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| 1. |  | Title: Political Islam: essays from Middle East report Author: Beinin, Joel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Islam Publisher's Description: The essays and case studies collected here - featuring some of the best material from Middle East Report over the past decade as well as much original material - challenge the facile generalizations about what Western media and political establishments usually call "Islamic fundamentalism." The auth . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Struggle and survival in the modern Middle East Author: Burke, Edmund 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Until now, we have known very little of the lives of ordinary Middle Eastern men and women, despite extensive research on the modern Middle East. With this collection of essays, the life stories of peasants, villagers, pastoralists, and urbanites can finally be heard - no more will our view of the M . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East  Author: Heydemann, Steven Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Postcolonial Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century. Despite the prominence of war-making in this region, there has been surprisingly little research investigating the effects of war as a social and political process in the Middle East. To fill th . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: Tribes and state formation in the Middle East Author: Khoury, Philip S. (Philip Shukry) 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Tribes and State Formation is the first effort to bring together the disciplines of history, anthropology, and political science around a major topic that none of these alone is adequately equipped to address. How and why did certain tribal societies metamorphose over time into states? Scholars conc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Epic encounters: culture, media, and U.S. interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000 Author: McAlister, Melani 1962- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: American Studies | United States History | Middle Eastern History | Popular Culture | Middle Eastern Studies | Ethnic Studies | Religion Publisher's Description: In the last half of the twentieth century, cultural products--from films and news reports to museum exhibits and novels--profoundly shaped ideas about the relationship between Americans and the Middle East. In this innovative book, Melani McAlister explores the cultural history of political interest . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Mass mediations: new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond Author: Armbrust, Walter Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Media Studies | Music | Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communicatio . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: Seven doors to Islam: spirituality and the religious life of Muslims Author: Renard, John 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Islam | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Seven Doors to Islam reveals the religious worldview and spiritual tradition of the world's one billion Muslims. Spanning the breadth of Islamic civilization from Morocco to Indonesia, this book demonstrates how Muslims have used the literary and visual arts in all their richness and diversity to co . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: Perceptions of Palestine: their influence on U.S. Middle East policy Author: Christison, Kathleen 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: For most of the twentieth century, considered opinion in the United States regarding Palestine has favored the inherent right of Jews to exist in the Holy Land. That Palestinians, as a native population, could claim the same right has been largely ignored. Kathleen Christison's controversial new boo . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | Title: Windows on the house of Islam: Muslim sources on spirituality and religious life Author: Renard, John 1944- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Middle Eastern Studies | History | Islam Publisher's Description: Over the centuries and across the globe, Muslim authors and artists have given moving testimony to their experience of being members of the Islamic community. Their many vantage points come together in this collection, one that represents major Islamic groups from the past through the present and co . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 10. |  | Title: Islam, politics, and social movements Author: Burke, Edmund 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Taken together the essays in this work not only provide new research essential to the study of Islamic societies and Muslim peoples, but also set a new standard for the concrete study of local situations and illuminate the forces shaping the history of modern Muslim societies.This collection is uniq . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | Title: The challenge of fundamentalism: political Islam and the new world disorder Author: Tibi, Bassam Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Religion | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Islam Publisher's Description: Long before the tragic events of September 11, 2001, Islamic fundamentalism was exerting a significant influence in nearly every corner of the world. Bassam Tibi, a widely recognized expert on Islam and Arab culture, offers an important and disquieting analysis of this particular synthesis of religi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 12. |  | Title: Inventing home: emigration, gender, and the middle class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 Author: Khater, Akram Fouad 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Women's Studies | Sociology | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making. Inventing Home delves into the stories of these travels, s . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | Title: The long peace: Ottoman Lebanon, 1861-1920 Author: Akarlı, Engin Deniz Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Long notorious as one of the most turbulent areas of the world, Lebanon nevertheless experienced an interlude of peace between its civil war of 1860 and the beginning of the French Mandate in 1920. Engin Akarli examines the sociopolitical changes resulting from the negotiations and shifting alliance . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 14. |  | Title: The new Cold War?: religious nationalism confronts the secular state Author: Juergensmeyer, Mark Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Politics | Asian Studies | Religion | Social Problems | Middle Eastern Studies | South Asia Publisher's Description: Will the religious confrontations with secular authorities around the world lead to a new Cold War? Mark Juergensmeyer paints a provocative picture of the new religious revolutionaries altering the political landscape in the Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe. Impassioned Musl . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | Title: Putting Islam to work: education, politics, and religious transformation in Egypt Author: Starrett, Gregory 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Education | Religion | Islam | Politics Publisher's Description: The development of mass education and the mass media have transformed the Islamic tradition in contemporary Egypt and the wider Muslim world. In Putting Islam to Work , Gregory Starrett focuses on the historical interplay of power and public culture, showing how these new forms of communication and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 16. |  | Title: Beyond the stream: Islam and society in a West African town Author: Launay, Robert 1949- Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | African Studies | Islam Publisher's Description: Robert Launay has been observing the changing religious practices of the Dyula, a Muslim community in West Africa, for more than a decade. In Beyond the Stream , he examines the ways in which this religious and ethnic minority group living on the fringes of the Muslim world maintains its ties to the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | Title: The rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier, 1204-1760 Author: Eaton, Richard Maxwell Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Asian History | Middle Eastern History | South Asia | Islam Publisher's Description: In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Richard . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 18. |  | Title: A nation of empire: the Ottoman legacy of Turkish modernity Author: Meeker, Michael E Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker expertly combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 19. |  | Title: Displaying the Orient: architecture of Islam at nineteenth-century world's fairs Author: Çelik, Zeynep Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Architecture | European History | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Gathering architectural pieces from all over the world, the Paris Universal Exposition of 1867 introduced to fairgoers the notion of an imaginary journey, a new tourism en place . Through this and similar expositions, the world's cultures were imported to European and American cities as artifacts an . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 20. |  | Title: Making Muslim space in North America and Europe Author: Metcalf, Barbara Daly 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | History | Islam | Middle Eastern Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Focusing on the private and public use of space, this volume explores the religious life of the new Muslim communities in North America and Europe. Unlike most studies of immigrant groups, these essays concentrate on cultural practices and expressions of everyday life rather than on the political is . . . [more] Similar Items |