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Al‐Madina Document in Contemporary Arab‐Muslim and Western Scholarship: Surveying and Assessing some Intellectual Orientations and Reading Strategies1

open access: yesThe Muslim World, Volume 114, Issue 1-2, Page 49-66, Winter-Spring 2024.
Abstract This short essay attempts at displaying briefly some examples of scholarly and intellectual interests in al‐Madina Document, which one can find in Arab and Western literature today. It endeavors to highlight the primary, focal conceptual orientations and the contextual concerns and motifs that make the Arab and the Western intellectual scenes ...
Najib George Awad
wiley   +1 more source

XRF Analysis of Village and Urban Basalt Architecture in the Hippos Territorium during the Roman Period

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 719-738, August 2024.
Abstract This case study examines the use of X‐ray fluorescence (XRF) as an effective method for defining distinct chemical compositions of local basalt stone from different sources in the Roman period, even when their quarries have not been identified.
Mechael Osband   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Halal and Makruk: Muslim archaeological fish assemblages as cultural identifiers in the Iberian Middle Ages?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 34, Issue 4, July/August 2024.
Abstract Muslim religion has strict rules to determine what kinds of foodstuffs, and under what circumstances, are deemed appropriate for consumption. Fishes are not an exception to this rule and features such as body shape or the presence and conspicuousness of scales dictate whether certain species are acceptable or rejected.
Laura Llorente‐Rodriguez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Composition and affinities of glass from the Ma'agan Mikhael B shipwreck, Israel

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 340-351, April 2024.
Abstract Material recovered from the Ma'agan Mikhael B shipwreck, off the coast of northern Israel, includes a significant assemblage of glass, which appears to represent waste workshop material (cullet) collected for recycling. Twenty‐three samples were selected for analysis for major and minor elements using SEM‐EDS, to provide insight into the ...
Agnese Benzonelli   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aleppo cultural center [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
LAUREA MAGISTRALENell’ambito della ricostruzione post bellica, il progetto vuole essere parte del processo di ricostruzione della identità nazionale. Per questo il progetto è generato dall’analisi di una delle città maggiormente colpite dalla guerra ...
DE VECCHI, LORENZO MARIA   +2 more
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Zainab's traffic: spatial lives of an Islamic ritual across Southwest Asia

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 168-186, March 2024.
Abstract Since the 1979 Revolution, Iranian pilgrims have engaged in saint visitation (ziyarat) to sites in Syria. By travelling via Turkey on buses, and venerating Sayyida Zainab at their destination, these pilgrims disrupt conventional conceptions of not only Islamic ritual, but also Iranian mobility under sanctions.
Emrah Yıldız
wiley   +1 more source

Jews and Urban Life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Jews and Urban Life recognizes that throughout their long history, Jews have often inhabited cities. The reality of this urban experience ranged from ghetto restrictions to robust participation in a range of civic and social activities.
Greenspoon, Leonard J.
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Evangelism Among Muslims [PDF]

open access: yes, 1975
The issue to be addressed by this project is specifically the apparent ineffectiveness of evangelization among Muslims of the Middle East as evidenced by thirteen centuries of polarization between Muslims and Christians.
Oster, Kenneth S
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Syria's Monuments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Syria's Monuments: their Survival and Destruction examines the fate of the various monuments in Syria (including present-day Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine/Israel) from Late Antiquity to the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century.
Greenhalgh, Michael
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