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Religious Studies Review, Volume 52, Issue 2, Page 432-436, June 2026.
Mariam Sheibani
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Obesity Alters the Vascular Morphology and VEGF‐A Signaling in Adipose Tissue
FASEB 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
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A Mamluk Rebel in Egypt: Bulutkapan Ali Bey (El-Kebîr) (1768/69-1773)
Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2017 This article aims to examine, within the framework of center-periphery relations, the rise and fall of a Mamluk leader in Egypt in the middle of the 18th century.
Selda GÜNER
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Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2019 The Mamluk period is one of the most important periods in the history of Islamic architecture in Egypt and al-sham, The city of Tripoli is one of the most important Islamic cities al-sham, It also comes second after the city of Cairo with its diverse ...
Heba Abdel Hamied
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American 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
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International 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
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Defamiliarizing Romance: The Arabic sīra in the English Literary Classroom
Literature 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
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 375-395, July/August 2024.Abstract A spring tunnel is an ancient water installation used to artificially increase the water yield of a spring through a subterranean tunnel. We have developed a database of 216 spring tunnels documented in the central region of the Southern Levant (present‐day Israel), constructed between Iron Age II and the modern era.
Azriel Yechezkel +4 more
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The past and future of the study of Islamic esotericism
Religion Compass, Volume 18, Issue 7, July 2024.Abstract The study of Islamic esotericism, particularly the concept of al‐bāṭiniyya, remains fragmented. While often studied under various labels like “mysticism” and “occultism,” it is widely equated to Sufism. Scholars still hesitate to use the term al‐bāṭiniyya due to its historical pejorative connotations, linking it to extremist adherence to ...
Liana Saif
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La tutelle institutionnelle des successions à Jérusalem au xive siècle
L'Atelier du CRH, 2020 This article examines the contribution of the judicial and administrative institutions in the settlement of estates during the Mamluk period on the basis of a detailed analysis of the legal documents from the Ḥaram corpus (Jerusalem). The study shows the
Christian Müller
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