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ISLAMIC EDUCATION INTITUTIONS IN THE CLASSICAL PERIOD (UMAYYAD AND ABBASID PERIODS) [PDF]
Islamic education has existed since the Prophet Muhammad SAW and continues to develop until now. Islam once reached the peak of glory, called the golden age, because, at that time, Islamic education was very developed and produced an extraordinary ...
Faridi, Faridi +2 more
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Caliphal Imperialism and Ḥijāzī Elites in the Second/Eighth Century [PDF]
, 2016 This article contributes to the debate over the effectiveness with which late Umayyad and early ʿAbbāsid caliphs negotiated their respective rights and duties with provincial elites during the second/eighth century.
Munt, Thomas Henry Robert
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Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax
The Muslim World, Volume 115, Issue 4, Page 295-319, Autumn 2025.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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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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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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Islam, the Arabs and Umayyad Rulers according to Theophanes the Confessor’s Chronography [PDF]
, 2012 Translated by Konrad FigatAs the Chronography of Theophanes the Confessor includes a lot of information about the foreign states and tribes which were connected with the Byzantine Empire.
Cecota, Błażej
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Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor: Romance, Conversion, and Internal Orientalism [PDF]
, 2015 Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor is a medieval romance interpolated into a thirteenthcentury account of the struggles of the Kings of Asturias (eighth-ninth centuries) with the Umayyad Caliphate in Cordova.
David Wacks
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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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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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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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