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The Mandaeans
The Mandaeans are a Gnostic sect that arose in the middle east around the same time as Christianity. What little study of the religion there has been has focused on the ancient Mandaeans and their relation to early Christianity. Buckley examines the lives and religion of contemporary Mandaeans, who live mainly in Iran and Iraq but also in New York and San Diego. She provides a comprehensive introduction to the religion and shows how its ancient texts inform the living religion, and vice versa.
Contested Minorities of the Middle East and Asia
Relations among minorities and majorities, whether religious, ethnic, cultural or other, have been a triggering factor of social dynamics all over the world for millennia. Indeed, their relevance has further grown in recent decades due to turbulent politics and rapidly changing social relations. The Middle East and Asia have traditionally been home to a vast array of religious and ethnic groups, yet a series of both armed and ideological conflicts have begun to re-shape their classic complex social composition. This volume offers valuable insights into the issue of minorities in various geographical and political settings, from the Uyghurs of China and the modern Christian movements of India to the Romas and Dervishes of early 20th century Iran, the Mandaeans of Mesopotamia, and the Muslims of Western Europe.
Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations
Artificial Intelligence applications build on a rich and proven theoretical background to provide solutions to a wide range of real life problems. The ever expanding abundance of information and computing power enables researchers and users to tackle higly interesting issues for the first time, such as applications providing personalized access and interactivity to multimodal information based on preferences and semantic concepts or human-machine interface systems utilizing information on the affective state of the user. The purpose of the 3rd IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI) is to bring together researchers, engineers, and practitioners interested in the technical advances and business and industrial applications of intelligent systems. AIAI 2006 is focused on providing insights on how AI can be implemented in real world applications.
A Mandaic Dictionary
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Knowledge-based Software Engineering
This text collects contributions from different countries to a wide range of topics in software engineering. Special emphasis is given to application of knowledge-base methods to software engineering problems. The papers tackle such areas as architecture of software and design patterns.
"And life is victorious"
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of 'Rudolf Macuch's death in 1993 a conference was organized in Berlin devoted to his two main areas of research, i.e. Mandaic and Samaritan studies. The proceedings of this conference, which are about to be published, contain 21 contributions of which 14 are on matters Mandaean. The Mandaeans are the only late antique Gnostic baptist sect who have been able to survive up to today by retreating into remoter areas. But now their very existence in their homelands in Southern Mesopotamia and the adjacent province of Persia is threatened by violent conflict and a general absence of law enforcement. In their papers Kurt Rudolph and Sabih Alsohairy are repor...
