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Palestinian Peasant Economy under the Mandate
A Story of Colonial Bungling
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
169 kr
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Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety
Sufis and the Dissemination of Islam in Medieval Palestine
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
164 kr
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Islamicate Sexualities
Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire
Häftad, Engelska, 2008
159 kr
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Del 41 - Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs
Forgotten Saints
History, Power, and Politics in the Making of Modern Morocco
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
174 kr
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Del 33 - Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs
Second Umayyad Caliphate
The Articulation of Caliphal Legitimacy in al-Andalus
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
204 kr
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In 929 CE, the eighth Umayyad ruler of al-Andalus (Islamic Iberia) assumed caliphal titles and prerogatives. Against the ambitions of his contemporary rivals, the Abbasids and the Fatimids, he quickly reasserted Umayyad dynastic claims to the unique and universal leadership of the Muslims. As he and his successor promoted their legitimacy, they generated an ideology that infused and defined the political culture of al-Andalus.The Second Umayyad Caliphate recovers the Andalusi Umayyad argument for caliphal legitimacy through an analysis of caliphal rhetoric—based on proclamations, correspondence, and panegyric poetry—and caliphal ideology, as shown through monuments, ceremony, and historiography. This study of the tenth-century caliphates deepens our understanding of the political culture of the Iberian Peninsula at the height of centralized Islamic rule.
Del 34 - Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs
New Perspectives on Property and Land in the Middle East
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
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Land was the major economic resource in the pre-modern Middle East. Questions of ownership, of access, of management and of control occupied a central role in administration, in law, and in rural practice over many centuries. And changes in land regimes, such as those which took place in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were bound to have significant repercussions at all levels of society.Nevertheless, the subject of land and property relations is still not well understood. It has also been hindered by a concentration on Islamic legal categories which often had little connection with property relations on the ground and by the assumption that the Middle East witnessed much the same passage from pre-modern to modern forms of property as is supposed to have taken place in Europe.
Del 38 - Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs
Moral Resonance of Arab Media
Audiocassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
242 kr
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In a groundbreaking study of contemporary Arab political poetry, Flagg Miller provides a wide range of insights into the ways that modern media aesthetics are shaped by language and culture. Investigating a vibrant audio-recording industry in southern Yemen, The Moral Resonance of Arab Media shows how new forms of political activism emerge through sensory engagements with Arabic poetry and song. From the 1940s onward, a new cadre of political activists has used audio-recording technologies, especially the audiocassette, to redefine traditional Muslim authorship.Cassette producers address conflicted views about the resurgence of tribalism by showing Yemenis how to adapt traditional mores toward more progressive and pluralistic aims. Skilled bards continue to perform orally marked tribal verse. As Miller demonstrates through an analysis of several centuries of changing media ecology, however, oral performance is anything but static. Much of the power of orality stems from its relation to writing, print, and audiovisual media that link tribal ideals with metropolitan and national discourses. Through an examination of the lives and works of individual poets, singers, and audiences, Moral Resonance shows how tribalism becomes a resource for critical reform when expressed in tropes of community, place, person, and history. Yemenis’ use of audiocassettes turns such tropes into cultural resources for morally evaluating political liberalism.