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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Islamic Past"”.
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United in diversity? A discourse analysis on the selective representation of the Islamic past in Spanish and Portuguese tourism
… and the lack of representation that Europe’s Islamic past receives in tourism websites. Being historically relevant, I have chosen to look at the representation of the Islamic past in Spanish and Portuguese tourism and have identified two comparable national monuments, the Alhambra in Granada, …
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Landmarks of the Persian Renaissance : monumental funerary architecture in Iran and Central Asia in the tenth and eleventh centuries
… rulers of Iranian descent, drew on the pre-Islamic past in new ways specific to each region. Mausolea constructed in the tenth and eleventh centuries have a wide geographical spread across modem Iran and the ex-Soviet Central Asian republics. However, the monuments take two different forms: …
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Secrets of the arts : Enlightenment Spain's contested Islamic craft heritage
… factors: their inheritance from the peninsula's Islamic past, and their corresponding isolation from the institutions of Northern Europe. They were forced to consider the hierarchies of the "liberal" over the "mechanical," intellectual over manual, high over low. The quest of the Spanish crown …
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A Critical Assessment of Modern Qazaqs’ Historical Claim That Islam Is the Ancestral Faith
… Qazaq identity is tightly linked to the Islamic faith. Modern Qazaqs point out that before the Russian colonization, Qazaqs professed Islam. Particularly, Hanafi Maturidism prevailed alongside Sufism. However, a careful examination of historical data and archaeological findings does not …
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Defying distance : remembrance, narration, and the gender imaginary in Assia Djebar’s Loin de Médine
… from Madina), a novel that re-imagines the early Islamic past through women’s perspectives. Djebar framed the work as an inspired re-reading of the earliest Sunni historiography compendiums: Ibn Hishām’s (d. 828-835) prophetic biography, the biographical dictionary of Ibn Saʿd (d. 845), and the …