Objective. I examine the effects state-to-state relations, including colonial status, foreign overseas development assistance and military presence, on migration flows between 46 sub-Saharan African countries and seven European countries between 1985 and 1994. Arguing that the s…
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This study investigated the use of the root ns\ṣupṣeṭ in the Pentateuch in an attempt to discover its semantic relationship to the concept of forgiveness. Survey of the available literature revealed a near vacuum in this area, apart from a couple of careful but brief treatments.…
This thesis treats the history of the Turkish community that inhabited the 'Abbasid capital of Samarra in the third/ninth century. Samarra replaced Baghdad as the caliphal capital from approximately 221/835-836 to 279/892-893. The Turkish community of Samarra has long been seen …
Taking my cue from the general theory that art makes an important contribution to childhood education and learning, I investigated, in Bhutanese schools, why children make art, what they learn through art making, and the role of art making. I talked to pre-primary through grade …
Although Senegalese women, like other women in Africa, are central to economic development and household survival, little has been done to improve working conditions, increase access to resources, and improve productivity. In part this is due to the scarcity of appropriate infor…
Child labor is widespread in the informal sector economy of Senegal. Although child labor is widely viewed as a problem of poor countries, this serious subject has received little scholarly attention (Gilbert and Gugler 1992; Gugler 1997). Of the scant scholarly research complet…
The question to be considered in this thesis is: should the Canaanite elements in the Psalter be classified as evidence of syncretism or, rather, as evidence of another process called contextualization? Contextualization is a process of communicating from one context to another …
The thesis investigates the interaction that developed between a major art dealer, Thos. Agnew and Sons (Agnews), and a principal public collection, the London National Gallery, from 1855 to 1928. Agnews played a crucial role in the life of the National Gallery and greatly facil…
The focus of this study is to examine the factors that lead to growth in small firms in a Least Developed Country (LDC). The research is based on the manufacturing sector in Ghana. The main objectives of the research are to identify the key variables that lead to small firms' gr…
The life of Muhammad is not the object of a continuous narrative, nor of a body of continuous narratives, but of individual accounts, each concerned with a specific event and provided with its own chain of transmission. Such accounts are subsumed under the category of Sira, lite…
This study of Mandinka children, some actively engaged in child caregiving and all productive in socio-economic roles, examines the nature of the child's participation in the dissemination of cultural values. As co-producers of socializing contexts, as novices rather than non-me…
This thesis is devoted to the study of Bint al-Shat[dotbelow]i''s method of interpreting the Qur'an. The problems of consistency in terms of her hermeneutical theory and of the application of this method represent the focus of the study. It furthermore discusses her attitude tow…