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    Ancient Greco-Roman magic and the agency of victimhood by Eidinow, Esther

    Published 2017
    “…Scholarship on ancient Greco-Roman “magic,” over time and place, has largely focused on the role and identity of ritual practitioners, investigating the nature and source of their perceived expertise and often locating it in their linguistic skills. …”
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    The creative mufti: Ibn Abidin (d.1252 AH/1836 CE) by Ali, Mohammed Farid

    Published 2012
    Subjects: “…DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World…”
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    Ali Fuat Başgil (1893-1967): a principled pragmatist by Islam, Arshad

    Published 2017
    Subjects: “…DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World…”
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    Otherworlds, doubles, houses : Helen Oyeyemi’s The Opposite House and White Is for Witching by Anita Harris Satkunananthan

    Published 2018
    “…I describe the connection between the Greco-Roman Underworld and the Yorùbá Otherworld in Oyeyemi’s texts as a “liminal intersection”, one in which Gothic and supernatural metaphors from the Yorùbá culture are syncretised. …”
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    Paul and the rhetoric of reversal: kerygmatic rhetoric in the arrangement of 1 Corinthians by Malcolm, Matthew R.

    Published 2011
    “…That is, Jewish and Greco-Roman resources are brought into the service of an overall arrangement that is creatively suggested by Paul's kerygma of the Messiah who died, rose, and awaits cosmic manifestation. …”
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    Medicine and health sciences at IIUM-the Kuantan campus by Azhar, Md. Tahir

    Published 2009
    “…The spread of Islam coincided with the preservation of the 'lost' art of Greco-Roman medical practice and pharmacopoeia which primarily came from a set of pagan beliefs and practices. …”
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    Living trophies: trees, triumphs, and the subjugation of nature in early Imperial Rome by Fox, Andrew

    Published 2019
    “…While arboreal studies are prominent in studies of the pre- and post-classical periods, discussion of trees in the Greco-Roman world have been concentrated primarily in a religious context. …”
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    A commentary on the fragments of fourth-century tragedy by Sims, Thomas

    Published 2018
    “…Finally, I analyse each fragment, focusing on any textual issues, their literary, stylistic, and dramaturgical qualities, and on their relationship within the dramatic tradition and Greco-Roman literature. Through analysing the fragments in the form of a commentary, I hope to show that far from representing a ‘terminal decline’ as Edna Hooker once lamented, they instead display many remarkable qualities which make them worthy of study in their own right.…”
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