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Commercial Deceit: Fraudulent Trade from the Ports of Cilicia and Cyprus to the Mamlūks

open access: yes, 2023
The article aims to examine the deceitful practices employed by traders in the eastern Mediterranean. It investigates three principal types of deception that Italian merchants in the Kingdom of Cilician Armenia and in Cyprus used in order to conceal ...
Usta, Ahmet
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Political and Economic Relations between the Ayyūbids and the Baḥrī Mamlūks and the Ashraf of Ḥijāz, 567–784 A.H./1171–1382 A.D.

open access: yes, 2017
This thesis sheds light on the history of political and economic relations between the Ayyūbids and Baḥrī Mamlūks and the Ashraf of Ḥijāz (567–784 A.H./1171–1382 A.D.).
Musaed Jaber Alenezi (7812371)
core   +1 more source

Risks to the Unborn: An Umbrella Review on the Effects of Prenatal Maternal Stress Caused by Natural Disasters

open access: yesStress and Health, Volume 41, Issue 5, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Traditionally, to promote an optimal pregnancy trajectory and child development, encompassing both physical and mental health, a preventative focus is crucial and ‐ ideally ‐ exposure to negative influences is supposed to be limited. However, when prevention is not feasible, early identification of developmental impairments is paramount to ...
Kaia A. Bustnes   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A “Documentary Turn” in the Medieval History of Egypt and Syria?

open access: yesHistory Compass, Volume 23, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.
ABSTRACT The field of medieval Middle East history has seen a renewed attention to the use of documentary sources in recent years. These sources have long seen some neglect, and their interpretation has suffered from a stubborn narrative of paucity that has tended to relegate them to the fringe of this history. With the impact of other scholarly trends
Daisy Livingston
wiley   +1 more source

Obesity Alters the Vascular Morphology and VEGF‐A Signaling in Adipose Tissue

open access: yesFASEB BioAdvances, Volume 7, Issue 6, June 2025.
Obesity alters cell geometry and vessel morphology in mice adipose tissue by increasing adipocyte size by 78% and reducing vessel density by 51%, while vessel size and capillary basement membrane thickness remain unchanged. Obesity also affects angiogenesis, which is mediated by vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) binding kinetics.
Yunjeong Lee   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Strange” affinities

open access: yesAmerican Ethnologist, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 490-501, November 2024.
Abstract British Muslim volunteers in Syria have been variously cast as humanitarians, activists, and—under the suspicious gaze of the war on terror—disguised militants. Yet many volunteers frame their efforts as attempts at iṣlāḥ (reform, repair, rectification). What is the ethicopolitical life of iṣlāḥ, a multivalent concept in the Islamic tradition,
Muneeza Rizvi
wiley   +1 more source

How the Mamluk Sultan Addressed the Golden Horde’s Khan. The Form of Letters and Rules for Their Compilation

open access: yesЗолотоордынское обозрение, 2018
Research objectives: To study some questions of form and protocol by which the Mamluks were guided in their “written relations” with the Chinggisids of the Golden Horde.
Marie Favereau
doaj   +1 more source

Animals' paleopathology: Implications on human–animal interaction during the intensification of farming in the Southern Levant

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 34, Issue 5, September/October 2024.
Abstract Animal domestication led to changes in the interaction between animals and humans, including new ways of exploitation, which could potentially leave lesions on the animals' bones. This study aims to examine changes in the prevalence of pathological manifestation following changes in human‐animal interactions as a result their domestication ...
Linoy Namdar   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Diplomatic Relations between the Mamluk and Ilkhanate States from 694 To 736 AH / 1294 To 1336 AD (It is a Historical, Investigative Study)

open access: yesZanco Journal of Humanity Sciences
This study, entitled "Diplomatic Relations between the Mamluk and Ilkhanate States from 694 to 736 AH / 1294 to 1336 AD," is a historical analysis that examines the diplomatic interactions between these two powers.
Lanja Talaat Obaid   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Defamiliarizing Romance: The Arabic sīra in the English Literary Classroom

open access: yesLiterature Compass, Volume 21, Issue 7-9, July-September 2024.
ABSTRACT This article explores the ways in which the Arabic sīra a genre loosely akin to the romance or chivalric epic can be incorporated into undergraduate teaching on medieval romance. Drawing on my own pedagogical experience and guided by ongoing critical work on decolonising and diversifying the curriculum, I demonstrate the values and challenges ...
Shazia Jagot
wiley   +1 more source

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