Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “sahar amer”
Skip side bar filters

  • Veil Obsessed

    Representations in Literature, Art, and Media

    by Afrin Zeenat, Michael Lundell, Abdullah A. Hasan, Rachida Yassine, Dallel Sarnou, Cherie Taraghi, Nishat Haider0, Sahar Amer1, Martine Antle2, Joseph Donica3 ...
    Discussions surrounding the veil often run along essentialist and ahistorical lines, associating Islam with oppression, shame, and honor. Contributing to these stereotypes, the media in both the East and the West obsessively condemn or valorize practices of veiling. In Veil Obsessed, Umme Al-wazedi and Afrin Zeenat present a range of essays to complicate and challenge the dialogue around the veil, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What is Veiling?

    by Sahar Amer ...

    $27.99 USD

  • What Is Veiling?

    by Sahar Amer ...
    Series series Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks
    Ranging from simple head scarf to full-body burqa, the veil is worn by vast numbers of Muslim women around the world. What Is Veiling? explains one of the most visible, controversial, and least understood emblems of Islam. Sahar Amer’s evenhanded approach is anchored in sharp cultural insight and rich historical context. Addressing the significance of veiling in the religious, cultural, political, ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Crossing Borders

    Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures

    by Sahar Amer ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary texts of the medieval Arab Islamicate tradition, where sexuality was positioned at the very ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Crossing Borders

    Love Between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures

    by Sahar Amer ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Given Christianity's valuation of celibacy and its persistent association of sexuality with the Fall and of women with sin, Western medieval attitudes toward the erotic could not help but be vexed. In contrast, eroticism is explicitly celebrated in a large number of theological, scientific, and literary texts of the medieval Arab Islamicate tradition, where sexuality was positioned at the very ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Medieval Fold

    Power, Repression, and the Emergence of the Individual

    by S. Verderber ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Striking cultural developments took place in the twelfth century which led to what historians have termed 'the emergence of the individual.' The Medieval Fold demonstrates how cultural developments typically associated with this twelfth-century renaissance autobiography, lyric, courtly love, romance can be traced to the Church's cultivation of individualism. However, subjects did not submit to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Orientalism

    by Edward W. Said ...
    **A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. • With a new foreword by Ussama Makdisi"Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." —The New York Times**In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Islam

    To Reform or to Subvert?

    by Mohammad Arkoun ...
    Series Book 7 - Saqi Essentials S.
    At a time when Islam is the focus of attention, vilified by some and a source of inspiration for others, Arkoun's is one of few voices that seek to go against the stream. His radical review of mainstream historiography of Islam draws on interdisciplinary analysis - historical, social, psychological and anthropological. As one of the foremost thinkers of the Muslim world, Arkoun is in a position to ... Read more

    $14.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dictionary of Homophobia

    A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience

    Edited by Louis-Georges Tin ...
    "Tin's Dictionary of Homophobia is so sweeping in its scope that one can dip into it again and again and learn something, or confront an idea in which even the most well-read queer will find fresh intellectual nourishment and historical illumination."—Gay City NewsBased on the work of seventy researchers in fifteen countries, The Dictionary of Homophobiais a mammoth, encyclopedic book that ... Read more

    $32.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • For Strasbourg

    Conversations of Friendship and Philosophy

    by Jacques Derrida ...
    The eminent philosopher pays homage to his beloved French city and the philosophical friendships he had there—"an illuminating addition to his legacy" ( The Times Literary Supplement).A towering figure in twentieth-century philosophy, Jacques Derrida was born in Algeria, but spent four decades living in the French city of Strasbourg, located on the border between France and Germany. This moving ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Warriors of the Cloisters

    The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World

    by Christopher I. Beckwith ...
    How science in medieval Europe originated in Buddhist AsiaWarriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West. Medieval scholars rarely performed scientific experiments, but instead contested issues in natural science, philosophy, and theology using the recursive argument method. This ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sexuality in Islam

    by Abdelwahab Bouhdiba ...
    Series Book 13 - Saqi Essentials S.
    In this classic work, Abdelwahab Bouhdiba asserts that Islam is a lyrical view of life in which sexuality enjoys a privileged status. Drawing on both Arabic and Western sources and seeking to integrate the religious and the sexual, Bouhdiba describes the place of sexuality in the traditional Islamic view of the world and examines whether a harmony of sexuality and religious faith is achieved in ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus