Browsing Humanities by Type "Book chapter"

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    • Manama, Bahrain 

      Alraouf, Ali A. ( Taylor and Francis , 2016 , Book chapter)
      Kish is a low-lying island of coral rock, 90 km2 in area, a few kilometres off the Iranian coast in the Persian Gulf. Ferdousi Street is the actual main avenue of Kish, but in spite of its line of hotels, amusements and ...

    • Museums in Qatar: An educational role in the twenty-first century 

      Al-Hammadi M.I. ( Nova Science Publishers, Inc. , 2019 , Book chapter)
      This article addresses the focus of museum sectors in Doha, Qatar in relation to their educational role. This role can be linked to the opening of the Education Centre (EC) at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in fall 2009, ...

    • Regulating land rights in late nineteenth-century salt: The limits of legal pluralism in Ottoman property law 

      Barakat, Nora ( Indiana University Press , 2016 , Book chapter)
      This article examines the relationship between different district-level decision-making bodies in the late nineteenth-century Ottoman context. Using Sharia court records and property registers produced in the rural Syrian ...

    • The development of the first Qatar national museum 

      Al-Mulla, Mariam Ibrahim ( Taylor and Francis , 2016 , Book chapter)
      This chapter investigates the establishment of the first National Museum in Qatar in the 1970s, during the reign of Sheikh Khalifa Bin Hamad Al Thani. Opened on the 23 June 1975, the Qatar National Museum became the first ...

    • The development of the first Qatar National Museum 

      Al-Mulla, Mariam Ibrahim ( Ashgate Publishing Ltd. , 2014 , Book chapter)

    • The Nazi 'recovered territories' myth in the eastern Upper Silesian borderland, 1939-1945 

      Polak-Springer P. ( Taylor and Francis Inc. , 2016 , Book chapter)
      [No abstract available]

    • The Qur'an and the Hadith as sources of Islamic law 

      Osman, Amr ( Taylor and Francis , 2019 , Book chapter)
      Legal sources, the Qur'an and the Sunnah/Hadith present various forms of challenge to legal scholars. This chapter presents a general historical overview of these two sources of Islamic law in addition to some of the ...

    • Unpublished coins from Al-Zubarah: Scientific and economic analysis 

      El-Menshawy S.; Al-Thani N.; Al-Qahtani N.; Al-Nuami F.; Al-Jaber E. ( Nova Science Publishers, Inc. , 2019 , Book chapter)
      Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) has kindly permitted the research team to study and publish a number of coins discovered in the old town of Al-Zubarah. The coins are now housed at the 19th century re-built of Al-Zubarah Fort. ...