Download or read book Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs written by and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs written by Harvard University (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.). Center for Middle Eastern Studies and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs written by Nadia Maria El-Cheikh and published by Harvard CMES. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the Arabic-Islamic view of Byzantium, tracing the Byzantine image as it evolved through centuries of warfare, contact, and exchanges. Including previously inaccessible material on the Arabic textual tradition on Byzantium, this investigation shows the significance of Byzantium to the Arab Muslim establishment and their appreciation of various facets of Byzantine culture and civilization. The Arabic-Islamic representation of the Byzantine Empire stretching from the reference to Byzantium in the Qur'an until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 is considered in terms of a few salient themes. The image of Byzantium reveals itself to be complex, non-monolithic, and self-referential. Formulating an alternative appreciation to the politics of confrontation and hostility that so often underlies scholarly discourse on Muslim-Byzantine relations, this book presents the schemes developed by medieval authors to reinterpret aspects of their own history, their own self-definition, and their own view of the world.

Download or read book Pan Arabism and Labor written by Willard A. Beling and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1960 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Moral Resonance of Arab Media written by Flagg Miller and published by Harvard CMES. This book was released on 2007 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies contemporary Arab political poetry, providing insights into how modern Arab media forms are shaped by language and culture. By examining lives and works of individual poets, singers, and audiences, it shows how tribalism is a resource for critical reform when expressed in tropes of community, place, person, and history.

Download or read book New Perspectives on Property and Land in the Middle East written by Roger Owen and published by Harvard CMES. This book was released on 2000 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land was the major economic resource in the pre-modern Middle East. Questions of ownership, of access, of management and of control occupied a central role in administration, in law, and in rural practice over many centuries. Nevertheless, the subject of land and property relations is still not well understood.

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Download or read book Islamicate Sexualities written by Kathryn Babayan and published by Harvard CMES. This book was released on 2008 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology explores different genealogies of sexuality and questions some of the theoretical emphases and epistemic assumptions affecting current histories of sexuality.

Download or read book Mystics Monarchs and Messiahs written by Kathryn Babayan and published by Harvard CMES. This book was released on 2002 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on idealists and visionaries who believed that Justice could reign in our world, this book explores the desire to experience utopia on earth. Reluctant to await another existence, individuals with ghuluww, or exaggeration, emerged at the advent of Islam, expecting to attain the apocalyptic horizon of Truth.

Download or read book Reflections on the Past Visions for the Future written by Harvard University. Center for Middle Eastern Studies and published by Harvard CMES. This book was released on 2004 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Area studies"--and especially Middle Eastern studies--have been in a state of crisis since the spread of globalization. This volume focuses on one of the field's leading institutions, Harvard's Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), which was founded 50 years ago to further research and teaching about a region that remains enigmatic to the U.S.

Download or read book Women s Autobiographies in Contemporary Iran written by Afsaneh Najmabadi and published by Harvard CMES. This book was released on 1990 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four essays in this volume discuss the autobiographical writings of Iranian women. The contributors to the collection include William Hanaway, Michael Hillmann, and Farzaneh Milani. Milani asks why modern Persian literature, with its rich self-reflective tradition, has not produced many autobiographies, and what particular problems confront Iranian women engaging in autobiographical writing. Najmabadi discusses one of the earliest modern autobiographical writings by a woman, Taj os-Saltaneh’s Memories, and Hillman projects Forugh Farrokhzad’s poetry as an autobiographical voice. Hanaway investigates the possibilities of going beyond lack of Western-style autobiographical form and looking for what Persian literary forms and categories provide for the autobiographical voice.

Download or read book The Second Umayyad Caliphate written by Janina M. Safran and published by Harvard CMES. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Umayyad Caliphate recovers the Andalusi Umayyad argument for caliphal legitimacy through an analysis of caliphal rhetoric--based on proclamations, correspondence, and panegyric poetry--and caliphal ideology, as shown through monuments, ceremony, and historiography.

Download or read book Violent Modernity written by Abdelmajid Hannoum and published by Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannoum examines the advent of political modernity in Algeria and shows how colonial modernity was not only a project imposed by violence but also a violent project in and of itself, involving massive destruction and significant transformation of the population of Algeria.

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Download or read book The Muslims of Bosnia Herzegovina written by Mark Pinson and published by Harvard CMES. This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from medieval times to the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1992, this volume concentrates on the internal development of the Muslim community in Bosnia-Herzegovina and its relations with various suzerains. This updated edition features new bibliographic material, including a new section on resources covering Eastern Europe and the former Yugoslavia available through the Internet.

Download or read book Forgotten Saints written by Sahar Bazzaz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1894 a Muslim mystic named Muḥammad al-Kattānī abandoned his life of asceticism to preach Islamic revival and jihad against the French. Ten years later, he mobilized a Moroccan resistance against French colonization. This book narrates the story of al-Kattānī and his virtual disappearance from accounts of modern Moroccan history.