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This introductory article discusses comparative approaches and research topics explored by contributors to the issue's special section "Comparing Arab Diasporas." The article reassesses debates about early meanings of the term diaspora that reveal the potentials of comparative research in the study of diasporas. The article also reviews the body of contemporary work on diasporas and its use of comparative analytical approaches. It discusses in more detail the contributions to this special section with regard to major topics in the field of comparative diaspora studies, including the complex relations between diasporas and host countries, their majority populations, and the identity politics involved in these processes. Based on the case studies assembled in this special section, the article contrasts internal divisions in the Hadhrami and Syro-Lebanese diasporas, their institutionalization in formal organizations, and the role of trade in their integration into host societies and examines how relations to their homelands changed over time. Finally, the article pays special attention to Hadhrami and Syro-Lebanese diasporas after 9/11, analyzing forms of othering, discrimination, and stereotyping in various (inter)national and local contexts. By comparing the Hadhrami and Syro-Lebanese cases located in the Americas and Southeast Asia, this introductory article traces the spread of the global war on terror to different corners of the world and thus demonstrates how this war became a genuine "global" military and ideological venture.

Derogatory constructs made the "Turks" the epitome of diverse inimical clichs, variously depicting "Enlighteners," "Bolcheviks" & "National Socialists." We focus on the systematic reappraisal of the function of the monuments of the Turks, more precisely to chart the history of the seizure of public space by means of these monuments. We analyze the circumstances & conditions of erection of various monuments of the Turks, the recoding of the memorials & the pertinent festivities, preeminently on the occasion of anniversaries (1783, 1883, 1933, 1983). The analysis transcends the level of a monument's appropriation in the past & in that it potentiates a critical, distanced reflection. Reflectivity is the key means at precluding the uncritical reproduction of images of the "enemy." Monuments serve inclusive & exclusive functions. They have an identity-constituting & identity-preserving effect. The theoretical points of departure thus are new theoretical frameworks to grasp the dynamic shifts typical of monuments' functions in public life. The significance of the proposed procedure is to make disposable the past function of the monuments as orientation for critical behavior in the present. Adapted from the source document.

Subtitle of v. 2: Contenant l'etat present de l'empire selon qu'il a été changé, & reglé par les traitez de Westphalie. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; Armorial book-plate: Henry Edward Burnbury.

The belief in the Last Things has an integral place in Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism. The two volumes want to explain how eschatological thought influenced and factored into the political and religious perception and self-definition of medieval communities. How did notions of an imminent end shape a community's identity, the perception of other communities and an individual's perspective towards life and the world?

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