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  • Felâtun Bey and Râkim Efendi

    An Ottoman Novel

    Series series Middle East Literature In Translation
    Ahmet Midhat Efendi’s famous 1875 novel Felâtun Bey and Râkim Efendi takes place in late nineteenth-century Istanbul and follows the lives of two young men who come from radically different backgrounds. Râkim Efendi is an erudite, self-made man, one who is ambitious and cultivated enough to mingle with a European crowd. In contrast, Felâtun Bey is a spendthrift who lacks intellectual curiosity and ... Leer más

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  • Pious Citizens

    Reforming Zoroastrianism in India and Iran

    Series series Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
    In Pious Citizens, Ringer tells the story of a major intellectual revolution in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century India and Iran, one that radically transformed the role of religion in society. At this time, key theological debates revolved around Zoroastrianism’s capacity to generate "progress" and "civilization." Armed with both the destructive and creative capacities of historicism, ... Leer más

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  • Ottoman Culture and the Project of Modernity

    Reform and Translation in the Tanzimat Novel

    Central to the nineteenth-century Ottoman Tanzimat reform project, the novel originally developed outside of Ottoman space, yet was adopted as a didactic tool to model and generate new forms of Ottoman citizenship. Essays in this book explore the appropriation of the novel as a literary genre and its deployment in the late Ottoman cultural project of constructing an Ottoman modernity.Analyzing key ... Leer más

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  • Iran

    Between Tradition and Modernity

    Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
    The Iranian Revolution represented to intellectuals and professionals the potential of spiritual values to triumph over the great power of economic imperialism. Yet out of this revolution has emerged an identity crisis that touches Islamic ideological heights and reaches down to the very ground of Islamic practice. The contributors to this collection, experts on Iranian cultural and political ... Leer más

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  • The Pearl That Broke Its Shell

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  • The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions

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  • The Bahai Faith

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  • Power, Politics, and Culture

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  • The Roots of Civilisation

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