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Sultans, Merchants, and the Issue of Islamic Patronage on the Kazakh Steppe (1820s–1850s)
ReligionsThis article challenges historiographical interpretations that emphasize tsarist sponsorship of Muslim religious institutions on the nineteenth-century Kazakh steppe.
Nurlan Kabdylkhak
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Oriental Studies, 2018 The article characterizes the unique high-rise monumental architectural structures of the 18th century - tower and crypt buildings on the territory of Chechnya that form a special complex of historic monuments and material artifacts of the Chechens.
S. B. Ahmadov, D. S. Kidirniyazov
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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Cult Monuments in the Golden Horde: Origin and Tradition
Поволжская археология, 2016 The author analyzes cult architectural sites of the Golden Horde. She addresses such categories of buildings as mosques, minarets and mausoleums. Objects of monumental architecture quite clearly refl ect the different traditions in development of ...
Zilivinskaya Emma D.
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The ‘Forbidden Fruit’:Islam and Politics of Identity in Kosovo and Macedonia [PDF]
, 2011 This paper depicts the interplay of religion and politics, as well as of external and internal actors among Albanian communities in Kosovo and Macedonia. It argues that Islam has never been allowed into the political space, despite occasional attempts to
Krasniqi, Gezim
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract While many African cities, such as Nairobi, fared comparatively well during the pandemic years, urban residents still faced compounded uncertainties and an unequal distribution of burdens that were infrastructurally co‐mediated, for example, within and through place‐specific waterscapes and their socio‐technical infrastructures.
Moritz Kasper +2 more
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Mosques and the Second Generation: Pathways of Demarginalization in Bologna, Italy
ReligionsThis article is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Bologna between 2022 and 2023, including anonymized interviews and participant observation, and examines the role of Islamic religious spaces in fostering civic participation and identity among
Giammarco Mancinelli
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Keterkaitan Tipologi dengan Fungsi dan Bentuk: Studi Kasus Bangunan Masjid
ComTech, 2013 Besides having a particular function or purpose, a building also has certain characters that generally appear and are accumulated into an image or impression given by anyone who sees the building.
Gatot Suharjanto
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Architectural Characteristics Study on Community Mosques in Priangan 1900 – 1942 [PDF]
, 2013 Priangan was a region with a distinctive historical background and administrative unity. The region consisted of 7 regencies in present West Java Province. There were some old community mosques in the region.
Budi, B. S. (Bambang) +1 more
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Response Functions to Critical Shocks in Social Sciences: An Empirical and Numerical Study
, 2004 We show that, provided one focuses on properly selected episodes, one can apply to the social sciences the same observational strategy that has proved successful in natural sciences such as astrophysics or geodynamics. For instance, in order to probe the
B. M. ROEHNER +19 more
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