Background: Different prevalence of asthma in different nationalities living in a same geographic
region has been reported. The study was aimed to determine the differences in asthma …

For estimation of grain yield in wheat, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is
considered as a potential screening tool. Field experiments were conducted to scrutinize the …

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a major health concern in the ageing human
population. Though existing therapeutics have shown some efficacy, low retinal bioavailability …

… Sultana … express my gratitude to my parents, Doris and Paul Sultana, for always blindly …
brother Nigel Sultana, for the best hugs in the world. I will always cherish our very …

… As Ali Asani has explained, pirs presented Islam, in its Nizari Ismaili form, in languages, terms
and concepts that were familiar to their Indic audience. In a religiously diverse environment…

The Guptīs of Bhavnagar, India, represent an unexplored case of taqiyya, or precautionary
dissimulation, and challenge traditional categories of religious identity in South Asia. Taqiyya …

The Muslim political control of the sub-continent took place in several stages, starting with the
Ghaznawids, Turkish nomadic tribes, and military slaves who were vassals of the Saljuqs. …

This paper brings together notions of heteroglossia and religious identity to explore how
English becomes indexical of Ismaili distinction in local communities in Pakistan and Tajikistan. …

This article posits that in the Delhi Sultanate, the Ilbari rulers tried to influence networks of
ʿulamāʾ through a continuous process of patronization, reward and punishment. Each sultan …

The present dissertation is a study of the Nabīvamśa," The Prophet's Lineage," the first
biography of the Prophet Muhammad to be composed in Bangla, in the first half of the …