Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
  1. Home
  2. Browse subjects
  3. Area Studies
  4. African studies
  5. Content listing

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

73156 results in African studies

Page 145 of 3658

  • BSO volume 87 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume 87 / Issue 3 / October 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 February 2025, pp. f1-f4
    Print publication:
    October 2024
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

  • Middle Persian documents and the making of the Islamic fiscal system: problems and prospects

  • Thomas Benfey
  • Journal:
    Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume 87 / Issue 3 / October 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 February 2025, pp. 395-420
    Print publication:
    October 2024
    • Article
      • You have access
      • Open access
    • PDF
    • HTML
    • Export citation

  • This article charts a new course for the study of the Middle Persian documents from early Islamic Iran, which takes their early Islamic context into account more fully than has hitherto been done. This approach and its potential fruits for the study of early Islamic history are illustrated through an in-depth treatment of four seventh-century documents from the Qom region (previously edited and discussed by Dieter Weber), each of which contains a fiscal term that is apparently otherwise unattested in the documentary corpus. I show that the existing interpretations of these documents anachronistically project the fiscal terminology and structures of a later time into early Islamic Iran, and that these documents, considered in aggregate, suggest a certain course of development for the Islamic fiscal system in the post-Sasanian territories in the decades following the initial conquests: from broad and relatively unspecific impositions to more targeted exactions, based on increasingly detailed assessments.

  • BSO volume 87 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies / Volume 87 / Issue 3 / October 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    11 February 2025, pp. b1-b2
    Print publication:
    October 2024
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

  • Contemporary Narratives on Yoruba History, Modern Society in Nigeria, and the Meaning of Decolonized Humanity in the African Context

  • Nnanna Onuoha Arukwe
  • Journal:
    African Studies Review / Volume 67 / Issue 3 / September 2024
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    23 September 2024, pp. 697-706
    • Article
      • You have access
      • Open access
    • PDF
    • HTML
    • Export citation

  • Instead of being merely a historical occurrence, colonization is a structural feature of civilizations that have been touched by colonialism, which affects the prospects for the colonial subjects. This process is still ongoing in various forms among the so-called postcolonial societies today. Therefore, decolonization is a response to both the negative stereotypes and falsehoods about Indigenous peoples and cultures as well as the structural injustices of colonially impacted society that disproportionately afflict Indigenous peoples. Even though decolonization is a hot issue in academia right now, Indigenous peoples have been fighting against colonialism for millennia and claiming their own spaces, sovereignty, and right to self-determination ever since they first came into contact with colonizers.

Page 145 of 3658