Capgras Syndrome: Possibly More Common Among the Maori of New Zealand

Objective: The report describes an apparently greater incidence of Capgras syndrome among the Maori population compared with the European population, in the most easterly catchment area served by Tauranga Hospital in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty. Method: Over the last year we have become aware of five cases of Capgras syndrome in our catchment area. This area (population nearly 21 000) consists of a rapidly expanding new suburb of the city of Tauranga and a rural area extending 55 km east of the city. These figures were compared with those of the westerly catchment area served by Tauranga Hospital, where the psychiatric team is not aware of any examples of Capgras syndrome among their population. The 1996 census figures were obtained in order to calculate a population ethnicity breakdown. Results: Five cases of Capgras syndrome were identified in the most easterly catchment area where 19% of the population identified as Maori, 75% as European and 6% as other or non-specified. All of the cases occurred in Maori patients. This compares with no identified cases of Capgras syndrome in the most westerly catchment area where 12% of the population identified as Maori, 87% as European and 1% as other or non-specified. Four out of five cases were female. Two cases had a history of cannabis use. Three cases had exhibited dangerous behaviour towards family members. Conclusions: There is an apparently greater incidence of Capgras syndrome among the New Zealand Maori population compared with the European population in the most easterly catchment area served by Tauranga Hospital. In our population Capgras syndrome is a common, not rare, feature of psychotic illness, and the cases support a previously reported association of this syndrome with dangerousness.

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From the History of the Yekaterinburg Merchant Family of the Agafurovs: New Discoveries

Minbar Islamic Studies ◽

10.31162/2618-9569-2018-11-2-245-260 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 245-260

Author(s):

Aleksey N. Starostin

Keyword(s):

Family Members ◽

Public Library ◽

Cultural Development ◽

Russian Revolution ◽

State Archive ◽

Muslim Community ◽

The Family ◽

History Of ◽

Charity Work ◽

The City

The Agafurovs were the well established Russian Tatar merchants. Before 1917 the Agafurov family had significantly contributed to the cultural development of the city of Yekaterinburg and its Muslim community. The family was actively involved in charity work, financially supported the city «House of worship», the Russian-Tatar public library as well as several schools. The biographies of the some Agafurov family members are rather well researched on the basis of the sources preserved in the Ural libraries. However, researchers still lack a knowledge about what did happen to them since they have left Russia after the 1917 Russian revolution. The article is an attempt to fill in this gap. It deals with what happened to the Agafurov family members during their emigration to China (Harbin) in 1920 – 1940es. The present research is based on the hitherto unknown documents from the former Russian Emigrants in the Manchurian Empire Bureau, which are currently preserved in the State Archive of Khabarovsk Region (Khabarovskii Krai).

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Islam in New Zealand – A Mixed Reception: Historical Overview and Contemporary Challenges

مجلة كلية الشريعة و الدراسات الإسلامية ◽

10.29117/jcsis.2021.0290 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 149-170

Author(s):

Abdullah Drury ◽

Douglas Pratt

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Terrorist Attack ◽

Muslim Community ◽

The Core ◽

Muslim Minority ◽

The Status ◽

History Of ◽

The City ◽

Direct Attachment ◽

Looking Back

Purpose: This research aims to discuss the history of Islam in New Zealand, together with some of the pressing issues and challenges Muslims have encountered along the way. Looking back at the history of early Muslim settlers and the emergence of Muslim organizations and allied enterprises, it is clear that the Muslim community in New Zealand has had a rather mixed reception in a land that, on the whole, is perceived to be benignly tolerant and accepting. Methodology: The research is based on a critical analysis of the available literature, both contemporary and historical. This paper explores complicated community developments, conversions to Islam, the violence experienced with defacement and destruction of mosques in reaction to overseas events over recent decades, ongoing Islamophobia, and the infamous 2019 terrorist attack on two mosques in the city of Christchurch. Findings: The research highlights the status of the New Zealand Muslim community and the extent and nature of their influence in the country. It constitutes a social hierarchy with a complex past and multiple internal issues. Accordingly, this paper concludes with a brief discussion of the migrant experience of Muslims. It also elucidates the necessity of further research in the future and emphasizes the need to study the culture, faith and history of New Zealand from various angles. Originality: This is illustrated in the direct attachment of the research to the core topic of religion. This is the first academic study to deal directly with both the history of the Muslim minority and contemporary issues such as Islamophobia following the 2019 massacre.

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INFORMATION FROM THE EGYPTIAN CHRONICLER ABD AZ-ZAHIR AS A SOURCE FOR THE HISTORY OF THE CRIMEA OF THE THIRD QUARTER OF THE XIII CENTURY

Scientific Notes of V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University. Historical science ◽

10.37279/2413-1741-2020-6-3-92-126 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (72) (3) ◽

pp. 92-126

Author(s):

V. A. Sidorenko

Keyword(s):

Direct Evidence ◽

Family Members ◽

Original Text ◽

The Third ◽

Conversion To Islam ◽

The Crimea ◽

History Of ◽

The Military ◽

The City

This article is an attempt to restore the original text with the description held in the Crimea the fourth embassy to al-Malik al-Zahir Baybars (1260–1277) to the ruler of the Golden Horde, Berke – fragment of the London of the manuscript of the secretary of the office of the Mamluk Sultan al-Malik al-Zahir Baybars (1260–1277) and his biographer ‘Abd al-Zahir (1223–1293) «al-Rawḍ al-ẓāhir fī sīrat al-Malik al-Ẓāhir» (Garden visible in the biography of al-Malik al-Zahir) with filling of the gaps in the text borrowings from the Egyptian chroniclers Shafi, b. Ali (1252–1329), al-Nuwayri (1279–1333), al-Muf al-Dal (1259–1341), Ibn al-Forat (1335–1405), al-Aini (1361–1453), al-Makrizi (1364–1442), al-Yunini (1256–1326), Rukn ad-Din Baybars (1247–1325), etc. Verbatim translations of excerpts from Arabic works published with translations by V. G. Tizengauzen allow us to establish: 1) the absence in the letters of Baybars and Berke of any information about Berke’s conversion to Islam earlier than 1263 and the presence of direct evidence of his intentions to join this religion; 2) the time of adoption of the religion of Islam by Berke, his family members and the military aristocracy of the Golden Horde in the first decade of may 1263; 3) the number and sequence of embassies of the ruler of the Golden Horde Berke and Sultan Beybars, carried out before the resumption (July 17, 1264) of the fourth Embassy of the Sultan detained by the Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos; 4) the time of the fourth Embassy of Beybars in the Crimea (20–21 1264); 5) the presence of the Crimea in July 1264 under the rule of the only ruler – the son of Jouchi Tuka Timur, called by Abd al-Zahir Tuk Buga, and on the coins of his «pre-Muslim» coinage of the Crimea «Ata Tuka syogun» and «Temir Tuka»; 6) the existence of a post station-caravanserai on the route of the embassy, which served as the formation of the city of Solhat around it.

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Second Report of Accidental Intestinal Myiasis due toEristalis tenax(Diptera: Syrphidae) in Iran, 2015

Case Reports in Emergency Medicine ◽

10.1155/2017/3754180 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2017 ◽

pp. 1-3 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Ramezani Awal Riabi Hamed ◽

Ramezani Awal Riabi Hamid ◽

Naghizade Hamid

Keyword(s):

Rural Area ◽

The South ◽

Morphology Characteristic ◽

History Of ◽

The City ◽

Live Larva

We have described a new case of accidental intestinal myiasis that had occurred due toEristalis tenaxin Iran. A 4-year-old girl living in rural area near Bajestan city located in the south of Khorasan Razavi province visited the hospital lab with complaints of one live larva in feces and did not have other symptoms, except anal itching. This case had a history of consuming subterranean village water and did not have a history of traveling outside the city or contact with other patients.Conclusion. Based on the morphology characteristic, the larva was identified as “rat-tailed maggot” or larvae flyE. tenax.

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Kiwi and the Dervish: A Short History of Bosnian Settlement in New Zealand

Bosnian Studies: Journal for research of Bosnian thought and culture ◽

10.47999/bos.2020.4.1.52-68 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 52-68

Author(s):

Abdullah Drury

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Spiritual Leadership ◽

European Population ◽

Immigrants And Refugees ◽

Personal Motivation ◽

Private And Public ◽

History Of ◽

Spiritual Tradition ◽

Public Lives ◽

Mainstream Society

Emigration from Bosnia-Herzegovina to New Zealand invariably affects, and often undermines, the core religious practices and affiliations of Slavic Muslims. Research suggests that most of these immigrants and refugees have subsumed a key feature of their unique Balkan heritage in order to integrate into mainstream society, the Anglo-European population in this predominantly Protestant-Christian nation in the South Pacific. My study aims to elucidate this historic phenomenon through an exploration of multiple biographies of several working class persons, within the context of the wider picture of Bosnian settlement here. This essay asks: to what degree does personal motivation appear to influence participation in the wider, shared spiritual tradition of Islam in a minority societal context? Predicated on a review of the available literature, my research suggests a complex socio-economic bricolage. Through a case study design my analysis demonstrates that most Bosnian immigrants and refugees over the twentieth century were more concerned with tangible material objectives than theological principles or goals. These results indicate that, overall, religion played less of a role in their private and public lives historically compared to Asian and African immigrants and refugees. On this basis, it is suggested that in future Muslim social and religious organisations based in Bosnia make greater efforts to liaise with their diaspora populations even at these further-most edges of the earth and provide better spiritual leadership. Further research is necessary to identify other aspects that could strengthen Bosnian Muslim culture outside Europe.

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Comparative morphological analysis of apple blister mite, Eriophyes mali Nal., a new pest in Serbia

Pesticidi i fitomedicina ◽

10.2298/pif1402123v ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 123-130 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Biljana Vidovic ◽

Slavica Marinkovic ◽

Ivana Maric ◽

Radmila Petanovic

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Morphological Analysis ◽

Geographical Origin ◽

European Population ◽

Morphological Features ◽

Comparative Morphological Analysis ◽

The Usa ◽

History Of ◽

Different Populations ◽

New Pest

The apple blister mite, Eriophyes mali Nalepa, 1926 (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea), has been recently found in Serbia as a new pest of apple. The history of its research, the results of a morphological analysis and degree of infestation are presented. A comparison of the main morphological features of mites from different populations of remote geographical origin has shown that the apple blister mite from Serbia is most similar to another European population (Bulgarian [or Austrian?]) while it differs from E. mali originating from the USA and New Zealand. The percentage of infestation varied from 1.6% to 87.6%, with an average of 22.4%.

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James Cook bicentenary celebrations in New Zealand

Notes and Records the Royal Society journal of the history of science ◽

10.1098/rsnr.1970.0013 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 24 (2) ◽

pp. 189-193

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

East Coast ◽

Prime Minister ◽

Main Flow ◽

Capital City ◽

James Cook ◽

The Public ◽

History Of ◽

The Government ◽

The City

THE enthusiasm with which the Government and people of New Zealand celebrated the bicentennial of the Endeavour's landfall and the first landing of Europeans on 9 October 1769, at the site where the City of Gisborne now stands, has firmly established James Cook as the outstanding national hero in the history of this young country. In the capital city of Wellington, national celebration of the bicentenary began on 3 October when the Prime Minister, The Rt Hon. Keith Holyoake, opened a Cook Exhibition in the Dominion Museum that will remain open to the public for ten months. Guests on that occasion also previewed the film prepared in New Zealand for exhibition overseas: ‘Your humble and obedient servant, James Cook.’ The Government had agreed that the main national celebrations should be focused on Gisborne. This country town of somewhat less than 30,000 people (not without some similarities to the Endeavour’s home port of Whitby) responded warmly to the honour. Somewhat peripheral to the main flow of tourist and industrial traffic, Gisborne is the business, administrative and market centre for the East Coast, an extensive area of hilly grazing country producing wool and mutton; Gisborne also ranks fourth in New Zealand as a fishing port and the fishing industry continues to grow. Gisborne district has a large and increasing population of Maori people (Ngati-porou tribe) who play a prominent and increasing role in the life of the city. They comprise a higher percentage of the population than in any other district of New Zealand and actively promote their cultural heritage, following the inspiration of the late Sir Apirana Ngata, a notable leader in the district.

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