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The deterrent effect of voting against minarets: identity utility and foreigners' location choice [PDF]
, 2015 This paper uses the vote on the Swiss minaret initiative as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of negative attitudes towards immigrants on foreigners' location choices and thus indirectly on their utility.
Slotwinski, Michaela, Stutzer, Alois
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Seismic fragility curves of a historical brick masonry minaret
Earthquake Spectra, Volume 41, Issue 5, Page 3499-3525, December 2025.Historical minarets are generally vulnerable to earthquakes because of their poor‐quality materials and high slenderness. The objective of this work is to utilize the methodology employed for seismic fragility curves to analyze historical brick minarets, specifically focusing on a specific instance minaret.
Elif Durgut, Medine Ispir, Alper Ilki
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Muslim Diasporas and the Politics of Belonging: Ibadi and Ismaili Pasts and Presents in East Africa
Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.ABSTRACT This article examines the Ibadi and Ismaili Muslim communities in East Africa—particularly in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania (including Zanzibar)—and their distinct religious, social, and economic roles. Even as minorities within predominantly Sunni contexts, both groups have shaped the region through migration, commerce, and international ...
Kimberly T. Wortmann
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Revue musicale OICRM, 2019 L’œuvre du compositeur Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) fait résonner un Orient singulier. Si on y découvre l’ombre scintillante du monde de la pacotille « fin de siècle », on y trouve aussi les couleurs chaudes et rêveuses que la littérature et la peinture ont données à un Orient imaginé depuis plus de deux siècles. Au cours de cet article, nous présenterons
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Who Cares About Islamic Law? [PDF]
, 2017 The legal transplant in the Arab world, perhaps even in the Islamic world writ large, hasn’t had much luck by way of close study in US legal academia. Compared to its scholarly treatment in other non-Western contexts, such as Latin America and East Asia,
Abu-Odeh, Lama
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American Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 541-551, September 2025.ABSTRACT In recent years, anthropologists and theologians have been engaging in conversation with one another. Building on, and branching out from, that conversation, this article calls for a careful ethnographic engagement with not just “God talk” (the literal meaning of theology) but also with the figure of God itself.
Amira Mittermaier
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Emevîlerin İlk Mısır ve Mağrib Valisi Mesleme Bin Muhalled el-Ensârî
İstem, 2020 Mısır toprakları, tarih boyunca çok farklı inançları içinde barındırmış bir coğrafyadır. Bölge, fethinden önce Bizans’ın önemli bir eyaleti iken, fethinden sonra da Müslümanların gözde bir vilayeti olmuştur.
Murat Gök
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New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, Volume 67, Issue 4, Page 451-466, December 2024.ABSTRACT The occurrence of volcanic basanite cobbles in Pleistocene terraces at Galloway and in the upper Clutha valley in Central Otago, in an area devoid of known volcanic edifices, has implications for Cenozoic intraplate volcanism and Pleistocene drainage in the region.
James M. Scott +5 more
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Sufi Warriorism in Muslim Southeast Asia
Sociology Lens, Volume 37, Issue 4, Page 502-516, December 2024.Abstract Sufism (tasawwuf) has been characterized in the extant literature as a pacifist strand in Islam that has shaped the landscapes of Muslim Southeast Asia (also known as the Malay World) since the last five hundred years. This article challenges such historiographical interpretation by examining the multifarious circumstances that motivated Sufis
Khairudin Aljunied
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Assessment of structural condition of a historic masonry minaret in Egypt
Case Studies in Construction Materials, 2020 Egypt has many monumentality masonry minarets; most of them were constructed in the last two centuries 19th and 20th. Many of these minarets suffer from material aging, deterioration, adverse environmental conditions and lack of maintenance.
Maher A. Adam +3 more
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