Islamic Area Studies – serie
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Sugar in the Social Life of Medieval Islam
Inbunden, 2014
2393 kr
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In Sugar in the Social Life of Medieval Islam Tsugitaka Sato explores the actual day-to-day life in medieval Muslim societies through different aspects of sugar. Drawing from a wealth of historical sources - chronicles, geographies, travel accounts, biographies, medical and pharmacological texts, …
Dynamism in the Urban Society of Damascus
The Ṣāliḥiyya Quarter from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Centuries
Av Toru Miura
Inbunden, 2015
2553 kr
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This book presents a new perspective on Islamic urban society: a dynamism of social networking and justice which caused both rapid development and sudden decay in the Ṣāliḥiyya quarter. Founded in the northern suburbs of Damascus by Hanbali ulama who migrated from Palestine to Syria in the mid-12th …
Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires
Central Eurasian International Relations during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Av Jin Noda
Inbunden, 2016
2553 kr
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In The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires, Jin Noda examines the foreign relations of the Kazakh Chinggisid sultans and the Russian and Qing empires during the 18th and 19th centuries. Noda makes use of both Russian and Qing archival documents as well as local Islamic sources. …
Rashda: The Birth and Growth of an Egyptian Oasis Village
Av Hiroshi Kato, Erina Iwasaki
Inbunden, 2016
2348 kr
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Rashda:The Birth and Growth of an Egyptian Oasis Village is an interdisciplinary study from a multi-perspective, using various kinds of data and information. It offers a comprehensive description of Rashda, a village in Dakhla Oasis in Egypt from its beginning to the present. Key concepts are the …
Qїrghїz Baatïr and the Russian Empire
A Portrait of a Local Intermediary in Russian Central Asia
Inbunden, 2021
1693 kr
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In The Qїrghїz Baatïr and the Russian Empire Tetsu Akiyama gives a vivid description of the dynamism and dilemmas of empire-building in nomadic Central Asia from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, through reconstructing the biography of Shabdan Jantay uulu (ca. 1839–1912), a …
Ashura as Submission and Rebellion
An Ethnography on Shia Rituals in Contemporary Iran
Av Kenichi Tani
Inbunden, 2025
1814 kr
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This book offers an ethnographic account of Shia mourning rituals in contemporary Iran, focusing on practices such as processions, chest-beating, pilgrimage, and self-flagellation. Drawing on fieldwork and theoretical reflection, it examines how these embodied rituals intersect with state power, …
