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Islamic Contributions to Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues [PDF]
, 2012 The normative practice in the history of science in the West is to start with the Greeks and then jump to the European Renaissance, both studied as a background for the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century.
Iqbal, Muzaffar
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Wildlife Letters, EarlyView.Effective wildlife law enforcement is important in the drive for biodiversity conservation. This study examined the challenges of wildlife law enforcement in Oyo and Lagos States of Nigeria across four security outfits (Nigerian Police Force [NPF], Nigerian Customs Service [NCS], National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency ...
Oluwatosin Mercy Dada +2 more
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Ayatollah Khamenei’s Civilizational Theory (Proposal for a New Governance Model) with a Critical Approach to Organizational Convergence (model of new governance) [PDF]
دانش حقوق عمومیThe requirements of the current world and the confrontation with Western modern civilization are inevitable, especially when the hegemony of the Western civilization model is presented as the only path for development and progress for other societies ...
Ahmad Jahani Nasab, Morteza Alavian
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Islamic political identity in Turkey: rethinking the West and westernization [PDF]
, 2002 Ihsan D ...
Dagi, Ihsan
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Pan-Africanism: a contorted delirium or a pseudonationalist paradigm? Revivalist critique [PDF]
, 2013 This essaic-article goes against established conventions that there is anything ethno-cultural (and hence national) about the so-called African tribes.
Albert C. +19 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Egalitarianism is often idealized, but many anthropologists have noted its potential for nightmare scenarios involving envy, mistrust, and violence. This introduction outlines a framework for understanding the negative emotions and violence associated with the forces of commensuration that are necessary to make people equal.
Natalia Buitron +2 more
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
Gender &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
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Democracy in Islamic political thought [PDF]
, 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 Measure of Civilizations [PDF]
, 2002 Is it possible to compare civilizations one with another? Is it possible, in other words, to construct some neutral and objective framework in terms of which we could establish in what respects one civilization might deserve to be ranked more highly than
Smith, Barry
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
Gender &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
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