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1. The Heirs of the Roman Empire: Byzantium, Islam, and Medieval Europe
The fall of Rome did not, as many contemporaries had expected, preface the end of the world. Rather, it was the end of a world, of a way of life which had characterized the Mediterranean basin for centuries.
Bloom, Robert L. +6 more
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Between and Beyond: Negotiating Belonging Within Queer Borderlands
ABSTRACT Belonging is an affective, social and biopolitical phenomenon which is relationally negotiated and which produces material and symbolic ‘borders’. Subsequently, the politics of belonging refers to the construction, maintenance and policing of the borders of belonging.
Meg Poff
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Islam is continuously engaged with diverse traditions, cultures, ethnic groups, races, and civilizations, including the dynamics of modernization, which is marked by technological progress and the swift circulation of information. The purpose of this study is to explore the concepts, challenges, and critical perspectives on tradition and modernity ...
Akhmed Reza Pahlevi +2 more
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Nationalistic Smog over Poland
Excerpt: Nationalism poisons Christianity. It strips its universalism and humanism. Using a slogan from a church hymn “We want God” on nationalists’ banners should rouse objection. God cannot be appropriated by one nation.
Wierzbicki, Alfred Marek
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(RE)-READING A KARTINI’S LETTER USING CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS [PDF]
Discussing the ideas of Kartini through her collected letters has been done by many scholars. However, they usually come from non-linguistic domain.
Nurhayati, Nurhayati
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Anselm's Temporal‐Ontological Proof
ABSTRACT In his Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm presented two additional arguments for the existence of God beyond those that appear in the Proslogion. In “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Argument,” Robert M. Adams isolates each. One, he develops into a modal ontological argument along the lines of other 20th century ontological arguments (e.g., those of ...
Daniel Rubio
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Europe and Turkey: identities in evolution. An analytical literature review. [PDF]
Gulmez SB, Topal AE, Rumelili B.
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Citizenship after orientalism: Ottoman citizenship [PDF]
About the book: A keen analysis of the social, political and economic determinants of Turkish politics with an exploration of the different dimensions of the republican model of Turkish citizenship, providing the reader with a comprehensive account of ...
Isin, Engin F.
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ABSTRACT This article examines the Turkish state's Village Guard system, revived in the 1980s as part of its counterinsurgency strategy against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). While often framed as a defensive militia, the Village Guards became central to the state's exceptional governance in Kurdistan, both facilitating military control and ...
Francis O'Connor +3 more
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Urban Poverty and Support for Islamist Terror: Survey Results of Muslims in Fourteen Countries [PDF]
Survey respondents in fourteen countries representing 62% of the world’s Muslim population indicate that approval of Islamist terror is not associated with religiosity, lack of education, poverty, or income dissatisfaction. Instead, it is associated with
Michael Mousseau
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