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Iran Between Two Revolutions
Häftad, 1982
662 kr
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Emphasizing the interaction between political organizations and social forces, Ervand Abrahamian discusses Iranian society and politics during the period between the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1909 and the Islamic Revolution of 1977-1979. Presented here is a study of the emergence of …
Behind the Intifada
Labor and Women's Movements in the Occupied Territories
Häftad, 1993
618 kr
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Before the intifada began, Joost Hiltermann had already looked at local organizations in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and seen there the main elements that would eventually be used to mobilize the Palestinian masses. In the first comprehensive study of these organizations, …
Knowledge and Power in Morocco
The Education of a Twentieth-Century Notable
Häftad, 1992
557 kr
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This intensive social biography of a rural Moroccan judge discusses Islamic education, the concept of knowledge it embodies, and its communication from the early years of colonial rule in twentieth-century Morocco to the present. The work sensitively combines the outlooks and perceptions of the …
Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament with Supplement
Inbunden, 1969
2202 kr
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This anthology brought together the most important historical, legal, mythological, liturgical, and secular texts of the ancient Near East, with the purpose of providing a rich contextual base for understanding the people, cultures, and literature of the Old Testament. A scholar of religious …
Ottoman Civil Officialdom
A Social History
Häftad, 2014
697 kr
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In this sequel to his highly acclaimed Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire, Carter Findley shifts focus from the organizational aspects of administrative reform and development to the officials themselves. A study in social history and its cultural and economic ramifications, Findley's new …
Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo
A Social History of Islamic Education
Häftad, 2014
444 kr
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In rich detail Jonathan Berkey interprets the social and cultural consequences of Islam's regard for knowledge, showing how education in the Middle Ages played a central part in the religious experience of nearly all Muslims. Focusing on Cairo, which under Mamluk rule (1250-1517) was a vital …
History of the Maghrib
An Interpretive Essay
Häftad, 2015
732 kr
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This survey of North African history challenges both conventional attitudes toward North Africa and previously published histories written from the point of view of Western scholarship. The book aims, in Professor Laroui's words, "to give from within a decolonized vision of North African history …
Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire
The Historian Mustafa Ali (1541-1600)
Häftad, 2014
739 kr
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Mustafa Ali was the foremost historian of the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Most modern scholars of the Ottoman period have focused on economic and institutional issues, but this study uses Ali and his works as the basis for analyzing the nature of intellectual and social life in a formative …
Early Islamic Conquests
Häftad, 2014
813 kr
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In this contribution to the ongoing debate on the nature and causes of the Islamic conquests in Syria and Iraq during the sixth and seventh centuries, Fred Donner argues for a necessary distinction between the causes of the conquests, the causes of their success, and the causes of the subsequent …
State, Private Enterprise and Economic Change in Egypt, 1918-1952
Häftad, 2017
540 kr
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This study of Egyptian efforts to diversify the country's economy between the end of World War 1 and the Nasser coup d'etat of 1952 focuses on the nascent bourgeoisie and the relationships of its segments to one another. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest …
Challenging Colonialism
Bank Misr and Egyptian Industrialization, 1920-1941
Av Eric Davis
Häftad, 2014
470 kr
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Eric Davis challenges classic theories of dependency and imperialism and explains the history of the Bank Misr by interrelating world market forces, Egyptian class structure, and the Egyptian nationalist movement and state apparatus. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses …
Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt
The Origins of the Office of the Head of the Jews, ca. 1065-1126
Häftad, 2014
1202 kr
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Under three successive Islamic dynasties--the Fatimids, the Ayyubids, and the Mamluks--the Egyptian Office of the Head of the Jews (also known as the Nagid) became the most powerful representative of medieval Jewish autonomy in the Islamic world. To determine the origins of this institution, Mark …
Rabat
Urban Apartheid in Morocco
Häftad, 2014
697 kr
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Making provocative use of the term apartheid," Janet Abu-Lughod argues that French colonial policies in Moroccan cities effectively segregated Moroccans from Europeans. Focusing on Rabat and drawing upon unpublished data from the 1971 census of Morocco, she documents the results of this …
Shaping of 'Abbasid Rule
Häftad, 2017
557 kr
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In order to understand the transition between the revolutionary movement that propelled the Abbasids to power and the imperial government that later took root, Jacob Lassner studies those elements that served to shape the political attitudes and institutions of the emerging regime during its …
Peter the Venerable and Islam
Häftad, 2015
473 kr
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For over four centuries the principal source of Christian European knowledge of Islam stemmed from a project sponsored by Peter the Venerable, ninth abbot of Cluny, in 1142. This consisted of Latin translations of five Arabic works, including the first translation of the Koran in a western …
Planetary Equatorium of Jamshid Ghiyath al-Din al-Kashi
Häftad, 2017
567 kr
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Instruments for solving astronomical problems are part of a continuous tradition reaching far back through the Middle Ages into the Hellenistic world. Dr. Kennedy expands the history of analog computers by providing an account of an important development in Central Asia where, in the Samarqand …
Shaping of 'Abbasid Rule
Inbunden, 2017
2528 kr
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In order to understand the transition between the revolutionary movement that propelled the Abbasids to power and the imperial government that later took root, Jacob Lassner studies those elements that served to shape the political attitudes and institutions of the emerging regime during its …
State and Social Transformation in Tunisia and Libya, 1830-1980
Inbunden, 2016
2430 kr
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The book traces growing state intervention in the rural areas of Tunisia and Libya in the middle 1800s and the diverging development of the two countries during the period of European rule. State formation accelerated in Tunisia under the French with the result that, with independence, …
Ottoman Civil Officialdom
A Social History
Inbunden, 2016
2814 kr
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In this sequel to his highly acclaimed Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire, Carter Findley shifts focus from the organizational aspects of administrative reform and development to the officials themselves. A study in social history and its cultural and economic ramifications, Findley's new …
Transmission of Knowledge in Medieval Cairo
A Social History of Islamic Education
Inbunden, 2016
1808 kr
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In rich detail Jonathan Berkey interprets the social and cultural consequences of Islam's regard for knowledge, showing how education in the Middle Ages played a central part in the religious experience of nearly all Muslims. Focusing on Cairo, which under Mamluk rule (1250-1517) was a vital …
Early Islamic Conquests
Inbunden, 2016
1923 kr
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In this contribution to the ongoing debate on the nature and causes of the Islamic conquests in Syria and Iraq during the sixth and seventh centuries, Fred Donner argues for a necessary distinction between the causes of the conquests, the causes of their success, and the causes of the subsequent …
Egypt of Nasser and Sadat
The Political Economy of Two Regimes
Inbunden, 2016
3562 kr
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A balance sheet of thirty years of revolutionary experiment, this work is a comprehensive analysis of the failure of the socialist transformation of Egypt during the regimes of Nasser and Sadat. Testing recent theories of the nature of the developing states and their relation both to indigenous …
Ottoman Slave Trade and Its Suppression
1840-1890
Inbunden, 2016
2378 kr
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This book is a historical account of the slave trading system of the Ottoman Empire in the second half of the nineteenth century and of the attempts, which were eventually successful, to suppress it. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand …
Tunisia of Ahmad Bey, 1837-1855
Inbunden, 2016
1710 kr
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Under the energetic but confused prodding of the activist ruler Ahmad Bey, Tunisia made its first effort to institute European-inspired political and military reforms. L. Carl Brown's book on the reign of Ahmad Bey is thus a case study in modernization as well as a historical survey of Tunisia in …
Making of an Arab Nationalist
Ottomanism and Arabism in the Life and Thought of Sati' Al-Husri
Inbunden, 2016
1662 kr
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A loyal servant of the Ottoman Empire in his early career, Sati' al-Husri (1880-1968) became one of Arab nationalism's most articulate and influential spokesmen. His shift from Ottomanism, based on religion and the multi-national empire, to Arabism, defined by secular loyalties and the concept of …
Modernization and British Colonial Rule in Egypt, 1882-1914
Inbunden, 2016
3007 kr
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In occupied Egypt, British governmental programs were closely related to England's needs as an imperial power since Egypt was occupied because of its strategic position along the route to India. British presence there, however, inevitably led to modernization during the 32 years of British rule. …
Planetary Equatorium of Jamshid Ghiyath al-Din al-Kashi
Inbunden, 2017
2527 kr
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Instruments for solving astronomical problems are part of a continuous tradition reaching far back through the Middle Ages into the Hellenistic world. Dr. Kennedy expands the history of analog computers by providing an account of an important development in Central Asia where, in the Samarqand …
