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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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Pandemic Geographies of Home: Domestic Thresholding in Response to COVID‐19
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract With the home at the forefront of political and public health responses to COVID‐19, the thresholds between domestic space and the world beyond acquired a new significance in people's everyday lives. This paper introduces the concept of ‘thresholding’ to explore the ways in which internal and external thresholds are understood and ...
Alison Blunt +7 more
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Death as Initiation (Rebirth) [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2016 Human existence lies in the heart of existentialism. This school of thought deals with the challenges of human responsibility and the possibility of improvement and progress of human life.
Mohsen Botlab Akbarabadi +1 more
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Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 43, Issue 3, Page 2254-2341, May 2026.ABSTRACT Personal autonomous vehicles can sense their surrounding environment, plan their route, and drive with little or no involvement of human drivers. Despite the latest technological advancements and the hopeful announcements made by leading entrepreneurs, to date no personal vehicle is approved for road circulation in a “fully” or “semi ...
Xingshuai Dong +13 more
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Reversion, Revival, Resistance
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and TransferBoth in Iran and India, Zoroastrian communities have traditionally possessed a strong and rigid ethno-religious identity. In recent decades, however, debates regarding the opening of the communities to converts have become increasingly significant.
Benedikt Römer
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Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2023 The early Sasanian period witnessed a variety of religious beliefs in competition. The clash between Kirdīr and Mani represents just an episode of the triumph the Mazdean church over Manichaeism, as well as over the other religious formations listed in ...
Andrea Piras
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, 2014 A Review of Reading for Preaching: The Preacher in Conversation with Storytellers, Biographers, Poets, and Journalists, by Cornelius Plantinga Jr. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013. 133 pp. $14.00.
Paschold, Steven
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Task co‐use and product improvement: An organization design perspective
Strategic Management Journal, Volume 47, Issue 5, Page 1433-1466, May 2026.Abstract Research Summary Co‐using tasks—using the same task to produce more than one product—promises economies of scope. However, task co‐use also ties products together, changing a firm's task network by introducing cross‐product interdependencies. In light of these interdependencies, we identify an unrecognized downside of task co‐use for product ...
Johanna Glauber, Tobias Kretschmer
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The dynamic interplay of opposites in zoroastrianism [PDF]
Journal of Fuzzy Extension and ApplicationsThis exploration addresses some aspects of Zoroastrianism, examining how the ancient Persian belief system aligns with the dynamic and indeterminate principles of Fuzzy, Neutrosophic, and MultiAlist systems.
Florentin Smarandache
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A Comparative Study of the Zoroastrian [PDF]
مجله مطالعات ایرانی, 2016 Human existence lies in the heart of existentialism. This school of thought deals with the challenges of human responsibility and the possibility of improvement and progress of human life.
Sahar Pourjam, Abolghasem Dadvar
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