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Showing 1 to 20 of 225 for “"Mustafa"”.
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THE ROAD TO VIENNA: HABSBURG AND OTTOMAN STATECRAFT DURING THE TIME OF GRAND VIZIER KARA MUSTAFA PAŞA (1676-1683)
… statecraft during the time of Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa Paşa (1676-1683). I synthesize Habsburg diplomatic reports and Ottoman chronicles to show that during the peace negotiations between the Habsburg envoys and Kara Mustafa Paşa’s court before the second Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683, the two …
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The legal philosophy of al-Ghazali: law, language and theology in al-Mustasfa
… last writings on legal theory (Usul al-figh), al-Mustafa, in perspective and evaluate its significance in the genre of Usul al-figh literature. The focus of this thesis is the interface between law, language and theology as it manifests itself in a 'close reading' of al-Mustafa and his biography …
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THE APPROPRIATION OF ISLAMIC HISTORY AND AHL AL-BAYTISM IN OTTOMAN HISTORICAL WRITING, 1300-1650
… well-known later intellectual luminaries such as Mustafa `Ali (1541-1600) and Katip Celebi (1609-57), and lesser-known figures such as Mustafa Cenabi (d. 1590) and Muslihuddin Lari (d. 1572).A particularly noteworthy contribution of this study is the analysis of the course of ahl al-baytism in …
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Case Study: Nicosia Master Plan; Cooperation in the Midst of Conflict
… the courageous vision of Lellos Demetriades and Mustafa Akinci- the former Mayors, respectively, of the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities of Nicosia. While both leaders looked forward to a common solution to the political crisis they believed that no time should be lost in dealing …
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Religion, violence & the state : a dialogical encounter between activists and scholars
… I have chosen Michael Lapsley of South Africa, Mustafa Ceric of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Swami Agnivesh of India. The three case studies I have examined accentuate different aspects of religion and violence nexus but have one key thing in common: all three point to the critical role of the state, …
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“Let's Smash the Idols!” Kemal Pilavoğlu's Sufi Pan-Islamism in Republican Turkey
… legacy of Islam in their dialogical responses to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's state-led reform project of modernization during the establishment of Republican Turkey. These Sufi “Islamist” responses to the Kemalist project of forced cultural change, which have been dubbed “Neo-Ottoman” by Hakan Yavuz, …
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Disciplining Religious Bodies, Forming Secular Bodies: Atatürk, Modern Power and Secular Affect
… (Turkey). I focus in particular how the body of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (d. 1938) became the way in which the secular body was disciplined, taught and performed. I explore the enigmatic indeterminacy of the secular male body by showing how the secular functions as a separating power, partitioning …
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Painful Discourses: Borders, Regions, and Representations of Female Circumcision from Africa to America
… African Women in Imperialist Discourses, Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf’s Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives, and Oyèrónké Oyewùmi’s African Women and Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of Sisterhood, all of which I cite in the dissertation. These texts resist “othering” and focus …
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Bearing Il/liberal Secondary Witness: Un/disciplined Pedagogies of Response to Testimonial Narratives
… memoir, <em>Guantánamo Diary</em>, Syrian writer Mustafa Khalifa’s semi-autobiographical novel, <em>The Shell</em>, Salvadoran writer Horacio Castellanos Moya’s testimonial novel, <em>Senselessness, </em>Guatemalan Mayan peasant woman’s eponymous testimonio, <em>I, Rigoberta Menchú</em>, <em> …
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Supra-Egyptian Islamic and Pan-Arab identities and acculturated Muslim Egyptian intellectuals, 1892-1952
… those in the independence movement launched by Mustafa Kamil (to 1918) and (b) that around the newspapers al-Jaridah (1908-1914) of the Ummah Party and then, after 1922, around the successor al-Siyasah and Party of Liberal Constitutionalists. Our focus on the conflict and interblending of Arab …
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Supra-Egyptian Islamic and Pan-Arab identities and acculturated Muslim Egyptian intellectuals, 1892-1952
… those in the independence movement launched by Mustafa Kamil (to 1918) and (b) that around the newspapers al-Jaridah (1908-1914) of the Ummah Party and then, after 1922, around the successor al-Siyasah and Party of Liberal Constitutionalists. Our focus on the conflict and interblending of Arab …
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Towards Robust Object Segmentation in Video Sequences and its Applications
Objektsegmentierung ist eines der grundlegenden Probleme in der Bildverarbeitung und Computervision, da sie eine Vorstufe für viele Aufgaben der Objektanalyse und Anwendungen darstellt. Viele Verfahren der Objektanalyse wie zum Beispiel die Objekterkennung sind auf eine genaue Segmentierung der …
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Transnational development: Limitations and potentialities of a model for 'Migration and Development' : case study Caxcania
In previous public and academic discourses the perception of migration and development has a varied trajectory; in general, the understanding of the linkage was often unbalanced, because of an overemphasis with regard to the scope, meaning international labor migrant's contribution to development. …
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Outsiders in a distant land : a case study of ten Islamic Lebanese families and their views on citizenship
This thesis is concerned with issues of ethnicity, identity and citizenship. In particular, it focuses on the views of Islamic Sunni Lebanese families on the issue of citizenship as a notion of rights and participation. The key question which the thesis addresses is, in what ways can universal …
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On-device mobile speech recognition
Despite many years of research, Speech Recognition remains an active area of research in Artificial Intelligence. Currently, the most common commercial application of this technology on mobile devices uses a wireless client – server approach to meet the computational and memory demands of the …
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ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE IN THE UK HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR: THE MODERATING ROLE OF SOCIAL CAPITAL
Higher Education (HE) is a prominent factor in any economy in the world, specifically if the education sector contributes to the economic development of any country. The UK HE sector has grown after World War Two, and the university competition has been boosted. In this competitive world, the …
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