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Recent Social Concerns Regarding the Integration of Technology in Islamic Pilgrimage [PDF]
SHS Web of ConferencesHajj and Umrah are two major pilgrimage events that bring millions of Muslims together every year, coming from diverse ethnic and theological backgrounds. Creating unique social phenomena in which Muslims experience social identity formation.
Ballout Shaimaa
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A pilgrimage to gravity on GPUs [PDF]
, 2012 In this short review we present the developments over the last 5 decades that have led to the use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) for astrophysical simulations. Since the introduction of NVIDIA's Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) in 2007 the
A. Ahmad +37 more
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Where the Heroes and Sky-Goers Gather: A Study of the Sauraṭa Pilgrimage
Religions, 2017 Tibetan and Himālayan Buddhist doctrine and meditative traditions have been extensively studied and are well-known even to non-scholars, but pilgrimage and other non-elite practices have received far less attention.
Paul B. Donnelly
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Gendered spaces and practice,relationality, emotion and affect at the Marian shrine of Ta Pinu, Gozo, Malta [PDF]
, 2016 In this chapter the case study of Ta’ Pinu, Gozo, a site of pilgrimage for Marian devotion and the national shrine of Malta, is analysed as a gendered assemblage and an example of the intersection of gender and religion, with attention to the spatial and
Maddrell, Avril
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Pilgrimage in Islam: Traditional and Modern Practices
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2018 Pilgrimage in Islam is a religious act wherein Muslims leave their homes and spaces and travel to another place, the nature, geography, and dispositions of which they are unfamiliar.
Nazar Ul Islam Wani
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Philosophy of Pilgrimage of the Holy Prophets and Infallible People and its Effect on giving Meaning to Human Life [PDF]
International Multidisciplinary Journal of Pure Life, 2022 SUBJECT AND OBJECTIVES: The subject of this research is to explain the philosophy of pilgrimage of the Holy Prophets and infallible people and its effect on giving meaning to human life.
Hakimeh-Sadat Nateghi (Afghanistan) +1 more
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Walking Pilgrimage as Ritual for Ending Partnerships
Religions, 2023 Scholarship in pilgrimage studies suggests that people use travel to sacred sites to mark life transitions such as moving into adulthood, retirement, the death of a loved one, or the ending of an intimate relationship.
Kathleen E. Jenkins
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Family Medicine, 2022 This chapter shows why definitions in the social sciences are politically sensitive but often necessary. It demonstrates the limitations of an Anglophone approach to studying pilgrimage literature, while exploring terms for pilgrimage in different languages.
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The 1936 Vimy Pilgrimage [PDF]
, 2012 This article explores the significance of the 1936 Vimy Pilgrimage. More than 6,200 Canadian veterans and their families voyaged to France for the unveiling of Walter Allward’s Vimy Memorial on 26 July 1936 by King Edward VIII.
Brown, Eric, Cook, Tim
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Women in Britain’s First Muslim Mosques:Hidden from History, but Not Without Influence [PDF]
, 2020 Two of the earliest Muslim communities in Britain evolved around the first mosques in Liverpool and Woking (both—1889). The history of these early British Muslims is being recovered but little is known about the women (usually converts) in these ...
Cheruvallil-Contractor, Sariya
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