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In this article I present a systematic approach to the study of traditional Tibetan Buddhist murals painted in the second half of the 20th century. For more than 20 years there have been calls in Tibetan studies and Tibetan art history to research contemporary Tibetan Buddhist art. Although there have been a number of contributions on modern Tibeta...
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A manuscript entitled Ongγod qar-a sakiγus-un teüke sudur bičig orosiba, written in the Classical Mongolian script, was acquired by Henning Haslund-Christensen in the Barga area of the Chakhar province of Inner Mongolia during the Royal Danish Geographical Society’s Central Asian Expedition (1938–1939). The text is currently preserved in the Royal ...
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The present paper investigates the history of the Kunta-Hajji (Qadiriyya) Sufi groups (virds) of Chechen and Ingush deportees during their enforced exile in Soviet Kazakhstan (1944–1957/1963). On the basis of anthropological fieldwork among survivors, returnees, and their offspring, the authors argue that the Ingush and Chechen deportees perceived ...
Published in Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques
Published in Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques
Published in Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques
As the deepening climate crisis shows, our greatest scientific challenge is to turn abstract understanding into doing. This means that the classic divide in research between ‘basic’, ‘applied’ and ‘outreach’ phases no longer adequately serve the need for transformative social learning. What can this kind of transformation look like in a world regio...
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Traditionally lacking temples, mass processions, pilgrimage traditions, full time ritual specialists, or painting traditions, religious practice among the Rai of eastern Nepal was until recently characterized by low visibility. After the ‘People’s War’ at the turn of the millennium, new political ideas understand religion as one of the core feature...
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Les Nukat al-Maḥṣūl constituent le dernier des trois traités de théorie légale (uṣūl al-fiqh) écrits par le Qāḍī Abū Bakr b. al-ʿArabī (m. 543/1248) et surtout le seul à nous être parvenu. S’il est traditionnellement affilié au mālikisme, il ne faut pas oublier que la pensée légale du Qāḍī s’est construite en Orient et a été influencée par celle de...
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En ce qui concerne la prière du vendredi ṣalāt al-ǧumu‘a, le maḏhab mālikite recommande un certain nombre de règles qui ne sont pas toujours applicables dans l’environnement saharien. La question abordée dans cet article est celle de l’élaboration d’une jurisprudence qui accorde les conditions de validité de la prière communautaire préconisées par ...
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In this review article, I offer an overview of research undertaken thus far on early Mālikī Manuscripts, primarily the collection from Kairouan, Tunisia. Modern attention to this collection dates from the early twentieth century, as the collection itself moved from Kairouan to Tunis and back again. While access to Qurān manuscripts has been highly ...
