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Early Qur'anic scrolls from the Qubbat al-khazna and their links with the Christian manuscript tradition of Greek-Byzantine scrolls [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This contribution aims to reconsider some early Qurʾānic parchment scrolls once stored in Damascus Qubbat al-khazna and currently preserved in Istanbul – at the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts. Their peculiar book form, apart from vague hypothesis,
D'Ottone, Arianna
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The sect goods in Bursa Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, Sanat Tarihi Ana Bilim DalıOsmanlı Devleti'nin (1299-1923) ilk başkenti olan Bursa, önemli bir ticaret ve kültür merkezi olmanın yanında, gerek coğrafi gerekse siyasi konumundan dolayı pek çok tarikatı kendine çekmiştir.
Yüce, Özge
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Towards a national puppet centre for the Lebanon [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
The impression that Arabs did not attempt to express themselves through the medium of dramatic arts till recently echoes a simultaneous conviction which prevailed concerning visual arts expression.
Knio, Mona
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The Word Illuminated: Form and Function of Qurʾanic Manuscripts from the Seventh to Seventeenth Centuries

open access: yes, 2023
Diplomatic gifts, war prizes, or library treasures of royal and princely libraries—handwritten Qurʾans have also been endowed to mosques, tombs, and other religious complexes to perpetuate and transmit their baraka (divine blessing).
Sana Mirza (14497718)   +1 more
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Aesthetic Revolution: How Art Shapes Social Worlds

open access: yesSocial and Personality Psychology Compass, Volume 20, Issue 4, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Art inhabits the imagination, but can it influence real‐world issues? While some scholars cast art as autonomous from moral and civic life, others see it as deeply entangled with the social world. We address this debate by synthesizing evidence on art's social influence across literature, music, visual art, and film.
Eftychia Stamkou, Dacher Keltner
wiley   +1 more source

Constructing the Architectonics and Formulating the Articulation of Islamic Governance: A Discursive Attempt in Islamic Epistemology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
International institutions have promoted a ‘good governance’ agenda as an archetypal model to achieve development for underdeveloped and developing countries.
MALIK, MASZLEE
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Penal Modernization in the Western Balkans: Continuities and Changes since the Nineteenth Century

open access: yesHistory, Volume 111, Issue 394, Page 66-89, January 2026.
Abstract Influential sociologists of social control, including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber and others, conceived of the modern state as progressively moving towards the humanization of its penal programme. This article highlights developments that do not easily fit this progressivist model, drawing attention to the region that today is often referred to ...
Olga Kantokoski
wiley   +1 more source

Anti‐Imperial Autoethnographies of Family Separation: Feminist Solidarities Against Imperial Bordering in the UK

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract Anti‐imperial autoethnography is an important practice for critiquing and reflecting upon encounters with imperial bordering and its junctions with the neoliberal‐corporate university. In this article, we analyse our children's visa rejections to the UK, where we work and study as immigrant academics.
Amber Murrey, Wesam Hassan
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ŞE 4141 Rulo (Rotulus): A Kufic Qur’anic Manuscript at the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts

open access: yes, 2022
Bu makale Türk ve İslam Eserleri Müzesi (TİEM) Şam Evrakları Koleksiyonunda ŞE 4141 Rulo envanter numarasıyla kayıtlı Kur’an elyazmasının neşri ve incelemesidir. Kūfī hatlı bu parşömen Kur’an elyazması yaygın olanlardan farklı olarak rulo formdadır. Rulo
Esra GÖZELER
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Cultural Rights and Social Inclusion: Reflections on the Engagement of Refugee Communities in Egyptian Museums

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, Volume 69, Issue 1, Page 57-79, January 2026.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, Egypt has been a place of refuge for many individuals fleeing political upheaval, including Sudanese, Syrian, Yemeni, Iraqi, and Palestinian communities. The influx of Sudanese refugees since 2023 has further increased the country's refugee population.
Nevine Nizar Zakaria, Heba Alders
wiley   +1 more source

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