Slavic Epics: Gundulic's Osman and Mazuranic's Death of Smail-Aga Cengic [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper I present and compare briefly two of the greatest Slavic poets, Divo Franov Gundulic (1589-1638)1, from Dubrovnik2 (in Italian and Latin Ragusa) on the eastern coast of the Adriatic in Croatia3, and Ivan Mafuranic (1814-1890), from Novi in ...
Zlatar, Zdenko
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Everything is on the move : the Mamluk Empire as a node in (trans-)regional networks : with 19 figures [PDF]
, 2014 Fuess, Albrecht
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Religion, Warrior Elites, and Property Rights [PDF]
, 2013 In 1119 C.E., King Baldwin II of Jerusalem granted nine French knights space in the Al Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount over the ruins of Solomon’s Temple to create the headquarters of a new monastic order: The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the ...
Bold, Frederick, Hull, Brooks B.
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Listening to Europe's migration ‘crisis’: the discursive, affective and imaginative responses of audiences to BBC Radio 4 broadcasts [PDF]
Whilst geography has a long tradition of examining geopolitical discourses and imaginaries in media and popular culture, audiences remain understudied. A preoccupation with the site of representation is coupled with a disciplinary bias towards analysing ...
Watson, Alice
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, 2010 thesisThis thesis attempts to analyze the reasons for the Ottoman Empire's successful expansion in the 1400s-1800s and its ultimate decline in the 1800s-1900s through the perspective of its national gunpowder factories and gunpowder transportation ...
Nelson, Cameron Rubaloff
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Creation of a Royal Personality. The Yadgar-e Silver Jubilee of Mir Osman Ali Khan, Nizam of Hyderabad, 1936 [PDF]
, 2017 Contrary to the traditional perception, the Indian princely states underwent tremendous change in the twentieth century. The end of their 'splendid isolation' since the end of the First World War, but also the bureaucratisation of the state ...
Pernau, Margrit
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Tracing Islamic Extremist Ideologies: The Historical Journey of Jihad from the Late Antique Period to the 21st Century [PDF]
, 2016 Popular interpretations and academic scholarship tends to emphasize the relationship between jihad, military action, and communal violence. These reinforce a sense that violence is inherent to Islam.
Kanade, Nikhil
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The development of the Turkish drama as a vehicle for social and political comment in the post-revolutionary period, (1924 to the present [PDF]
, 1970 The modem Turkish dramatist has two traditions of theatre on which to draw: the folk play called 'orta oyunu' and the classical theatre of Western Europe. These have been known in Turkey for at least a hundred and fifty years. When writing comedy, he has
Robson, Bruce
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Ahmed I and "tuhfetü'l-mülûk ve's-selâtin": a period manuscript on horses, horsemanship and hunting [PDF]
, 2010 Artan, Tulay, Artan, Tülay
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