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Review: What is islam? The Importance of Being Islamic by Shahab Ahmed [PDF]

, 2016
‘[A] valid concept of “Islam” must denote and connote all possible “Islams,” whether abstract or “real,” mental or social’ (104)... Ahmed seeks to avoid two major pitfalls: (1) making Islam into a static essence or a category within an essentialist ...
Andani, Khalil
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The roots of "Western European societal evolution". A concept of Europe by Jenő Szűcs [PDF]

, 2014
Jenő Szűcs wrote his essay entitled Sketch on the three regions of Europe in the early 1980s in Hungary. During these years, a historically well-argued opinion emphasising a substantial difference between Central European and Eastern European societies ...
Anderson P., Anderson P., Bibó I., Bloch M., Brugmans H., Croce B., Dawson C., Dawson C., Dawson C., Dawson C., Dawson C., Dopsch A., Eisenstadt S., Eisenstadt S., Hajnal I., Hajnal I., Halecki O., Halecki O., Halecki O., László Zsinka, Makkai L., Pirenne H., Reynold G., Reynold G., Reynold G., Rosenstock-Huessy E., Rosenstock-Huessy E., Szűcs J., Szűcs J., Szűcs J., Szűcs J., Szűcs J., Wallerstein I., Wandycz P. S., Weber M.   +34 more
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The Unbecoming Ghost: Spectropolitics in the Making and Unmaking of BHU's Bhoot Vidya Ayurveda Certificate Program

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
wiley   +1 more source

The theory of numbers in Islamic art as one of the sources of inspiration in modern interior design

Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2018
For thousands of years, Human civilizations have experienced several attempts to reach numbers in different ways. Each civilization was characterized by its own symbols for numbers that indicate the needs of this period of time.
Sanagik Mustafa
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Historical sociology of the city [PDF]

, 2003
About the book: This Handbook consists of 26 chapters on historical sociology. It is divided into three parts. Part One is devoted to Foundations and covers Marx, Weber, evolutionary and functionalist approaches, the Annales School, Elias, Nelson and ...
Isin, Engin F.
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Contribution of Islamic Civilization to the Scientific Enterprise of the Modern World

Journal of Religious and Social Studies
The contributions of the Islamic Civilization since its advent in Arab, it has always produced numerous intellectuals, learned people, artists and scientists. An account of the development of Islamic Civilization in Maktabs and Madrasas in Arab since the First century A.H. has influenced non-Muslims by different generations, continuing its enterprising
Hafiz Amjad Hussain, Hafiz Masood Qasim
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Adaptive Spaces and Rural Futures: Climate Change, Agrarian Dynamics, and Knowledge Politics in Southeast Asian Socioecological Transformations

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary rural change in Southeast Asia is shaped by complex, intersecting forces that defy simplistic narratives. Researchers must therefore develop new ways to grasp nuanced, non‐linear, and locally specific processes to understand how transformational shifts may occur (or not) in the region.
John F. McCarthy, Jean‐Christophe Castella, Kelly Dorkenoo   +2 more
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Contractual Forms in Islamic Finance Law and Islamic Inv. Co. of the Gulf (Bahamas) Ltd. v. Symphony Gems N.V. & Ors.: A First Impression of Islamic Finance [PDF]

, 2003
This Article focuses on the case of Islamic Investment Company of the Gulf (Bahamas) Ltd. v. Symphony Gems N.V. & Others (“Symphony Gems”). Symphony Gems is the first instance where a Western court of law ruled on an Islamic financial transaction ...
Ahmed Esq., Arshad A., Moghul Esq., Umar F.   +1 more
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Problematic image of Islamic civilization in the contemporary discourse Media

Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2016
The Islamic civilization on Arab foundations of a well-established and formed arts around the deep religious themes, thanks to the Islamic spirit that pervaded those states, the Arabs were on a multitude premium from the political horizon capacity and ...
walaa Mahmoud
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Constructing National Identity Through Museums in Early Republican Turkey: Historical Narrative, Spatial Transformation, Exhibiting Modernity, and Monumentality

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of museums in the construction of national identity during the Early Republican Period in Turkey (1923–1950). Drawing on theoretical approaches that interpret museums as spaces in which collective memory and national identity are materially organized and publicly communicated, the study analyzes museums as key ...
Duygu Atalay Şimşek
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