Bibliographic record
Abstract
Muslim charities and community organizations have assumed a massive role in refugee support since the Syrian revolution: in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and well beyond, they deliver food aid and house orphans, offer remedial education programs, and organize summer camps. But Islam is more than just a new resource for humanitarian projects. Based on fieldwork conducted in Jordan and Canada, The Dread Heights follows how refugees, relief workers, and religious scholars wonder what fate has brought them there, how exile affects the soul, and how their new contexts should be traversed. Such existential questions are not exceptional to humanitarian sites: they spring from the everyday work of inhabiting a tradition. This book details how Islam guides those surviving brutal sieges and mass displacement. In pursuing an ethnography of religious imaginations and theological argumentation, it demonstrates what is at stake in migration and refuge outside secular frames of conception. It endeavors to understand the devastation of the Syrian war through the Islamic tradition. This ethnography pursues an awful lucidity across the search for refuge, the cleaving of community, the trials of creational existence, and the ultimately enigmatic divine decree. In the shadow of the war, beyond humanitarian order, Islam offers an orientation to the devastation of the present.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".