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A stylistic and comparative study of unpublished pre-Islamic stone sculptures from Arabia

open access: yes, 1990
This thesis has involved the compilation of a catalogue of unpublished pre-Islamic sculptural material, comprising statues, statuettes, heads, reliefs and plaques bearing stylized human faces and inscriptions. The objects come mainly from three known
Al-Mazroo, Hamid Ibrahim
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Formation and Development of Islamic Cultural Structure: An Analytical Study of the Meccan Period

open access: yesپاکستان جرنل آف اسلامک فلاسفی, 2023
The article examines the formation and development of the Islamic cultural structure during the Meccan period, preceding Prophet Muhammad's migration to Medina.
Dr. Abdul Ghaffar
doaj  

Nested Institutions and Overlapping Mandates: A Policy Analysis of Mangrove Governance in Ghana, Tanzania Mainland, and Zanzibar

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mangroves are critical resources in sustaining coastal communities by providing essential ecosystem goods and services. Occurring within the interface of land and sea, they serve as critical ecological zones shaped by dynamic interactions between terrestrial and marine systems.
Menelisi Falayi   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Review on Carbon‐Based and Metal‐Based Anode Materials of Microbial Fuel Cells

open access: yesEnergy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
Reviews a wide range of anode materials used in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and evaluates their performance and suitability for scalable energy recovery from wastewater. Defines the essential characteristics of an ideal anode, including high surface area, excellent electrical conductivity, strong biocompatibility, and cost‐effectiveness, while ...
Md. Hamidur Rahman   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early Islamic ceramics and glazes of Akhsiket, Uzbekistan

open access: yes, 2010
The thesis examines the technical aspects of ceramics and glazes from Akhsiket, a regional capital in the early Islamic period, which was abandoned in the early 13th century.
Henshaw, C.M.
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Do Islamic banks have greater market power? [PDF]

open access: yes
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether Islamic banks have greater market power than con-ventional banks. An Islamic bank, for example, might enjoy enhanced market power if a captive clientele adhering to religious principles permits it to charge
Weill, Laurent
core   +2 more sources

Jewish Identities in Iran

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Islam and Society, 2012
In Jewish Identities in Iran, Mehrdad Amanat tries to unearth the roots of Iranian Jews converting to both Islam and the Baha’i faith starting with the Safavid period in the sixteenth century.
Farideh Goldin
doaj   +1 more source

Graph Neural Network‐Based Prediction of Building Energy Consumption

open access: yesEnergy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
A graph neural network that encodes a multi‐zone building as a graph accurately predicts hourly cooling and heating loads across three distinct climates, outperforming Random Forest and XGBoost baselines and serving as a fast surrogate to EnergyPlus simulations for scalable building energy management.
Ali Maboudi Reveshti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Islamic Microfinance in Indonesia [PDF]

open access: yes
Indonesia, the largest Muslim country, has a highly differentiated micro- and rural finance sector which has evolved over more than a century. Islamic finance has emerged in 1991, comprising Islamic commercial banks and banking units, rural banks, and ...
Dwi Agung, Wahyu, Seibel, Hans Dieter
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Hybrid Simulation–Machine Learning Surrogates for Coordinate‐Based Solar and Wind Energy Yield Assessment in Iraq: A Streamlit Decision‐Support Tool

open access: yesEnergy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
This study integrates climatic simulations with machine learning to predict solar and wind energy across Iraq. Results show Random Forest excels for solar (R2 = 0.98) and neural networks for wind (R2 = 0.97), enabling a practical web tool for renewable energy planning. ABSTRACT Driven by the global shift away from fossil fuels, solar and wind resources
Bassam Musheer Kareem   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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