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Principled Pragmatism in Water Resources Research: An Historical and Philosophical Perspective on Studies in South Asia and Beyond

open access: yesWater Resources Research, Volume 61, Issue 12, December 2025.
Abstract Principled pragmatism is a broad and expanding approach to water policy research, especially in the South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. These studies advocate policies that are both pragmatic, in the ordinary language sense of the term, and principled.
James L. Wescoat Jr.   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

'Mamlukisation' between social theory and social practice: an essay on reflexivity, state formation, and the late medieval sultanate of Cairo [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This working paper is a reflexive essay that tries to think with and beyond one of the basic assumptions upon which the field of late medieval Syro-Egyptian ‘Mamluk’ studies is built: the idea that all late medieval Syro-Egyptian objects of study are by ...
Van Steenbergen, Jo
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Īnāl al-Ajrūd, al-Malik al-Ashraf [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Al-Malik al-Ashraf Sayf al-Dīn Abū l-Naṣr Īnāl b. ʿAbdallāh al-ʿAlāʾī al-Ẓāhirī al-Nāṣirī (b. c.784/1382, d. 15 Jumādā I 865/26 February 1461), known as al-Ajrūd (“the beardless”), was sultan of Mamlūk Egypt and Syria (r. 1 Rabīʿ I 857–14 Jumādā I 865/12
Van Steenbergen, Jo
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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

Preliminary thoughts upon the policies of the Ottoman State in the 16th century Indian Ocean [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article aims to sketch concisely about the relationships between the Ottomans and the Portuguese pertaining to the developments in the Indian Ocean in the first half of the 16th century. The purpose of the Portuguese Kingdom to establish hegemony in
Ozay, Mehmet
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The Establishment of Ramadan Principality

open access: yesGazi Akademik Bakış, 2013
Ramadan Principality is a Turkish state which was established in Cukurova, having Adana as center, in 14th century. Uc Ok Turcoman, constituting this state, were Turkish raider lords who served Mamluks from the beginning of the establishment. They showed
Fatma Akkuş Yiğit
doaj  

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

Political Thought in the Mamluk Period: A New Classification for Political Themes

open access: yesİslam Tetkikleri Dergisi, 2022
Mohamad El-Merheb, Political Thought in the Mamluk Period: The Unnecessary Caliphate, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1. Baskı, 2022, 224 s.
Mustafa Taş
doaj   +1 more source

Looking beyond charters and contracts: child slavery in the narrative sources of the early Middle Ages

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 572-589, November 2025.
This article traces the presence of enslaved children in early medieval narrative sources, especially hagiographies, and looks into the relationship between their historicity and their literary functions. While topoi such as the ransoming or redemption of slaves are acknowledged, this article argues that despite these motifs, narrative sources offer ...
Danny Grabe
wiley   +1 more source

The Word Zant from the Poet’s Perspective: In Pursuit of an Obsolete Word

open access: yesİstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi, 2022
This article focuses on the word zant, which rarely appears in Ottoman poetry and served as the redif [synonymous repetition for rhyming in poetry] of a descriptive gazel [ode] in the Divan [collected poems] of Aşkî of Üsküdar. As part of the first step,
Süreyya Pekşen
doaj   +1 more source

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