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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Najaf"”.
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Associational Life, Print Culture and Political Thought in Najaf, 1905-c.1941
This thesis analyses Najafi intellectual and political activity in the first half of the twentieth century. One of the most important Shi’i religious and scholarly cities in the world, Najaf was transformed by the momentous political and social changes wrought by the demise of the Ottoman Empire …
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The Anatomy of Shi'i Shrine Cities: Pivots in World Politics
… this process, it uses the Iraqi cities of Najaf and Karbala as case studies. The case studies reveal how clerical authority is the most salient temporal pivot in Najaf and collective identity is the most salient spatial pivot in Karbala. The empirical analyses are respectively dedicated to …
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The Anatomy of Shi'i Shrine Cities: Pivots in World Politics
… this process, it uses the Iraqi cities of Najaf and Karbala as case studies. The case studies reveal how clerical authority is the most salient temporal pivot in Najaf and collective identity is the most salient spatial pivot in Karbala. The empirical analyses are respectively dedicated to …
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Dirge in Georgia Minor
… we will not lower ourselves, you can keep your Najaf, its obstinate earth baking its people hard as rock from meridian to meridian. This earth blowing itself apart as fast as we can arrange it. As if death and nature behold with surprise we trembling sinners. As if we are just descended, and our …
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Dirge in Georgia Minor
… we will not lower ourselves, you can keep your Najaf, its obstinate earth baking its people hard as rock from meridian to meridian. This earth blowing itself apart as fast as we can arrange it. As if death and nature behold with surprise we trembling sinners. As if we are just descended, and our …
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The new year's festivals and the shrine of Ali Ibn Abi Talib Sy Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan
… this shrine came to be considered a rival to Najaf. The Sa1juq and Timurid discovery narratives are examined (Chapters 1-2) in their wider religious and cultural context, followed by an examination of Afghan folklore related to Nauroz and the pre-Islamic religious traditions of Bactria …
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Molecular characterization of viruses infecting potato and vegetables in Iraq
… collected from fields in Baghdad, Anbar and Najaf provinces in Iraq. Using genus/family specific primers, published in the literature, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) were performed to screen samples for potyviruses, begomoviruses, …
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Designing an On-Demand Dynamic Crowdshipping Model and Evaluating its Ability to Serve Local Retail Delivery in New York City
<p>Nowadays city mobility is challenging, mainly in populated metropolitan areas. Growing commute demands, increase in the number of for-hire vehicles, enormous escalation in several intra-city deliveries and limited infrastructure (road capacities), all contribute to mobility challenges. These …
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Varying Views of Democracy Among Iraqi Citizens, 2005-2018
… the two religious centers of Qum (Iran) and Najaf (Iraq); collapse of the ruling party; fluidity of political realignments; a rise of secularisms; and the emergence of a robust social movement supporting a Western liberal democratic system. Competition over shared social and ideological …