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

The 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
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Remembering Independence, Debating the Nation: Ghana's National Days

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Ghana, Independence Day is the most important national day and has been annually observed since the attainment of independence in 1957. Additional national days that various military governments introduced to commemorate their ascension to power have been rather short‐lived. Other holidays like Republic Day or Founder's Day have been longer
Carola Lentz
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Notation in Early Modern Language Teaching

Renaissance 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
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Love-Lover-Beloved in Cenab Şahabeddin’s Poems

İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi
Cenab Şahabeddin (1870-1934), a pioneering figure in contemporary Turkish poetry, contributed significant works to Turkish literature during nearly four decades of poetic endeavor and offered notable advances in both form and subject.
Esra Sazyek
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Generative AI and the Future of Musical Diversity

Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.
Abstract I argue that the current proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) represents a new stage in a longer historical process of distancing humans from their unique individual psyches and of reducing participation and cultural diversity in music. The argument consists of six parts: (1) reiterating the uniqueness of individual psyches,
Dor Shilton
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Genesis and evolution of the sonnet (chahar-pare) composing in Iran [PDF]

Literary Arts, 2015
Persian "Sonnets" (chahar-pare) or "continuous quatrains" are already mentioned briefly here and there but the emergence, evolution and the influence of the modern ottoman poetry on the inclination of Persian poets to this new poetic form have not been ...
Bbagher Sadrinia
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Scalar Aesthetics and the Public Politics of Home

The Geographical Journal, Volume 192, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT In this article, I demonstrate the value of attending to scalar aesthetics. By scalar aesthetics, I mean the showing, making perceptible or making public of relations between big and small, specific and general, local and global, domestic and international.
Phil Dodds
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Herder in the lab: Maximizing “cultural density” in multilingual training data for an open‐science AI project

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This paper provides ethnographic analysis of interactions between volunteers in an open‐science AI project entrusted with preparing multilingual text for use in fine‐tuning a pretrained LLM. Volunteers were encouraged to entextualize translated text into structured corpora and to write and edit prompt‐completion pairings in over 100 languages.
Joseph Wilson
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UGLY AND UGLINESS IN CLASSICAL TURKISH POETRY

Ulakbilge Dergisi, 2020
Ugliness has been a concept and image that shapes its meaning and definition through beauty. Throughout the ages, the definition of ugliness has also been made as the opposite of beauty. Ugliness, which has been defined and described as the opposite of beauty since the first examples in world literature, has changed its own image in parallel with the ...
openaire   +1 more source

Multilingualism and Poetry: A Cognitive Analysis of Shahriar’s Poems [PDF]

Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī
This article is to examine multilingualism and its relation to poetry in Shahriar’s works. In the theoretical framework, I have benefited from cognitive linguistics - Anastassiou (2020), Ervin-Tripp (1967, 1964, 1954) and Pavlenko (2012, 2007)- for poems
Mostafa Shahiditabar
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