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TURKISH ALEVISM: RELIGIOUS IDENTIFICATION
Alevis are forming a large religious community in Turkey. According to different estimations they compose 10 up to 20% of the country’s population. Their system of religious belief is called Alevism which is one of the heterodox Muslim sects.
D. V. Zhigulskaya
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Conditional Reasons and the Procreation Asymmetry
Abstract This paper sketches a theory of the reason‐giving force of well‐being that allows us to reconcile our intuitions about two of the most recalcitrant problem cases in population ethics: Jan Narveson's Procreation Asymmetry and Derek Parfit's Non‐Identity Problem.
Johann Frick
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Variability in body weight precedes diagnosis in dementia: A nationwide cohort study
Body weight variability could be a potential risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia, which may provide new insights for dementia prevention. Abstract Background While there have been disagreements concerning whether obesity and increase in body weight elevate the risk of dementia, variability in body weight has been recently ...
Jane Ha +11 more
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Investigating the influence of power on Safavid period prose based on the sociology of language based on the book Alam Arai Abbasi [PDF]
Language is one of the most prominent and important stylistic elements in literary studies. Any change and transformation in the form and content of the language of a literary work shows the evolutions of the attitude and knowledge of the creator of the ...
Manizhe Pourali, Ghahraman Shiri
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Summary: Background: Uncertainty remains concerning the association of blood cholesterol with the risk of subsequent dementia. Using data from people with lipid measurements in the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), we examined the ...
Masao Iwagami, MD +7 more
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Analyzing Political Relations in the Safavid Ruling System of Shah Abbas I [PDF]
The death of Shah Tahmasb Safavid triggered a decade of unprecedented succession crises marked by chaos and disorder. Domestic violence and inability to defend the territory against enemy attacks led to governmental insecurity and threatened its survival.
Mohammad hashem Rahnama +1 more
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BEKTASHI, QIZILBASH, ALEVI ALVANLAR (YABLANOVO) VILLAGE IN POSTDEMOCRATIC BULGARIA
This study aimed to examine the ethno-religious situation of Bektashi, Qizilbash and Alevis in Bulgaria after Bulgaria's accession to the European Union, in the example of Alvanlar village (Yablanovo) in Sliven province. It was investigated in the example of Bektashi, Kizilbash, Alevis Alvans (Yablanovo) village in Bulgaria. After a period of ten years,
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ABSTRACT Good governance indicators such as controlling corruption, establishing the rule of law, and ensuring political stability are central to social well‐being as they affect both sustainable income growth and non‐income indicators of human development.
Ali Celik, Ahmet Kostekci
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While the subject of the Venetian espionage in the Ottoman empire has received scholarly attention, no attempt has been made to study the baili’s intelligence-gathering activities on Safavid issues in a systematic way. Through the close scrutiny of baili dispatches and other relevant materials
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ABSTRACT Over the past decades, households have gradually increased their ownership of goods that make life easier and more comfortable, such as furniture, TVs, kitchen supplies, phones, (motor)bikes, and cars. We refer to this development, in which households move from having few durable assets to having many, as the domestic transition. In this study,
Rutger Schilpzand, Jeroen Smits
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