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'Thou glorious kingdome, thou chiefe of empires': Persia in seventeenth-century travel literature [PDF]

, 2009
Bringing together a range of little-considered materials, this article assesses the portrayal of Persia in seventeenth-century travel literature and drama.
Houston, Chloe
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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Women’s Rights on Abortion from Shi’as and Sunni’s Schools of Thought [PDF]

فقه و حقوق خانواده, 2010
owadays abortion is a controversial issue all over the world. The Islamic view on abortion is based on a profound rule in Islam. There is a broad acceptance in the major Islamic schools of thought on the permissibility of abortion when there is a serious
Abdol Jabar Zargoosh Nasab, Taher Alimohammadi   +1 more
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Sanctifying Minority Status in the Himalayan \u3ci\u3eUmmah\u3c/i\u3e: Eid al-Ghadeer Commemorations among the Shia in Leh, Ladakh [PDF]

, 2018
Drawing on ethnographic data, this article argues that the Shia in Leh, Ladakh employ religious ceremonies such as Eid al-Ghadeer to construct a sense of sacred community and a sanctified minority status within the Himalayan ummah.
Singh, Rohit
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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After the Arab Spring: power shift in the Middle East?: Syria’s bloody Arab Spring [PDF]

, 2012
When the dictatorial regimes of Tunisia and Egypt were toppled by popular unrest few expected Syria to follow. Despite suffering under dictatorship for over 40 years and facing similar economic and social challenges that had prompted rebellion elsewhere,
Phillips, Christopher
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Blood revenge and violent mobilization: evidence from the Chechen Wars [PDF]

, 2015
Despite a considerable amount of ethnographic research into the phenomena of blood revenge and blood feud, little is known about the role of blood revenge in political violence, armed conflict, and irregular war.
Aliyev, Huseyn, Souleimanov, Emil Aslan
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DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
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Konsep Al-Mahdi Dalam Teologi Syi’ah Dan Sunni [PDF]

, 1983
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui konsep Al-Mahdi di kalangan Syiah dan Sunni, latar belakang munculnya konsep Al-Mahdi di kalangan Syiah dan Sunni, dan implikasi konsep Al-Mahdi terhadap perilaku keagamaan di kalangan Syiah dan Sunni ...
Rasyid, Muhammad Nuh
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