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Bridging Geomythology and Geospatial Analysis for Flood Risk Assessment in Tamil Nadu

open access: yesJournal of Flood Risk Management, Volume 19, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT The need for more holistic and context‐aware approaches to flood‐risk assessment has become increasingly urgent with extreme climate change events faced globally. Modern models overlook the long‐term environmental knowledge incorporated in ancient literature, myths, and cultural memory as they rely primarily on hydrological and geospatial ...
Shrishti Kushwah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The crisis of Islamic civilization /

open access: yes, 2009
From the Publisher: Islam as a religion is central to the lives of over a billion people, but its outer expression as a distinctive civilization has been undergoing a monumental crisis. Buffeted by powerful adverse currents, Islamic civilization today is
Allawi, Ali A.(viaf)15087499
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ISLAM, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND MODERNITY: PUBLIC THEOLOGY AMID CULTURAL NARRATIVE

open access: yes
This essay offers a historical and sociological analysis of the Islamic Renaissance in Baghdad and Córdoba, highlighting their significant contributions to the Enlightenment, civilization, and civil society. Using a world-system approach, I explore a post-Eurocentric perspective on the Islamic contribution to the commercial revolution and global ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The keys to the garden: Capital, class, and the repurposing of Persian mystical poetry in Los Angeles

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This article traces the social life of medieval Persian poetry as it is repurposed within Los Angeles's Iranian diaspora. Based on 5 years of immersive ethnography in private erfān classes and mystical assemblies, I argue these gatherings function as contemporary diasporic courts, mobilizing core texts within a spiritual marketplace structured
Zia Khoshsirat
wiley   +1 more source

Norm Circles and the Limitations of European Union Normative Projection in Afghanistan

open access: yesJournal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Norm diffusion research explains the international travel of norms in semantic terms, through resonance, framing, grafting and localisation. Such accounts presuppose norms to be portable objects whose identity persists through transit. Yet, ontologically, norms exert causal force only where a real social group endorses and enforces them.
Oz Hassan
wiley   +1 more source

Between reconciliation and peace making and brutalization: The Israeli case

open access: yesPolitical Psychology, Volume 47, Issue S1, January/December 2026.
Abstract This article examines the relationship between peacemaking, reconciliation, and brutalization in violent conflicts. It argues that these processes are deeply interconnected: effective peacemaking and reconciliation can interrupt or reverse brutalization, whereas unsuccessful or incomplete peacemaking may allow brutalization to persist, deepen,
Daniel Bar‐Tal
wiley   +1 more source

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