The Ethiopian king Yemreḥanna Krestos is sometimes identified as the Prester John in the academic works. He reigned in the 12th century and, according to the hagiographical text dedicated to him, he was considered as a priest as well as a monarch by his own subjects. This article is an attempt to explain why this identification is not convincing although the hagiography of this King and some texts related to the myth of Prester John seem to derive from the same sources, i.e. the apocalyptic texts written in Egypt after the 7th century and translated into ge’ez. The study mainly focuses on the priesthood of King Yemreḥanna Krestos in order to explain why he was considered as such by his own hagiographer. The use of the apocalyptic texts of Egyptian origin is one of the explanations, showing that in the 15th century (date of composition of the Life of Yemreḥanna Krestos), the Ethiopians recognized themselves in the prophecies dealing with the last Christian Emperor and the final victory of the antichalcedonian party. Some of these elements played also a role in the building of the Prester John figure. Despite these common sources, there is a contradiction between the Ethiopian texts and their Egyptian sources: the struggle against Islam is totally forgotten in the Ethiopian texts. The myth of the Prester John is not depending on the figure of King Yemreḥanna Krestos, but this myth and the Life of Yemrehanna Krestos were influenced by the same sources.

Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health - Book edited by Riadh Abed & Paul St John-Smith (Published by Cambridge University Press), 2022

In Western culture, both the lay public and mental health professionals tend to believe that mothers evolved to love all of their children instinctually and unconditionally. In contrast, any mother who feels ambivalence or hostility towards her child is typically seen as unnatural, and a mother who maltreats her child is seen as behaving pathologically. This chapter draws on evolutionary research to challenge this widespread view of motherhood. In particular, it describes how raising children has required mothers to negotiate a series of complex, precarious and layered trade-offs, and it argues that maternal negativity and child maltreatment can arise from this. The goal of this chapter is to foster a more evolutionarily valid, nuanced and compassionate understanding of motherhood. Such an understanding has the potential to contribute to clinical work with faltering mothers and also to programmes focused on preventing maternal maltreatment of children.

During 2017 and 2018, the Huari Urban Prehistory Project conducted excavations in the non-elite Patipampa sector of Huari in Ayacucho, Peru. Quotidian resource acquisition, distribution, and use are not well understood in Huari as previous excavations have focused on monumental architecture and mortuary centers. This thesis presents research on the Patipampa obsidian artifact assemblage and its relation to Wari political economy in a non-elite context. I conducted portable X-ray fluorescence and lithic attribute analyses on 446 obsidian artifacts in order to understand obsidian’s role at Patipampa. My research supports the idea that the people of Patipampa had unrestricted access to Quispisisa obsidian and did not need to conserve material. It appears that the Wari provided Quispisisa obsidian via a redistributive economic system. The presence of additional types brings into question other forms of resource acquisition at Huari and ties to the local Puzolana obsidian source.

When asked for a definition of the digital humanities, I often fall back on a crisp formula. Digital humanists use computation to generate, organize, publish, or interpret humanistic data. This covers most of the bases, but it's also a bit abstract. " What sort of computation? " a colleague sometimes asks. " I use a computer at work; why aren't I a digital humanist? " To this, I agree; there isn't much daylight between digital and analogue scholarship. Less interesting than what separates the two domains is the question of what unites them. In my view, the most significant shared ingredient is technology. Open access to complete article at link below: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-middle-east-studies/article/what-does-born-digital-mean/1C6BC00F50B96919B4C046A3DC2BF4DE/share/6f03078f5868fb6dbecd5a0f1de55d5fc0edadaf

ITCON, 2024

Facility Management (FM) is an essential practice for the operational phase of built assets. FM requires a vast range of data arising from diverse activities, which demands tools and processes for data collection and management. The Building Information Modeling (BIM) methodology implies an integrated information management process which helps in effective communication and information flow. Therefore, adopting BIM to support FM (BIMFM) has become the subject of academic and industry interest. When BIM methodology is implemented, information models are the main information repository, while information requirements set the guidelines for their development. The EN ISO 19650 series and EN 17412-1 are currently the most recent standards in the European context to assist the development of information requirements. However, there is still a lack of research on their detailed application to real - case scenarios. In this context, the present article cooperates with the broad adoption of BIM-FM by presenting the establishment of information requirements to inform the development of an information model for the ongoing operational phase of a university canteen, focusing on developing Exchange Information Requirements (EIR), and including other activities of ISO19650’s information management process to demonstrate the applicability of the requirements. The procedure applies the Level of Information Need (EN 17412-1) as the framework for defining the extent and granularity of the information requirements, and it employs the IFC schema to establish the required alphanumerical information. The paper thoroughly discusses the decision-making process and its implications, working as a detailed demonstration of the standards applied in a case study. The results demonstrate the efficiency of the purpose-driven process based on standardization, and the information model developed from the requirements is proven to deliver the required information accurately. Ultimately, the paper results in a robust source for process replication on FM real-case scenarios.

Eskiyeni, 2023

Muhyiddīn Ibn al-‘Arabī is a very significant figure from 7th/13th-century Andalusia who made a paradigm shift in Sufism. He constructed a metaphysical doctrine and wrote about many issues including femininity and gender. His thoughts about the metaphysical state of women and femininity caused his approach to be interpreted as a source for Islamic feminism. He advocates for spiritual equality between men and women because of sharing “humanity” and asserts that women can attain the highest level of sainthood (qutbiyya). For his views on women’s imamate, testimony, and veiling, he is portrayed as a pro-woman thinker by some contemporary scholars. On the other hand, calling a great master “feminist” or at least “pro-feminist” is unacceptable for orthodox Muslims because of the pejorative connotations of feminism in mainstream Islamic thought. By explaining feminism through main feminist texts, and critically analyzing Ibn al-‘Arabī’s approach to gender through his works and books about gender issues in his philosophy, this paper attempts to introduce Ibn al-‘Arabī to gender scholars and feminism to Islamic scholars, and discuss his approach to women and gender.

2019

The main topic of this study is entitled as Location Allocation Analysis for Urban Public Services Using GIS techniques; A Case of Yeka Sub-City, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Yeka Sub-City is geographically found at north-eastern part of Addis Ababa, having dynamic topography. Based on CSA population projection for the year 2016, Yeka Population is estimated 424,217. The 127 primary schools give service to 60095 students enrolled in the same year. The main Purpose of the study is to increase the coverage level of the primary schools in the Sub-City to enhance access of all school age population in the same area. The general objective set to deal with the problem is to make analysis and find results on balancing the distribution of primary schools and demands of the society for the services in the entire area of Yeka. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches are followed with an applied type of research in the study. The effort employed data which comprise empirical and theoretical wor...