Download or read book Le moyen orient written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'histoire contemporaine du Moyen-Orient, région dont les contours comme la dénomination sont forgés par des luttes de domination et des emprises coloniales, loin de se résumer à des affrontements géopolitiques et des découpages territoriaux, s'écrit à partir du dernier tiers du XIXe siècle au fil des réformes, des inventions et des révolutions. La période envisagée embrasse les transformations qui affectent deux Empires (ottoman et perse), les mouvements révolutionnaires qui secouent de nombreuses régions. Elle voit la constitution d'idéologies nationales (nationalisme arabe, turc, iranien, kurde, panislamisme, wahhabisme, sionisme), la transformation en profondeur des sociétés rurales et l'émergence de nouvelles citadinités. Les espaces s'en trouvent en conséquence modifiés (au fil des dominations, des proclamations nationales et des contestations), renommés, parcourus sur des modes renouvelés (sédentarisations, transformation des échanges, migrations et déplacements de populations). Des pays naissent, d'autres échouent à se constituer. Elle est secouée par des épisodes de très grande violence, des massacres confessionnels au génocide arménien, des guerres israélo-arabes puis israélo-palestiniennes à la guerre civile libanaise et à l'émergence de l'un des conflits les plus meurtriers du siècle dernier, la guerre Iran-Irak. Plus qu'une synthèse, cet ouvrage constitue un ensemble d'éclairages sur les sociétés, les lieux, les cultures, nourris du regard singulier des auteurs. Autant de moyens d'ouvrir des voies pour une lecture de notre présent.
Download or read book Pr cis of the Lectures on Architecture written by Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760–1834) regarded the Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802–5) and its companion volume, the Graphic Portion (1821), as both a basic course for future civil engineers and a treatise. Focusing the practice of architecture on utilitarian and economic values, he assailed the rationale behind classical architectural training: beauty, proportionality, and symbolism. His formal systematization of plans, elevations, and sections transformed architectural design into a selective modular typology in which symmetry and simple geometrical forms prevailed. His emphasis on pragmatic values, to the exclusion of metaphysical concerns, represented architecture as a closed system that subjected its own formal language to logical processes. Now published in English for the first time, the Précis and the Graphic Portion are classics of architectural education.
Download or read book Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century written by C. Snouck Hurgronje and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1884-1885, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje stayed in Mecca. He became intimately acquainted with the daily life of the Meccans and the thousands of pilgrims from all over the world. This volume deals with social and family life, funeral customs and marriage. It is a unique insight in one the most important places in islamic culture. With a new foreword by Jan Just Witkam
Download or read book Modern History of Visual Art in Southern Nigeria written by Laurent Fourchard and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books takes into consideration the changes that have occurred within the visual art landscape in Nigeria during the 20th century. This historical change is the result of new cultural exchanges between Africa, Europe and America, exchanges that developed different artistic practices and promoted new patrons. In this framework, cities have played a fundamental role in the development of modern art, especially because of the presence of a local or international art market. All the chapters of this book are related to specific Southern Nigerian cities: some are places of ancient royal art patronage (bronze casting in Benin City), some are city market where various popular expression of art could have developed (calendar in Onitsha), a few are strictly university based (Nsukka) but most of them have welcome elements of artistic lineages scattered all over Nigeria (the Fákéye family for instance).
Download or read book A Century of Artists Books written by Riva Castleman and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1997-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.
Download or read book Among the Copts written by John H. Watson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2002-09-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores all the important themes of the Copts from the earliest moments of Christian history to the present day, achieving a balance between a critical re-examination of Coptic history and research. It contains small biographies to show the Coptic experience as it is lived.
Download or read book A Shi ite Pilgrimage to Mecca 1885 1886 written by Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ḥusaynī Farāhānī and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1990-10-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western accounts of the Hajj, the ritual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, are rare, since access to Mecca is forbidden to non-Muslims. In the Muslim world, however, pilgrimage literature is a well-established genre, dating back to the earliest centuries of the Islamic era. A Shiʿite Pilgrimage to Mecca is taken from the original nineteenth-century Persian manuscript of the Safarnâmeh of Mirzâ Moḥammad Ḥosayn Farâhâni, a well-educated, keenly observant, Iranian Shiʿite gentleman. This memoir holds a wealth of social and economic information about Czarist Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Northern Iran, and Arabia. The author is a meticulous observer, recording details of distances, currencies, accommodations, modes of travel, and so on. He records the experiences encountered by pilgrims of his day: physical hardships, disease, generosity and compassion, banditry, hospitality, comradeship, and exaltation. And, without prejudice, he discusses the tensions between the Shiʿites and the Sunnites in the holy places—tensions that still exist and have erupted in bloody clashes during recent pilgrimages. A Shiʿite Pilgrimage to Mecca will appeal to a wide audience of general readers, Middle Eastern scholars, anthropologists, and historians.
Download or read book Hommes de l entre deux written by Bernard Heyberger and published by Les Indes savantes. This book was released on 2009 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Des Cap Corsins et des marchands maltais entre Marseille, l'Italie et les côtes de Barbarie ; des 'Levantins' à Alep, à Smyrne et à Constantinople ; des chrétiens syriens entre le Liban, l'Égypte, la France et au-delà : des ecclésiastiques orientaux ; des intellectuels de la Nahda ; des fonctionnaires égyptiens ou ottomans 'modernisateurs' : la palette de ces 'hommes de l'entre-deux', du XVIe au début du XXe siècle, est large, et invite à considérer la frontière méditerranéenne, entre l'Europe chrétienne d'une part et l'Empire ottoman musulman de l'autre, comme un lieu de l'interactivité et de l'interrelation, plutôt que de l'opposition et de l'affrontement. La course et le commerce, les associations d'affaires et l'endettement, les cursus de formation 'moderne', les travaux de traduction et de journalisme, l'exercice de charges administratives, la mise en œuvre de projets de protection du patrimoine, sont autant de champs d'activité où s'élaborent très concrètement des 'histoires croisées', des représentations et des modes d'action qui constituent la matière des identités respectives."--Page 4 of cover
Download or read book Jerusalem 1900 written by Vincent Lemire and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elected Council Members: Citizens, City Dwellers, and Property Owners -- Yussuf Ziya al-Khalidi, the Founding Mayor -- At the Heart of Municipal Action: The Defense of Public Space -- Urbanites All? Public Health, Leisure, and Municipal Finances -- 6. The Wild Revolutionary Days of 1908 -- What Time Was It in Jerusalem? -- The Wild Days of August 1908: Jerusalem's Forgotten Revolution -- Unexpected Fracture Lines -- New Vectors of Lively Public Opinion -- Underneath Communities, Classes? -- 7. Intersecting Identities -- Albert Antébi, Levantine Urbanite -- An "Arab Awakening" in the Chaos of Battle -- Jerusalem and the Parochialism of the "People of the Holy Land"--Jerusalem, the Thrice-Holy City, and the Municipium -- Conclusion: The Bifurcation of Time -- The Bird People -- Ben-Yehuda, the Outsider -- Toward a Shared History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Download or read book Terra 2008 written by Leslie Rainer and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve. It dates from all periods and is found on all continents but is particularly prevalent in Africa, where it has been a building tradition for centuries. Sites range from ancestral cities in Mali to the palaces of Abomey in Benin, from monuments and mosques in Iran and Buddhist temples on the Silk Road to Spanish missions in California. This volume's sixty-four papers address such themes as earthen architecture in Mali, the conservation of living sites, local knowledge systems and intangible aspects, seismic and other natural forces, the conservation and management of archaeological sites, research advances, and training.
Download or read book The Pleistocene Old World written by Olga Soffer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional approaches to past human adaptations have generated much new knowledge and understanding. Researchers working on problems of adaptations in the Holocene, from those of simple hunter-gatherers to those of complex sociopolitical entities like the state, have found this approach suitable for comprehension of both ecological and social aspects of human behavior. This research focus has, however, until recently left virtually un touched a major spatial and temporaI segment of prehistory-the Old World during the Pleistocene. Extant literature on this period, by and large, presents either detailed site speeific accounts or offers continental or even global syntheses that tend to compile site speeific information but do not integrate it into whole c~nstructs of funetioning so ciocuhural entities. This volume presents our current state of knowledge about a variety of regional adaptations that charaeterized prehistoric groups in the Old World before 10,000 B. P. The authors of the chapters consider the behavior of humans rather than that of objects or features and present data and models for variaus aspects of past cultures and for culture change. These presentations integrate findings and understandings derived from a number of related disciplines actively involved in researching the past. Data and interpretations are offered on a range of Old \yorld regions during the PaIeolithic, induding Africa, Asia, Australia, and Europe, and chronological coverage spans from the Early to Late PIeisto cene.
Download or read book Western Plainchant written by David Hiley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the eighth to ninth centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles, responding to the differing needs of the church through the ages. This book provides a clear and concise introduction, designed both for those to whom the subject is new and those who require a reference work for advanced study. It begins with an explanation of the liturgies that plainchant was designed to serve. It describes all the chief genres of chant, different types of liturgical book, and plainchant notations. After an exposition of early medieval theoretical writing on plainchant, Hiley provides a historical survey that traces the constantly changing nature of the repertory. He also discusses important musicians and centers of composition. Copiously illustrated with over 200 musical examples, this book highlights the diversity of practice and richness of the chant repertory in the Middle Ages. It will be an indispensable introduction and reference source on this important music for many years to come.
Download or read book Foreign relations with Ethiopia written by Lukian Prijac and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethiopia has always been part of our universe through the descriptions of Greek and Roman travellers. Since Antiquity, the part of the world which would become Ethiopia has always had trade, diplomatic, cultural or religious relations with other peoples whether they were the first relations between Pharaonic Ethiopia and the Land of Punt, the arrival of the evangelist Greeks in the 4th century, Portuguese Jesuits in the 16th century, or explorers, consuls, servicemen, and other merchants, European or not, in the 19th and 20th centuries. What drew people of the nations of the world to Ethiopia and what were their stories?
Download or read book Clothing Sacred Scriptures written by David Ganz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to a longstanding interpretation, book religions are agents of textuality and logocentrism. This volume inverts the traditional perspective: its focus is on the strong dependency between scripture and aesthetics, holy books and material artworks, sacred texts and ritual performances. The contributions, written by a group of international specialists in Western, Byzantine, Islamic and Jewish Art, are committed to a comparative and transcultural approach. The authors reflect upon the different strategies of »clothing« sacred texts with precious materials and elaborate forms. They show how the pretypographic cultures of the Middle Ages used book ornaments as media for building a close relation between the divine words and their human audience. By exploring how art shapes the religious practice of books, and how the religious use of books shapes the evolution of artistic practices this book contributes to a new understanding of the deep nexus between sacred scripture and art.
Download or read book Dictionnaire D arch ologie Chr tienne Et de Liturgie Publi Par Le R P Dom Fernand Cabrol Avec Le Concours D un Grand Nombre de Collaborateurs written by Fernand Cabrol and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Flood the Akkadian Sources written by Natan Ṿaserman and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the primeval cataclysmic flood which wiped out all life on earth, save for one family, is found in different ancient Mesopotamian texts whence it reached the Biblical and Classical literary traditions. The present book systematically collects the earliest attestations of the myth of the Flood, namely all the cuneiform-written Akkadian sources - from the Old Babylonian to the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods, including Tablet XI of the Epic of Gilgamesh -, presenting them in a new synoptic edition and English translation which are accompanied by a detailed philological commentary and an extensive literary discussion. The book also includes a complete glossary of the Akkadian sources.
Download or read book Divine Names on the Spot written by Fabio Porzia and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ancient Greek and Semitic languages resorted to a large range of words to name the divine. Gods and goddesses were called by a variety of names and combinations of onomastic attributes. This broad lexicon of names is characterised by plurality and a tendency to build on different sequences of names; therefore, the Mapping Ancient Polytheisms project focuses on the process of naming the divine in order to better understand the ancient divine in terms of a plurality in the making. A fundamental rule for reading ancient divine names is to grasp them in their context - time and place, a ritual, the form of the discourse, a cultural milieu...: a deity is usually named according to a specific situation. From Artemis Eulochia to al-Lat, al-'Uzza and Manat, from Melqart to "my rock" in the biblical book of Psalms, this volume journeys between the sanctuary on Mount Gerizim and late antique magical practices, revisiting rituals, hymnic poetry, oaths of orators and philosophical prayers. While targeting different names in different contexts, the contributors draft theoretical propositions towards a dynamic approach of naming the divine in antiquity.'
