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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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  The Technical Role of the Historical Film Kingdom of Heaven in Narrating the Events of the Crusades in the Middle Ages

Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
Kingdom of Heaven is a historical film that narrates the events of the Crusades in the Middle Ages using artistic techniques. It highlights the role of one of the most prominent leaders of the Crusades, named Balian of Ibelin, along with the reasons for ...
Ari Kakil Mohmedtaher, Dana Mohammed Abdulla   +1 more
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Brain reward function in young people with cannabis use disorder: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and Aims Cannabis use disorder (CUD) affects ~50 million people globally. Neuroscientific theories suggest that a blunted neural response to non‐drug rewards is a hallmark of substance use disorders; however, this remains untested in CUD. The current study tested whether brain reward system responses to the anticipation and feedback
Martine Skumlien, Lisa‐Marie Greenwood, Arush Honnedevasthana Arun, Isabella Goodwin, Anastasia Paloubis, Tribikram Thapa Rana, Marianna Quinones Valera, Eugene McTavish, Gabrielle Abbott, Suraya Dunsford, Antonio Verdejo‐Garcia, Jessica Ramamurthy, Mark M. Schira, Nadia Solowij, Chao Suo, Valentina Lorenzetti   +15 more
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What Was ‘Middle Australia’? Social Categorisation and Political Positioning in the Late‐20th Century

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Middle Australia’ became a ubiquitous term of social categorisation and political positioning during the latter decades of the 20th century. This article examines how this concept was variously used in the metropolitan print media in the guises of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of Melbourne, including in their reporting of federal and ...
Chris Beer
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Animal Kingdom of Heaven

, 2019
The essays collected in this volume apply an interdisciplinary approach to explore aspects of the relationship between animal and human in late antiquity. With a focus on ways that anthropozoological connections were defined in the emergent Christian religious discourse of the epoch, the authors contribute to our understanding of a thematic area ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
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Tracing Identity in a Fragmented Past: Multi‐Proxy Analysis of Human Skeletal Remains From Dungowan Creek, New South Wales, Australia

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human skeletal remains constitute critical archaeological evidence for reconstructing past societies, yet their investigation requires careful ethical, cultural, and legislative consideration. This paper reports on the discovery, recovery and analysis of a set of skeletal remains encountered during a cultural heritage management (CHM ...
Antonella Skepasianos, Cameron Neal, Sarah Croker, Anthony Dosseto, Michelle Fermor, Steve Talbott, Warren Mayers, Joel Mason, Florian Dux, Luke Kirkwood, Pamela Kottaras, Alan N. Williams   +11 more
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Transhumanism Without Transindividuation in the Age Without Epochality: Stiegler, Vice, and Radical Human Enhancement

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
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A scoping review of service user experiences of potential harm in early intervention in psychosis services in the UK

British Journal of Clinical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives Early intervention in psychosis (EIP) services provide care for individuals experiencing first‐episode psychosis and are considered both clinically and cost‐effective. While many have positive experiences of EIP, there have also been reports of perceived harm.
Georgie Hudson, India Francis‐Crossley, Craig S. Mackie, Rachel Hiller, James B. Kirkbride, Claire Powell   +5 more
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