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From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 1022-1039, September 2026.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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A Comparative Evaluation of Transformers and Deep Learning Models for Arabic Meter Classification

open access: yesApplied Sciences
Arabic poetry follows intricate rhythmic patterns known as ‘arūḍ’ (prosody), which makes its automated categorization particularly challenging. While earlier studies primarily relied on conventional machine learning and recurrent neural networks, this ...
A. M. Mutawa, Sai Sruthi
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Arabic as A Language Between Qur'anic (sacred) and Historical Designation

open access: yesBuletin Al-Turas, 2018
In this short essay, basically break down the discussion into three main parts. In the introductory part. glance briefly on the origins of arabiyah and the founding of lslamic religion as a focal point in shaping and solving the Arabic language.
Kamarudin Salleh
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Sonic Cartographies of Internationalism

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT How does sound chart a different story of anticolonialism? Sound could perhaps draw out another map of space in history. Mirroring the form of sound waves, this article travels across borders, following the way sound waves themselves move.
Mai Taha, Sara Salem
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Astrology in literature: how the prohibited became permissible in the Arabic poetry of the mediaeval period [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This thesis is concerned to position the art of astrology within the context of classical Arabic poetry, primarily by investigating and elucidating attitudes to the notion of qadar (fate) and the ideology in which it was embedded.
Al Abbasi, Abeer Abdullah A
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“TO SEUNAGAN SEEKING HAS SPREAD”: THE TRANSMISSION OF ESOTERIC TRADITION AND HISTORY AS PROPHECY

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 411-423, September 2026.
ABSTRACT In this essay, I explore accusations of heterodoxy, as well as rebuttals of these accusations, leveled at Sufi groups in late‐colonial and independent Aceh, the last region of what is today Indonesia to fall under Dutch colonial rule. What has been at stake in debates about the orthodoxy of such groups has not simply, or even primarily, been ...
DANIEL ANDREW BIRCHOK
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SALUTING THE PROPHET: Cultural and Artistic Expression in Javanese Society

open access: yesJournal of Indonesian Islam, 2018
Puji-pujian (lit. praise poetry) has become a tradition for Muslims since the phase of the Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him until our modern phase. The contradiction between accepting and rejecting has also occurred since the apostle is still alive ...
Imam Ghazali Said
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INTRODUCTION: REFLECTIONS ON HISTORY AS PROPHECY, CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 65, Issue 3, Page 368-377, September 2026.
ABSTRACT In this essay, I provide brief introductions to the notion of “prophetic” historiography that I developed in Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future: History as Prophecy in Colonial Java (1995) and to the five essays of this forum that were written in dialogue with it. I argue that “history as prophecy” forms a practice of writing in which the
NANCY FLORIDA
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 4, Page 589-608, September 2026.
Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
wiley   +1 more source

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