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Mar 1, 2024 · The University of Maryland has received a nearly $150,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support efforts to make it easier for historians working with handwritten documents from the premodern Islamicate world—primarily in Arabic, Persian and Turkish—to identify geographic locations and place names.
The article examines some recent areas of Al Qaeda and salafi-jihadi ideology and argues that, while there has been an evolution in strategy since 9/11, the core elements of salafi-jihadi ideology …
Professor. Rula Jurdi Abisaab is Professor of Islamic History at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, where she has worked since 2004. She teaches in all areas of Islamic-Shi`ite history and is especially interested in the transformation of juristic thought, the `ulama’s legal authority and relations of power in Shi`ite ...
Dec 14, 2020 · 2020 brought a dramatic addition to Religious Studies on campus, with the introduction of the major in Religions of the Ancient Middle East. Students who pursue the major explore classical and near eastern religions, ancient Judaism, Christianity, and the early centuries of Islam.
He also conducted the Annual Business Meeting, along with Mr. Sami Merhi and Mr. Naji Jurdi on June 30, 1999, and they created a situation of chaos when President Julie Makarem tried to speak from the floor; they exhibited total disrespect to President Julie Makarem in front of the entire ADS body attending the Convention.
Apr 2, 2024 · Permanent, non-circulating copies of University of Maryland, College Park, master's theses and doctoral dissertations are maintained by the University Archives and stored offsite at Severn Library. They are available for researcher use in the Maryland Room of Hornbake Library.
His research is mostly lab-based and has appeared in journals such as Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Learning, Applied Linguistics, Modern Language Journal, Applied Psycholinguistics, Journal of Memory and Language.
