We Have Come a Long Way and We Have a Long Way to Go: A Cross-Survey Comparison of Data Quality in 16 Arab Countries in the Arab Barometer vs the World Values Survey by Saskia Glas, Veronica Kostenko

“… With the launch of the Arab Barometer (AB) project and the incorporation of Arab countries in the World Values Survey (WVS) in the 2000s, public opinion scholars have increasingly turned their attention to the Arab region. …”
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MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSE ON ACADEMIC WRITING: MANAGEMENT OF STUDENTS' MOTIVATION TO STUDY by Elena M. Bazanova, Elena E. Sokolova

“…Possible criteria and MOOC analytics format on the basis of Scholarly Communication students' contingent statistical data monitoring are being discussed. …”
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Introduction by Meyer Weinshel

“… This introduction provides an overview of the eight scholarly works published in the sixth volume of the Central Europe Yearbook …”
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Introduction by Meyer Weinshel

“… This introduction provides an overview of the eight scholarly works published in the sixth volume of the Central Europe Yearbook …”
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Insights and Opportunities: Evaluating a University Teaching and Learning Grants Program by Heather Jamniczky, Mohana Mukherjee, Rachel Stewart, Andrew Mardjetko, Rahim Pira, Natasha Kenny

“…It is clear that our institutional teaching and learning grants program is key to fostering a scholarly environment on our campus that benefits the entire community. …”
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Tariq Jaffer. Rāzī Master of Qurʾānic Interpretation and Theological Reasoning. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 244 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-066351-3. by Muammer İskenderoğlu

“…Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d.606/1210) is one of the few Muslim thinkers whose significance, reputation and influence on later generations in different fields of learning are acknowledged by both classical and modern scholars of Islamic studies, and a number of studies appeared on his works on jurisprudence, theology, and philosophy. …”
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POSITIONING AHL AL-BAYT WITHOUT TENDENCIES: AL-SHAWKANI'S CONTRIBUTION TO DETERMINING THE HADITH IN ISLAMIC SHARIA by Ahmad Azmi Ahsantu Dhonni, Muhid, Andris Nurita, Afif Maulana

“…This research shows that although al-Shawkani was influenced by Zaydism, objectively, he did not prioritize Ahl al-Bayt and was not passionate about one particular madhhab—a stance often opposed by Yemen's Zaydist scholars. In his works, al-Shawkani indirectly agrees with the opinion of Sunni scholars in determining the narrators of the Hadith as the primary source for deciding Islamic Sharia law. …”
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DETERMINING THE MUJTAHID MADHHAB: THE CONTRIBUTION OF ABDUL WAHHAB AL-MALIKI'S THOUGHTS ON ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE by Graiguer Abdelmounaim, A. Amir Firmansyah

“…This research discusses the mujtahid madhhab explicitly because, in each madhhab, many scholars have reached the degree of mujtahid madhhab. …”
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Modelling of Wind Pressure Coefficients on C-Shaped Building Models by Monalisa Mallick, Abinash Mohanta, Awadhesh Kumar, Vivek Raj

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Bridging the cultural gap in Bible translation as a case in point by C. Nord

“…It was the first translation of these texts that involved a theologian and a translation scholar, and it was the first translation based on modern functional translation theory. …”
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A Review on Soil-Foundation-Interaction Models by Gaurav Pandey, Dhirendra Patel, Vishal Mourya, Rajesh Kumar, Suresh Kumar

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Remarques sur les fonctions érudites et méditatives de l’eschatologie dans le haut Moyen Âge ibérique by Gaelle Bosseman

“…Object of knowledge as much as of belief, eschatology is mainly approached by medieval scholars through the exegesis of prophecies ; the study furthermore endeavors to restore the spiritual and meditative dimension in which the texts on the end of times were read and studied.…”
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Herbesinning oor die betekenis en funksionering van die stadspoort gedurende die Yster II-tyd in ou Israel by A Coetzee

“…Classified as fortification, some scholars are of the opinion that the city gate and wall were built for this purpose only. …”
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A lesson in love: Farid al-Din Attar’s story of Sheikh San’an and the Christian girl by R. de Groot

“…The meeting between the sheikh and the Christian girl may be compared with the encounter between Rumi and Shamsoddin of Tabriz, in the sense that both are transformed by shock from an eminent scholar into a true lover of the divine. …”
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Individual and collective scale in the complexity of school space. The Portuguese experience by André Santos, Anna Kazimirko, Leonardo Barros

“…The conception of the contemporary scholar space requires a whole set of aspects that confront opposite scales, by increasing the complexity of achieving systemic, balanced and, most important, clear results. …”
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Editorial by I.D. Mothoagae

“…For this reason, African biblical scholars, particularly those applying their hermeneutical lenses as theoretical tools, and scholars within the social sciences have argued that the Christian corpus of literature that was translated and composed during “Christianisation”, “colonisation”, and “civilisation”, using the strategies of conversion and assimilation of the “wretched”, are by their very nature colonial products. …”
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LEADERSHIP AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: ESTABLISHING THE THEORETICAL NEXUS by Achor, Joy Achile

“…In spite of the divergence perspective of scholars in theorizing leadership, the emphasis is the virtues being it moral, religious, political, economic, cultural, or otherwise; the essence is to arrive at good leadership. …”
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The Development of Sufism and Orders in Kelantan by Abdul Ghani Muhamad, Nik Yusri Musa

“…Sufism is one of the disciplines within the Islamic scholarly civilisation. Sufism is a teaching that finds its foundation in both theory and practice. …”
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The Concept Of Matan Critism And Its Application In The Book Al-Tamyīz By Muslim Bin Ḥajjāj by Dzulfaidhi Hakimie Dzulraidi

“…However, there is still a lack of research that systematically highlights the practices of hadith scholars in this field. Among the renowned hadith scholars in ‘ilal al-hadith is Muslim bin al-Hajjāj. …”
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