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Racialized Labor Intermediation: Managing the “Threat” of Kurdish Workers on Turkish Farms

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 381-392, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Farm labor intermediaries in Turkey have been at the heart of maintaining a precarious and low‐wage migrant labor force for capitalist agriculture since the 19th century. This labor force has been predominantly comprised of Kurds, a people racialized as “savage,” “racially impure,” and “traitors of the Turkish nation” since the beginning of ...
Deniz Duruiz
wiley   +1 more source

Hafiz Abdullah Ajni ef. Bušatlić

open access: yesAnali Gazi Husrev-Begove Biblioteke, 1996
Hafiz Abdullah Ajni ef. Bušatlić appears in the cultural life of the Muslims from Bosnia and Herzegovina at the end of the XIXth century and the begining of the XXth.
Azra Gadžo-Kasumović
doaj  

Economic Development, Legality, and the Transplant Effect [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
We analyze the determinants of effective legal institutions (legality) using data from 49 countries. We show that the way the law was initially transplanted and received is a more important determinant than the supply of law from a particular legal ...
Berkowitz, Daniel M.   +2 more
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Beyond Negated Identity: Mediating the World History Classroom through Adorno's Negative Dialectics

open access: yesEducational Theory, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 395-419, June 2026.
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

Let Your Will be in Your Hand if I Don’t Come: The Provisions of Tafwīz al-Talaq Reflected in Fatwas in Ottoman Family Law and Its Function as an Intra-Madhhab Remedy

open access: yesİslam Tetkikleri Dergisi, 2021
This study focuses on the provisions of the tafwīz al-talaq as reflected in the fatwas and the function of the tafwīz al-talaq as a remedy within the madhhab in Ottoman family law. It aims to demonstrate the practical forms of the tafwīz al-talaq, which is the husband’s delegation of the right to divorce his wife, and describe the functions it ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean: Expanding the SlaveVoyages Database

open access: yesHistory Compass, Volume 24, Issue 2-3, June 2026.
ABSTRACT While the trans‐Atlantic slave trade has been thoroughly documented in a database of slaving voyages freely available to the public, few comparable resources focus on the traffic across the Indian Ocean and Asia exist. This article seeks to change that picture by discussing the preliminary findings of a research project aimed at expanding the ...
Daniel B. Domingues da Silva   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 600-633, May 2026.
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

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

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 811-849, May 2026.
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

Strategic materials and state capacity in Renaissance Italy: The economic policies of ‘Roman saltpetre’ procurement

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 757-780, May 2026.
Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
wiley   +1 more source

Fetvava - yi aqhisari: Rukopis u nacionalnoj biblioteci u Beču

open access: yesAnali Gazi Husrev-Begove Biblioteke, 2005
Topic of this work is one manuscript Collection of the legal opin- ions - whose author is mufti from Budim Ibrahim el-Akhisari. This manuscript, kept in the National Library in Vienna, was catalogued and described by Gustav Flugel.
Nedim Zahirović
doaj  

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