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Book Egypt and the Gaza Strip

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  • Author : United States. Office of Geography
  • Publisher : Washington, D.C
  • Release : 1959
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Egypt and the Gaza Strip written by United States. Office of Geography and published by Washington, D.C. This book was released on 1959 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spanish Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Literary Tradition

Download or read book Spanish Hebrew Poetry and the Arabic Literary Tradition written by Arie Schippers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work deals extensively with the Arabic themes and literary devices used by Hebrew Andalusian poets in 11th century Muslim (and Christian) Spain. Special interest is devoted to the four main poets of the Hebrew Golden Age in Spain, namely Samuel Ha-Nagid, Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Moses Ibn Ezra and Yehuda Ha-Lewi.

Book Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt

Download or read book Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt written by Arthur Goldschmidt and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This desk reference provides biodata, biographical sketches, and source material for approximately 500 men and women who have played a major role in Egypt's national life.

Book Cook s Handbook for Egypt and the Egyptian S  d  n

Download or read book Cook s Handbook for Egypt and the Egyptian S d n written by Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Arabic and Hebrew Poetry in Andalusia between Light and Darkness

Download or read book Arabic and Hebrew Poetry in Andalusia between Light and Darkness written by Abdallah Ebraheem Tarabieh and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the development of Hebrew poetry in Andalusia, as well as the Arab influence on Hebrew in this region. It also considers the motifs that made their way from Arabic poetry to Hebrew poetry, and the influence of the poet’s mood on their poetry. The book reveals to the reader things that shatter existing myths around Andalusia during the period of Muslim rule.

Book Newsletter

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  • Author : International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Commission on Urgent Anthropological Research
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book Newsletter written by International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Commission on Urgent Anthropological Research and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The New Spirit of Islamism

Download or read book The New Spirit of Islamism written by Ezgi Basaran and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the aspirations and concerns of Islamist actors in the aftermath of the Arab Uprisings by looking at two sets of relationships between Turkey's ruling AKP and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and the AKP and Tunisia's Ennahda. It presents a unique analysis of the interplay between the AKP, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood, characterizing the actors, the structure and the main features of the relationship and thereby illuminating a political confluence among these three critical Islamist entities in the aftermath of the Arab Uprisings. Existing scholarship has assumed that this relationship revolves primarily around an ideological Islamist agenda, however, this research demonstrates a more complex and nuanced situation. Ezgi Basaran puts forward that the interplay was not based on an aspiration of building an ideological Islamist bloc in the MENA region, but rather revolved around the concept of political success and had a strong neoliberal ethos. Basaran draws on data collected from over 60 interviews with high-level members of the AKP, Ennahda and Muslim Brotherhood to demonstrate how, in the hope of achieving success and legitimization, Ennahda and the Muslim Brotherhood have relied on the managerial prescriptions provided by the AKP. The contents of this success formula were derived from the AKP's experience as an Islamist party in power since 2002 and includes tactics on crisis evasion, legitimization, winning elections and maintaining power.

Book Civilizing Emotions

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  • Author : Margrit Pernau
  • Publisher : Emotions in History
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0198745532
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Civilizing Emotions written by Margrit Pernau and published by Emotions in History. This book was released on 2015 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history of the concepts of civility and civilisation, 'Civilizing Emotions' chooses a global perspective and highlights the role of civility and civilisation in the creation of a new and hierarchised global order in the era of high imperialism and its entanglements, focusing on the developments in a number of well-chosen European and Asian countries. Emotions were at the core of the practices linked to the political project of the civilising process. 'Civilizing Emotions' brings out the role of emotions as an object of the civilising process.

Book Placing the Poet

Download or read book Placing the Poet written by Terri DeYoung and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Makes available, for the first time in English, the work of a major modern Arab poet, providing a framework for understanding his experience not only as an Arab writer but as a postcolonial one.

Book Studies on the Civilization of Islam

Download or read book Studies on the Civilization of Islam written by Sir Hamilton Alexander Rosskeen Gibb and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from studies on Sufism and the Koran to discussion of nineteenth and twentieth-century Arabic literature, these essays on the law and literature of Islamic society illustrate the unique vision of one of the world's great Orientalists. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Book Shared Margins

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  • Author : Samuli Schielke
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2021-07-05
  • ISBN : 311072636X
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Shared Margins written by Samuli Schielke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shared Margins tells of writers, writing, and literary milieus in Alexandria, Egypt’s second city. It de-centres cosmopolitan avant-gardes and secular-revolutionary aesthetics that have been intensively documented and studied since 2011. Instead, it offers a fieldwork-based account of various milieus and styles, and their common grounds and lines of division. Structured in two parts, Shared Margins gives an account of literature as a social practice embedded in milieus that at once enable and limit literary imagination, and of a life-worldly experience of plurality in absence of pluralism that marks literary engagements with the intimate and social realities of Alexandria after 2011. Literary writing, this book argues, has marginality as an at once enabling and limiting condition. It provides shared spaces of imaginary excess that may go beyond the taken-for-granted of a societal milieu, and yet are never unlimited. Literary imagination is part and parcel of such social conflicts and transformations, its role being neither one of resistance against power nor of guidance towards norms, but rather one of open-ended complicity.

Book The Politics and Culture of an Umayyad Tribe

Download or read book The Politics and Culture of an Umayyad Tribe written by Mohammad Rihan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Umayyad caliphate, ruling over much of what is now the modern Middle East after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, governe from Damascus from 661 to750CE, when they were expelled by the Abbasids. Here, Mohammad Rihan sheds light on the tribal system of this empir, by looking at one of its Syrian tribes; the 'Amila, based around today's Jabal 'Amil in southern Lebanon. Using this tribe as a lens through which to examine the wider Umayyad world, he looks at the political structures and conflicts that prevailed at the time, seeking to nuance the understanding of the relationship between the tribes and the ruling elite. For Rihan, early Islamic political history can only be understood in the context of the tribal history. This book thus illustrates how the political and social milieu of the 'Amila tribe sheds light on the wider history of the Umayyad world. Utilizing a wide range of sources, from the books of genealogies to poetry, Rihan expertly portrays Umayyad political life. First providing a background on 'Amila's tribal structure and its functions and dynamics, Rihan then presents the pre-Islamic past of the tribe. Building on this, he then investigates the role the 'Amila played in the emergence of the Umayyad state to understand the ways in which political life developed for the tribes and their relations with those holding political power in the region. By exploring the literature, culture, kinship structures and the socio-political conditions of the tribe, this book highlights the ways in which alliances and divisions shifted and were used by caliphs of the period and offers new insights into the Middle East at a pivotal point in its early and medieval history. This historical analysis thus not only illuminates the political condition of the Umayyad world, but also investigates the ever-important relationship between tribal political structures and state-based rule.

Book Abundance from the Desert

Download or read book Abundance from the Desert written by Raymond Farrin and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abundance from the Desert provides a comprehensive introduction to classical Arabic poetry, one of the richest of poetic traditions. Covering the period roughly of 500-1250 c.e., it features original translations and illuminating discussions of a number of major classical Arabic poems from a variety of genres. The poems are presented chronologically, each situated within a specific historical and literary context. Together, the selected poems suggest the range and depth of classical Arabic poetic expression; read in sequence, they suggest the gradual evolution of a tradition. Moving beyond a mere chronicle, Farrin outlines a new approach to appreciating classical Arabic poetry based on an awareness of concentric symmetry, in which the poem’s unity is viewed not as a linear progression but as an elaborate symmetrical plot. In doing so, the author presents these works in a broader, comparative light, revealing connections with other literatures. The reader is invited to examine these classical Arabic works not as isolated phenomena—notwithstanding their uniqueness and their association with a discrete tradition—but rather as part of a great multicultural heritage. This pioneering book marks an important step forward in the study of Arabic poetry. At the same time, it opens the door to this rich tradition for the general reader.

Book Newsletter

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East

Download or read book Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East written by Hugh Kennedy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the rich legacy of the Middle East is a poetic record stretching back five millennia. This unparalleled repository of knowledge - across different languages, cultures and religions - allows us to examine continuity and change in human expression from the beginnings of writing to the present day. In Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East leading scholars draw upon this legacy to explore the ways in which poets, from the third millennium bc to the present day, have responded to effects of war. The contributors deal with material in a wide variety of languages - including Sumerian, Hittite, Akkadian, biblical and modern Hebrew, and classical and contemporary Arabic - and range from the Sumerian lament on the destruction of Ur and the Assyrian conquest of Jerusalem to the al-R?miyy?t of the poet and warrior prince Ab? Fir?s al-?amd?n?, the popular Arabic epics and romances that form the siyar, to the contemporary poetry of Hamas and Hezbollah. Some of the poems are heroic in tone celebrating victory and the prowess of warriors and soldiers; others reflect keenly on the pity and destruction of warfare, on the grief and suffering that war causes.The result is a work that provides a unique reflection upon the ways in which this most violent and pervasive of human activities has been reflected in different cultures. The history of war begins in the Middle East - the earliest reported conflict in human history was fought between the neighbouring city states of Lagash and Umma in ancient Iraq. At a time when the Middle East seems to be permanently at war and wracked by violence, it is salutary to look back at the ancient roots of modern attitudes and to see that in the past, as in the present, these attitudes are much more varied, and the emotions more subtle, than often realised.

Book A Political Economy of the Middle East

Download or read book A Political Economy of the Middle East written by Melani Cammett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Political Economy of the Middle East is the most comprehensive analysis of developments in the political economy of the region over the past several decades, examining the interaction of economic development processes, state systems and policies, and social actors in the Middle East. The fourth edition, with new authors Melani Cammett and Ishac Diwan, has been thoroughly revised, with two new introductory chapters that provide an updated framework with which to understand and study the many changes in demography, education, labor markets, urbanization, water and agriculture, and international labor migration in the recent years. The new edition also includes: a new chapter that charts the political economy of the Gulf states and, in particular, the phenomenal growth of oil economies; a new chapter on the rise of "crony capitalism;" and increased coverage of the changes in civil society and social movements in the region, including an exploration of the causes, dynamics, consequences, and aftermath of the Arab uprisings.