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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Islamic World and Near East History"”.
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History of Mathematics from the Islamic World
<p>Learning the history of mathematics is crucial to fully understanding the world of mathematics today. This paper will explore the history of mathematics from the Islamic world. It will focus on the contributions of well-recognized mathematicians including, Al-Khwarizmi, Al-Khayyam, Uqlidisi, …
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Owing and Owning: Zubayr Pasha, Slavery, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Sudan
<p>The Mahdist revolt provides a quandary: why did Africans revolt against imperialism in defense of slavery? This study approaches the issue by analyzing the life of Zubayr Pasha, most well-known of Sudanese slave-traders in the decades leading to the Mahdist Revolt. What I found in interviews …
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A Study of the Partition of Palestine
… Special Committee on Palestine is now a past history, along with the seventeen previous Committees and commissions which had reported on the Palestine problem.</p> <p>But this Committee had several unusual features. It was a United Nations Committee and the Big Powers had no part in it. It was …
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Anticipating Revolution: The Lebanese Left and the Civil War
… interweaving forms of intellectual, political, and cultural productions to interrogate the understandings of Lebanon as a polity within interlocking matrixes of capitalism, sectarianism, and nationalism. Weaving together hegemonic discourses represented by the speeches from political elites …
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A Subcontinent's Sunni Schism: The Deobandi-Barelvi Rivalry and the Creation of Modern South Asia
<p>This work presents the first-ever history of the 150-year religio-political rivalry between the Deobandis and the Barelvis--arguably the most important schism in the "Muslim world," and certainly the most significant within Sunni Islam. More recently, that rivalry has often been expressed by …
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Ruling with Rules: Electoral Institutions and Authoritarian Resilience in the Middle East
… transitions? This dissertation examines both why and how parliamentary elections in Jordan and Morocco have served to reinforce these two Arab monarchies. In doing so, it develops a framework in which the degree of cohesion among incumbent and opposition elites shape electoral system design and, …
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The Tunisian Revolution: Empire and the Power of The Multitude
… the revolution in Tunisia spread ideas, tactics, and revolutionary chants across borders to various parts of the globe. The speed and intensity of the revolution dominated the attention of the unsuspecting global community. In order to understand the conditions under which this revolution …
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Between Kurdistan and Damascus: Kurdish Nationalism and Arab State Formation in Syria
… at large have proven to be both a limiting and a creative factor. This thesis examines the history of Kurdish nationalism in Syria with a focus on both the local context as defined by Syria’s borders in addition to the broader region, for the politics of Kurds in Syria have clearly been …
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Conflict and Cooperation: Western Economic Interests in Ottoman Iraq 1894-1914
… order to discuss certain aspects of late Ottoman history in Baghdad and Basra, between 1894 and 1914. Since these sources have been underutilized, their inclusion will widen the scope of possible historical investigation in the study of Late Ottoman Baghdad and Basra. This research will suggest …
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Media Focus in Afghanistan News Coverage
… New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and The Daily Outlook Afghanistan, a national Afghan news outlet, as a sample within a period of three months over three years (June 2010, July 2011, and August 2012). The 147 news stories' headlines of the four news organizations were studied to …
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Making Peace with Contradictions: Reflections of Territory and Identity in Israel/Palestine
<p>Both historical and personal essay, this culminating project is a creative non-fiction work exploring the modern historical roots of the Israel/Palestine conflict. Part I surveys the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Palestine, centering on two key figures: Israeli Prime Minister, …
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Migration, Colonialism, and Belonging: Tunisians Around the First World War, 1911-1925
… of ordinary North Africans around the First World War, demonstrating how the war catalyzed a wide and unexpected range of concepts of political and social belonging. With the Mediterranean once again the site of massive migration provoked by war and economic inequality, scholars and …
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Changing Homelands: The Election of Menachem Begin and The Diplomatic Campaign to Bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel
… diplomatic efforts by Israel, the United States, and non-governmental organizations to facilitate the immigration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. While much of the historical literature on this topic has focused on the 1980s and 1990s, when tens of thousands of Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to …
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Violence Against Architecture: The Lost Cultural Heritage of Syria and Iraq
… examines ancient architecture within Syria and Iraq that has been deliberately destroyed by violence. The act of destroying architecture and monuments in both Syria and Iraq, which is often-historical UNESCO protected, will invariably violate various laws, such as the 1954 Hague Convention …
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The Dynamics of Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)
<p>Since Iran's Islamic revolution in 1978, there has been a notable shift in how the country engages with the global community. This paper explores this transformation within the context of Iran's nuclear program, focusing on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed in Vienna in July …
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Through the Eyes of the Post: American Media Coverage of the Armenian Genocide.
… Ottoman Empire were systematically persecuted and many eliminated while the world watched. Yet today, American memory and conception of the Armenian Genocide is remarkably different from similar historical events such as the Holocaust. The Armenian Genocide and America's reaction to it is a …
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The Making of a Social Disease: Tuberculosis and the Medicalization of Late Ottoman Society, 1800–1922
… from the early 19th century to the aftermath of World War I, it traces how Ottoman doctors, reformers, and public health advocates conceptualized and responded to TB (verem) not merely as a medical condition, but as a social threat. Drawing on multilingual sources—including Armenian, …
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