between Christianity and Islam in ...
Klara Toneva
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Octoechos: A model and inspiration for Serbian medieval hymnographer [PDF]
Muzikologija, 2011 Octoechos is not merely a musical manual in everyday use during the service in Orthodox Church, but also a comprehensive anthology of church poetry. It contains poetical works of great Byzantine poets, such as John of Damascus, Joseph the Hymnographer,
Subotin-Golubović Tatjana
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What Sustains Wars: Will to Fight Versus Military Might
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1554, Issue 1, Page 66-86, December 2025.This essay examines how psychosocial forces shape will to fight through the Devoted Actor Framework (DAF). Devoted actors, bound by sacred, non‐negotiable ideals and fused group identities, pursue a quest for ontological significance that sustains conflict beyond material incentives.
Scott Atran
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The Transition from the Temple of Jupiter to the Great Mosque of Damascus in Architecture and Design
Studia Ceranea, 2015 Great Mosque of Damascus was built between 705 and 715 by the Umayyad Caliph al-Walid I. However, the origins of this building dates to the distant past. At first it was a location of an ancient Aramaean temple dedicated to the god Hadad.
Kamil Sobczak
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Assessment the awareness toward hypertension and diabetes mellitus: Syrian cross sectional study
BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Diabetes and arterial hypertension are the two most common types of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) impacting people globally. There is no prior research on the Syrian population’s knowledge and treatment of hypertension and diabetes.
Sarya Swed +17 more
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Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 6, Page 2393-2416, November 2025.Abstract In the decade since the so‐called Arab Spring first drove debates around the relationship between images and militancy, hundreds of films have documented the uprisings and their aftermath. Yet little scholarship has considered the political consequences of films made in relation to the Arab Spring or situated new works in relation to earlier ...
Mary Jirmanus Saba
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How the Inmates’ Polyphonic Play Performs the “All Creation” Icon [PDF]
Достоевский и мировая культура: Филологический журнал, 2019 This article interprets the Marian icon “In Thee All Creation Rejoices” as the theological, liturgical, and visual context for the prisoners' play scene in Dostoevsky's Notes from the House of the Dead.
Riley M. M. Ossorgin
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Nietzsche at the Deathbed: the Eternal Recurrence as a Counter to the ‘Preaching of Death’
The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 6, Page 623-640, November 2025.Abstract In recent scholarship, the dominant reading of Nietzsche’s concept of the eternal recurrence has been as a thought experiment. This paper responds to this in two ways. First, this paper relocates eternal recurrence in the context of Nietzsche’s abiding concern with the ‘preaching of death’, a powerful, life‐negating weapon of the ascetic ...
Mark Higgins
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Incarnation and Icon in the Polemical Works of St. John of Damascus
Forum Theologicum SardicenseThe proposed text aims to present the meaning of the dogma of the Incarnation in relation to the representation of God, as articulated in the polemical writings of St. John Damascene, one of the most significant defenders of icon veneration.
Alena Kerezova
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How Love for the Image Cast out Fear of It in Early Christianity
Religions, 2017 Iconoclastic and iconophilic impulses have long vied for pre-eminence in Christianity, coming to one particularly fraught crisis point in the Byzantine Iconomachy of the eighth and ninth centuries.
Natalie Carnes
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