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Islamic Contributions to Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The normative practice in the history of science in the West is to start with the Greeks and then jump to the European Renaissance, both studied as a background for the emergence of modern science in the seventeenth century.
Iqbal, Muzaffar
core   +1 more source

The rulership of Pippin I of Aquitaine

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 545-571, November 2025.
This article uses the reign of Pippin I of Aquitaine (d. 838) as a case study for the historiographical concept of ‘sub‐rulership’ in Carolingian Francia. It unpicks how Pippin’s status varied over time, arguing that Pippin’s rulership represents well the tension between kingship as an office and as a dynastic status.
Eddie Meehan
wiley   +1 more source

İlk İslâm Hanedanları Döneminde Uşrûsene Bölgesi’nin Coğrafî ve Siyasî Durumu (8./9. Yüzyıl)

open access: yesOrtaçağ Araştırmaları Dergisi
Bu araştırmanın amacı 8./9. yüzyılda İlk İslâm hanedanları döneminde Uşrûsene bölgesinin coğrafî ve siyasî durumuna tarihsel bir bakış açısı ile yaklaşmaktır.
Murat Erkoç
doaj   +1 more source

İlk Dönem İslâm Tarihinde Deniz Seferleri ve Donanma

open access: yesTokat İlmiyat Dergisi, 2023
Allah Teâlâ, Kur’an-ı Kerîm’in vahyedildiği 23 yıllık süre zarfında zaman zaman insanlara denizlerle ilgili bilgiler sunmuştur. Kur’an-ı Kerîm yanında Hz. Peygamber’den de denizlerle ilgili hadisler vârid olmuştur. Kur’an’ın ve Hz. Peygamber’in denizlere
Mustafa Çavuşoğlu
doaj   +1 more source

Caliphal Imperialism and Ḥijāzī Elites in the Second/Eighth Century [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

A “Documentary Turn” in the Medieval History of Egypt and Syria?

open access: yesHistory 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
wiley   +1 more source

Courts

open access: yes, 2014
This encyclopedia entry is about the relationships between judges and rulers in Medieval Islam. In early Islam, the qadi was no more than a legal official under the ruler's supreme judicial power.
Tillier, Mathieu
core   +2 more sources

Muslim Diasporas and the Politics of Belonging: Ibadi and Ismaili Pasts and Presents in East Africa

open access: yesReligion 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
wiley   +1 more source

Islam, the Arabs and Umayyad Rulers according to Theophanes the Confessor’s Chronography [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core  

New Insights Into Early Islamic Hydro‐Agricultural Strategies in Northwest Arabia: A Geoarchaeological Study of al‐Bint Dam (Sadd al‐Bint)

open access: yesGeoarchaeology, 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
wiley   +1 more source

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