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Amateur justice in Carolingian Bavaria
This paper examines judges and judgement in Bavarian dispute charters from the first decades of the ninth century. It argues that justice in Carolingian Bavaria was an amateur affair, in which of primary importance was the ability to create a stable consensus around an outcome. Accordingly, distinctions between judges and other participants in judicial
Amos Bronner
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A “Documentary Turn” in the Medieval History of Egypt and Syria?
ABSTRACT The field of medieval Middle East history has seen a renewed attention to the use of documentary sources in recent years. These sources have long seen some neglect, and their interpretation has suffered from a stubborn narrative of paucity that has tended to relegate them to the fringe of this history. With the impact of other scholarly trends
Daisy Livingston
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The exact origin of the Albridiuwm family is not known, which appeared on the scene in the last years of the second Abbasid era. First, they did some minor careers in southern Iraq but did not rise to the level of becoming an affected force.
Abdulbari Asaad, Tawfeeq Yousif
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Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax
Abstract This article discusses the relationship between the systemization of kharāj (land tax) and the higher objective of Islamic law or Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa. After the conquest of Sawād region (located in modern‐day southern Iraq), the First Caliph ʿUmar (634 ‐ 644 CE) introduced a new approach to the distribution of ghanīmah (spoils of war), leaving ...
Öznur Özdemir, Mehmet Asutay
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ABSTRACT The Sadd al‐Bint is one of the largest known ancient dams in Saudi Arabia, and yet, its construction date, function and collapse remained uncertain. This study presents the first numerical chronology for the dam, integrating radiocarbon dating, Bayesian modelling, geomorphological analysis and hydrological modelling to reconstruct its history.
Bruno Depreux +13 more
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A Comparison of Ethical Components in the Works of Tabari, Rahawi, and Razi in the Field of Medical Ethics [PDF]
Medicine, as one of the most important branches of science, developed significantly in the Abbasid era (656-132 AH). In addition to writing medical texts and treating patients, Muslim physicians also paid close attention to medical ethics, presenting the
Sedigheh Ghasempour +2 more
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Provincialising Early Feminism: A View from the Middle East
Abstract ‘Provincializing Europe’, derived from Dipesh Chakrabarty's work of that name, argued that an imagined ‘Europe’ was a founding myth for modernity. While not mentioning feminism, this analysis is a valuable starting point for tracing the path of the term ‘féminism’ from France to Britain to the Ottoman Empire and from the USA to the Arab world –
Ruth Roded
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Arabization in the Umayyad and Abbasid eras
The Islamic conquest movement of Iraq, Persia, the Levant and Egypt has greatly influenced the life of the Islamic community because the Islamic expansion, with its military, human and intellectual manifestations, brought about a cultural expansion and a major scientific movement stemming from Islam and its goal is to advocate the Islamic faith. Hadith,
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Politik Pendidikan Islam Pada Masa Kejayaan Dinasti Abbasiyah: Politik Ketenagaan
Education as a social system, cannot be separated from the other system outside itself, is politic system. Both of them are two important elements in the social politic system of nation.
Nurul Kawakib
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Poetry that is committed to the love of the Prophet and the Ahl al-Bayt (E) has developed since the inception of Islam to the present day, as we see that in the Umayyad era this type of poetry witnessed its decline and in the Abbasid era poets ...
موسى عربي +1 more
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