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Islamic Public Administration in Practice: The Taliban's “Gender Apartheid” Governance in Afghanistan

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the Taliban's post‐2021 governance model through the Islamic Public Administration (IPA) framework, focusing on justice, equality, and women's inclusion. It asks: (1) How does the Taliban's governance align with core IPA principles?
Parwiz Mosamim   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Legal status of the Roma in the Princedom of Serbia [PDF]

open access: yesPravni Zapisi, 2016
In the Ottoman province of Serbia (initially the Belgrade Pashalik), the Roma had the same legal status as elsewhere in the Empire: they paid a special, Gypsy poll tax (Gypsy cizye; in Serbian: ciganski harač) and were subject to the personal ...
Janković Ivan
doaj  

The Genetic Legacy of Cretan Landrace Grapevines and Their Relationship to the Southern Levant

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Grapes are more than an agricultural crop; they are a vital part of human history, economy, and culture. Yet the origins of many traditional varieties remain unclear. By studying the genetics of Cretan grapes, we discovered that they are a “genetic mosaic”—combining local lineages with those from the Southern Levant and Eastern Europe.
Meirav Meiri   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investor's Quest for Judicial Security: Reading Ottoman Capitulations from the Contemporary Understanding of International Economic Law

open access: yesPublic and Private International Law Bulletin
International investment law relies on extending legal protections to foreign capital beyond the national judicial system. Such protection is not, however, exclusive to the contemporary era; throughout history, States have deve-loped similar mechanisms ...
Akif Emre Öktem, Berk Demirkol
doaj   +1 more source

Collateralization of the Body in the Central Sahara: On Forms and Effects

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article tracks a transporter along the route linking Tripoli to the Saharan town of Ghadames in post‐2011 Libya, asking what secures an obligation when the institutions that normally underwrite it (offices, courts, recognized names) have receded. I distinguish the debt, the sum owed, from the security pledged to answer for it: what may be
Moad Musbahi
wiley   +1 more source

The introduction of a limping standard in the principality of Serbia [PDF]

open access: yesBalcanica, 2007
From the Ottoman conquest in 1459 to the monetary reform launched in 1868 Serbia was under the full monetary suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire and did not have the right to mint her own coinage.
Gnjatović Dragana
doaj   +1 more source

A Preliminary Work on the Intellectual and Civilisational Dimensions of the Al-Jawaib Based on Ottoman Sources

open access: yesJournal of Al-Tamaddun
This study was an investigation of the relationships between Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq, editor of the al-Jawaib (Circulating News), an Arabic newspaper published in İstanbul, his son Selim Faris, and the Ottoman authorities, utilising only Ottoman archival ...
Mehmet Ozay Corresponding Author   +1 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Abdāl-affiliated Convents and “Sunnitizing” Halveti Dervishes in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Rumeli

open access: yesHistoricizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750, 2020
As recent research suggests, Ottoman “Sunnitization” entailedmuchmore than a number of state-led measures directed against the non-Sunni Muslim communities in the empire.
Grigor Boykov
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Aspects of the social and political history of the Yazidi enclave of Jabal Sinjar (Iraq) under the British mandate, 1919-1932 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1994
This thesis focuses on various aspects of the social and political history of the Yazidi Kurds of Jabal Sinjar ( Iraq)during the British mandate. When relevant to the history of mandatory Sinjarit also deals with the neighbouring Yazidicommunity of Iraqi
Fuccaro, Nelida
core  

Islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth L'islam au monastère : de l'infini comme vérité soustractive

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
wiley   +1 more source

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