The year 2022 marks the 60th anniversary of publication first comprehen?sive History Serbian Orthodox Church. Its author, Professor Belgrade University - Dr. Djoko Slijepcevic, was an ecclesiastical historian who published this work as a political emigrant in Munich, from his own financial resources. Several highly ranked church dignitaries, including Patriarch Church (SOC), decided to send him...

The Proto-Oceanic etymon *tabu has hardly been studied outside Polynesian, yet it is attested in other Oceanic languages — albeit with different meanings. This study describes the polysemies observed for modern reflexes of *tabu, an initial focus on Vanuatu. Sometimes, words simply refer to mundane warning signs put up various locations fend off unwelcome visitors. But are more often linked sup...

one of the methods of the past scholars for better and faster learning of sciences has been the versification of scientific material. this type of poetry is called ta‘līmī (didactic) in technical terms. many scholarly manẓūmas (poetic compositions) on such sciences as jurisprudence, uṣūl (principles of jurisprudence), ethics, logics, philosophy, theology, rijāl (biographies of dignitaries), and...

At the beginning of twentieth century, there was an aggressive, brutal political struggle in which government, imperial camp put forward a number ideas. Among highranking dignitaries were people with fine sense state, who understood difficulty situation and looking for society could find out, write out government reform actions to curb revolutionary movement clearer understanding positive tasks...

the renowned majority of legal theoreticians (uṣūliyyūn) believe that the premises of ḥikmat are three: 1. the possibility of absoluteness and limitation (iṭlāq wa taqyīd); 2. non-provision of evidence (qarīna); and 3. the speaker being in an expressive position. muḥaqqiq khurāsānī, however, has added a fourth premise, i.e., lack of agreed certitude in conversing face to face (takhātub). some l...

on the ruins caused by the mongols’ invasions, a dynamic centre of civilization was built by the outstanding scholar, famous mathematician and astronomer and praiseworthy jurisprudent and theologian, khw?jeh nasir al-din t?si. the characteristic features of this man of knowledge prompted the establishment of this centre of civilization. the shining section of this centre was the observatory of ...

We received more than 500 high quality nominations for the first BMJ Awards India, showing medical excellence in diverse work throughout India. 2 The BMJ team in India had the unenviable task of whittling these down to 30 nominations across the 10 categories. Doctors representing these 30 will present their work to a panel of 10 judges, chosen for their record in clinical excellence, research, ...

Sejmiks in the First Polish Republic were first and primary forum for political education of every nobleman. It was during those assemblies that problems local community solved, tax collection controlled, military troops organized, elections candidates land offices held, finally, deputies to Sejm, Crown Tribunal delegates important persons state elected. They usually convened by king or represe...

Tunis, 1612: Scotsman William Lithgow visits notorious English-born corsair Murat Rais at his sumptuous palace. Baltimore, 1631: Corsairs from Algiers and Salé carry away over 100 villagers. Tangier, 1680: 400 soldiers arrive Ireland in the nick of time to a colony under Moroccan siege. London, 1682: ambassador Mohammed ben Hadou entertains dignitaries as far afield York. Algiers, 1709: The Isa...