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A “Documentary Turn” in the Medieval History of Egypt and Syria?
History Compass, Volume 23, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.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 Role of Umayyad Political Discourse in Shaping Interpretative Narratives of the Phrase "And Were It Not that Allah Pushed Back Some People by Some Others" [PDF]
مطالعات قرآن و حدیثOne verse of the Quran that has garnered multiple interpretations is the phrase "And were it not that Allah pushed back some people by some others". The initial interpretation by the first interpreter of the Revelation posits that the defense mentioned ...
Seyedeh Hanieh Momen, Zahra Ghasemnejad
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Al-Madāʾinī and the Narratives of the ʿAbbāsid Dawla [PDF]
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Lindstedt, Ilkka Juhani
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Muslim Diasporas and the Politics of Belonging: Ibadi and Ismaili Pasts and Presents in East Africa
Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 10-12, October-December 2025.ABSTRACT This article examines the Ibadi and Ismaili Muslim communities in East Africa—particularly in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania (including Zanzibar)—and their distinct religious, social, and economic roles. Even as minorities within predominantly Sunni contexts, both groups have shaped the region through migration, commerce, and international ...
Kimberly T. Wortmann
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Writing for the Caliphate: The Unique Necklace by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih*
Al-'Usur al-Wusta, 2018 This study undertakes a political reading of the ʿIqd al-farīd by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih (246/860-328/940). It proposes to identify this adab encyclopaedia, composed in Cordova as a “caliphal” composition, by interpreting its conceptual agenda and compositional
Isabel Toral-Niehoff
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Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 5, September/October 2025.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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Per dynamin – per energian: Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 2, Page 220-243, May 2025.This paper investigates Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s knowledge of Greek. It proceeds from three questions. First, what resources for learning Greek were available in tenth‐century Germany? Second, were there any figures in her ambit from whom she could have learned?
Graham Robert Johnson
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Remote Sensing Analysis and LiDAR Experimenting in the Espique Valley (La Peza, Granada, Spain)
Archaeological Prospection, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 395-407, April/June 2025.ABSTRACT The Espique valley is a small space at the foot of the mountain, practically closed, which hides a rich archaeological heritage, not only of habitats but also of varied productive spaces. For some years now, MEMOLab UGR has been carrying out research that is now enriched with the contribution of LiDAR, with whose application we are ...
Jesús Rodríguez Bulnes +2 more
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EMEVÎ İKTİDARININ SİYASÎ İCRAATLARI KARŞISINDA ULEMÂNIN TAVRI
İstem, 2008 Emevî iktidarının önemli tartışmaları beraberinde getiren siyasî uygulamaları, dönemin ulemâsı tarafından da eleştirilmiştir. Siyasal otoritenin âlimlerin tepkisine neden olan uygulamalarının başında ise Hucr b.
Mustafa Özkan
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Source Finding and Analysis of Modifications Made By Rumi and Shams in the Romantic Literature of the Umayyad Era [PDF]
ادبیات عرفانی, 2017 The present paper investigates the reflection of romantic Arabic literature of the Umayyad era in the works of Rumi (Mathnavi, Maktūbāt, Fih Ma Fih, Majāles-e Sab'a, Dīwān-e Shams) and The Maqalat ofShams-e Tabrizi, theprimary sources of stories and ...
Mohammadamir Jalali
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