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An Overview of the Rock Art of AlUla: Tracing Changes in Content and Form Across 12,000 Years of Human History

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between 2018 and 2021, the Identification and Documentation of Immovable Heritage Assets (IDIHA) Project recorded over 19,000 rock art panels in the AlUla (al‐‘Ulā) region of north‐western Saudi Arabia. This study presents a chronological assessment of the corpus, drawing on superimpositions, datable motifs, inscriptions, and varnish formation,
Maria Guagnin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Poetry and Architecture: Cultural Patterns in Ottoman Art

open access: yesSanat Tarihi Yıllığı
This study aims to deepen how special kinds of relations are fictionalised in the common world perspective in classical poetry and architecture considered in the Ottoman arts, with the inspiration of Heidegger, who thought that building and dwelling are ...
Fatma Sinem Akbulut
doaj   +1 more source

DeepContext: Context-Encoding Neural Pathways for 3D Holistic Scene Understanding

open access: yes, 2017
While deep neural networks have led to human-level performance on computer vision tasks, they have yet to demonstrate similar gains for holistic scene understanding.
Bai, Mingru   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Islamic Morality in Late Ottoman “SECULAR” Schools [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Recent scholarship has taken great strides toward integrating the history of the late Ottoman Empire into world history. By moving beyond the view that the West was the prime agent for change in the East, historians have shed new light on indigenous ...
Fortna, Benjamin
core   +1 more source

Constructing citizenship and indigeneity in Jordan: The politics of Bedouin rights and identities in cultural heritage sites

open access: yesThe Geographical Journal, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper explores the relationships between Bedouin rights, citizenship and indigeneity in cultural heritage sites in Jordan. Through interviews and ethnographic fieldwork with Bedouin communities, we argue that a more critical engagement with indigeneity is necessary in Jordan.
Taraf Abu Hamdan, Olivia Mason
wiley   +1 more source

European Identity and the Euro in Kosovo

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How can nationalist leaders stand for political independence and monetary sovereignty while embracing the use of a supra‐national currency? At first sight, unilateral euroisation—the de facto adoption of the euro instead of a national currency—seems inconsistent with the goals of nationalism and independence.
Nicola Nones
wiley   +1 more source

Do National Histories Affect National Identities? Ancient Athens, Byzantium and Greece Today, a Survey Experiment

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Do national histories affect national identities? Most nations have complex and multiple pasts. Nationalist historians can smooth over discontinuities by either merging them into an unbroken national narrative or by skipping over pasts that do not fit the story.
Peter Gries   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Challenging the Canon: Reading the 19th Century Ottoman Architecture through Provincial Mosques

open access: yesProstor, 2018
The main objective of this article is to propose an alternative historiography to 19th century Ottoman architecture, without the Eurocentric paradigms, by including the ‘unseen’ actors of this history, namely the disregarded provincial architecture.
Ceren Katipoğlu Özmen
doaj   +1 more source

Humanism at the Council of Constance. Diego de Anaya, Classical Manuscripts and Education in Salamanca

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
wiley   +1 more source

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