UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004: Similar Items


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1.	Requires cookie*	Title: States and women's rights: the making of postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco Author: Charrad, M. (Mounira) Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Sociology \| Politics \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| Women's Studies \| Postcolonial Studies \| Law Publisher's Description: At a time when the situation of women in the Islamic world is of global interest, here is a study that unlocks the mystery of why women's fates vary so greatly from one country to another. Mounira M. Charrad analyzes the distinctive nature of Islamic legal codes by placing them in the larger context . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Requires cookie*	Title: The call from Algeria: third worldism, revolution, and the turn to Islam Author: Malley, Robert 1963- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics \| History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Islam \| Intellectual History \| African Studies Publisher's Description: The speed with which Algeria has gone from symbol of revolutionary socialism to Islamic battleground has confounded most observers. Charting Algeria's political evolution from the turn of the century to the present, Robert Malley explores the historical and intellectual underpinnings of the current . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Requires cookie*	Title: Urban forms and colonial confrontations: Algiers under French rule Author: Çelik, Zeynep Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Architecture \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| French Studies \| Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: During its long history as the French colonial city par excellence , Algiers was the site of recurrent conflicts between colonizer and colonized. Through architecture and urban forms confrontations were crystallized, cultural identities were defined, and social engineering programs were shaped and c . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Requires cookie*	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
5.	Requires cookie*	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
6.	Requires cookie*	Title: Human rights and reform: changing the face of North African politics Author: Waltz, Susan Eileen Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Politics \| History \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Middle Eastern History \| African History \| African Studies Publisher's Description: Independence from colonial rule did not usher in the halcyon days many North Africans had hoped for, as the new governments in Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria soon came to rely on repression to reinforce and maintain power. In response to widespread human rights abuses, individuals across the Maghrib . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Requires cookie*	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
8.	Requires cookie*	Title: Muslim rulers and rebels: everyday politics and armed separatism in the southern Philippines Author: McKenna, Thomas M 1952- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology \| Politics \| Islam \| Southeast Asia \| Asian History Publisher's Description: In this first ground-level account of the Muslim separatist rebellion in the Philippines, Thomas McKenna challenges prevailing anthropological analyses of nationalism as well as their underlying assumptions about the interplay of culture and power. He examines Muslim separatism against a background . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Requires cookie*	Title: Engaged surrender: African American women and Islam Author: Rouse, Carolyn Moxley 1965- Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Anthropology \| American Studies \| Religion \| African American Studies \| Sociology Publisher's Description: Commonly portrayed in the media as holding women in strict subordination and deference to men, Islam is nonetheless attracting numerous converts among African American women. Are these women "reproducing their oppression," as it might seem? Or does their adherence to the religion suggest unsuspected . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Requires cookie*	Title: The politics of Muslim cultural reform: jadidism in Central Asia Author: Khalid, Adeeb 1964- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: History \| Middle Eastern History \| Russian and Eastern European Studies \| Middle Eastern Studies \| Islam \| Asian Studies \| Asian History \| European History Publisher's Description: Adeeb Khalid offers the first extended examination of cultural debates in Central Asia during Russian rule. With the Russian conquest in the 1860s and 1870s the region came into contact with modernity. The Jadids, influential Muslim intellectuals, sought to safeguard the indigenous Islamic culture b . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Requires cookie*	Title: The Muslims of Valencia in the age of Fernando and Isabel: between coexistence and crusade Author: Meyerson, Mark D Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History \| European History \| Religion Publisher's Description: The kingdom of Valencia was home to Christian Spain's largest Muslim population during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, Fernando and Isabel. How did Muslim-Christian coexistence in Valencia remain relatively stable in this volatile period that saw the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition, the . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Requires cookie*	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
13.	Requires cookie*	Title: Speaking with vampires: rumor and history in colonial Africa Author: White, Luise Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: African Studies \| African History \| African Studies \| Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their throat . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Requires cookie*	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
15.	Requires cookie*	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
16.	Requires cookie*	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
17.	Requires cookie*	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.	Requires cookie*	Title: Colonial subjects: Puerto Ricans in a global perspective Author: Grosfoguel, Ramón Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Sociology \| American Studies \| Anthropology \| Ethnic Studies \| Latin American History \| Postcolonial Studies \| Urban Studies \| Immigration \| Urban Studies \| Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Colonial Subjects is the first book to use a combination of world-system and postcolonial approaches to compare Puerto Rican migration with Caribbean migration to both the United States and Western Europe. Ramón Grosfoguel provides an alternative reading of the world-system approach to Puerto Rico's . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Requires cookie*	Title: Imperial bedlam: institutions of madness in colonial southwest Nigeria Author: Sadowsky, Jonathan Hal Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: African Studies \| Psychology \| African History \| Medicine \| Social Problems Publisher's Description: The colonial government of southern Nigeria began to use asylums to confine the allegedly insane in 1906. These asylums were administered by the British but confined Africans. Yet, as even many in the government recognized, insanity is a condition that shows cultural variation. Who decided the inmat . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Requires cookie*	Title: Perfecting women: Maulana Ashraf ʿAlī Thanawi's Bihishti zewar: a partial translation with commentary Author: Thānvī, ʿAshraf ʿAlī Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Gender Studies \| Women's Studies \| History \| South Asia \| Asian History \| Islam Publisher's Description: Challenging conventional notions about the place of women in Muslim societies, the Bihishti Zewar (Heavenly Ornaments) gives life to the themes of religious and social reform that have too often been treated in the abstract. This instructional guidebook, used by the world's largest population of Mus . . . [more] Similar Items