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Translation theory and practice in the Abbasid era [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
textThis paper explores the theoretical approaches to translation and the dynamics of language politics during the ʻAbbāsid-era translation movement through the lens of three prominent figures of the ʿAbbāsid era, Ḥunayn ibn Isʹhāq, Mattā bin Yūnus
Goodin, Katherine Sproul
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Glass production in Late Antiquity and the Early Islamic period: a geochemical perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
First millennium AD glass production was divided between a relatively small number of workshops that made raw glass and a large number of secondary workshops that fabricated vessels. Glass compositions reflect the primary glassmaking source.
Freestone, IC
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Late Antiquity and World History [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The flourishing of late-antique studies in the last half-century has coincided with the rise of “world history” as an area of academic research. To an extent, some overlap has occurred, particularly with Sasanian Persia being considered alongside the ...
Mark Humphries
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Current investigations into the early Neolithic of the Zagros foothills of Iraqi Kurdistan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article summarises multiple seasons of fieldwork at the Early Neolithic sites of Bestansur and Shimshara in Iraqi ...
Aziz, Kamal Rauf   +3 more
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Production of Dirhams at the Mint of Damascus (Dimashq) in the First Four Centuries of Islam and the Question of Near Eastern Metallic Zones [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
All examination of 159 hoards with 1822 dirhams minted at Damascus during the first four centuries of Islam sheds much light on a number of important questions regarding the economic history of the Near East during the Umayyad, 'Abbasid, and Ikhshidid ...
Kovalev, Roman K.
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Formation and Destruction of Pastoral and Irrigation Landscapes on the Mughan Steppe, North-Western Iran [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
CORONA satellite photography taken in the 1960s continues to reveal buried ancient landscapes and sequences of landscapes – some of them no longer visible.
Alizadeh, Karim, Ur, Jason Alik
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Muslim-christian Debates in Theearly ‘Abbasid Period: the Cases of Timothy I and Theodore Abu Qurra [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
: The era of the early ‘Abbasid caliphate made an important mark on the history of the world by the event of the Greek translation movement, i.e. the translation of Greek thoughts into the Arabic language.
Harmakaputra, H. A. (Hans)
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Müslüman İran'da zerdüştî kimliğinin inşası [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
In the article I would like to pay attention to the internal diversity of so-called Muslim world. In my research I deal with the Zoroastrian religious minority in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Niechciał, Paulina
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