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The Dread Heights

2025· book· en· W7125693475 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Basit Kareem Iqbal

Bibliographic record

VenueFordham University Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicReligion, Society, and Development
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIslamWonderEthnographyExistentialismShadow (psychology)Humanitarian aidCharismaWork (physics)Battle

Abstract

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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 imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.368
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.241
Teacher spread0.221 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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