Stakeholder-based assessment of historical urban landscapes as cultural heritage within the context of sustainable development: a case study of İznik (Nikaia). [PDF]
Kapuci U +3 more
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Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey
ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
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Methodological Reflections from Engaging Five Culturally and Linguistically Unique U.S. Muslim Populations. [PDF]
Ali AM +5 more
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Between Boundaries: Reflexivity of Discomfort With ‘Significant Other’
Short Abstract Walking through such narrow lanes of the Bihari camp meant walking through histories that were neither fully theirs nor fully mine. Each step carried an inherited tension and an uneasy proximity of the ‘significant other’. This article explores the complexities of a reflexive ethnography of a Bengali researcher researching the Bihari ...
Abdullah Al Zubaer Evan
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Promoting sustainable urban tourism in Historic Sari, Iran through GIS-based walkability planning. [PDF]
Mansourihanis O +2 more
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From Mosque to Mosque, from Mosque to Museum: Moving Minbars during Restoration
Dina Ishak Bakhoum The protagonist of this story is the minbar (pulpit) of the mosque/madrasa of Tatar al-Ḥijaziyya (Fig. 1), now housed at the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo (known earlier as the Museum of Arab Art). The story of its journey to the museum is not on display to visitors, who may assume that it directly came from its original mosque. Its
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architect: Sinan (Islamic, 1495-1588), architect: Hayreddin (Islamic, 1442-1512)
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Can a lizard ride on a housefly?: Navigating uncertainty and moral life in an Accra Zongo, Ghana
Abstract How can uncertainty become a resource for ethical life rather than a threat to it? Focusing on a Zongo community in Accra, Ghana—also known as a “traveler's camp” or “stranger's quarters”—this article examines how people use a creative form of communication called the practice of folding to sustain relationships shaped by conditions of ...
Emily A. Williamson
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Impacts of religious leader training on maternal and child health in underserved communities of Bangladesh. [PDF]
Bari F +4 more
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