scholarly journals The Almohads and the “Qur’anization” of War Narrative and Ritual

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 876
Author(s):  
Javier Albarrán
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Direct Study ◽  
War Narrative ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Religiosity And Spirituality ◽  
War Discourse

The Almohad movement (12th–13th centuries, Islamic West) had in the return to the direct study of the primary sources of Islam—the Qur’an and the Sunna—and in jihād, two of its most important pillars of legitimation and action. In this sense, it is an ideal period to study how both realities—Qur’an and jihād—were linked in a given historical context. During the Almohad period, the use of Qur’anic verses in accounts related to war episodes became widespread. We thus witness a “Qur’anization” of the war narrative, a resource adding greater religiosity and spirituality to the context of jihād, to its elaboration and discursive representation, and to its memory and remembrance through written testimonies. In this paper I study, through the main narrative and documentary sources of the period, how the Qur’an was inserted into and adapted to the Almohad war discourse. Likewise, this approach allows me to explore how the Qur’an came to life within the framework of the Almohad jihād, how it served for its justification and legitimation, and how it formed part of the ceremony and the war protocol of the Maghrebi caliphate, thus linking itself with other discursive and propaganda mechanisms such as architecture or military parades.

scholarly journals A Chronology of El Niño Events from Primary Documentary Sources in Northern Peru*

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 1948-1962 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Garcia-Herrera ◽  
D. Barriopedro ◽  
E. Hernández ◽  
H. F. Diaz ◽  
R. R. Garcia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
El Niño ◽  
El Nino ◽  
Southern Oscillation ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Proxy Data ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Low Frequency Variability ◽  
Northern Peru

Abstract The authors present a chronology of El Niño (EN) events based on documentary records from northern Peru. The chronology, which covers the period 1550–1900, is constructed mainly from primary sources from the city of Trujillo (Peru), the Archivo General de Indias in Seville (Spain), and the Archivo General de la Nación in Lima (Peru), supplemented by a reassessment of documentary evidence included in previously published literature. The archive in Trujillo has never been systematically evaluated for information related to the occurrence of El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Abundant rainfall and river discharge correlate well with EN events in the area around Trujillo, which is very dry during most other years. Thus, rain and flooding descriptors, together with reports of failure of the local fishery, are the main indicators of EN occurrence that the authors have searched for in the documents. A total of 59 EN years are identified in this work. This chronology is compared with the two main previous documentary EN chronologies and with ENSO indicators derived from proxy data other than documentary sources. Overall, the seventeenth century appears to be the least active EN period, while the 1620s, 1720s, 1810s, and 1870s are the most active decades. The results herein reveal long-term fluctuations in warm ENSO activity that compare reasonably well with low-frequency variability deduced from other proxy data.

scholarly journals The politics of movement between Venezuela and Colombia. Myths, realities and conflicts.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe De Corso
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
The Political ◽  
War Narrative ◽  
Transnational Migrants

This essay examines the intense flow and re-flow of transnational migrants between Venezuela and Colombia, applying the theory suggested by Thomas Nail in his work the Figure of the Migrant. We initially focus on the regimes of social motion, and how they link with the political figures of migrants and the strategies of expulsion. Then, we consider the demographic contribution of Colombian diaspora in Venezuela and the socio-political repercussion of their current migratory crisis reverse movement. In pursuing the latter goal, we use primary sources like interviews and discuss censuses and surveys from both countries. We concluded that the current migratory flood is shaped by decades of Colombian immigration to Venezuela and the much quoted exodus is part of a new Cold War narrative.

Educational Activities of the State Russian Museum in the 1940s

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 549-559
Author(s):  
Olga A. Tuminskaya
Keyword(s):  
Publishing House ◽  
The State ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Subsequent Work ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Tour Guides ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Post War ◽  
Museum Tour

The relevance of the article is indicated by referring to archival primary sources that characterize the forms and methods of scientific and artistic educational activities of the State Russian Museum in the 1940s, in particular — during the Great Patriotic War (a museum tour, an exhibition session, a lecture, a conversation with slides). This makes it possible to more accurately identify the direction of work in the following years and at the present time and indicate the need to introduce other forms of work with visitors: lectures with slides, traveling exhibitions, concerts, cycle subscriptions, trips to villages and enterprises, lectures on the radio, cooperation with the museum’s publishing house and the country’s press bodies.The influence of the Department of Scientific and Artistic Propaganda of the 1940s on the State Russian Museum’s subsequent work on communication with the audience is expressed in the revision of the content of the excursion and lecture courses. In the 1950s—1970s, messages on the heroic past of the Soviet people, presentations of the activities of warrior artists, and communication with national unions of artists gained particular popularity. The State Russian Museum became a center for advanced training of tour guides for peripheral art museums.Documentary sources, which include archive materials, are of particular importance in the preservation of memory. Together with them, works of art created during the war or in the first post-war years play an invaluable role in restoring the truth.

The Danish Fisheries, c. 1450-1800: Medieval and Early Modern Sources and Their Potential for Marine Environmental History

2001 ◽  
pp. 97-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Poul Holm ◽  
Maibritt Bager
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Climate Forcing ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Rapid Decline ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Underlying Factor ◽  
Dietary Preferences ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Marine Environmental

Poul Holm and Maibritt Bager focus on documentary sources relating to Danish fisheries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The chapter examines the rapid decline of Danish fisheries in the seventeenth century and suggests the cause is a combination of natural causes - climate change and species competition - and human factors - competitive markets and the evolution of dietary preferences. Their research into primary sources demonstrates a significant shift in fish populace across the period, and suggest climate forcing as an underlying factor for change.

scholarly journals Constructing the rights and duties of slave-owners as socio-historic context of the New Testament

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Goede
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Roman Law ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Jewish Law ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Legal Context ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Legal Contexts

This article aims to construct the rights and duties of slave- owners in antiquity as part of the socio-historical context of the New Testament. In order to achieve this aim, the primary sources referring to Greek, Roman and Jewish law of slavery will first be described. Three aspects of the law of slavery, namely legal definitions of freedom and slavery, the legal status of slaves, and the rights of slave-owners are investigated in Greek, Roman and Jewish law. Relevant texts from these sources are then identified, analysed and interpreted. The re- sults of this process of analysis and interpretation are used to construct the legal context within which the exhortations directed at slave-owners in the New Testament should be read. We submit that Jewish law provided a sound alternative legal and religious context to the writers of the New Testament addressing Christian slave-owners. This alternative context functioned as a counterweight to the strict legal contexts pro- vided by Greek and Roman law.

scholarly journals Affirming Divine Providence and Limiting the Powers of Saints: the Byzantine Debate about the Term of Life (6th-11th Centuries)

Scrinium ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 392-433
Author(s):  
Dirk Krausmüller
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Divine Providence ◽  
Critical Editions ◽  
Contentious Issue ◽  
Biblical Commentaries ◽  
Willingness To Engage

Abstract One of the chief characteristics of Byzantine culture in the early Middle Age was the willingness to engage in sometimes fierce debates. The best known of these debates, the controversy about the veneration of images, has been studied by many scholars and is now well known. The same cannot be said about another contentious issue, the question of whether the time of one’s death was fixed from eternity or whether it could be changed. In the late 1970s Leendert Gerrit Westerink and Giuseppe Zanetto published critical editions of two major contributions to the debate, a disputation by Theophylact Simocatta and a dialogue by Patriarch Germanus of Constantinople. Yet this did not lead to sustained engagement with the texts. The only discussion is found in Wolfgang Lackner’s edition of a much later treatise by Nicephorus Blemmydes. In the introduction to his edition Lackner identified numerous relevant primary sources dating to the fourth to twelfth centuries, proposed a rough classification and discussed some of the arguments used by the authors. What is still missing is a reconstruction of the historical context of the debate. The present article seeks to fill this gap. It considers not only treatises about the term of life but also Biblical commentaries, homilies, hymns, letters and saints’ lives that can throw light on the debate.

‘A kind of suicide’? Errors and misconceptions in Roland Huntford's account of the last days of Scott's polar party

Polar Record ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-164
Author(s):  
Karen May ◽  
George Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Strong Motivation ◽  
Return Home

ABSTRACTIn writing and interviews Roland Huntford has stated that at the end of his life Captain Robert Falcon Scott ‘probably’ had no reason to wish to survive, and that he ‘persuaded’ Dr Edward A. Wilson and Lieutenant Henry Bowers to remain in the tent with him when they could have gone forward. This commentary demonstrates that Huntford's interpretation of events shows a serious misunderstanding of the primary sources and historical context; that Wilson and Bowers could not have survived had they gone forward, a fact which Huntford himself understands; and that Scott had extremely strong motivation to wish to return home.

The Past in Weimar History

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT GERWARTH
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
German History ◽  
Public Controversy ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range

This article examines Weimar Germany's public controversy about the Republic's place in German history. In a period that was seen by many contemporaries as a time deprived of historical context, all political parties tried to legitimise their actions and aims through the construction of very different historical traditions. Based on a wide range of primary sources, the article seeks to analyse this ‘battle over the past’ within the broader context of Weimar's political culture and the Republic's struggle for survival.

scholarly journals Epidemiology and the SIR Model: Historical Context to Modern Applications

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Francesca Bernardi
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Sir Model ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Mathematical Epidemiology ◽  
Credit Assignment ◽  
Historical Importance ◽  
Undergraduate Research Project

We suggest the use of historical documents and primary sources, as well as data and articles from recent events, to teach students about mathematical epidemiology. We propose a project suitable -- in different versions -- as part of a class syllabus, as an undergraduate research project, and as an extra credit assignment. Throughout this project, students explore mathematical, historical, and sociological aspects of the SIR model and approach data analysis and interpretation. Based on their work, students form opinions on public health decisions and related consequences. Feedback from students has been encouraging. We begin our project by having students read excerpts of documents from the early 1900s discussing the Indian plague epidemic. We then guide students through the derivation of the SIR model by analyzing the seminal 1927 Kermack and McKendrick paper, which is based on data from the Indian epidemiological event they have studied. After understanding the historical importance of the SIR model, we consider its modern applications focusing on the Ebola outbreak of 2014-2016 in West Africa. Students fit SIR models to available compiled data sets. The subtleties in the data provide opportunities for students to consider the data and SIR model assumptions critically. Additionally, social attitudes of the outbreak are explored; in particular, local attitudes towards government health recommendations.

Race Relations in the Churches of Christ

2016 ◽  
pp. 184-199
Author(s):  
Tanya Smith Brice
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Churches Of Christ ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Racial Reconciliation ◽  
Racist Ideology

The denomination of Churches of Christ is racially segregated. While this is true for most Christian denominations, this chapter argues that this segregation is by design. This chapter presents a historical context of race relations within the Churches of Christ. Specifically, this chapter relies on primary sources to highlight this Christian denomination's doctrine that is steeped in racist ideology. Finally, this chapter concludes with suggested strategies towards racial reconciliation within the contemporary denomination.

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