Saqi Essentials – serie
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7 produkter
Crusades Through Arab Eyes
Av Amin Maalouf
Häftad, 2006
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
211 kr
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In August 1099, Abu Saad al-Harawi, a judge from Damascus, stormed into the Caliph’s court in Baghdad, condemning its luxury while Muslims in Syria and Palestine were slaughtered by the Frankish invaders.With this charged scene, Amin Maalouf opens his exhilarating narrative history of two centuries …
Islam and Capitalism
Häftad, 2007
235 kr
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Islam and Capitalism is a learned, engaged rebuttal of the cultural reductionism of Max Weber and others who have tried to explain the politics and society of the Middle East by reference to some unchanging entity called 'Islam,' typically characterised as instinctively hostile to capitalism. …
Origins of the Druze People and Religion
Häftad, 2007
123 kr
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The Druze, who can be traced back to eleventh-century Levant, have long intrigued scholars of the Middle East. Their obscure origins and blending of beliefs from Ismaili Shi'ism, animism, Greek philosophy, Jewish and Christian mysticism, Iranian Gnosticism and even Buddhism, have set them apart …
Janissaries
Häftad, 2006
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
187 kr
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From the fifteenth to the sixteenth century, the janissaries were the scourge of Europe. With their martial music, their muskets and their drilled march, it seemed that no one could withstand them. Their loyalty to their corps was infinite, as the Ottomans conquered the Balkans as far as the …
Imagined Masculinities
Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East
Av Mai Ghoussoub, Emma Sinclair-Webb
Häftad, 2006
181 kr
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Attempts to challenge the virtual exclusion of the male prespective from Middle Eastern studies of gender. The text investigates the ways in which men are acting, reacting and adapting to the structural upheaval of the "traditional" family and to new images of virility and responsibility. Avoiding …
Arab Rediscovery of Europe
A Study in Cultural Encounters
Häftad, 2011
187 kr
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Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798 suddenly exposed the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire to a Europe vastly different from the one known to the Arabs of the Middle Ages. At the start of the nineteenth century, Arabs were totally unprepared for the social, economic, and political progress made …
Beyond the Veil
Male-female Dynamics in a Muslim Society
Häftad, 2011
204 kr
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Does Islam as a religion oppress women? Is Islam against democracy? In this classic study, internationally renowned sociologist Fatema Mernissi argues that women's oppression is not due to Islam because this religion celebrates women's power. Women's oppression, she maintains, is due to political …
