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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Ismaili"”.
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Philosophy as a Path to Happiness : Attainment of Happiness in Arabic Peripatetic and Ismaili Philosophy
… represented by al-Fārābī and Ibn Sīnā, and Ismaili philosophy represented by al-Kirmānī and the Brethren of Purity. They initially offer two contrasting views about philosophy in that the attitude of the Peripatetics is rationalistic and secular in spirit, whereas for the Ismailis philosophy …
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The metamorphosis of authority: a case study of the Aga Khan Development Network and the Ismaili Imamate
… developments of the institutions of the Nizārī Ismaili imamate during the time of the present Ismaili Imam, Shāh Karīm al-Ḥusaynī, Aga Khan IV, as the 49th hereditary living Imam of Shiʿi Nizārī Ismaili Muslims, particularly addressing the formation of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and …
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UNDERSTANDING HEALTH LITERACY REGARDING THE CANADIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM UPON SETTLEMENT OF ISMAILI MUSLIM CANADIANS: A NARRATIVE STUDY
… a single definition of health literacy. Being an Ismaili Muslim and understanding their history of migration, I wanted to ground my study through my family's experiences of having to move from East Africa to Canada in 1972. My goal was to gain a better understanding of the post-immigration …
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Mapping the Assembly of Muslim Exceptionality and Exceptional Muslims in Colonial Modernity. Ismaili Muslim Encounters through Discourses, Bodies and Space in the Canadian Colonial Nation
… of sociopolitical currents in which the Ismailis, as a Muslim community and gendered ethnicized bodies, move and animate in Canada as a settler colonial race formation as well as in a broader geography of Muslim social and cultural politics. It is in the constitutions and movements of …
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Shiftings of the self : towards a deterritorialized view of identity and belonging : the case of East and Central African-Asians in Canada
… diaspora residing in Canada. The respondents are Ismaili by faith, a spiritual identity that underpins all other aspects of their identity construction. They may identify as Indian by origins, African by place of birth or upbringing, and recently as Canadian by citizenship. Some have multiple …
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Mental Health Help-Seeking in South Asian American Muslims: The Role of Cultural Beliefs, Attitudes, and Knowledge
… three South Asian Muslim groups—Sunni, Shia, and Ismaili—controlling for the effects of age and generational status; (b) cultural beliefs, attitudes, and knowledge and familiarity between men and women; and (c) preferences towards seeking formal (physicians, mental health professionals) versus …
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Abode of Peace: Islam, empire, and the Khoja diaspora (1866 - 1972)
… over the Khojas and his unveiling as the Ismaili imam in the nineteenth century. I claim throughout that the Aga and his heirs mapped their contested and unstable authority out of rather than onto dynamic Khoja ideas about subjectivity, gender, space, and history. Because the Khojas often …
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Optimisation of heat exchanger network maintenance scheduling problems
This thesis focuses on the challenges that arise from the scheduling of heat exchanger network maintenance problems which undergo fouling and run continuously over time. The original contributions of the current research consist of the development of novel optimisation methodologies for the …
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GPES : a general process engineering system.
Thesis. 1978. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Chemical Engineering.