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Imperial Ideology and Architecture
Damascus under the Mamlūk sultans (1260–1516 CE)
Häftad, 2024
1183 kr
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The goals and tactics of a state's ruling elite influence its artistic and architectural output, shaping the overall characteristics, orientation, and themes of its creations. Architecture reflects political ideology and historical events, showcasing the power and cultural values of the state, with …
Qur’ans of the Umayyads
A First Overview
Häftad, 2013
862 kr
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For the first time, the dramatic changes the Qur’anic code underwent during the Umayyad period (660-750 C.E.) are analysed and presented on the basis of a selection of material in good part unpublished. In Qur’ans of the Umayyads, François Déroche offers a chronology of the various developments …
Islam and the Limits of the State
Reconfigurations of Practice, Community and Authority in Contemporary Aceh
Häftad, 2015
1188 kr
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This book examines the relationship between the state state implementation of Shariʿa and diverse lived realities of everyday Islam in contemporary Aceh, Indonesia. With chapters covering topics ranging from NGOs and diaspora politics to female ulama and punk rockers, the volume opens new …
Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia
Texts, Traditions and Practices, 10th-21st Centuries
Häftad, 2023
1198 kr
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Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia: Texts, Traditions and Practices, 10th-21st Centuries is a collection of fourteen studies by a group of scholars active in the field of Central Asian Studies, presenting new research into various aspects of the rich cultural heritage of Central Asia …
Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere
Jews and Christians in the Middle East
Häftad, 2016
1097 kr
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Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East explores the many facets associated with the questions of modernity and minority in the context of religious communities in the Middle East by focusing on inter-communal dialogues and identity construction among the …
Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire
Av Umar Ryad
Häftad, 2016
1058 kr
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The present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial empires. In the late fifteenth century and early sixteenth century, a …
Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan
Land, Courts and the Plurality of Practices
Häftad, 2018
984 kr
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Anthropology of Law in Muslim Sudan analyses the hybridity of law systems and the plurality of legal practices in rural and urban contexts of contemporary Sudan, shedding light on the complex relation between Islam and society. It is the outcome of the international research program ANDROMAQUE …
Authority and Control in the Countryside
From Antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (6th-10th Century)
Häftad, 2018
1329 kr
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Authority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage their rural hinterlands. Measures of direct control – land ownership, …
Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in The Middle East, 1850-1950
Ideologies, Rhetoric, and Practices
Häftad, 2020
1006 kr
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From the early phases of modern missions, Christian missionaries supported many humanitarian activities, mostly framed as subservient to the preaching of Christianity. This anthology contributes to a historically grounded understanding of the complex relationship between Christian missions and the …
Islam at 250
Studies in Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll
Häftad, 2020
1318 kr
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Islam at 250: Studies in Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll is a collection of original articles on the state of Islamic sciences and Arabic culture in the early phases of their crystallization. It covers a wide range of intellectual activity in the first three centuries of Islam, such as the study of …
Missions and Preaching
Connected and Decompartmentalised Perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa (19th-21st Century)
Av Norig Neveu
Häftad, 2022
1211 kr
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Based on a connected, relational and multidisciplinary approach (history, ethnography, political science, and theology), Mission and Preaching tackles the notion of mission through the analysis of preaching activities and religious dynamics across Christianity, Islam and Judaism, in the Middle East …
Antique Dealing and Creative Reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850-1890
Intercultural Engagements with Architecture and Craft in the Age of Travel and Reform
Häftad, 2021
1787 kr
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The commodification of Islamic antiques intensified in the late Ottoman Empire, an age of domestic reform and increased European interference following the Tanzimat (reorganisation) of 1839. Mercedes Volait examines the social life of typical objects moving from Cairo and Damascus to Paris, London, …
Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context
Transmission, Efficacy and Collections
Häftad, 2022
1201 kr
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In this volume amulets and talismans are studied within a broader system of meaning that shapes how they were manufactured, activated and used in different networks. Text, material features and the environments in which these artifacts circulated, are studied alongside each other, resulting in an …
Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca
Historical and Contemporary Accounts
Häftad, 2023
1201 kr
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Narrating the pilgrimage to Mecca discusses a wide variety of historical and contemporary personal accounts of the pilgrimage to Mecca, most of which presented in English for the first time. The book addresses how being situated in a specific cultural context and moment in history informs the …
Aligning Religious Law and State Law
Negotiating Legal Muslim Marriage in Pasuruan, East Java
Häftad, 2023
1175 kr
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In Aligning Religious Law and State Law: Negotiating Legal Muslim Marriage in Pasuruan, East Java, Muhammad Latif Fauzi investigates the extent to which the Indonesian state has regulated Muslim marriage, how a local community in Pasuruan, East Java practices and negotiates the regulation and how …
In Search of Identity
The Hadhrami Arabs in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia (1900-1950)
Häftad, 2022
1201 kr
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In In Search of Identity: The Hadhrami Arabs in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia (1900-1950) Huub de Jonge discusses changes in social, economic, cultural and national identity of Arabs originating from Hadhramaut (Yemen) in the Netherlands East Indies and Indonesia. Within the relatively …
Morocco’s Africa Policy
Role Identity and Power Projection
Häftad, 2024
1183 kr
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Since the advent of the reign of Mohammed VI in 1999, Morocco has deployed a new continental foreign policy. The Kingdom aspires to be recognized as an emerging African power in its identity as well as in its space of projection. In order to meet these ambitions, the diplomatic apparatus is …
Social Codicology
The Multiple Lives of Manuscripts in Muslim Societies
Häftad, 2024
1110 kr
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This study includes a wide range of contributions on the materiality and social practices of book copying, consuming, collecting, storing, venerating, discarding and preserving, both in historical and contemporary societies, stretching from Mauritania to Yemen, Kerala, and Malaysia. The volume …
