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Ancestral Irrigation and Women's Political Empowerment
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the adoption of irrigation agriculture during the preindustrial period is a predictor of contemporary cross‐country variation in women's political empowerment. Countries whose populations historically relied on irrigation agriculture as their primary subsistence mode tend to ...
Roberto Ezcurra
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Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax
The Muslim World, EarlyView.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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Translation theory and practice in the Abbasid era [PDF]
, 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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Islamic Environmentalism and Epistemic Waste
Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 414-437, December 2025.ABSTRACT Environmental ethics is concerned with how humans use and relate to the environment, including its conservation and protection. In recent decades, works on Islamic environmentalism have increased multiplied with efforts to ground an ethics based on the resources of the Islamic scholarly tradition.
Aysenur Cam
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Relations between the Fatimids and Ghaznavids [PDF]
تاریخ اسلام, 2004 During their rule, the Ghaznavids adopted an inflexible policy towards those opposed to the Abbasid caliphate. In line with rhis policy, they took a harsh stance against anti - Abbasid patries such as the Isma'ilis and Fatimids in Egypt.
Mohammad-Ali Chelongar
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Archaeological Geology of Jurash, ʿAsīr Province, Southwestern Saudi Arabia
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 230-244, November 2025.ABSTRACT The Jurash archaeological site is located on Wādī Bīshah near the city of Khamīs Mushayt in southwestern Saudi Arabia. It has a fort and other remains from the pre‐Islamic period (third century bc to early seventh century ad) and a settlement with two mosques from the Early Islamic period (early seventh to early 11th centuries ad).
James A. Harrell
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Commercial Activity of Caucasus’ Towns in the Abbasid Caliphate
RUDN Journal of World History, 2012 This article is dedicated to the commercial links of the Caucasian towns that were conquered by the Arabs and became a part of the Abbasid Caliphate (750–1258) and to their great role as the mediators in the Arabs’ trade with the northern countries such ...
V Il'inichna Kunkova
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60th anniversary of the Malta Historical Society : a commemoration [PDF]
, 2010 Two books published in Tunisia in 2006 have direct relevance to the history of Malta during Arab rule. The first one, published by the Institut National du Patrimoine, consists of a two-volume work by Bahri Fathi entitled Les Hommes du pouvoir et les ...
Mercieca, Simon
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Breeze of Continuity: New Evidence for the Occupation of Jumeirah Throughout the Islamic Period
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 306-327, November 2025.ABSTRACT The Jumeirah Archaeological Research Project seeks to reassess the long‐term occupation of Jumeirah through an integrated study of three key archaeological sites—Jumeirah 1, 2 and 3. This study builds upon previous excavations and archival data to refine the chronology of the settlement and examine whether these sites functioned as a single ...
Karol Juchniewicz +4 more
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The Islamic State as an empire of nostalgia [PDF]
, 2016 Primary empires were the product of internal development and self-sustaining through the exploitation of their own resources, but there were also historically a large number of “shadow empires.” These were imperial polities that were the products of ...
Barfield, Thomas
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