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The contribution of mathematics to Islamic civilization: A historical study and its relevance in the modern era

open access: yesPriviet Social Sciences Journal
This article discusses the contribution of mathematics to the development of Islamic civilization from a historical perspective and its relevance in the contemporary context, especially in Indonesia. Using a critical review of scientific literature and relevant primary sources, this study evaluates the significant role of mathematics in shaping the ...
Bagus Hidayatulloh, Mohammad Nurwahid
openaire   +1 more source

Memory, Crisis and Boundary Hardening: Historical Persecution Narratives and Attitudes Towards Arab Citizens of Israel

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How is endorsement of a historical‐persecution narrative related to minority exclusion during crises? This article argues that historical persecution narratives are durable cultural resources whose political implications are neither uniform nor constant.
Yuval Feinstein   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Iberian Scepticism in Istanbul: The Hebrew Philosophical Dialogue Attributed to Don Joseph Nasi

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT On 28 April 1577, the printer Joseph Ya’abetz in Constantinople printed a rare Hebrew pamphlet titled Ben Porat Yosef (Joseph, the Offspring of a Fertile Tree). Its author, Isaac ben Samuel Onkeneira, claims to report a philosophical debate between Don Joseph Nasi (1524–1579), the powerful Portuguese‐born agent at the Ottoman court, and a ...
Carsten L. Wilke
wiley   +1 more source

A Sephardic Quevedo? Abraham Gómez Silveira, Between Controversy and Poetry

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A book published in 2000, El barroco sefardí Abraham Gómez Silveira (The Sephardic Baroque Abraham Gómez Silveira), introduced us to this hitherto unknown author, baptised in Castile in 1651, who was educated at the school of the sacred congregation of the Sephardic Jews in Amsterdam.
Mercedes Blanco
wiley   +1 more source

Civil Society in Modern Islamic Political Though: Apprehensions and Aspirations

open access: yesHazara Islamicus, 2015
The theme of civil society as a reflection of state-society relationship has remained contentious since its beginning; some scholars argue that Islam and civil society remain fundamentally incompatible as the concept of civil society originated and developed in the western world.
openaire   +1 more source

Shaping Arab Identity Through the Beautiful Game: A Heterotopic Analysis of the 2022 World Cup

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar functioned as a heterotopic space through which Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) identities were publicly articulated, negotiated and made visible. Drawing on Foucault's notion of heterotopia and Lefebvre's understanding of space as socially produced, the paper approaches the ...
Ghufrane Daymi
wiley   +1 more source

Modern Perspectives on Islamic Law

open access: yes, 2013
This well-informed book explains, reflects on and analyses Islamic law, not only in the classical legal tradition of Shari'a, but also its modern, contemporary context. The book explores the role for Islamic law in secular Western nations and reflects on
Black, Ann   +2 more
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Ecological Struggle as Ethos of Decolonisation: Emergence of a Decolonial Ecology in Bakur (Northern) and Rojava (Western) Kurdistan

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines why the Kurdish Freedom Movement has adopted ecological struggle as a foundational pillar in its politics of decolonisation and the reclamation of autonomy. Framed within the context of colonial and ecocidal developmentalism, the research analyses how policies initiated during the Ottoman Empire and perpetuated by Turkish
Necmettin Türk
wiley   +1 more source

The Scholar Imprisoned: Young‐Bok Shin's Decolonial Thought Against (Sub) Imperialisms in East Asia

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reads Young‐Bok Shin (1941–2016) as a decolonial thinker who theorized transformative worldmaking from the standpoint of the oppressed, rooted in the historical experiences of East Asia. Against the (sub)imperial “logic of sameness” that structures colonial modernity in his social world, Shin advances gongbu (studying) as a ...
Veda Hyunjin Kim
wiley   +1 more source

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