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Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
wiley   +1 more source

RADIKALISME SEBAGAI BLOCKING FACTOR BAGI PERKEMBANGAN PERADABAN ISLAM MODERN

open access: yesTeosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam, 2015
This article highlights the evolution of Islamic civilization starting from its glory during the classical period until its collapse in modern times. This article also discusses radicalism as a part of inhibiting factors of the development of Islamic ...
Hammis Syafaq
doaj  

Granadan reflections [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper explores a practice of historical reflection grounded in the city of Granada’s aesthetic and architectural heritage. From the publication of Washington Irving’s Tales of Alhambra, in 1823, up through today, Granada has been a highly celebrated
Hirschkind, C
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Democracy in Islamic political thought [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper surveys the growth and various phases of and influences on the concept of democracy in the Islamic political thought of the last two centuries. Among the thinkers covered in the survey are Rifa'a Tahtawi (1801-73), Khairuddin at-Tunis (1810-99)
Tamimi, Azzam S.
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
wiley   +1 more source

Muslims and Science

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2010
It is sad and paradoxical that Muslims, who were once the precursors and torchbearers of the scientific knowledge that culminated in modern civilization, are today wallowing in a state of backwardness, ignorance, and domination.
Ibrahim Olatunde Uthman
doaj   +1 more source

Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
wiley   +1 more source

The Revival of Islamic Civilization

open access: yesJournal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 2018
Maryam Jameelah was an American convert to Islam. Born to a non-observant Jewish family in New York, she travelled to Pakistan on the invitation of Abul A‟la Maududi where she spent more than fifty years and never returned to America.
Zohaib Ahmad
doaj  

Modernism In Islamic Education In Tafsir Al-Manār: An Epistemological Review Of Muhammad Abduh And Muhammad Rashid Ridha

open access: yesLingua: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra dan Pengajarannya
The decline of the Islamic world in the 18th century was triggered by complacency and rigid thinking, where Muslims understood religion blindly without deep understanding. The Western factor that dominated education in the Islamic world also contributed
M. Imam Gojali   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

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