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The Encyclopaedia of Islam

Fred Leemhuis
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The article was published on 2002-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 296 citations till now.

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The provision of public goods under Islamic law: origins, impact, and limitations of the waqf system.

TL;DR: The Islamic waqf appears to have emerged as a credible commitment device to give property owners economic security in return for social services throughout the Middle East, and it long served as a major instrument for delivering public goods in a decentralized manner.
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Women's Bodies, Demography, and Public Health: Abortion Policy and Perspectives in the Ottoman Empire of the Nineteenth Century

TL;DR: A crucial outcome of the expansion of the discipline was the creation of individuals from the scattered and amorphous useless masses, as Foucault characterized premodern subjects.

An Analytical Study

TL;DR: In this article, the physicochemical analysis of different samples such as raw and Shodhita Kupeelu seeds was carried out followed by quantitative estimation of their toxic alkaloids viz. strychnine and brucine by HPTLC.
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The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building: From the Ottoman Empire to Atatürk's Turkey

TL;DR: The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building as discussed by the authors is a history of the late Ottoman Empire with the Republic of Turkey that was founded in 1923, focusing on the attempts of the Young Turks to save their empire through forced modernization as well as on the attempt of their Kemalist successors to build a strong national state.
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The Islamic world

Andrew Rippin
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The provision of public goods under Islamic law: origins, impact, and limitations of the waqf system.

TL;DR: The Islamic waqf appears to have emerged as a credible commitment device to give property owners economic security in return for social services throughout the Middle East, and it long served as a major instrument for delivering public goods in a decentralized manner.
Journal ArticleDOI

Women's Bodies, Demography, and Public Health: Abortion Policy and Perspectives in the Ottoman Empire of the Nineteenth Century

TL;DR: A crucial outcome of the expansion of the discipline was the creation of individuals from the scattered and amorphous useless masses, as Foucault characterized premodern subjects.

An Analytical Study

TL;DR: In this article, the physicochemical analysis of different samples such as raw and Shodhita Kupeelu seeds was carried out followed by quantitative estimation of their toxic alkaloids viz. strychnine and brucine by HPTLC.
Book

The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building: From the Ottoman Empire to Atatürk's Turkey

TL;DR: The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building as discussed by the authors is a history of the late Ottoman Empire with the Republic of Turkey that was founded in 1923, focusing on the attempts of the Young Turks to save their empire through forced modernization as well as on the attempt of their Kemalist successors to build a strong national state.
BookDOI

The Islamic world

Andrew Rippin