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Empires In Friction - Egypt In The Sixteenth Century

by Nelly Hanna

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 In 1517, the Ottoman Empire finally defeated the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt, turning it into a province of the Ottoman Empire and completing their conquest of the Middle East. While much has been documented about the Mamluk period until 1517, publication on the historical record about the sixteenth century reveals little from Egyptian perspectives.
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Literary Optics - Staging The Collective In The Nahda

by Maha Abdelmegeed

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 Offers a compelling alternative to the traditional mode of analysing Arabic literature through an encounter between Arabic narrative forms and European ones. Drawing upon close engagements with the works of canonical authors, AbdelMegeed addresses how and why they were drawn together to form a canon.
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The Shi'Ites Of Lebanon - Modernism, Communism, And Hizbullah'S Islamists

by Malek Abisaab

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 Traces the sociopolitical, economic, and intellectual transformation of the Shi`ites of Lebanon from 1920 during the French colonial period until the late twentieth century. Analysing the interaction between sacred and secular features of modern Shi`ite society, the authors clearly follow the group's turn toward religious revolution and away from secular activism.
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Shi'Ites Of Lebanon - Modernism, Communism, And Hizbullah''S Islamists

by Malek Abisaab e Rula Jurdi Abisaab

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 The complex history of Lebanese Shi‘ites has traditionally been portrayed as rooted in religious and sectarian forces. The Abisaabs uncover a more nuanced account in which colonialism, the modern state, social class, and provincial politics profoundly shaped Shi‘i society. The authors trace the sociopolitical, economic, and intellectual transformation of the Shi‘ites of Lebanon from 1920 during the French colonial period until the late twentieth century. They shed light on the relationship of contemporary Islamic militancy with traditions of religious modernism and leftism in both Lebanon and Iraq. Analyzing the interaction between sacred and secular features of modern Shi‘ite society, the authors clearly follow the group’s turn toward religious revolution and away from secular activism. This book transforms our understanding of twentieth-century Lebanese history and demonstrates how the rise of Hizbullah was conditioned by Shi‘ites’ consistent marginalization and neglect by the Lebanese state.
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Minorities And The Modern Arab World - New Perspectives

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 "This volume originated in a conference held at the Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University in 2013, Minorities of the Modern Middle East."--Acknowledgments page.
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Pragmatism In Islamic Law - A Social And Intellectual History

by Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim

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 In Pragmatism in Islamic Law, Ibrahim presents a detailed history of Sunni legal pluralism and the ways in which it was employed to accommodate the changing needs of society. Since the formative period of Islamic law, jurists have debated whether it is acceptable for a law to be selected based on its utility, rather than weighing conflicting articulations of the law to determine the most likely expression of the divine will. Virtually unanimous opposition to the utilitarian approach, referred to as "pragmatic eclecticism," emerged among early Islamic jurists. However, due to a host of changing institutional and socioeconomic transformations, a trend toward the legitimization of pragmatic eclecticism arose in the thirteenth century. Subsequently, the Mamluk authorities institutionalized this pragmatism when Sultan Baybars appointed four chief judges representing the four Sunni schools in Cairo in 1265 CE. After a brief attempt to reverse Mamluk pluralism by imposing the Hanafi school in the sixteenth century, Egypt’s new rulers, the Ottomans, embraced this pluralistic pragmatism. In examining over a thousand cases from three seventeenth- and eighteenthcentury Egyptian courts, Ibrahim traces the internal logic of pragmatic eclecticism under the Ottomans. An array of archival sources documents the manner in which Egyptian society’s subaltern classes navigated Sunni legal pluralism as a tool to avoid more austere legal doctrines. The ensuing portrait challenges the assumption made by many modern historians that the utilitarian approaches adopted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century Muslim reformers constituted a clear rupture with early Islamic legal history. In contrast, many of the legal strategies exercised in Egypt’s partial codification of family law in the twentieth century were rooted in premodern Islamic jurisprudence.
Formation Of The Modern State - The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth To Eighteenth Centuries

by Rifa'At Ali Abou-El-Haj

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 Challenges the paradigm of the societal decline as inadequate for understanding the Ottoman society and state during this period. This book evaluates the established historical view of the Ottoman Empire as an Eastern despotic nation-state in decline, and instead analyzes it as a modern state comparable to contemporary states in Europe and Asia.
Making Big Money In 1600 - The Life And Times Of Isma'Il Abu Taqiyya, Egyptian Merchant

by Nelly Hanna

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 This text examines the re-emergence of the economic sector in Cairo during the 17th century, and its complex influences on social conditions. It traces the relationship between economic activities and culture through examining the life and work of Isma'il Abu Taqiyya - an Egyptian merchant.
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Gender And Class In The Egyptian Women’S Movement, 1925-1939 - Changing Perspectives

by Cathlyn Mariscotti

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 Offers a reexamination of the Egyptian women's movement in light of class differences. This book describes the way in which elite feminism created a concept of womanhood that fed into the nationalist cultural ideal, one that was not necessarily progressive for all Egyptian women.
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The Large Landowning Class And The Peasantry In Egypt, 1837-1952

by Assem El-Dessouky e Raouf Abbas

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 Combined into one volume and translated into English for the first time from two seminal Arabic works published in the 1970s, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of landownership and its effects on Egyptian society. The authors draw from extensive archival sources, successfully integrating in their work the competing forces of the state, the landlords, and the peasants.
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Empires In Friction - Egypt In The Sixteenth Century

by Nelly Hanna

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 In 1517, the Ottoman Empire finally defeated the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt, turning it into a province of the Ottoman Empire and completing their conquest of the Middle East. While much has been documented about the Mamluk period until 1517, publication on the historical record about the sixteenth century reveals little from Egyptian perspectives.
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Literary Optics - Staging The Collective In The Nahda

by Maha Abdelmegeed

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 Offers a compelling alternative to the traditional mode of analysing Arabic literature through an encounter between Arabic narrative forms and European ones. Drawing upon close engagements with the works of canonical authors, AbdelMegeed addresses how and why they were drawn together to form a canon.
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The Persistence Of Orientalism - Anglo-American Historians And Modern Egypt

by Peter Gran

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 Although decades of scholarship have critiqued traditional binaries of developed and undeveloped in Arab studies, the narrative of 1798 symbolizing the coming of the modern west to the rescue of the static east endures. This book takes stock of this dominant paradigm, interrogating its origins and the ways in which scholarship perpetuates it.
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Understanding Hezbollah - The Hegemony Of Resistance

by Kanaaneh

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 Hezbollah's influence in military issues is well known, but its role in shaping cultural and political activities has not received enough attention. Kanaaneh sheds new light on the organisation's successful evolution as a counterhegemonic force in the region's resistance movement, known as ""Maqawama"".
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Readings In Syrian Prison Literature - The Poetics Of Human Rights

by R. Shareah Taleghani

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 Prison literature has played an essential role in generating the "experimental shift" in Arabic literature since the 1960s. Taleghani's groundbreaking work explores prison writing's critical role in resistance movements in Syria, the evolution of Arabic literature, and the development of a global human rights.
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The Rogue Narrative And Irish Fiction 1

by Joe Lines

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 Investigates why writers during the long eighteenth-century so often turned to the rogue narrative to discuss Ireland. With consideration for themes of conflict, migration, religion, and gender, Lines offers up a compelling connection between the rogue themselves and the ever-popular rogue narrative in this early period of Irish writing.
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Perspectives On Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - Nuanced Postnetwork Television

by Konkle Burnetts

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 Focusing on themes of feminism, gender identity, and mental health, contributors explore the ways in which the CW dramedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend challenged viewer expectations, as well as the role television critics play in identifying a show's ""authenticity"" or quality.
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Nepali Migrant Women - Resistance And Survival In America

by Shobha Hamal Gurung

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 Gives voice to the growing number of Nepali women who migrate to the US to work in the informal economy. Highlighting the experiences of thirty-five women, mostly college educated and middle class, Hamal Gurung challenges conventional portraits of Third World women as victims forced into low-wage employment.
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The Magic Mirror Of Literary Translation - Reflections On The Art Of Translating Verse

by Eric Sellin

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 Invites readers to explore the daunting and often unsung work of literary translators. With wry humour and an engaging conversational style, Sellin shares his insight on the art and science of translation, including the many nuanced solutions he's developed for some of the more sensitive problems that frustrate translators of formal poetry.
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Iranian Women And Gender In The Iran-Ira

by Farzaneh

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 Despite their significant contributions, women are largely absent from studies on the Iran-Iraq war. Drawing on primary sources such as memoirs, wills, interviews, print media coverage, and oral histories, Farzaneh chronicles in copious detail women's participation on the battlefield, in the household, and everywhere in between.
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Understanding Hezbollah - The Hegemony Of Resistance

by Abed T. Kanaaneh

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 Hezbollahâ€™s influence in military issues is well known, but its role in shaping cultural and political activities has not received enough attention. Kanaaneh sheds new light on the organisation's successful evolution as a counterhegemonic force in the region's resistance movement, known as ""Maqawama"".
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Readings In Syrian Prison Literature - The Poetics Of Human Rights

by R. Shareah Taleghani

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 Prison literature has played an essential role in generating the "experimental shift" in Arabic literature since the 1960s. Taleghani's groundbreaking work explores prison writing's critical role in resistance movements in Syria, the evolution of Arabic literature, and the development of a global human rights.
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The Rogue Narrative And Irish Fiction 1

by Joe Lines

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 Investigates why writers during the long eighteenth-century so often turned to the rogue narrative to discuss Ireland. With consideration for themes of conflict, migration, religion, and gender, Lines offers up a compelling connection between the rogue themselves and the ever-popular rogue narrative in this early period of Irish writing.
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The Magic Mirror Of Literary Translation - Reflections On The Art Of Translating Verse

by Eric Sellin

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Invites readers to explore the daunting and often unsung work of literary translators. With wry humour and an engaging conversational style, Sellin shares his insight on the art and science of translation, including the many nuanced solutions he's developed for some of the more sensitive problems that frustrate translators of formal poetry.
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