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| 1. |  | Title: Afghanistan: the Soviet invasion and the Afghan response, 1979-1982  Author: Kakar, M. Hasan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Politics | History | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Few people are more respected or better positioned to speak on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan than M. Hassan Kakar. A professor at Kabul University and scholar of Afghanistan affairs at the time of the 1978 coup d'état, Kakar vividly describes the events surrounding the Soviet invasion in 1979 a . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 2. |  | Title: Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918 Author: Kayalı, Hasan Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Politics Publisher's Description: Arabs and Young Turks provides a detailed study of Arab politics in the late Ottoman Empire as viewed from the imperial capital in Istanbul. In an analytical narrative of the Young Turk period (1908-1918) historian Hasan Kayali discusses Arab concerns on the one hand and the policies of the Ottoman . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 3. |  | Title: Before Taliban: genealogies of the Afghan jihad Author: Edwards, David B Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | South Asia Publisher's Description: In this powerful book, David B. Edwards traces the lives of three recent Afghan leaders in Afghanistan's history--Nur Muhammad Taraki, Samiullah Safi, and Qazi Amin Waqad--to explain how the promise of progress and prosperity that animated Afghanistan in the 1960s crumbled and became the present tra . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 4. |  | Title: The calligraphic state: textual domination and history in a Muslim society Author: Messick, Brinkley Morris Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | Middle Eastern History | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: In this innovative combination of anthropology, history, and postmodern theory, Brinkley Messick examines the changing relation of writing and authority in a Muslim society from the late nineteenth century to the present. The creation and interpretation of texts, from sacred scriptures to administra . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 5. |  | Title: Colonising Egypt Author: Mitchell, Timothy 1955- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Middle Eastern History | Intellectual History | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt. Similar Items |
| 6. |  | Title: Comrades and enemies: Arab and Jewish workers in Palestine, 1906-1948 Author: Lockman, Zachary Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: In Comrades and Enemies Zachary Lockman explores the mutually formative interactions between the Arab and Jewish working classes, labor movements, and worker-oriented political parties in Palestine just before and during the period of British colonial rule. Unlike most of the historical and sociolog . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 7. |  | Title: The culture of sectarianism: community, history, and violence in nineteenth-century Ottoman Lebanon Author: Makdisi, Ussama Samir 1968- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Postcolonial Studies | Islam | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, Ussama Makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular country. His study challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an Islamic response to westernization or simply as a product of socia . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 8. |  | Title: The dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: culture, politics, and the formation of a modern diaspora Author: Beinin, Joel 1948- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Religion | Judaism | Middle Eastern Studies | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative and wide-ranging history, Joel Beinin examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1948. A complex and heterogeneous people, Egyptian Jews have become even more diverse as their diaspora continues to the present day. Central . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 9. |  | 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 |
| 10. |  | Title: Heroes of the age: moral fault lines on the Afghan frontier Author: Edwards, David B Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Much of the political turmoil that has occurred in Afghanistan since the Marxist revolution of 1978 has been attributed to the dispute between Soviet-aligned Marxists and the religious extremists inspired by Egyptian and Pakistani brands of "fundamentalist" Islam. In a significant departure from thi . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 11. |  | 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 |
| 12. |  | Title: Interpreting the self: autobiography in the Arabic literary tradition Author: Reynolds, Dwight Fletcher 1956- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Literature in Translation | Comparative Literature | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Autobiography is a literary genre which Western scholarship has ascribed mostly to Europe and the West. Countering this assessment and presenting many little-known texts, this comprehensive work demonstrates the existence of a flourishing tradition in Arabic autobiography. Interpreting the Self disc . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 13. |  | 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 |
| 14. |  | Title: Khomeinism: essays on the Islamic Republic Author: Abrahamian, Ervand 1940- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: "Fanatic," "dogmatic," "fundamentalist" - these are the words most often used in the West to describe the Ayatollah Khomeini. The essays in this book challenge that view, arguing that Khomeini and his Islamic movement should be seen as a form of Third World political populism - a radical but pragmat . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 15. |  | 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 |
| 16. |  | Title: May her likes be multiplied: biography and gender politics in Egypt Author: Booth, Marilyn Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Women's Studies | Literature | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Marilyn Booth's elegantly conceived study reveals the Arabic tradition of life-writing in an entirely new light. Though biography had long been male-authored, in the late nineteenth century short sketches by and about women began to appear in biographical dictionaries and women's journals. By 1940, . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 17. |  | 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 |
| 18. |  | 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 |
| 19. |  | 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 |
| 20. |  | Title: Rebel and saint: Muslim notables, populist protest, colonial encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904) Author: Clancy-Smith, Julia A Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Postcolonial Studies | French Studies | African Studies Publisher's Description: Julia Clancy-Smith's unprecedented study brings us a remarkable view of North African history from the perspective of the North Africans themselves. Focusing on the religious beliefs and political actions of Muslim elites and their followers in Algeria and Tunisia, she provides a richly detailed ana . . . [more] Similar Items |