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Book Chiefs and Clerics

Download or read book Chiefs and Clerics written by David Robinson and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Clerics  Traders and Chiefs

Download or read book Clerics Traders and Chiefs written by Hussein Ahmed and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Clerics and Clansmen

    Book Details:
  • Author : Iain MacDonald
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2013-02-15
  • ISBN : 900418547X
  • Pages : 468 pages

Download or read book Clerics and Clansmen written by Iain MacDonald and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iain MacDonald examines how the medieval Church in Gaelic Scotland, often regarded as isolated and irrelevant, continued to function in the face of poverty, periodic warfare, and the formidable powers of the clan chiefs.

Book Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad

Download or read book Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad written by Michael A. Gomez and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bundu was an anomaly among the precolonial Muslim states of West Africa. Founded during the jihads which swept the savannah in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it developed a pragmatic policy, unique in the midst of fundamentalist, theocratic Muslim states. Located in the Upper Senegal and with access to the Upper Gambia, Bundu played a critical role in regional commerce and production and reacted quickly to the stimulus of European trade. Drawing upon a wide range of sources both oral and documentary, Arabic, English and French, Dr Gomez provides the first full account of Bundu's history. He analyses the foundation and growth of an Islamic state at a crossroads between the Saharan and trans-Atlantic trade, paying particular attention to the relationship between Islamic thought and court policy, and to the state's response to militant Islam in the early nineteenth century.

Book Comparative Social Dynamics

Download or read book Comparative Social Dynamics written by Erik Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These original articles relate to major themes in the comparative study of the dynamics of cultures, modernization, and social and political change. The authors, ranking scholars in their fields, provide fresh and important insights to the study of topics such as the interface of anthropological and sociological theory, the dynamics of Latin Americ

Book The Christian Remembrancer

Download or read book The Christian Remembrancer written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cloth of Many Colored Silks

Download or read book The Cloth of Many Colored Silks written by John O. Hunwick and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays honouring African scholar Ivor Wilks.

Book The Theodosian Code and Novels  and the Sirmondian Constitutions

Download or read book The Theodosian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions written by Clyde Pharr and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharr, Clyde. The Theodosian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions: A Translation with Commentary, Glossary, and Bibliography. [Princeton]: Princeton University Press, 1952. xxvi, 643 pp. Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 2001023441. ISBN 1-58477-146-1. Hardcover. * Definitive scholarly English translation of the Theodosian Code, which was the Code of laws that regulated Roman life at its apex before the era of Justinian. The structure and scope of this text illustrate the complexity of the legal system of this fascinating era and the ultimate fall of the Roman empire. Marital law, adultery and inheritance; libel; the military; pardons; government administration; tax and tax appeals; fiscal law, debtors, and petitions; notification of suit; the secret service; land matters; gladiators, conscripted labor and compulsory public service, slavery and manumission, including the restriction of Jews against ownership of Christian slaves; the relationship of church and state and much more are covered. With thorough introduction, commentary, glossary, bibliography. Well-indexed.

Book Routledge Library Editions  International Islam

Download or read book Routledge Library Editions International Islam written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 2714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published between 1913 and 1994, this 6 volume set examines the history of Islam in a variety of regions across the world. Spanning continents from Africa, to Asia, North America and Europe, and ranging from 19th century ethnographical studies to modern day historical research, these titles not only demonstrate the diversity within this global religion, but also how the study of Islam has changed over time. The titles in this set will be of interest to those studying the history of Islam as well as those fascinated by the study of religion and international communities itself.

Book Engaging with a Legacy  Nehemia Levtzion  1935 2003

Download or read book Engaging with a Legacy Nehemia Levtzion 1935 2003 written by E. Ann McDougall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging with a Legacy shows how Nehemia Levtzion shaped our understanding of Islam in Africa and influenced successive scholarly generations in their approach to Islamization, conversion and fundamentalism. The book illuminates his work, career and family life – including his own ‘life vision’ on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It speaks to his relationship with researchers at home and abroad as mentor, colleague and provocateur; in one section, several authors reflect on those dynamics in terms of personal and professional development. Levtzion’s contemporaries also speak of interactions with him (and his life-long companion, wife Tirza) in the 1950s and 1960s; we see in these writings the birth of West African historical studies. Levtzion’s arrival as Israeli graduate-student in Nkrumah’s Egyptian-leaning Ghana, and the debate over what ‘African Studies’ should mean in an environment that included the personal intervention of W.E.B. Du Bois, are stories told for the first time. Most poignant is the account of Levtzion’s commitment to building African Studies, complete with emphasis on Islam, in the heart of the Jewish state at The Hebrew University. His never-ending defence of the program reflected his determination to be both ‘engaged historian’ and ‘engaged Israeli’ – a legacy he chose for himself. Finally, an ‘Epilogue’ to the original publication shows how one aspect this legacy, Levtzion’s growing preoccupation with the ‘public sphere in Muslim societies’, has become even more relevant in ‘post-Arab Spring’ Africa and the Middle East. This book was published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies.

Book The Baloch in Post Islamic Revolution Iran  A Political Study

Download or read book The Baloch in Post Islamic Revolution Iran A Political Study written by Ahmad Reza Taheri and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-04 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Islam in West Africa

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nehemia Levtzion
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-01-12
  • ISBN : 131529544X
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Islam in West Africa written by Nehemia Levtzion and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994, this volume brings together essays from the celebrated scholar of African history, Nehemia Levtzion. The articles cover a wide range of themes including Islamization, Islam in politics, Islamic revolutions and the work of the historian in studying this field. This collection is a rich source of supplementary material to Professor Levtzion’s major publications on Islam in West Africa. This book will be of key interest to those studying Islamic and West African history.

Book A Sociopolitical Study of Iranian Baloch Elites  1979 2013

Download or read book A Sociopolitical Study of Iranian Baloch Elites 1979 2013 written by Ahmad Reza Taheri and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-13 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Sociopolitical Study of Iranian Baloch Elites (1979-2013)" is a new study which so far has not been explored. Actually, the present book is a response to the critics of my previous book, "The Baloch in Post Islamic Revolution Iran: A Political Study", privately circulated in Iran. After receiving critical comments, I began to reassess the book. So, I divided it, deleted one chapter, reviewed and edited some chapters, and published two chapters in the form of articles. On the whole, it took me four years (2010-14) to review and edit these "series of articles" or to "reorganize the present book", A Sociopolitical Study of Iranian Baloch Elites (1979-2013).

Book The Early State in African Perspective

Download or read book The Early State in African Perspective written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume are the product of an interdisciplinary research seminar on "The Early State in Africa", conducted during the 1979-1980 academic year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This seminar was one of a series of seminars on comparative civilizations. The participants included historians, sociologists, political scientists, and specialists in comparative religion, who shared an interest in the emergence and dynamics of the state in Africa and were concerned with trying to understand its origins and its various manifestations on the continent.

Book Sultans  Shamans  and Saints

    Book Details:
  • Author : Howard M. Federspiel
  • Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
  • Release : 2007-01-31
  • ISBN : 0824864522
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Sultans Shamans and Saints written by Howard M. Federspiel and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-01-31 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the fourteenth century the Islamic faith had spread via maritime trade routes to Southeast Asia where, over the next seven hundred years, it would have a continuing influence on political life, social customs, and the development of the arts. Sultans, Shamans, and Saints looks at Islam in Southeast Asia during four major eras: its arrival (to 1300), the first flowering of Islamic identity (1300–1800), the era of imperialism (1800–1945), and the era of independent nation-states (1945–2000). Ranging across the humanities and social sciences, this balanced and accessible work emphasizes the historical development of Southeast Asia’s accommodation of Islam and the creation of its distinctive regional character. Each chapter opens with a general background summary that places events in the greater Asian/Southeast Asian context, followed by an overview of prominent ethnic groups, political events, customs and cultures, religious factors, and art forms. Sultans, Shamans, and Saints will be of great value to students and researchers specializing in the study of Islam and the comparative study of Muslim societies and culture. It will also be useful to those with a world-systems approach to the study of history and globalization.

Book Iran under the Ayatollahs  Routledge Revivals

Download or read book Iran under the Ayatollahs Routledge Revivals written by Dilip Hiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985, this is a comprehensive study of the Middle East's most strategic country, set against the background of the Islamic heritage of Iran and the rise and fall of the Pahlavi dynasty. Dilip Hiro describes the various phases through which the Islamic revolution has passed, gives an incisive account of the first Gulf War, and provides an historical survey of Iran's relations with the West, the Soviet bloc, and other countries of the region.