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National, regional, global TV in Algeria : University students and television audience after the 2012 Algerian media law [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Acknowledgments: The authors would like to thank the colleagues Saida Kheira Benammar, who helped to set up the survey in Mostaganem, and Mohamed Chihat, who helped to contact and meet researchers in Algiers, for their generous and wholehearted support ...
Kobibi , Hafssa, Sarnelli, Viola
core   +1 more source

The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
wiley   +1 more source

Exporting the Holy Land: artisans and merchant migrants in Ottoman-era Bethlehem [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article explores an aspect of Arab migration in the nineteenth century that is often retold in popular memory but rarely discussed in academic work: that of Bethlehem merchants and the “Holy Land” wares they sold.
Norris, Jacob
core   +1 more source

Beyond Negated Identity: Mediating the World History Classroom through Adorno's Negative Dialectics

open access: yesEducational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article centers on Adorno's negative dialectics to account for experiences of alienation and marginalization within the world history classroom. It begins with the problem of how marginalization occurs in high school world history classrooms with predominantly Black and Latinx students.
Tadashi Dozono
wiley   +1 more source

The Ottoman-Jewish Family: General Characteristics

open access: yes, 2017
Matters concerning the Jewish family in the Ottoman Empire are very revealing about Ottoman lives and the Ottoman mentality and folklore. We are still lacking a comprehensive research on it, and this is in a way an introduction to this topic.
Y. Ben-Naeh
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
wiley   +1 more source

Intersecting Identities in 18th Century Jerusalem: Conversion to Islam

open access: yesReligions
This paper examines conversion to Islam in eighteenth-century Ottoman Jerusalem as a multifaceted transformation negotiated across social, legal, and economic domains. Drawing on Jerusalem Court Registers and the scholar al-Khalīlī’s (d. 1734, Jerusalem)
Alaattin Dolu
doaj   +1 more source

Judicial Activism of the Shari\u27ah Appeals Court in Israel (1994 - 2001): Rise and Crisis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The main thesis of this Article is that after 1994, with the nomination of new qadis to the Shari‘ah Court, a process of judicial activism began, which continues until this day.
Ramadan, Dr. Moussa Abou
core   +1 more source

Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800)

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses wealth inequality in the Republic of Venice during 1400–1800. The availability of a large database of homogeneous inequality measurements allows us to produce the most in‐depth study of the factors affecting inequality at the local level available thus far for any preindustrial society.
Guido Alfani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kadi Courts in the Ottoman Balkans and Christians in 18th Century (According to the Sofia Documents)

open access: yesIslam in the modern world, 2020
The article deals with the status of Christian population of Sofia under the Ottoman rule and legal pluralism. The aim of the investigation is to analyze the degree of integration of Christians to the Ottoman system of law and to understand the reasons ...
A. A. Leontieva
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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