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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, EarlyView.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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The critique of religion as political critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda's pre-Islamic xenology [PDF]
, 2016 (Awarded the International Society for Intellectual History’s Charles Schmitt Prize) Mīrzā Fatḥ 'Alī Ākhūndzāda’s Letters from Prince Kamāl al-Dawla to the Prince Jalāl al-Dawla (1865) is often read as a Persian attempt to introduce European ...
Gould, Rebecca
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TAXON, Volume 75, Issue 2, April 2026.Abstract Plant name epithets (as well as names of other organisms governed by the ICN), which are derived from geographic names, are not correctable when their original spelling was intentional and based on contemporary linguistic realities, even if it is currently considered outdated.
Alexander N. Sennikov, Irina V. Belyaeva
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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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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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Modic Change Bone Marrow Neutrophils Are Activated and Degrade Cartilage Endplates
JOR SPINE, Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2026.Activated neutrophils accumulate in Modic‐change bone marrow and secrete neutrophil elastase, which drives cartilage endplate destruction and releases glycosaminoglycans. This neutrophil–elastase axis links inflammatory marrow lesions to structural endplate breakdown at the disc–vertebra interface.
Irina Heggli +9 more
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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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, 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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Similes for Mainyu, Ahura Mazdā and Ahriman in the Avesta, Bundahishn and Mainyu-i ye Xrad [PDF]
مطالعات زبانی و بلاغیThe concepts of Ahura Mazdā and Ahriman in the Zoroastrian religious culture are intertwined with the concept of Mainyu, such that Ahura Mazda holds Spenta Mainyu within himself, and Ahriman is another verbal form of Angra Mainyu.
Saba Kazemian +2 more
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