Many conservation researchers and practitioners argue that knowledges traditionally conceptualized as non-academic are useful for guiding environmental decision-making stewardship. As demonstrated by the articles in this special issue, bringing Indigenous local to bear on requires forging new relationships and, de facto, political arrangements. In article, we seek clarify what is at stake such ...

We called the global creative community for contributions by summer 2020 in an attempt to map practices generating and sharing alternative knowledges across a variety of methods forms.
 Our call accepts that there may be infinite number equally valid, but possibly less accessible – or merely certain communities knowledge systems, much like concurrent physics is considering existence multiv...

the written works of ibn bābawayh (shaykh ṣadūq), head of the traditionists and the distinguished figure of shī‘ī ḥadīth in fourth/tenth century, had amounted to 300 books and treatises. a proficient scholar, he has standards and criteria in the field of ḥadīth in general and in criticizing ḥadīth in particular that incorporate approaches and patterns as a guide map and a role model. in order t...

This special issue addressing the theme of “Indigenous and Trans-Systemic Knowledge Systems” seeks to expand existing methods, approaches, conceptual understandings Indigenous Knowledges create new awareness, explorations, inspirations across other knowledge systems. Typically, these have arisen been published through western disciplinary traditions in interaction engagement with diverse Writte...

This paper contributes to building respectful relationships between Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, and Inuit) peoples Canada's cultural memory institutions, such as libraries, archives museums, applies knowledge repositories that hold tangible intangible traditional knowledge. The central goal of the is advance understandings allow institutions respect, affirm, recognize ownership their livi...

al-ghallābī is rated as among the shī‘ī authors of the third/eighth century, through whom many historical traditions have been related in shī‘ī and sunnī sources. examining the status of al-ghallābī’s traditions in the two major sects (of shī‘a and sunnī), this writing is intended to find the reason for the permeation of his traditions into the sources belonging to the sunnīs – who are very cau...