Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Outputs (152)

Breaking the Reputation of Female Rule in China: Daoism and the Rewriting of the History of the Reign of Wu Zhao (624-705) (2019)
Journal Article
Barrett, T. (2019). Breaking the Reputation of Female Rule in China: Daoism and the Rewriting of the History of the Reign of Wu Zhao (624-705). NAN NÜ: Men, Women and Gender in China, 21(2), 183-193. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-00212P01

Usurpation by a woman made the reign of Wu Zhao a problem in the history writing of the restored Tang dynasty (618-907; interregnum 690-705) and thereafter that has often attracted the epithet ‘Confucian’. An examination of the rewriting of history t... Read More about Breaking the Reputation of Female Rule in China: Daoism and the Rewriting of the History of the Reign of Wu Zhao (624-705).

Archives, the Digital Turn, and Governance in Africa (2019)
Journal Article
Chamelot, F., Hiribarren, V., & Rodet, M. (2019). Archives, the Digital Turn, and Governance in Africa. History in Africa, 47, 101-118. https://doi.org/10.1017/hia.2019.26

With the rise of information technology, an increasing proportion of public African archives are being digitized and made accessible on the internet. The same is being done to a certain extent with private archives too. As much as the new technologie... Read More about Archives, the Digital Turn, and Governance in Africa.

'There is no just ruler at this time!': Political Censure in Pre-Modern Islamic Juristic Discourses (2019)
Book Chapter
El-Merheb, M. (2019). 'There is no just ruler at this time!': Political Censure in Pre-Modern Islamic Juristic Discourses. In K. Kellermann, A. Plassmann, & C. Schwermann (Eds.), Criticising the Ruler in Pre-Modern Societies: Possibilities, Chances, and Methods (349-376). V and R unipress. https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737010887.349

This study examines different methods employed by Muslim jurists to criticise the rulers and ruling elites of the late Ayyubid and early Mamluk period (c. 1230–1330). It treats three such methods: the use of the sermon at Friday prayer, legal opinion... Read More about 'There is no just ruler at this time!': Political Censure in Pre-Modern Islamic Juristic Discourses.

Towards Contextualized Islamic Leadership: Paraguiding and the Universities and Muslim Seminaries Project (2019)
Journal Article
Scott-Baumann, A., Ebbiary, A., Ad Duha Mohammad, S., Dhorat, S., Begum, S., Pandor, H., & Stolyar, J. (2019). Towards Contextualized Islamic Leadership: Paraguiding and the Universities and Muslim Seminaries Project. Religions, 10(12), 662. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10120662

The Universities and Muslim Seminaries Project (UMSEP) addresses three key issues in the narrative of Muslim communal identity and religious leadership in Britain today: firstly, the need for the accreditation of Darul Ulooms (Muslim seminaries) and... Read More about Towards Contextualized Islamic Leadership: Paraguiding and the Universities and Muslim Seminaries Project.

Ethical Reflexivity and Research Governance: Navigating the Tensions (Online Module) (2019)
Other
Istratii, R., & Hasan, K. (2019). Ethical Reflexivity and Research Governance: Navigating the Tensions (Online Module). SOAS University of London

This module explores tensions that exist between the commitment to take ethical approaches in global research and to abide by UK/EU-based research governance standards. The course considers how researchers can meet these evolving funder guidelines re... Read More about Ethical Reflexivity and Research Governance: Navigating the Tensions (Online Module).

Epistemological reflexivity and labyrinthine ethnography: insights from a gender-sensitive study of conjugal abuse in a religious society (2019)
Journal Article
Istratii, R. (2019). Epistemological reflexivity and labyrinthine ethnography: insights from a gender-sensitive study of conjugal abuse in a religious society. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, XI(1), 25-52

This article draws on an ethnographic study of the realities of conjugal abuse and attitudes towards it in a religious society in Ethiopia. The study was prompted by tendencies in gender and development scholarship to transpose feminist aetiologies o... Read More about Epistemological reflexivity and labyrinthine ethnography: insights from a gender-sensitive study of conjugal abuse in a religious society.

Der Tawagalawa-Brief : Beschwerden über Piyamaradu : Eine Neuedition (2019)
Book
Heinhold-Krahmer, S., Hazenbos, J., Hawkins, J. D., Miller, J. L., Rieken, E., & Weeden, M. (2019). Der Tawagalawa-Brief : Beschwerden über Piyamaradu : Eine Neuedition. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110581164

The Tawagalawa Letter (13th century BCE) is the most important source on diplomatic contacts between the Hittite Empire in Asia Minor and the land of Ahhiyawa, whose location and population (Mycenae versus Asia Minor) used to be a matter of great con... Read More about Der Tawagalawa-Brief : Beschwerden über Piyamaradu : Eine Neuedition.