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Multianalytical Study of Amuletic and Talismanic Islamic‐African Paper Manuscripts in the Slovene Ethnographic Museum

open access: yesChemPlusChem, Volume 90, Issue 12, December 10, 2025.
The image illustrates a multi‐technique analysis of Islamic‐African manuscripts from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries. It highlights methods like microscopy, hyperspectral imaging, FTIR, LIF, Raman, LIBS, and furnish analysis used to study paper fibers, inks, and dyes—revealing a blend of local and trade materials and a rich fusion of Qur’anic and
Abdelrazek Elnaggar   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Principled Pragmatism in Water Resources Research: An Historical and Philosophical Perspective on Studies in South Asia and Beyond

open access: yesWater Resources Research, Volume 61, Issue 12, December 2025.
Abstract Principled pragmatism is a broad and expanding approach to water policy research, especially in the South Asian countries of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. These studies advocate policies that are both pragmatic, in the ordinary language sense of the term, and principled.
James L. Wescoat Jr.   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Moral Revolutions: The Politics of Piety in the Ottoman Empire Reimagined [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Over the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries an immense body of morality literature emerged in the Ottoman Empire as part of a widespread turn to piety.
Shafir, Nir
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Beyond words: non‐dialogical public reason in (post) revolutionary Tunisia Au‐delà des mots : raison publique non dialogique dans la Tunisie (post)révolutionnaire

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 31, Issue 4, Page 984-1002, December 2025.
In the widely demonized municipality of Ettadhamun, the heavy hand of Zin al Abidine Ben Ali's police state was partly lifted in 2011 and replaced by the softer touch of aid promoting international democracy. This aid architecture supported the burgeoning civil society to train Ettadhamun residents in the skill of ‘interpersonal communication’ (tawasul
Charis Boutieri
wiley   +1 more source

COSMOPOLITAN PHILOLOGY AND SACRED GRAMMAR

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 4, Page 109-126, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Persian developed a formal grammatical tradition comparatively late in its thousand‐year history as a lingua franca. This article takes up the emergence of Persian grammar within the larger trajectory of Persian philology. It explores questions about why and when such a tradition developed in Persian by closely analyzing the earliest formal ...
ALEXANDER JABBARI
wiley   +1 more source

Misunderstanding is a rule, understanding is a miracle: Ivo Andric's 'Bosnian Chronicle' [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The article links the fictional world of Ivo Andric's novel Bosnian Chronicle to problems in literary hermeneutics as they concerti issues of dialogue and Cultural translation.
Milutinovic, Z
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"Language, Aesthetics, and Ideology: Conceptual Frameworks for Turkish Literary Criticism" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This study attempts to investigate the salient features of Turkish literary criticism through deconstructing the concepts of language, aesthetics and ideology intersecting the disciplines of sociology and history. It questions the nationality of the self-
Nalan Erbil Erkan
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Historical Elements and Cyprus in Âşık (Minstrel) Kenzî’s Poems

open access: yesİstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi
Artists generally use their homelands and the historical and cultural elements of the societies they belong to as subjects of their poems. Âşık Kenzî, known as the only public poet of the Turkish Cypriots, enriched his poems with some elements he chose ...
Burak Gökbulut, Mustafa Yeniasır
doaj   +1 more source

Mnemotope of Zion and Theopolitical Chronotopes in Ottoman Macedonia

open access: yesColloquia Humanistica, 2020
Mnemotope of Zion and Theopolitical Chronotopes in Ottoman Macedonia The discussion in the text, through the intersection of the disciplines of literature and history, oral poetry and ethical sermons from the period of the Enlightenment process in ...
Sofija Grandakovska
doaj   +1 more source

Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.
Abstract This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non‐standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently ...
Patrick C. Lewis
wiley   +1 more source

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