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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

open access: yesThe Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
wiley   +1 more source

‘[You Are German] When You no Longer Stick Out’: The Meaning of Being German From the Perspective of Germans With and Without a Migrant Background

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While several quantitative studies have examined civic and ethno‐cultural notions of nationhood among German citizens, the meaning of being German in general and the ambiguities of the term in particular have remained underexplored. Furthermore, this line of scholarship has examined German citizens but has neglected the perspective of Germans ...
Marlene Mußotter, Eunike Piwoni
wiley   +1 more source

Drawing animals and birds and their evolution in Islamic miniatures

open access: yesMaǧallaẗ Al-Turāṯ wa Al-Taṣmīm
Islam appeared and illuminated the world with its light and spread gradually until it was formed the greatest empire in history whose geographical borders extended from China in the east to Spain in the west.
Lect.Shaima Reda Hassan Mostafa
doaj   +1 more source

Notation in Early Modern Language Teaching

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the use of musical notation as a pedagogical tool in early modern language teaching, focusing on Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and briefly, Turkish. While musical notation is typically associated with performance and composition, the sources discussed here demonstrate its broader application as a visual and conceptual system for ...
Elisabeth Giselbrecht
wiley   +1 more source

Anadolu Şehirleri Perspektifinden Osmanlı Şehri Üzerine Bir İnceleme

open access: yesPublicus
This study focuses on Anatolian cities in the Ottoman Empire and addresses the spatial situation of the cities. During the approximately 600-year reign of the Ottoman state, different ethnic, religious and cultural structures lived ...
Sedat ÇOBANOĞLU
doaj   +1 more source

Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
wiley   +1 more source

Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
wiley   +1 more source

The Pitfalls of Ethnic Aggregation: Iranians And Afghans, And The Problem Of ‘West Asian’ Category In Canada

open access: yesCanadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 63, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT In the Canadian community of official statistics producers and users, there has been an ongoing debate about the feasibility of using ‘visible minority’ categories to capture the experiences of Canada's racial minorities. Rarely, however, has this issue been examined from a factual angle; that is, the success of those categories in capturing ...
Hamid Akbary   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leading Otherwise: Feminist Instances From the Arts

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1196-1209, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper explores how feminist artists enact leadership through artistic organizing in the creative industries. Drawing on two case studies—Company Drinks and Homebaked—it examines how leadership emerges not through formal roles or strategic vision, but through practices of care.
Anna De Amicis, Lebene Richmond Soga
wiley   +1 more source

Pediatrics, Students, Allied Health and COVID-19. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Relig Health, 2023
Carey LB   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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