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EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2017)
pvp.42,00 €
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Taking a comparative approach, this book considers the ways in which political regimes have changed since the Arab Spring. It addresses a series of questions about political change in the context of the revolutions, upheavals ...
WILEY-BLACKWELL (2017)
pvp.490,00 €
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The two-volume Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture surveys the field in all its grandeur, whilst encouraging original approaches to canonical subjects and offering new scholarship on previously neglected topics. The combined volumes showcase more ...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS (2017)
pvp.38,00 €
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For decades, political observers and pundits have characterized the Islamic Republic of Iran as an ideologically rigid state on the verge of collapse, exclusively connected to a narrow social base. In A Social Revolution, Kevan ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2017)
pvp.35,00 €
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This book argues that Internet diffusion and use in the Middle East enables meaningful micro-changes in citizens' lives, even in states where no Arab Spring revolution occurred. Using ethnographic evidence and taking a comparative perspective, ...
PETER LANG (2017)
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This book addresses how identity, structures, and agency affect women's everyday lives in post-revolutionary Egypt. The authors analyses the topic both on a macro- as well as on a micro-level. Through interviews and workshops, women ...
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS (2017)
pvp.32,00 €
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The roster of Muslim superheroes in the comic book medium has grown over the years, as has the complexity of their depictions. Muslim Superheroes tracks the initial absence, reluctant inclusion, tokenistic employment, and then nuanced ...
UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA (2017)
pvp.40,00 €
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The Maronite Library of Aleppo houses one of the most important collections of manuscripts in the Syrian Arab Republic. Comprising more than 1600 copies, the collection contains many different works on Bible, theology, philosophy, history, ...
OXFORD U. P. (2017)
pvp.120,00 €
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This book offers the first systematic analysis of the cultural and religious appropriation of Andalusian architecture by Spanish historians during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. To date this process of Christian appropriation has generally been ...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS (2017)
pvp.25,00 €
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Located northeast of Damascus, in an oasis surrounded by palms and two mountain ranges, the ancient city of Palmyra has the aura of myth. According to the Bible, the city was built by Solomon. Regardless ...
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS (2017)
pvp.55,00 €
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Arabic script remains one of the most widely employed writing systems in the world, for Arabic and non-Arabic languages alike. Focusing on naskh'the style most commonly used across the Middle East'Letters of Light traces the ...
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS (2017)
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Little is known about Arabia in the sixth century CE. Yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from the Iberian peninsula to India. Today, Muslims account for ...
OXFORD U. P. (2017)
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Palaces like the Aljafería and the Alhambra rank among the highest achievements of the Islamic world. In recent years archaeological work at Córdoba, Kairouan and many other sites has vastly increased our knowledge about the ...
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS (2017)
pvp.80,90 €
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In Moors Dressed as Moors, Javier Irigoyen-Garcia draws on a wide range of sources to reveal the currency of Moorish clothing in early modern Iberian society. In early modern Iberia, Moorish clothing was not merely ...
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (2017)
pvp.43,00 €
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The Mongol conquest of the Islamic world began in the early thirteenth century when Genghis Khan and his warriors overran Central Asia and devastated much of Iran. Distinguished historian Peter Jackson offers a fresh and ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2017)
pvp.246,00 €
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The spread of Islam and the process of Islamisation (meaning both conversion to Islam and the adoption of Muslim culture) is explored in the twenty-four chapters of this volume. Taking a comparative perspective, both the ...
I.B. TAURIS (2017)
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One of the most common religious practices among medieval Eastern Christian communities was their devotion to venerating crosses and crucifixes. Yet many of these communities existed in predominantly Islamic contexts, where the practice was subject ...
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS (2017)
pvp.46,00 €
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Long viewed as Spain's "most Moorish city," Granada is now home to a growing Muslim population of Moroccan migrants and European converts to Islam. Mikaela H. Rogozen-Soltar examines how various residents of Granada mobilize historical ...
BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS (2017)
pvp.60,00 €
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This historical study argues that the Mandaean religion originated under Sasanid rule in the fifth century, not earlier as has been widely accepted. It analyzes primary sources in Syriac, Mandaic, and Arabic to clarify the ...
BRILL ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS (2017)
pvp.235,00 €
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Since antiquity, musk has been a valued perfume and medicine. Because the musk deer only lives in Central Eurasia, people in other locations had to trade for its musk. For medieval Islamic civilization, musk became ...
THAMES & HUDSON (2017)
pvp.37,00 €
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Religious thinkers, political leaders, lawmakers, writers, and philosophers have shaped the 1,400-year-long development of the world's second-largest religion. But who were these people? What do we know of their lives and the ways in which ...