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The Bare Necessities: Histories of Provisioning from the Second World War to the Present
MoreKnowing the Unobservable: Analogies and Analogical Reasoning in Premodern Islamic Theology
No 73
Premodern Islamic theologians frequently employed analogies and analogical reasoning in their works—making comparisons between one thing and another for the purpose of explanation, clarification, or analysis.
Hannah Erlwein
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Das Unbeobachtbare kennen: Analogien und Analogieschluss in der islamischen Theologie der Vormoderne
No 73
Islamische Theologen der Vormoderne verwendeten in ihren Werken häufig Analogien und Analogieschlüsse: zum Zwecke der Erklärung, Klarstellung oder Analyse stellten sie Vergleiche zwischen einer Sache und einer anderen an.
Hannah Erlwein
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Meat, Cattle and a Capital City: Slaughterhouses, Animals and Meat Production in Rio de Janeiro at the End of the Brazilian Empire
If non-human animals have been central to humans, the meat provided by non-human animals has been crucial not only to feed humans through history, but
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Science Social 06: Grasping the Invisible
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MoreThe Natural Sciences in Early Modern Morocco
What was the social status of the natural sciences in the Arab Muslim world in the early modern period? The conventional historical narrative posits a
Experience and Rational Demonstration: Sufis vs. Philosophers in Medieval Islam
In this project, I focus on the way in which Aristotelian notions of reason and experience were first translated into Arabic. During the ninth and ten
Alfarabi and Averroes on What is Known Prior to Scientific Demonstration
Alfarabi’s and Averroes’s philosophical treatises are guided by a common recognition that there are four types of knowledge (maʽlūmāt) which are prior
Audrey Borowski
Audrey is a doctoral student at the University of Oxford in the History Faculty where she is cur...
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