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The Judeo‐Islamic God

The Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
wiley   +1 more source

Woodlands of Antiquity: A millennium of dendrochronological data on forest exploitation and timber economy between the Alps and the Atlantic. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Muigg B, Haneca K, Tegel W, Grünewald M, Bernard V, Bleicher N, Blondel F, Bolliger M, Broich M, Couturier Y, van Daalen S, Domínguez-Delmás M, Girardclos O, Herzig F, Langenegger F, Le Digol Y, Nelle O, Nicolussi K, Oberhänsli M, Perrault C, Rzepecki A, Vorst Y, Weidemüller J, Westphal T, Seim A.   +24 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
wiley   +1 more source

Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
wiley   +1 more source

How can white marble provenance studies change our perception of the stone trade in the Roman Empire: analysing inland Thrace, a <i>terra incognita</i>. [PDF]

Humanit Soc Sci Commun
Anevlavi V.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Pictures and the Frame: Banknote Iconography and Bottom‐Up Nationalism in Pre‐ and Post‐Revolutionary Tunisia

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT ‘Bottom‐up nationalism’—the belief that the nation is of the people, by the people and for the people—can serve as a powerful collective action frame for mass mobilization. We study the evolution of Tunisian dinar banknote iconography as an indicator of the institutionalization of bottom‐up nationalism before and after the Jasmine Revolution ...
Jacques E. C. Hymans, Chloe Bernadaux
wiley   +1 more source

Death and the family: widows and divorcees in Roman Egypt

, 2011
Book synopsis: This volume seeks to explain developments within the structure of the family in antiquity, in particular in the later Roman Empire and late antiquity.
Pudsey, April
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Multidisciplinary study of human remains from the 3rd century mass grave in the Roman city of Mursa, Croatia. [PDF]

PLoS One
Novak M, Yavuz OE, Carić M, Filipović S, Posth C.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Remembering Independence, Debating the Nation: Ghana's National Days

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Ghana, Independence Day is the most important national day and has been annually observed since the attainment of independence in 1957. Additional national days that various military governments introduced to commemorate their ascension to power have been rather short‐lived. Other holidays like Republic Day or Founder's Day have been longer
Carola Lentz
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic histories of individuals from multi-faith medieval Sicily. [PDF]

PLoS One
Monnereau A, Orecchioni P, Hamilton D, Green EJ, Noble I, Hagan R, Sandoval-Velasco M, Molinari A, Carver M, Speller CF, Wales N.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source