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| 41. |  | Title: Possessors and possessed: museums, archaeology, and the visualization of history in the late Ottoman Empire Author: Shaw, Wendy M. K 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern Studies | Art | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: Possessors and Possessed analyzes how and why museums - characteristically Western institutions - emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Shaw argues that, rather than directly emulating post-Enlightenment museums of Western Europe, Ottoman elites produced categories of collection and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 42. |  | Title: Nationalism and the genealogical imagination: oral history and textual authority in tribal Jordan Author: Shryock, Andrew Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History Publisher's Description: This book explores the transition from oral to written history now taking place in tribal Jordan, a transition that reveals the many ways in which modernity, literate historicity, and national identity are developing in the contemporary Middle East. As traditional Bedouin storytellers and literate h . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 43. |  | 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 |
| 44. |  | 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 |
| 45. |  | Title: Medicines of the soul: female bodies and sacred geographies in a transnational Islam Author: Malti-Douglas, Fedwa Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Gender Studies | Islam | Middle Eastern Studies | Cultural Anthropology | Autobiography Publisher's Description: In Medicines of the Soul, the autobiographical writings of three leading women in today's Islamic revival movement reveal dramatic stories of religious transformation. As interpreted by Fedwa Malti-Douglas, the autobiographies provide a powerful, groundbreaking portrayal of gender, religion, and dis . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 46. |  | 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 |
| 47. |  | Title: City of stone: the hidden history of Jerusalem Author: Benvenisti, Meron 1934- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Politics | History | Jewish Studies | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Jerusalem is more than a holy city built of stone. Domain of Muslims, Jews, and Christians, Jerusalem is a perpetual contest, and its shrines, housing projects, and bulldozers compete in a scramble for possession. Now one of Jerusalem's most respected authorities presents a history of the city that . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 48. |  | Title: Popular music and national culture in Israel Author: Regev, Motti Published: University of California Press, 2004 Subjects: Music | Ethnomusicology | Middle Eastern Studies | Popular Culture | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: A unique Israeli national culture - indeed, the very nature of "Israeliness" - remains a matter of debate, a struggle to blend vying memories and backgrounds, ideologies and wills. Identifying popular music as an important site in this wider cultural endeavor, this book focuses on the three major po . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 49. |  | Title: Aunt Safiyya and the monastery: a novel Author: Ṭāhir, Bahāʾ 1935- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Middle Eastern Studies | Literature in Translation | Fiction Publisher's Description: This brief, beautifically crafted novel introduces one of the finest contemporary Arab novelists to English-speaking audiences. In it, Bahaa' Taher, one of a group of Egyptian writers - including the Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz - noted for their revealing portraits of Egyptian life and society, te . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 50. |  | 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 |
| 51. |  | 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 |
| 52. |  | 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 |
| 53. |  | Title: Pivot of the universe: Nasir al-Din Shah Qajar and the Iranian Monarchy, 1831-1896 Author: Amanat, Abbas Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: When he was assassinated in 1896, Nasir al-Din Shah had occupied the Peacock throne for nearly half a century. A colorful, complex figure, he is frequently portrayed as indolent and indulgent. Yet he was in many ways an effective ruler who displayed remarkable resilience in the face of dilemmas and . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 54. |  | 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 |
| 55. |  | 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 |
| 56. |  | Title: Memory for forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 Author: Darwīsh, Maḥmūd Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | Literature in Translation | Middle Eastern Studies | Rhetoric Publisher's Description: One of the Arab world's greatest living poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the . . . [more] Similar Items |
| 57. |  | 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 |
| 58. |  | 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 |
| 59. |  | 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 |
| 60. |  | Title: Picturing Casablanca: portraits of power in a modern city Author: Ossman, Susan Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Postcolonial Studies | Middle Eastern Studies | Electronic Media | Media Studies Publisher's Description: In Picturing Casablanca , Susan Ossman probes the shape and texture of mass images in Casablanca, from posters, films, and videotapes to elections, staged political spectacles, and changing rituals. In a fluid style that blends ethnographic narrative, cultural reportage, and the author's firsthand e . . . [more] Similar Items |