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The Medicean project aimed to the establishment of exiled Moriscos in the marshes of Pisa and Siena was previously known only through brief references, and so far it was not even possible to ascertain its actual realization. Based on the... more
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      Early Modern History17th-Century StudiesMoriscosRenaissance in Tuscany
Prophet Noble Drew Ali, founder of the first Islamic organization in America and the Moorish Divine & National Movement, explicitly claims that the Moors (so-called "Blacks") of America were descendants of the ancient Moabites. Ali made... more
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      African StudiesAfrican HistoryIslamMoors
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      Spanish Literature (Peninsular)Migration StudiesBorder area Spain - MoroccoSpanish cinema (Film Studies)
This essay maps a shared field of blackface performance, tattooing, writing, and printing that I call inkface. By relating the histories of racial thought and the technologies of reading and writing, the inkface concept enables a rich... more
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      Native American StudiesLiteracyPrint CultureShakespeare
" Th e Moors? " interrogates the fi gure of " the Moor " in some of its medieval and modern textual and cinematic incarnations. Th is essay discusses the fi gure's historical evolution and instability and comments on its particular social... more
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The very first Muslim political representatives were appointed during the period of British colonial rule, as 'communal' representatives. For over fifty years following the establishment of the Ceylon Legislative Council in 1833, the... more
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      ColonialismSri LankaPolitical IdentityMoors
Etat des recherches sur le royaume vandale et leurs rapports complexes avec leurs sujets romains et les Maures soumis ou non.
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      MoorsBarbarians societies, Late Antiquity, Ethnogenesis, Funerary World, Goths, Vandals, Sueves, AlansBerbers. Amazighs. History of Berbers. Cultural and Political Claims. Cultural and Berber Movement. North of Africa. Algeria. Morocco.Moors and Christians
Written in undergrad for HIST 395, the research and historiography workshop for history majors. My first major research work. Presented at the MARCUS conference at Sweet Briar College in the Fall of 2013.
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      Medieval HistoryAl Andalus (Islamic History)FranksFrankish history
Part I of this paper seeks to address much of the poor scholastic academic research in regards to Noble Drew Ali, founder of the Moorish Science Temple of America, the very first Islamic organization in the United States of America. Was... more
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      Black Studies Or African American StudiesIslamic PhilosophyAfrican American LiteratureIslamic Studies
Though commonly thought of as an Arab, the Islamic prophet was actually an Arabized person of only partial Arab descent.  It was his non-Arab lineage that distinguished his tribe- the Quraish- and gave them leadership over the Arabs.
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      ReligionComparative ReligionEthnic StudiesEgyptology
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      African StudiesRace and RacismHistory of West AfricaAfrica
The supposed research by Way-El can lead one speechless at the pure absurdity of it. The overall image that emerges from his writing is: lazy, empty rhetoric, conspiracies, and bordering on pure fantasy. This article is a critical review... more
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      Islamic StudiesIslamMoorsMoors in America
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      NumismaticsAncient Roman NumismaticsHadrianMauretania
“Timely, inventive, and wide-ranging, Bassi has assembled a fascinating collection of encounters between Shakespeare and Italy, most of which will be unfamiliar to Anglophone readers—and to most Italian ones as well. At once a gifted... more
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      Italian StudiesShakespeareCritical Race TheoryShakespeare and film
Trans-Imperial Threads in the Early Modern Atlantic. Academic Historiography and Decolonial Activism in Germany and Switzerland Neither the Holy Roman Empire nor the Swiss Confederacy held colonies overseas. For this reason, studies on... more
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      Economic HistoryEarly Modern HistoryGerman HistoryRace and Racism
""""By the systematic use of the decrees of the Roman Holy Office, the article aims to show the way in which deported groups of morisco refugees flee to the Italian mainland – a special attention is turned to the Pontifical States – and... more
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      Modern HistoryEarly Modern HistoryRefugee StudiesMaritime History
At first glance the typical medieval Islamic map of ‘the West’—Surat al-Maghrib— strikes us as nothing more than a quaint abstraction of circles, triangles, and oblong shapes ornately adorned with vivid pigments. Closer study presents a... more
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      CartographyEthicsCommunicationWeb 2.0
MOCKING AND MIMING THE ‘MOOR’: STAGING OF THE ‘SELF’ AND ‘OTHER’ ON SPAIN’S BORDERS WITH MOROCCO Sina Lucia Kottmann The age-old mélange of Muslim and Christian cultures has left manifold visible and invisible traces on the landscapes... more
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      MoroccoSpainMaghrebAndalusia
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      CrusadesMedieval Iberian HistoryAl-AndalusHistory of Crusades
The essay discusses the appearance of Moors, Muslims, Jews, Turks, heretics and conversos in the retablos of the Crown of Aragon territories, though focusing on Sardinian painting. It is examined how, after the Edict of Expulsion and... more
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      IconographyHabsburg StudiesTurkish and Middle East StudiesFranciscan Studies
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      MoroccoSpainItalyMaghreb
With the fall of the Western Roman Empire there was a commercial brake among the Atlantic Roman provinces and the Mediterranean. This strong set back was a main factor for a less demand that gave way to the decay or even ending of the... more
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      Ceramics (Archaeology)Late Roman PotteryMoorsOlisipo
Rudolf Steiner presented the Ilkley Conference on Waldorf Education at Ilkley from the 4th-18th August, 1923. He promised his audience: “I shall try to show what Anthroposophy has to say on the subject of education and describe the... more
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      EducationAlternative EducationHistory of EducationAnthroposophy
RESUMO Esta pesquisa analisa o processo de marginalização dos mouros à época de Afonso X, rei de Castela e Leão (1252-1284), quando os movimentos de reconquista e repoblación marcavam fortemente esta sociedade, que consolidava uma... more
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      ReligionChristianityHistorySpanish Studies
Scholars have suggested that sailors of the Ottoman Empire visited the Americas before Columbus, and they brought Islam to the native tribes. Other scholars reject this scenario. However the history of one American Indian Tribal Nation,... more
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      Native American StudiesOttoman HistoryTurkish and Middle East StudiesIslamic Studies
The reading mauro in that text of of Isidore's Etymologies is not the dative of the adjective maurus, but the nominative of the third declension of a noun referring to the Moor or Berber horse first, and later perhaps also to horses of... more
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      EtymologyLexicographyColorsIsidore of Seville
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      HistoryRomanticismHistoriographyRobert Southey
La Corse proto-médiévale est mal connue, peu de sources la traitant entre le Ve et le XIe siècle. Une approche synthétique de ces références permet cependant de dégager une évolution chronologique. À la fin de l’Antiquité, c’est un espace... more
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      History of the MediterraneanMerovingian and CarolingianVandalsCorsica
El passat 8 d’agost de 2012 la comparsa de Contrabandistes d’Ontinyent, amb la col· laboració de la Societat de Festers, va iniciar un cicle de conferències que tenien l’horitzó posat en la propera capitania contrabandista. La idea... more
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      Ritual FeastingMoors
Festive entertainments featuring ‘Moors’ and ‘Christians’ are still staged with more than a thousand performance locations worldwide. Halfway between history and myth, this tradition unites customs, characters, and meanings, going beyond... more
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      FolkloreDance StudiesMedieval feastsMoors
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      MoorsArabs and BerbersEthnic Classifications
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      Race and EthnicityHistory of SlaveryBornu (Bornou-Borno)Early Modern Italy
RELATAREA CUCERIRII GRANADEI DE CĂTRE REGII CATOLICI FERDINAND DE ARAGON ȘI ISABELA DE CASTILIA, DUPĂ CRONICA DE LOS REYES CATOLICOS A LUI HERNANDO DEL PULGAR.
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      Iberian StudiesMedieval SpainMoorsReyes Catolicos Fernando E Isabel
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      African StudiesEducationIslam in AfricaIslamic Education
Festivals of Moors and Christians are celebrated in great profusion in Southern Spain. These festivals, combining religious ceremony and secular entertainment, are widely divulged in books, newspapers, on the Internet, and on local and... more
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      Cultural HistoryMusicologyFestivals and musicSpace and Place
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      SaracensMoorsMedieval Kingdom of ValenciaReino De Valencia
2ª circular CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL «LA DANSA DELS ALTRES» «LA DANZA DE LOS OTROS»: Alteridad y juego en la fiesta popular: moros, cristianos y otras figuras del diferente en el teatro, la música y la danza de la tradición. Fecha: 7-9 de... more
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      Cultural StudiesDance StudiesEthnographyMedieval Studies
The term Arabia refers not only to the Arabian Peninsula and its people who speak the Arabian language (that is, the Bedouins), but also to the people who were “Arabized,” such as the Egyptians and the Sudanese who live along the Lower... more
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      CrusadesJust WarHistory of IslamSlave Trade
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      ReligionChristianityHistoryPolitics
Moorish, Social Imagination, History, Anthropology, Europe
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      AnthropologyInmigracionMoors
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      European LawRegional and Local GovernanceFederalismFiscal federalism and decentralization
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyConservationOntology of ArtefactsWetland Archaeology
Universität Zürich, 7. Dezember 2021
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      Early Modern HistoryGerman HistoryPostcolonial StudiesMaritime History
Títol: La dansa dels altres. Identitat i alteritat en la festa popular Editors: Raül Sanchis Francés i Francesc Massip Lloc d’edició: Catarroja – Barcelona Editorial (Coedició): Afers / ICONODANSA / LAiREM Data: 2017 Pàgines: 378 Idiomes... more
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      Music HistoryTheatre StudiesTheatre HistoryDance Studies
In this article we analyze the independent migration of Moroccan children and youth to Southern Europe. The key issue is represented not just by the appearance of the minor as a new migratory actor, but by the process of institutional... more
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      MoroccoMigration StudiesBorder area Spain - MoroccoSpain
R. Lehmann, M. Viebrock, C. W. Karl, H.-J. Schmidt, D. Wengerowsky, Farbstoffanalysen – HPLC-ESI-MS, GC-MS, LC-MS und ATR-IR-Farbstoffanalysen an der Flickentunika der Moorleiche von Bernuthsfeld, F.A.N.-Post Mitteilungsblatt des... more
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      ArchaeometryX-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) SpectroscopyIron Age (Archaeology)Moors
From September 2011 to August 2013, I undertook my fieldwork in Salt, a small town of 30,000 inhabitants in Girona, the northern region of Catalonia. A significant number of African immigrants live in this location. Of these, the majority... more
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      Critical international political economyDecolonial ThoughtMoorsMoro
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      Spain (History)PortugalMilitary OrdersMorroco
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      MoroccoSpainItalyMaghreb