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Abstract This article explores an intellectual disconnection in architectural education about the conception of wood as a building material. It explores initiatives to develop in future architects a deeper consciousness of the complex ecology of timber, promoting its sustainable use in the building industry.
James Benedict Brown, Francesco Camilli
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The archaeological and scientific analysis of blue‐decorated ceramics in the Tang and Song dynasties
Abstract This paper reviews studies of Tang and Song blue‐and‐white porcelains, both archaeologically and scientifically, based on published data, and compares blue‐and‐white with sancai, which represents the earliest use of cobalt pigment in Chinese ceramics.
Yun Zhang, A. Mark Pollard
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Patricia Crone and the “secular tradition” of early Islamic historiography: An exegesis
Abstract Patricia Crone famously identified three distinct sub‐traditions within early Islamic historiography: a “religious tradition”, a “tribal tradition”, and a “secular tradition”. Whereas the first is extremely unreliable and the second is partially unreliable regarding early Islamic history in general (c.
Joshua J. Little
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The position of the Atabic of Damascus on the Crusader invasion of the Levant 497-549 / 1103-1154 AD [PDF]
Prior to the Crusader invasion, the Levant region was experiencing a state of complexity surrounding its political, economic and religious situation, as it was governed by different powers, and internal disputes often characterize that difference, at a ...
Durieed Nory
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The Coinage of Surra Man Raˈa: An Overview [PDF]
: The city of Sāmarrā “Surra Man Raˈa” was founded during the era of the Abbāsid Caliph Al-Muʿtasim Bi-Allāh, then it became the capital of the Abbāsid caliphate in its second era in the period between 221-279AH. Notably, “Surra Man Raˈa” has issued many
عاطف منصور محمد رمضان
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Appeasement by granting fiefs in the Abbasid era (132-656 AH / 749-1258 AD) [PDF]
Appeasement by giving lands is one of the ways of important appeasement in the Abbasid era in general and in the first or second era in particular, especially with the existence of many large lands which was obtained by the Abbasids whether from the ...
Omaima Q. Yehya, Abdulsatar M. Darwish
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Despite the fact that Abbasi Caliphate had had lost its socio-military power throughout the Islamic territory even prior to the advent of Saljuqi dynasty, it still preserved a great deal of its spiritual authority.
Seyed Abolghasem Foroozani
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With the establishment of the Caliphate foundation, Iranians disappointed with accessing their own political aims through cooperating with the Caliphate, gradually started to reconstruct their kingdom regime and began a competition that somehow had a ...
Siavash Yari
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The 'Abbasid Caliphate 575/1179-656/1258. [PDF]
Although the history of 'Abbasid 'Iraq in the second half of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century has been least studied, yet the events of this period were of marked importance in the history of 'Iraq in particular and the Muslim ...
Mohamad, Abdul Munim Rashad
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The Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo (1261-1517): History and Tradition in the Mamluk Court [PDF]
This dissertation investigates the two-and-a-half century evolution of Islam’s most prominent leadership institution, the Abbasid caliphate, after its restoration in Cairo following the Mongol destruction of Baghdad in 1258. Kept under the supervision of
Banister, Mustafa
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