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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

The slave trade on the Adriatic in the 17th century / Prodaja roblja na Jadranu u 17. stoljeću

open access: yesMiscellanea Hadriatica et Mediterranea, 2013
Since Antiquity the slave trade in the Adriatic had been a long term activity which had an important impact on the economy of the Dalmatian communes. The status of slaves and their traffic was originally regulated by the Statutes of individual Dalmatian ...
Tea Perinčić
doaj   +1 more source

Features of the development of banks in the Ottoman Empire in the middle of the XIX – early XX centuries

open access: yesГуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2023
Introduction. The development of banks in the Ottoman Empire is a complex topic in domestic and foreign historiography. Eastern societies, especially Muslim ones, have long had a negative attitude towards banking activities, considering it an offspring ...
E. R. Khalimbekova
doaj   +1 more source

Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
wiley   +1 more source

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

A Village on the Outskirts of the Ottoman Empire: Archaeological Research at Tell Zeyd

open access: yesAnnali di Ca’ Foscari: Serie Orientale
This paper presents the most recent results from the research programme Zeyd Archaeological Project; launched in 2022, this project aims at exploring economy and society in the hinterland of the historical province of Mosul in the long Islamic period ...
Tonghini, Cristina   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
wiley   +1 more source

CERAMICS IN CIRCULATION: NETWORK ANALYSIS FROM THE OTTOMAN BALKANS AND AEGEAN

open access: yesПриноси към българската археология
This study addresses challenges in Ottoman archaeology, where sites and materials are often neglected due to the complex legacy of Ottoman heritage. The Ottoman Empire has left an lasting mark on the heritage of three continents.
Tsveta Kodzhabasheva
doaj   +1 more source

Waqf in Algeria: Its Historical Exploration from Ottoman to Post-Independence Era

open access: yesJournal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 2021
This study provides a critical discussion on the history of waqf in Algeria throughout three main different eras namely, the Ottoman rule era, the French colonisation period and after independence era, to raise awareness and enrich researchers’ thoughts ...
Abdelkader Laallam   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hospitaller Revenues, Bourbon Regalism: The Financial Administration of the Grand Priory of Castile and León under an American Parvenu

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract After the vicissitudes of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), the consolidation of the Bourbon Monarchy in early eighteenth‐century Spain allowed Philip V's ministry to implement the so‐called Nueva Planta in his various kingdoms and lordships of the Crown of Aragon, but also in Castile.
Roberto Quirós Rosado
wiley   +1 more source

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