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EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2019)
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A cultural and historical philosophy of fashion in economic and social life from the 1830s to the present day
Ulrich Lehmann brings together methods and ideas from social sciences and material production to offer a ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2019)
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Explores the interaction between literary and sartorial style in women writers of the interwar period.
An unprecedented sartorial revolution occurred at the beginning of the twentieth century when the tight-laced silhouettes of Victorian women gave ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2018)
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This engaging introduction outlines the cultural and political contexts in which the avant-gardes operated, taking readers on a journey throughout the whole of Europe. It discusses the most salient features of the avant-gardes' work in ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2018)
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The Nasrid builders of the Alhambra - the best-preserved medieval Muslim palatial city - were so exacting that some of their work could not be fully explained until the invention of fractal geometry. Their design ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2018)
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This title covers the movements, concepts and figures associated with European modernism. This Dictionary is the first to gather, delineate and make accessible the literary, artistic, critical, cultural and political practices that we associate with ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2018)
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In various parts of the Islamic world over the past decades virulent attacks have targeted Islamic funeral and sacral architecture. Rather than being random acts of vandalism, these are associated with the idea of performing ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2017)
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This is the first book dedicated to examining the marital relationships of Mary and George Watts and Evelyn and William De Morgan as creative partnerships. The study demonstrates how they worked, individually and together, to ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2017)
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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 ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2017)
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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, ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2017)
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1. Architecture of Synagogues in the Islamic World - History and the Dilemma of Identity, Mohammad Gharipour. 2. Prologue - Historic Relations Between Muslims and Jews, Reuven Firestone . 3. Shrines of the Prophets and ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2017)
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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 ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2016)
pvp.138,67 €
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For more than one thousand years Arab medicine held sway in the ancient world, from the shores of Spain in the West to China, India and Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in the East. This book explores ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2016)
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Studies the key monuments built for the Rum Seljuq sultans, 1170-1220
This lavishly illustrated volume presents the major surviving monuments of the early period of the Rum Seljuqs, the first major Muslim dynasty to rule ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2016)
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The first study to analyse the recognition scene in the Arabic narrative tradition.
According to Aristotle, a well-crafted recognition scene is one of the basic constituents of a successful narrative. It is the point when ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2016)
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This is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive account of the rise and fall of the Almoravids and the Almohads, the two most important Berber dynasties of the medieval Islamic west, an ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2016)
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Explores the role of apocalyptic symbolism in the formation and maintenance of a medieval Islamic empire
How can religion transform a society? This book investigates the ways in which a medieval Islamic movement harnessed Quranic ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2016)
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publiarq.comSurveys the contributions of Islamic astronomers and mathematicians to the development of astronomy and astrology
It was the astronomers and mathematicians of the Islamic world who provided the theories and concepts that paved the way ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2015)
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The Great Seljuk Empire was the Turkish state which dominated the Middle East and Central Asia in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. This book surveys that period, which was one of exceptional importance, witnessing profound ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2014)
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Medieval Arab notions of physical difference can feel singularly arresting for modern audiences. Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights', as were cross eyes, lameness and ...
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS (2013)
pvp.222,00 €
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Explores the myriad interactions between calligraphy and architecture throughout the history of the Muslim world
From Spain to China, Islamic architecture and calligraphy are inexorably intertwined. Mosques, dervish lodges, mausolea, libraries, even baths and market ...
