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Transregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
To integrate the regions of the early Islamic Empire from Central Asia to North Africa, transregional and regional elites of various backgrounds were essential.

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Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī’s Treatise on Wiping over Socks and the Rise of a Distinct Salafi Method [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
‘Modern’ Salafis of the late nineteenth/early twentieth century have much more in common with contemporary ‘puritan’ Salafis than claimed in recent scholarship.
Coppens, Pieter
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Regimes of diplomacy and law:Bengal-China encounters in the early fifteenth century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This article examines the Bengal-China connections between the Ilyās Shāhī and Ming dynasties in the early fifteenth century across the Bay of Bengal and South China Sea.
Kooria, Mahmood
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The Issue of Pre‐Islamic Arabic Christian Poetry Revisited

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Is only very little Arabic Christian poetry extant from pre‐Islamic times? While distancing myself from Louis Cheikho's (1859–1927) view that almost all pre‐Islamic poets were Christians, I contend in this article that some of them indeed were.
Ilkka Lindstedt
wiley   +1 more source

Interpretatio Islamica and the Unraveling of the Ancient Sabian Mysteries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
This thesis makes some bold claims about the identity of the Qur’anic Sabians (Ṣābi’ūn) and their symbiotic relationship with various Near Eastern religions including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Hines, Maurice
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Islamic Environmentalism and Epistemic Waste

open access: yesJournal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 414-437, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Environmental ethics is concerned with how humans use and relate to the environment, including its conservation and protection. In recent decades, works on Islamic environmentalism have increased multiplied with efforts to ground an ethics based on the resources of the Islamic scholarly tradition.
Aysenur Cam
wiley   +1 more source

Biomimetic Approaches for Renewable Energy and Carbon Neutrality: Advancing Nature‐Inspired Approaches for Sustainable Development

open access: yesSustainable Development, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 6717-6733, October 2025.
ABSTRACT As global non‐renewable energy sources depletes, achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 has become an urgent international priority, as outlined in the Paris Agreement. Renewable energy transition demands environmentally sustainable, economically viable, and energy‐efficient innovations.
Wen Han   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Islamic Rule of Lenity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This Article explores an area of close parallel between legal doctrines in the contexts of Islamic law and American legal theory. In criminal law, both traditions espouse a type of “rule of lenity”—that curious common law rule that instructs judges not ...
Rabb, Intisar A.
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Undulating stratigraphy of a carbonate inner ramp lagoon and associated architectural facies heterogeneity: An example from the Late Jurassic Hanifa Formation, Central Saudi Arabia

open access: yesSedimentology, Volume 72, Issue 3, Page 734-762, April 2025.
Abstract This study offers new insights into the internal architecture of shallow marine carbonate sediments deposited in an epeiric sea formed on a broadly flooded passive margin continental shelf. The Ullayah Member of the Late Jurassic Hanifa Formation is exposed along the Tuwaiq Mountain Escarpment in Central Saudi Arabia and serves as an example ...
Pankaj Khanna   +5 more
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Al-Ṣafadī’s veiled criticism of Ibn Taymiyya: esotericism, language, and reason in al-Ghayth al-Musajjam fī Sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʿAjam [PDF]

open access: yes
Towards the end of his al-Ghayth al-Musajjam fī Sharḥ Lāmīyat al-ʿAjam, Khalīl ibn Aybak al-Ṣafadī (d. 1363/764) aims a peculiar slight at his sometime teacher Ibn Taymiyya (d.
Tayara, Yusuf
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