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Islamic glass in the Christian Kingdom of Alwa: Chemistry of shards from Soba, Nubia, Sudan
Archaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 6, Page 1232-1245, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Excavations at Soba, the capital of Alwa, between 2019 and 2022 yielded more than 30 glass fragments in addition to a glass cosmetic bottle. An analysis of 30 glass samples has identified glass belonging to a number of compositional groups.
Joanna Then‐Obłuska, Laure Dussubieux
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Survey Zoroastrians: Online Religious Identification in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 823-844, December 2023., 2023 Abstract This article contributes to the internationalization of survey methodology by discussing a case from a totalitarian state, the Islamic Republic of Iran. In 2020, GAMAAN (The Group for Measuring and Analyzing Attitudes in Iran) conducted an online survey on religion.
Michael Stausberg +2 more
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Towards a Typology of Contact‐Induced Change: Questions, Problems and the Path Ahead
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 336-356, November 2023., 2023 Abstract The fields of linguistic typology, contact linguistics and historical linguistics frequently interact with one another and each draws on the insights gained in the others. To date, however, there is no effective and systematic cooperation between these subdisciplines, no database comparing the typological distribution of features with common ...
Robin Meyer
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An ʿAqaba/Ayla‐type amphora in the sultanate of Oman
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 119-127, November 2023., 2023 Abstract Antique trade amphorae illuminate a little understood but important find category for Arabia, still in the twilight of publication. Most of the find data lie buried in unpublished work regarding recent excavations at ʿAqaba/Ayla. Recent research has verified mineralogically the origin of these documents and their dating.
Paul A. Yule
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Derbent in the history of Zoroastrianism in the Caucasus
Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2023 Introduction. For many centuries, the Caucasus has acted as a bridge, through which there was an intensive exchange not only of economic achievements, but also of the ideology of the highly developed regions of the Mediterranean, Minor and Central Asia.
A. А. Kudryavtsev
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Survey methods and biases in the Al‐Mudhaybi Regional Survey, Sultanate of Oman
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 34, Issue S1, Page S39-S50, November 2023., 2023 Abstract The Al‐Mudhaybi Regional Survey uses different methods to reconstruct the diachronic development of the archaeological landscape within a 930 km2 area. This article evaluates the different outcomes of remote sensing, ground‐truthing and systematic field‐walking of transects regarding the type and chronological range of structures found ...
Stephanie Döpper
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The position of the Kurds from the Islamic state until the end of the Umayyad era
مجلة اداب ذي قار, 2023 The subject of the study in Kurdish nationalism is an important topic because it is characterized by showing the bonds of the spectra of Islamic peoples and the extent of the historical depth that Kurdish nationalism occupies in the body of the Islamic ...
أ.م.د مروان عطية مايع
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Overseas imports on the Blue Nile: Chemical compositional analysis of glass beads from Soba, Nubia
Archaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 5, Page 1018-1031, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Archaeological evidence as well as textual sources leave no doubt about Alwa's (Alodia's) intense transcultural connections, further corroborated by understudied overseas glass bead imports found there. This paper presents results of an analysis of 23 glass beads from Soba, the most prosperous capital of medieval Nubia.
Joanna Then‐Obłuska, Laure Dussubieux
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Mazdeans and Christians Facing the End of the World: Circulations and Exchanges of Concepts
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2020 This contribution offers a conspectus of the parallel treatment of some eschatological subjects in the comparative framework of Mazdean and Christian sources.
Antonio Panaino
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The politics of street names: Reconstructing Iran’s collective identity
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 23, Issue 2, Page 122-143, September 2023., 2023 Abstract With the radical political change in 1979, Iran's revolutionary state assumed the responsibility of re‐rewriting the past history to forge a new sense of belonging, a particularly collective religious (Shia) identity. It launched a complex process of forgetting and remembering to first eliminate the national (Persian), non‐religious memories ...
Ehsan Kashfi
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