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New Arabic Records From Cairo on Supernovae 1181 and 1006

open access: yesAstronomische Nachrichten, Volume 346, Issue 9, November 2025.
ABSTRACT The remnant of the historical supernova SN 1181 is under discussion: While the previously suggested G130.7+3.1 (3C58) appears too old (3000–5000 year), the unusual star IRAS00500+6713 with a surrounding nebula (Pa‐30) has an expansion age not inconsistent with a SN Iax explosion in ad 1181 under the assumption that neither acceleration nor ...
J. G. Fischer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Academic Affairs Happenings, Volume 1, Issue 1 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The Newsletter is an ongoing publication that highlights the wide range of work in which RWU faculty and students are ...
Office of Academic Affairs, Roger Williams University
core   +8 more sources

How does religion influence an emerging nationalism? Evidence from the Kurdish context in Turkey

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 982-1002, October 2025.
Abstract Based on qualitative interviews with 66 Sunni Muslim Kurdish elites, this study reveals that Kurdish Islamic circles in Turkey are not monolithic, homogeneous or fixed. Some willingly or unwillingly maintain their Islamic identity as a primary reference point for self‐consciousness, motivation for collective action and political aspirations ...
Muttalip Caglayan
wiley   +1 more source

Infrastructure Sabotage as Future‐Making: The Material and Immaterial Power of Constructive Destruction

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 57, Issue 5, Page 1750-1770, September 2025.
Abstract We propose that a critical examination of infrastructure sabotage should consider its material and immaterial dimension, and its constructive and destructive effects. Combining these two antagonisms, we suggest a matrix of four quadrants that describes (1) deconstructive material effects, (2) constructive material effects, (3) destructive ...
Theo Aalders, Eric Mutisya Kioko
wiley   +1 more source

Anti‐Blackness, Canonicity, and (Mis‐)Identification in Emine Sevgi Özdamar's Ein von Schatten begrenzter Raum

open access: yesThe German Quarterly, Volume 98, Issue 2, Page 91-108, Spring 2025.
Abstract This essay explores the disturbing presence of anti‐Black language and tropes in Emine Sevgi Özdamar's recent, celebrated novel Ein von Schatten begrenzter Raum. Drawing on Toni Morrison's classic analysis in Playing in the Dark, I argue Özdamar's anti‐Blackness is characterized by a double‐valence: on one hand, Özdamar's anti‐Blackness ...
Barbara N. Nagel
wiley   +1 more source

Sufi Warriorism in Muslim Southeast Asia

open access: yesSociology Lens, Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 502-516, December 2024.
Abstract Sufism (tasawwuf) has been characterized in the extant literature as a pacifist strand in Islam that has shaped the landscapes of Muslim Southeast Asia (also known as the Malay World) since the last five hundred years. This article challenges such historiographical interpretation by examining the multifarious circumstances that motivated Sufis
Khairudin Aljunied
wiley   +1 more source

An Emotional Economy of Mundane Objects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Cataloged from PDF version of article.This article illuminates the affective potentialities of objects. We examine the circulation of Kurdish music cassettes in Turkey during the restrictive and strife-laden period of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. We find
Ger, G., Kuruoglu, A.
core   +1 more source

‘Not a party to this crime’: The reciprocal constitution of identity and morality by signatories of the Academics for Peace petition in Turkey

open access: yesBritish Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 2180-2199, October 2024.
Abstract In this paper, we examine how social identity, moral obligation and the relationship between the two shaped support for the 2016 Academics for Peace petition in Turkey. We examine the pre‐trial statements of nine defendants charged for signing the petition and appearing in court on the same day in December 2018.
Yasemin Gülsüm Acar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Migrant Archive: Chronicling Religious and Spiritual Experiences during the Pandemic 2020–23*

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 333-342, September 2024.
This article focuses on a digital platform which invited forced migrants to document their experiences during the Covid pandemic, resulting in an archive of digital materials, much of it relating to religion and spirituality: around 1000 contributions by around 800 asylum‐seekers, refugees and undocumented migrants. Using smartphones, they shared audio
Marie Gillespie
wiley   +1 more source

Places between vanishing and appearing compass and sense in the Iraqi Kurdish poetry translator

open access: yesمجلة كلية التربية للبنات, 2019
Longer Kurdish poetry translator important tributary of the tributaries of the Iraqi culture contemporary , and a wealth of knowledge rich experiences of an important segment of the Iraqi people , nicked culturally with the languages and cultures of the ...
صلاح كاظم هادي
doaj  

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