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Arms And Armor From Santa Elena: A Photographic Inventory, Heathley A. Johnson Oct 2023

Arms And Armor From Santa Elena: A Photographic Inventory, Heathley A. Johnson

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No abstract provided.


Studying Hadith Commentaries In The Digital Age, Aslisho Qurboniev, Gowaart Van Den Bossche, Maroussia Bednarkiewicz May 2023

Studying Hadith Commentaries In The Digital Age, Aslisho Qurboniev, Gowaart Van Den Bossche, Maroussia Bednarkiewicz

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In this essay we reflect on the challenges involved in corpus building for hadith studies as well as the advances already made. We specifically focus on the Open Islamicate texts Initiative (OpenItI), a large, academically curated corpus of arabic texts sourced from various online libraries. this corpus is continuously vetted and expanded by scholarly contributions. We discuss its advantages for computational macro-analysis and for more traditional close reading, and survey recent research in digital hadith studies as an example of the possibilities of computational macro-analysis, we focus on assessing the output of the software ‘passim’, which has identified millions of …


Revisiting Feminist Historiography On Women's Activism In Turkey: Beyond The Grand Narrative Of Waves, Sevgi Adak, Selin Cagatay Apr 2023

Revisiting Feminist Historiography On Women's Activism In Turkey: Beyond The Grand Narrative Of Waves, Sevgi Adak, Selin Cagatay

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Recent contributions in feminist historiography challenge the reading of women's movements through the waves metaphor and destabilise rigid periodisations. These contributions have triggered debates about the way feminism and women's activism are analysed in the West, but their implications for feminist historiography in non-Western contexts have yet to be discussed. New studies, including our own, on Kemalist and socialist women's activisms suggest that the agendas affiliated with the post-1980 ‘second wave’ of feminism in Turkey had been raised prior to the 1980s. These findings call for critical engagement with the long-established idea that there have been two waves of women's …


Numismatic History Of The Charlesfort/Santa Elena Site: The Sixteenth-Century Spanish Occupation, Heathley A. Johnson Apr 2023

Numismatic History Of The Charlesfort/Santa Elena Site: The Sixteenth-Century Spanish Occupation, Heathley A. Johnson

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No abstract provided.


The Camden Burial Project, Part I: Background And Preliminary Results, James B. Legg Apr 2023

The Camden Burial Project, Part I: Background And Preliminary Results, James B. Legg

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No abstract provided.


The Search For Stuarts Town (1684-1686), Chester B. Depratter Apr 2023

The Search For Stuarts Town (1684-1686), Chester B. Depratter

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Querying The Past: Automatic Source Attribution With Language Models, Ryan Muther, Mathew Barber, David Smith Jan 2023

Querying The Past: Automatic Source Attribution With Language Models, Ryan Muther, Mathew Barber, David Smith

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This paper explores new methods for locating the sources used to write a text by 昀椀ne-tuning a variety of language models to rerank candidate sources. These methods promise to shed new light on traditions with complex citational practices, such as in medieval Arabic where citations are ambiguous and boundaries of quotation are poorly defined. After retrieving candidates sources using a baseline BM25 retrieval model, a variety of reranking methods are tested to see how effective they are at the task of source attribution. We conduct experiments on two datasets—English Wikipedia and medieval Arabic historical writing—and employ a variety of retrieval- …


The Left In Turkey: Survival And Resistance Under Authoritarianism, Sevgi Adak Jan 2023

The Left In Turkey: Survival And Resistance Under Authoritarianism, Sevgi Adak

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No abstract provided.


The Search For Stuarts Town, Chester B. Depratter Aug 2022

The Search For Stuarts Town, Chester B. Depratter

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No abstract provided.


Spanish Halberds In South Carolina?, Chester B. Depratter Dec 2021

Spanish Halberds In South Carolina?, Chester B. Depratter

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No abstract provided.


A Legacy Of Land: From Dynasty To Death: The Redistribution Of Land And Wealth Explored Through The Lens Of Genealogy, Heather R. Amaral, Sherrie Cork Dec 2021

A Legacy Of Land: From Dynasty To Death: The Redistribution Of Land And Wealth Explored Through The Lens Of Genealogy, Heather R. Amaral, Sherrie Cork

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No abstract provided.


The Civil War At Santa Elena, James B. Legg, Heathley A. Johnson Dec 2021

The Civil War At Santa Elena, James B. Legg, Heathley A. Johnson

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No abstract provided.


Review Of Hans-Ulrich KüHn "Sultan Baibars Und Seine Söhne", Gowaart Van Den Bossche Oct 2021

Review Of Hans-Ulrich KüHn "Sultan Baibars Und Seine Söhne", Gowaart Van Den Bossche

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Van Den Bossche, Gowaart. "Hans-Ulrich Kühn, Sultan Baibars und seine Söhne: Frühmamlūkische Herrschaftssicherung in ayyūbidischer Tradition, Bonn: V&R unipress/Bonn University Press 2019 (Mamluk Studies Vol. 18), 661 pp., including appendices (with 17 full colour photographs) and index, ISBN: 978-3-8471-0812-2." Der Islam, vol. 98, no. 2, 2021, pp. 621-626. https://doi.org/10.1515/islam-2021-0045


Conservation And Documentation Of A Significant Camden Battlefield Collection, James B. Legg Aug 2021

Conservation And Documentation Of A Significant Camden Battlefield Collection, James B. Legg

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No abstract provided.


Ancient Weapons From The Siege Of Ninety Six, James B. Legg, Steven D. Smith Sep 2020

Ancient Weapons From The Siege Of Ninety Six, James B. Legg, Steven D. Smith

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No abstract provided.


Castle Pinckney Work Continues- Testing And Monitoring During The Down Season In 2020, John Fisher Sep 2020

Castle Pinckney Work Continues- Testing And Monitoring During The Down Season In 2020, John Fisher

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No abstract provided.


A Vietnam War-Era Training Village At Fort Jackson, Stacey L. Young Sep 2020

A Vietnam War-Era Training Village At Fort Jackson, Stacey L. Young

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No abstract provided.


Artillery Ammunition From The 1781 Siege Of Star Fort, James B. Legg Sep 2020

Artillery Ammunition From The 1781 Siege Of Star Fort, James B. Legg

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No abstract provided.


Destroying Churches By Performing Knowledge: Ibn Al-RifʿA’S Kitāb Al-Nafā’Is Fī Adillat Hadm Al-Kanā’Is (700/1301) And The Social Negotiation Of Legal Authority, Gowaart Van Den Bossche Jan 2020

Destroying Churches By Performing Knowledge: Ibn Al-RifʿA’S Kitāb Al-Nafā’Is Fī Adillat Hadm Al-Kanā’Is (700/1301) And The Social Negotiation Of Legal Authority, Gowaart Van Den Bossche

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In 700/1301 the Cairene scholar Najm al-Dīn Ibn al-Rifʿa wrote a short juridical treatise entitled Kitāb al-nafāʾis fī adillat hadm al-kanāʾis in which he argued for the destruction of all churches and synagogues in Cairo. Some chroniclers report that this text was used to legitimise popular attacks on and the destruction of churches, but shortly thereafter, Ibn al-Rifʿa’s opinion was declared invalid by a council of prominent jurists. In addition to its juridical arguments for church destruction, several statements found in the treatise suggest that it was meant to function as a challenge to the author’s peers. I argue that …


Search For Old St. Augustine, Chester B. Depratter Dec 2019

Search For Old St. Augustine, Chester B. Depratter

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No abstract provided.


The Writing Of Munāẓarāt In Times Of Turmoil: Disputations In Fāṭimid Ifrīqiya, Aslisho Qurboniev Jan 2019

The Writing Of Munāẓarāt In Times Of Turmoil: Disputations In Fāṭimid Ifrīqiya, Aslisho Qurboniev

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This article discusses the significance of the writing and transmission of two accounts recording disputations (munāẓarāt) that took place in 909 CE, the year of the Fatimid revolution, in Qayrawān (modern Tunisia). These debates, in which local scholars of all politico-religious factions participated, were organized by the agents of the Fatimid daʿwa as part of their attempt to establish a Shīʿī caliphate. But the accounts themselves, written at different times and for different motives, were triggered by personal trauma and responded to broader political and religious issues, which helps to explain their inclusion in later narratives of defiance and hagiography. …


40 Years On: Reflections On The Iranian Revolution Jan 2019

40 Years On: Reflections On The Iranian Revolution

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Abdou Filali-Ensari Occasional Paper Series 1, edited by Sevgi Adak


Islamic Calligraphy (Book Review), Walid Ghali Jan 2018

Islamic Calligraphy (Book Review), Walid Ghali

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No abstract provided.


Muslimska Församlingar Och Föreningar I Malmö Och Lund – En Ögonblicksbild, Leif Stenberg, Rickard Lagervall Jun 2016

Muslimska Församlingar Och Föreningar I Malmö Och Lund – En Ögonblicksbild, Leif Stenberg, Rickard Lagervall

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No abstract provided.


Islam Enligt Den Islamiska Staten - En Islamologisk Kommentar, Leif Stenberg Dec 2015

Islam Enligt Den Islamiska Staten - En Islamologisk Kommentar, Leif Stenberg

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No abstract provided.


The Choice Of Interdisciplinarities, Stephen Lyon Jan 2014

The Choice Of Interdisciplinarities, Stephen Lyon

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Responses to Ageeth Sluis and Elise Edwards, 'Rethinking combined departments: an argument for History and Anthropology', published in Learning and Teaching (Lyon, Stephen M. 2014. “Responses to Ageeth Sluis and Elise Edwards, ‘Rethinking Combined Departments: An Argument for History and Anthropology’, Published in ‘Learning and Teaching’ 6.1: The Choice of Interdisciplinarities.” Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences 7 (2): 84–86. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24717989.)


Following The Roots Of Oregon Wine, Rachael Cristine Woody, Rich Schmidt Jan 2013

Following The Roots Of Oregon Wine, Rachael Cristine Woody, Rich Schmidt

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Terroir is a French term widely used in wine circles to mean “the taste of the place.” The terroir of Oregon wine combines environmental and human elements to produce distinguishing flavors and reveals the histories of grape growers and winemakers in the state. A new archive at Linfield College, the Oregon Wine History Archive (OWHA), collects that history and makes it available to researchers and the public. Library professionals Rachael Cristine Woody and Rich Schmidt tell the story of OWHA’s origins and mission, which is to document all aspects of the wine industry by collecting and preserving historical materials such …


Building Bridges With Boats: Preserving Community History Through Intra- And Inter-Institutional Collaboration, Kathleen Spring, Brenda Devore Marshall Jan 2013

Building Bridges With Boats: Preserving Community History Through Intra- And Inter-Institutional Collaboration, Kathleen Spring, Brenda Devore Marshall

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This chapter discusses Launching through the Surf: The Dory Fleet of Pacific City, a project which documents the historical and contemporary role of dory fishers in the life of the coastal village of Pacific City, Oregon, U.S. Linfield College’s Department of Theatre and Communication Arts, its Jereld R. Nicholson Library, the Pacific City Arts Association, the Pacific City Dorymen's Association, and the Linfield Center for the Northwest joined forces to engage in a collaborative college and community venture to preserve this important facet of Oregon’s history. Using ethnography as a theoretical grounding and oral history as a method, the …


A Management Plan For Known And Potential United States Navy Shipwrecks In South Carolina, James D. Spirek, Christopher F. Amer Apr 2004

A Management Plan For Known And Potential United States Navy Shipwrecks In South Carolina, James D. Spirek, Christopher F. Amer

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This report, A Management Plan For Known and Potential United States Navy Shipwrecks in South Carolina, presents the results of a multi-year study that partnered the Maritime Research Division (MRD) of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA) at the University of South Carolina (USC) with the Naval Historical Center (NHC) in Washington, DC. The project was conducted in two phases. The first phase called for compiling historical and cultural data of United States Navy vessels lost in South Carolina waters to document the losses and subsequent wreck history of each vessel. The resultant information was then …


A Management Plan For Known And Potential United States Navy Shipwrecks In South Carolina, James D. Spirek, Christopher F. Amer Mar 2004

A Management Plan For Known And Potential United States Navy Shipwrecks In South Carolina, James D. Spirek, Christopher F. Amer

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This report, A Management Plan For Known and Potential United States Navy Shipwrecks in South Carolina, presents the results of a multi-year study that partnered the Maritime Research Division (MRD) of the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology (SCIAA) at the University of South Carolina (USC) with the Naval Historical Center (NHC) in Washington, DC. The project was conducted in two phases. The first phase called for compiling historical and cultural data of United States Navy vessels lost in South Carolina waters to document the losses and subsequent wreck history of each vessel. The resultant information was then …