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Modern Things on Trial

Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935

by Leor Halevi ...

In cities awakening to global exchange under European imperial rule, Muslims encountered all sorts of strange and wonderful new things—synthetic toothbrushes, toilet paper, telegraphs, railways, gramophones, brimmed hats, tailored pants, and lottery tickets. The passage of these goods across cultural frontiers spurred passionate debates. Realizing that these goods were changing religious practices ... Read more

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In cities awakening to global exchange under European imperial rule, Muslims encountered all sorts of strange and wonderful new things—synthetic toothbrushes, toilet paper, telegraphs, railways, gramophones, brimmed hats, tailored pants, and lottery tickets. The passage of these goods across cultural frontiers spurred passionate debates. Realizing that these goods were changing religious practices
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Modern Things on Trial

Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935

by Leor Halevi ...

In cities awakening to global exchange under European imperial rule, Muslims encountered all sorts of strange and wonderful new things—synthetic toothbrushes, toilet paper, telegraphs, railways, gramophones, brimmed hats, tailored pants, and lottery tickets. The passage of these goods across cultural frontiers spurred passionate debates. Realizing that these goods were changing religious practices ... Read more

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In cities awakening to global exchange under European imperial rule, Muslims encountered all sorts of strange and wonderful new things—synthetic toothbrushes, toilet paper, telegraphs, railways, gramophones, brimmed hats, tailored pants, and lottery tickets. The passage of these goods across cultural frontiers spurred passionate debates. Realizing that these goods were changing religious practices
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Muhammad's Grave

Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society

by Leor Halevi ...

Winner, 2007 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies AssociationWinner, 2008 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of ReligionWinner, 2011 John Nicholas Brown Prize, Medieval Academy of AmericaWinner, 2008 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta KappaShortlisted, 2008 Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Acad... ... Read more

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Winner, 2007 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies AssociationWinner, 2008 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of ReligionWinner, 2011 John Nicholas Brown Prize, Medieval Academy of AmericaWinner, 2008 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta KappaShortlisted, 2008 Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Acad...
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Religion and Trade

Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900

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Although trade connects distant people and regions, bringing cultures closer together through the exchange of material goods and ideas, it has not always led to unity and harmony. From the era of the Crusades to the dawn of colonialism, exploitation and violence characterized many trading ventures, which required vessels and convoys to overcome tremendous technological obstacles and merchants to ... Read more

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Although trade connects distant people and regions, bringing cultures closer together through the exchange of material goods and ideas, it has not always led to unity and harmony. From the era of the Crusades to the dawn of colonialism, exploitation and violence characterized many trading ventures, which required vessels and convoys to overcome tremendous technological obstacles and merchants to
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African Dominion

A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa

by Michael Gomez ...

A groundbreaking history that puts early and medieval West Africa in a global contextPick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book, the first on this period of the region’s history in a generation, tells a different story. Interweaving political and social history and drawing on a rich array of ... Read more

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A groundbreaking history that puts early and medieval West Africa in a global contextPick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book, the first on this period of the region’s history in a generation, tells a different story. Interweaving political and social history and drawing on a rich array of
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Debt

The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded

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Now in paperback, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debtHere anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, ... Read more

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Now in paperback, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debtHere anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires,
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Tunisia

An Arab Anomaly

by Safwan M. Masri ...

The Arab Spring began and ended with Tunisia. In a region beset by brutal repression, humanitarian disasters, and civil war, Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution alone gave way to a peaceful transition to a functioning democracy. Within four short years, Tunisians passed a progressive constitution, held fair parliamentary elections, and ushered in the country's first-ever democratically elected president. ... Read more

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The Arab Spring began and ended with Tunisia. In a region beset by brutal repression, humanitarian disasters, and civil war, Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution alone gave way to a peaceful transition to a functioning democracy. Within four short years, Tunisians passed a progressive constitution, held fair parliamentary elections, and ushered in the country's first-ever democratically elected president.
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The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

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"Readers cannot but be provoked and stimulated by this splendidly iconoclastic and refreshing book."—Andrew Porter, New York Times Book ReviewThe Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, ... Read more

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"Readers cannot but be provoked and stimulated by this splendidly iconoclastic and refreshing book."—Andrew Porter, New York Times Book ReviewThe Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer,
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The Walking Qur'an

Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa

by Rudolph T. Ware III ...

Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
Spanning a thousand years of history — and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania — Rudolph Ware documents the profound significance of Qur'an schools for West African Muslim communities. Such schools peacefully brought Islam to much of the region, becoming striking symbols of Muslim identity. Ware shows how in Senegambia the schools ... Read more

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Spanning a thousand years of history — and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania — Rudolph Ware documents the profound significance of Qur'an schools for West African Muslim communities. Such schools peacefully brought Islam to much of the region, becoming striking symbols of Muslim identity. Ware shows how in Senegambia the schools
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Culture

The Story of Us, From Cave Art to K-Pop

by Martin Puchner ...

**A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice"A mighty, polymathic work, equally at home in all four corners of the globe.…It is a gift to be savored." —Chris Vognar, Boston GlobeIn Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a breakneck tour through pivotal moments in world history, providing a global introduction to the arts and humanities in one ... Read more

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**A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice"A mighty, polymathic work, equally at home in all four corners of the globe.…It is a gift to be savored." —Chris Vognar, Boston GlobeIn Culture, acclaimed author, professor, and public intellectual Martin Puchner takes us on a breakneck tour through pivotal moments in world history, providing a global introduction to the arts and humanities in one
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Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks

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by Jenny White, Jenny White ...

Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring. In this book, Jenny White reveals how Turkish national identity and the meanings of Islam and secularism have undergone radical changes in today's Turkey, and asks whether the Turkish ... Read more

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Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring. In this book, Jenny White reveals how Turkish national identity and the meanings of Islam and secularism have undergone radical changes in today's Turkey, and asks whether the Turkish
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Trial of a Thousand Years

World Order and Islamism

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Charles Hill analyzes the refusal of the ideologues of pan-Islam to accept the boundaries and responsibilities of the order of states. He offers a historical perspective on the war of Islamism against the nation-state system, looking at changes in world order from the Thirty Years' War of the seventeenth century to Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979 to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. ... Read more

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Charles Hill analyzes the refusal of the ideologues of pan-Islam to accept the boundaries and responsibilities of the order of states. He offers a historical perspective on the war of Islamism against the nation-state system, looking at changes in world order from the Thirty Years' War of the seventeenth century to Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979 to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
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