The Effective Factors Affecting the Social History of Shiites in the Levant up to the Seventh Century [PDF]
Islām va ̒ulūm-i ijtimā̒ī, 2020 Although Shiite in the Levant as an influential school has faced hardships by its opponents, it has maintained their identity since the early centuries of Islam.
Hossein Moradi Nasab, Hadi Shamas Abadi
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Social capital and collusion: the case of merchant guilds [PDF]
, 2003 Merchant guilds have been portrayed as ‘social networks’ that generated beneficial ‘social capital’ by sustaining shared norms, effectively transmitting information, and successfully undertaking collective action.
Dessì, R, Ogilvie, S
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Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal
History, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines relations between Winston Churchill and France. It argues that Churchill was sympathetic to France and, in particular, unusual among Englishmen of his generation in being sympathetic to its political system, but also that this sympathy did not make Churchill consistent in his relations with France.
Richard Vinen
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Gendering Labour in Palestinian Archaeology, 1890s–1930s
Bulletin of the History of ArchaeologyWomen workers were a common sight on archaeological excavations in Palestine in the Late Ottoman and Mandate periods, their presence appearing in the historical record through anecdotal and ethnographic descriptions, wage lists or photographic archives ...
Sarah Irving
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Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, 2021 The early Upper Palaeolithic marks the introduction at a continental scale of a fully-fledged laminar industry, and it is associated with the presence of Homo sapiens in the Near East and in Europe.
Gennai, J.
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Education in Damascus in the sixth century AH [PDF]
آداب الرافدين, 1979 The Levant was politically exposed during this period to many difficulties. And the rule shared by multiple powers. The Franks established four principalities for them in Edessa, Antioch, Tripoli, and Jerusalem.
Amena AlBitar
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Quasi-continuous higher-order sliding mode controller designs for spacecraft attitude tracking manoeuvres [PDF]
, 2008 This paper studies high-order sliding mode control laws to deal with some spacecraft attitude tracking problems. Second and third order quasi-continuous sliding control are applied to quaternion-based spacecraft attitude tracking manoeuvres.
Pukdeboon, C. +2 more
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An Overlooked Habitat‐Dependent Link Between Metabolism and Water Loss in Reptiles
Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.We measured the gas exchange of six lizard and six snake species, under high and low air humidity, and two intriguing patterns emerged. First, although desert species lose less water via evaporation than similar‐sized mesic species under similar conditions, water loss is virtually the same when each is exposed to its natural conditions.
Shahar Dubiner, Shai Meiri, Eran Levin
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Ceramic composition at Chalcolithic Shiqmim, northern Negev desert, Israel: investigating technology and provenance using thin section petrography, instrumental geochemistry and calcareous nannofossils [PDF]
, 2018 Technological innovations in ceramic production and other crafts are hallmarks of the Chalcolithic period (4500–3600 BCE) in the southern Levant, but details of manufacturing traditions have not been fully investigated using the range of analytical ...
Burton, Margie M +3 more
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The threat to Israel’s identity in Deuteronomy: Mesopotamian or Levantine? [PDF]
, 2012 Deuteronomy contains a number of indications which locate its interests in the Levant rather than in Mesopotamia. This observation challenges two major theories of the book’s origins: Deuteronomy as pre-exilic attempt to subvert Assyrian imperial power ...
Crouch, C.L.
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