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BİR İSLÂM MERKEZİ OLARAK TİFLİS
When this article was published in 1912, Tiflis was the capital city of Caucasus, ruled by the Russian viceroy. The city was also the centre of Caucasian Muslims. The published materials, i.e.
E. JOHN Larson, Nebi Gümüş
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The article is focused on the theological debates on the issues of ‘aqidah between Shihabetdin Marjani and his opponents. The debate is viewed as a mechanism for the search and approval of truth.
Dinara Z Mardanova
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Islamic headscarves and female circumcision: Unveiling the threat posed by Islam to human rights [PDF]
This paper is, in part, a response to the NZPGLeJ Editor-in-Chief Herman Salton’s article,“‘Veiled Threats?’ Islam, Headscarves and Freedom of Religion in France and the United States”, which was published in the first issue of this journal.
Williamson, Myra Elsie Jane Bell
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The article is dedicated to the analysis of religious practices of Muslim servicemen in the Russian Imperial Army in 19th – early 20th century (prior to 1914).
И.К.Загидуллин / Il’dus K. Zagidullin
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The Muslim population of Siberia represented an ethnically heterogeneous community, which included Tatars, as well as immigrants from Central and Central Asia, the Caucasus and other regions.
Elena A. Shershneva, Petr K. Dashkovskiy
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ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
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Exporting the Holy Land: artisans and merchant migrants in Ottoman-era Bethlehem [PDF]
This article explores an aspect of Arab migration in the nineteenth century that is often retold in popular memory but rarely discussed in academic work: that of Bethlehem merchants and the “Holy Land” wares they sold.
Norris, Jacob
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‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
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Abstract This article uses the Kazan-based Muslim Women’s journal Suyumbika to follow the transformation of Muslim reformers’ views on the modern Muslim woman. While much of the scholarly literature on religious, cultural, and education reform in Russia’s Muslim communities has viewed the change in women’s roles to be a decades-long process, this ...
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