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Islamic Roots of Capitalism
Egypt, 1760-1840
Av Peter Gran
Häftad, 1998
298 kr
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This paperback edition has an updated first chapter, resituating its main argument for today’s readers. New historical data on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Egypt makes an extremely persuasive argument for the eighteenth-century roots of Egyptian modernity. The similarity, too, of Egyptian …
Rooted Movements
The Radical Poetics of Palestinian Space
Inbunden, 2026
1423 kr
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Present in the heart of modern Palestinian literature is a pervasive sense of rootedness, sustained and nurtured by a deep care for land stewardship and embedded in a spatialized history. In Rooted Movements, Amanda Batarseh examines the epistemology of Palestinian Indigeneity based in a radical …
Rooted Movements
The Radical Poetics of Palestinian Space
Häftad, 2026
587 kr
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Present in the heart of modern Palestinian literature is a pervasive sense of rootedness, sustained and nurtured by a deep care for land stewardship and embedded in a spatialized history. In Rooted Movements, Amanda Batarseh examines the epistemology of Palestinian Indigeneity based in a radical …
Empires in Friction
Egypt in the Sixteenth Century
Av Nelly Hanna
Häftad, 2026
714 kr
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In 1517, the Ottoman Empire had finally defeated the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt, completing their conquest of the Middle East and turning Egypt into a province of the Ottoman Empire. While much has been documented about the Mamluk period until 1517, publications on the historical record about the …
Making Big Money in 1600
The Life and Times of Isma'il Abu Taqiyya, Egyptian Merchant
Av Nelly Hanna
Häftad, 1998
232 kr
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This text examines the re-emergence of the economic sector in Cairo during the 17th century, and its complex influences on social conditions. It traces the relationship between economic activities and culture through examining the life and work of Isma'il Abu Taqiyya - an Egyptian merchant.
In Praise of Books
A Cultural History of Cairo's Middle Class, Sixteenth Through the Eighteenth Century
Av Nelly Hanna
Häftad, 2003
223 kr
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In fine detail, Hanna explores economic influences on culture during periods of plenty and poverty during the first three centuries of Ottoman rule. She unveils a fully-fledged Cairene middle-class culture that bridges the gap between the salons (majalis) of the elite and the common people.
Family and Court
Legal Culture and Modernity in Late Ottoman Palestine
Av Iris Agmon
Inbunden, 2006
693 kr
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This book challenges prevailing assumptions about family, courts of law, and the nature of modernity in Muslim societies against the backdrop of Haifa and Jaffa during ""the long nineteenth century"". The popular image of the family and the court of law in Muslim societies is one of traditional, …
Formation of the Modern State
The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Häftad, 2005
225 kr
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With extensive new material, this classic book - now in a second edition - challenges the current paradigm of the societal decline as inadequate for understanding the Ottoman society and state during this period. Rifa'at 'Ali Abou-El-Haj reevaluates the established historical view of the Ottoman …
Holy Land in Transit
Colonialism and the Quest for Canaan
Inbunden, 2006
391 kr
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Steven Salaita’s ambitious and thought-provoking work compares the dynamics of settler colonialism in the United States related to Native Americans with the circumstances in Israel related to the Palestinians, revealing the way in which politics influences literary production.The author’s original …
Militant Women of a Fragile Nation
Inbunden, 2010
770 kr
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In ""Militant Women of a Fragile Nation"", Malek Abisaab takes a gendered approach to labor conflicts, anticolonial struggles, and citizenship in modern Lebanon. The author traces the conditions and experiences of women workers at the French Tobacco Monopoly. Challenging the prevailing assumptions …
Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo (1600-1800) and Early Modern Capitalism
Av Nelly Hanna
Inbunden, 2011
414 kr
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Little has been written about the economic history of Egypt prior to its incorporation into the European capitalist economy. While historians have mined archives and court documents to create a picture of the commercial activities, networks, and infrastructure of merchants during this time, few …
Unveiling the Harem
Elite Women and the Paradox of Seclusion in Eighteenth-Century Cairo
Av Mary Ann Fay
Inbunden, 2012
526 kr
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There is a long history in the West of representing Middle Eastern women as uniformly oppressed by Islam, by Islamic law, and by men. Stereotypical views of Middle Eastern women today maintain that they are without legal rights, do not attend universities or have jobs outside their homes, and are …
Shi'ites of Lebanon
Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah's Islamists
Av Rula Jurdi Abisaab, Malek Abisaab
Inbunden, 2014
573 kr
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The complex history of Lebanese Shi‘ites has traditionally been portrayed as rooted in religious and sectarian forces. The Abisaabs uncover a more nuanced account in which colonialism, the modern state, social class, and provincial politics profoundly shaped Shi‘i society.The authors trace the …
Minorities and the Modern Arab World
New Perspectives
Av Laura Robson
Häftad, 2016
375 kr
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In the wake of recent upheavals across the Arab world, a simplistic media portrayal of the region as essentially homogenous has given way to a new though equally shallow portrayal, casting it as deeply divided along ethnic, linguistic, and religious lines. The essays gathered in Minorities and the …
Minorities and the Modern Arab World
New Perspectives
Av Laura Robson
Inbunden, 2016
763 kr
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In the wake of recent upheavals across the Arab world, a simplistic media portrayal of the region as essentially homogenous has given way to a new though equally shallow portrayal, casting it as deeply divided along ethnic, linguistic, and religious lines. The essays gathered in Minorities and the …
Shi'ites of Lebanon
Modernism, Communism, and Hizbullah's Islamists
Av Rula Jurdi Abisaab, Malek Abisaab
Häftad, 2017
321 kr
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The complex history of Lebanese Shi‘ites has traditionally been portrayed as rooted in religious and sectarian forces. The Abisaabs uncover a more nuanced account in which colonialism, the modern state, social class, and provincial politics profoundly shaped Shi‘i society.The authors trace the …
Pragmatism in Islamic Law
A Social and Intellectual History
Häftad, 2017
338 kr
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In Pragmatism in Islamic Law, Ibrahim presents a detailed history of Sunni legal pluralism and the ways in which it was employed to accommodate the changing needs of society. Since the formative period of Islamic law, jurists have debated whether it is acceptable for a law to be selected based on …
Persistence of Orientalism
Anglo-American Historians and Modern Egypt
Av Peter Gran
Inbunden, 2020
823 kr
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Why is the 1798 Napoleonic invasion of Egypt routinely accepted as a watershed moment between premodern and modern in general histories on the Middle East? Although decades of scholarship, most-notably Edward Said's Orientalism, have critiqued traditional binaries of developed and undeveloped in …
Persistence of Orientalism
Anglo-American Historians and Modern Egypt
Av Peter Gran
Häftad, 2020
281 kr
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Why is the 1798 Napoleonic invasion of Egypt routinely accepted as a watershed moment between premodern and modern in general histories on the Middle East? Although decades of scholarship, most-notably Edward Said's Orientalism, have critiqued traditional binaries of developed and undeveloped in …
Literary Optics
Staging the Collective in the Nahda
Inbunden, 2024
1230 kr
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In Literary Optics, Maha AbdelMegeed offers a compelling and far-reaching alternative to the traditional mode of analyzing Arabic literature through an encounter between Arabic narrative forms and European ones. Drawing upon close engagements with the works of canonical authors from the period, …
Literary Optics
Staging the Collective in the Nahda
Häftad, 2024
442 kr
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In Literary Optics, Maha AbdelMegeed offers a compelling and far-reaching alternative to the traditional mode of analyzing Arabic literature through an encounter between Arabic narrative forms and European ones. Drawing upon close engagements with the works of canonical authors from the period, …
Empires in Friction
Egypt in the Sixteenth Century
Av Nelly Hanna
Inbunden, 2025
699 kr
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In 1517, the Ottoman Empire had finally defeated the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt, completing their conquest of the Middle East and turning Egypt into a province of the Ottoman Empire. While much has been documented about the Mamluk period until 1517, publication on the historical record about the …
Gender and Class in the Egyptian Women's Movement, 1925-1939
Changing Perspectives
Inbunden, 2008
287 kr
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The Egyptian women's movement has been heralded as improving the lives of women in Egypt and paving the way for women throughout the Arab world. As seen through the eyes of the university-educated elite and middle class, this is no doubt true, yet such a narrow view fails to account for the …
Native Tongue, Stranger Talk
The Arabic and French Literary Landscapes of Lebanon
Inbunden, 2014
587 kr
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Can a reality lived in Arabic be expressed in French? Can a French-language literary work speak Arabic? In Native Tongue, Stranger Talk Hartman shows how Lebanese women authors use spoken Arabic to disrupt literary French, with sometimes surprising results. Challenging the common claim that these …
Pragmatism in Islamic Law
A Social and Intellectual History
Inbunden, 2015
468 kr
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In Pragmatism in Islamic Law, Ibrahim presents a detailed history of Sunni legal pluralism and the ways in which it was employed to accommodate the changing needs of society. Since the formative period of Islamic law, jurists have debated whether it is acceptable for a law to be selected based on …
