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001 – World. a With population over 500,000 people. Former Soviet Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, [4] and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.
The Arabian Peninsula is the world's largest peninsula, situated in Southwest Asia with the Red Sea in the southwest, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman in the west and the Arabian Sea in the southeast. By political definition, the countries situated on the peninsula are Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman, and Yemen.
Jan 10, 2019 · Henig has explored Bosnian networks of Dervish (Sufi)-Muslims that crisscross Southeast Europe and Turkish West Asia. 2 Against this backdrop of conducting fieldwork at locations in Muslim West Asia, this essay seeks to make an intervention about the analytical purchase of West Asia as a valuable category for anthropologists working on Muslim ...
Multiple cultural regions. Asia's various modern cultural and religious spheres correspond roughly with the principal centers of civilization. West Asia (or Southwest Asia as Ian Morrison puts it, or sometimes referred to as the Middle East) has their cultural roots in the pioneering civilizations of the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamia, spawning the Persian, Arab, Ottoman empires, as well as ...
Jan 10, 2019 · This Special Issue arises out of an international and interdisciplinary workshop titled “Rethinking Asia: Perspectives From West Asia.” The workshop was held at the University of Sussex Asia Centre in May 2017 and organized in collaboration with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (The University of Hong Kong) as well as the Department of Cross-Cultural and ...
2 West Asia in Transition structures as well as emerging trends in West Asia. The principal focus was on the main drivers of this transformation and on the main players. Particular attention was paid to the evolution of Islamic thought and practice in the region viz. Wahhabism, Velayat-i-Faqih, the Muslim
Sep 11, 2020 · An airborne hazard is any chemical, physical, or biological agent in the air that has a potential to cause harm. There are numerous airborne hazards that military personnel may have experienced when deployed to Southwest Asia, including regional environmental exposures, such as air pollution from dusts, and local point and area sources, such as traffic, waste management, or local industries.
