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  • Dissident Syria

    Making Oppositional Arts Official

    de miriam cooke ...
    From 1970 until his death in 2000, Hafiz Asad ruled Syria with an iron fist. His regime controlled every aspect of daily life. Seeking to preempt popular unrest, Asad sometimes facilitated the expression of anti-government sentiment by appropriating the work of artists and writers, turning works of protest into official agitprop. Syrian dissidents were forced to negotiate between the desire to ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop

    Edición de miriam cooke, Bruce B. Lawrence ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    Crucial to understanding Islam is a recognition of the role of Muslim networks. The earliest networks were Mediterranean trade routes that quickly expanded into transregional paths for pilgrimage, scholarship, and conversion, each network complementing and reinforcing the others. This volume selects major moments and key players from the seventh century to the twenty-first that have defined Muslim ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Women Claim Islam

    Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature

    de Miriam Cooke ...
    This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible. ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Tribal Modern

    Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf

    de Miriam Cooke ...
    In the 1970s, one of the most torrid and forbidding regions in the world burst on to the international stage. The discovery and subsequent exploitation of oil allowed tribal rulers of the U.A.E, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait to dream big. How could fishermen, pearl divers and pastoral nomads catch up with the rest of the modernized world? Even today, society is skeptical about the clash between the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Dancing in Damascus

    Creativity, Resilience, and the Syrian Revolution

    de miriam cooke ...
    On March 17, 2011, many Syrians rose up against the authoritarian Asad regime that had ruled them with an iron fist for forty years. Initial successes were quickly quashed, and the revolution seemed to devolve into a civil war pitting the government against its citizens and extremist mercenaries. As of late 2015, almost 300,000 Syrians have been killed and over half of a total population of 23 ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Blood Into Ink

    South Asian And Middle Eastern Women Write War

    de Miriam Cooke-Kerns, Roshni Rustomji ...
    The experiences of women in twentieth-century wars in South Asia and the Middle East challenge the concept of the separation of front and homefront and of family and society common to most modern western wars. Women there have not only entered into what was once considered male-only territory in men's roles wearing men's clothing, but more important, they have entered explicitly as women playing a ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Nazira Zeineddine

    A Pioneer of Islamic Feminism

    de Miriam Cooke ...
    Series series Makers of the Muslim World
    In 1928, a young Lebanese woman, Nazira Zeineddine al-Halabi, wrote a book called "Unveiling and Veiling", an indictment of patriarchal oppression in which she boldly stated that the veil was un-Islamic, directly challenging the teachings of "wiser" male scholars. Considered by many an attack on Islam, it rocked the Muslim world and was banned by many clerics, although it quickly went into a ... Leer más

    $21.00 USD

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  • Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism

    de John Calvert ...
    Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the post colonial Sunni Muslim world. Lacking a pure understanding of the leader's life and work, the popular media has conflated Qutb's moral purpose with the aims of bin Laden and al-Qaeda. He is often portrayed as a terrorist, Islamo-Fascist, and advocate of ... Leer más

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  • The Arab Spring

    The End of Postcolonialism

    de Hamid Dabashi ...
    This pioneering explanation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East.In this landmark book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings that have engulfed multiple countries and political climes from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen, were driven by a 'Delayed Defiance' - a point of rebellion against domestic tyranny and globalized disempowerment ... Leer más

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  • The Strong Horse

    Power, Politics, and the Clash of Arab Civilizations

    de Lee Smith ...
    In this provocative and timely book, Middle East expert Lee Smith overturns long-held Western myths and assumptions about the Arab world, offering advice for America’s future success in the region.Seeking the motivation behind the September 11 attacks, Smith moved to Cairo, where he discovered that the standard explanation—a clash of East and West—was simply not the case. Middle East conflicts ... Leer más

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  • A New Anthropology of Islam

    de John R. Bowen ...
    Series series New Departures in Anthropology
    In this powerful, but accessible new study, John Bowen draws on a full range of work in social anthropology to present Islam in ways that emphasise its constitutive practices, from praying and learning to judging and political organising. Starting at the heart of Islam - revelation and learning in Arabic lands - Bowen shows how Muslims have adapted Islamic texts and traditions to ideas and ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Islamism and Cultural Expression in the Arab World

    Edición de Abir Hamdar, Lindsey Moore ...
    Series series Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
    Whereas most studies of Islamism focus on politics and religious ideology, this book analyses the ways in which Islamism in the Arab world is defined, reflected, transmitted and contested in a variety of creative and other cultural forms. It covers a range of contexts of production and reception, from the early twentieth century to the present, and with reference to cultural production in and/or ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD