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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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Civilizing the Nation: Travel, Civility and Bourgeois Nationalism in Israel
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reads The Lapid Guide to Europe, a bestselling Hebrew‐language travel guide published from the 1970s to the 1990s, as a form of bourgeois nationalism enacted through everyday practices of behaviour. Written by journalist and Holocaust survivor Tommy Lapid, the guide operated as civic pedagogy, instructing Israeli travellers in ...
Daniel Mahla
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between 1609 and 1614, after over a century of forced conversions, cultural oppression and inquisitorial persecution, Spain expelled its morisco subjects. Despite being baptised Christians, the descendants of Spain's Muslim population had been deemed incapable of sincerely following the Christian faith and assimilating into society due to ...
Elizabeth Liliann Blakemore
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Southern African Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2018 The Hajj is the largest annual mass gathering on Earth. Respiratory infections are one of the leading causes of disease and hospitalisation during the pilgrimage, with pneumonia and influenza most common among these infections despite the availability of
Salim Parker +5 more
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Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future
The Russian Review, EarlyView.Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT From its very inception, the Jewish National Movement Hibbat Zion turned to the collective past to advance its goals in the present. One of their activities was to reinterpret Jewish holidays and festivals, especially those that did not take a central place in the Jewish calendar.
Asaf Yedidya
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FoodsThe potential migration of chemical compounds from plastic food packaging poses significant health risks, necessitating continuous monitoring and enhanced safety protocols.
Heba M. Adly +3 more
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite enduring decades of advocacy, Alevi communities in Türkiye find themselves in a constant state of anticipation for acknowledgment from the Turkish state. Previous studies have long documented the marginalized status of Alevis within Turkish society and their ongoing struggle for recognition; however, they have overwhelmingly framed the
Aslı Gücin
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Prevalence and predictors of fibromyalgia symptoms in an academic setting: a cross-sectional study
BMC RheumatologyBackground Fibromyalgia (FM) is a complex, chronic syndrome characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain and cognitive difficulties. Occupational and psychosocial stressors may contribute to the development and exacerbation of FM symptoms. This cross-
Maram H. Alshareef +5 more
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The Plant Phenome Journal, Volume 9, Issue 1, December 2026.Abstract Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] varieties are categorized into different relative maturity groups (MGs) that correspond to the approximate region that the variety is best adapted. Maturity is an important trait that growers consider when deciding which varieties to plant and for breeders as a covariate to compare genotypes.
Nathaniel Burner +2 more
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