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  • The Book of Khalid

    A Critical Edition

    de Ameen Rihani, Geoffrey Nash, Christoph Schumann, Layla Al Maleh, Youssef Choueiri, Nathan C. Funk, Hani Bawardi, Ameen Albert Rihani, Waïl S. Hassan ...
    The semi autobiographical work chronicles the adventures of two young men, Khalid and Shakib, who leave Lebanon for the United States to find work as peddlers in Lower Manhattan. After mixed success at immersing themselves in American culture, the two return to the Middle East at a time of turmoil following the Young Turk Revolution in the Ottoman Empire. Khalid attempts to integrate his Western ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • From Empire to Orient

    Travellers to the Middle East 1830-1926

    de Dr Geoffrey Nash ...
    From Empire to Orient offers an alternative perspective on Britain's late imperial period by looking at the lives and the writings of the men who chose to defy the conventional social and political attitudes of the British ruling classes towards the Near East. Between the Greek revolt in 1830 and the fall of the Caliphate in 1924 a different kind of voice was heard that was both anti-Imperialist ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Postcolonialism and Islam

    Theory, Literature, Culture, Society and Film

    Edición de Geoffrey Nash, Kathleen Kerr-Koch, Sarah Hackett ...
    Series series Routledge Islamic Studies Series
    With a focus on the areas of theory, literature, culture, society and film, this collection of essays examines, questions and broadens the applicability of Postcolonialism and Islam from a multifaceted and cross-disciplinary perspective.Topics covered include the relationship between Postcolonialism and Orientalism, theoretical perspectives on Postcolonialism and Islam, the position of Islam ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Comte de Gobineau and Orientalism

    Selected Eastern Writings

    Edición de Geoffrey Nash, Daniel O'Donoghue ...
    Series series Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
    Though known to specialists, Comte de Gobineau’s vital if idiosyncratic contribution to Orientalism has only been accessible to the English reader through secondary sources. Especially important for its portrayal of an esoteric Sufi sect like the Ahl-i Haqq, and its vivid narrative of the Babi episode in Persia, Gobineau’s work impacted significantly on European intelligentsia, including Ernest ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

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  • What Went Wrong?:Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

    Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

    de Bernard Lewis ...
    For many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement--the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier, was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed, as the ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Iran

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Ali Ansari ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Iran has rarely been out of the headlines. Yet media interest and extensive coverage has tended to hinder rather than help our understanding of Iran as an idea, an identity, and a people, leading to a superficial understanding of what is a complex and nuanced political culture and civilization. This Very Short Introduction presents a radical reinterpretation of Iranian history and politics, ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Islam in History

    Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East

    de Bernard Lewis ...
    From secular-minded autocrats like Saddam Hussein to religious fundamentalists like Osama bin Laden, powerful voices in the Islamic world have been united by a fierce hatred of the West. If we want to know why they think the way they do, we have to understand the history of Islam and its continuous interactions with the West.This masterly collection of essays by a leading expert on Islam and the ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Islamic Enlightenment

    The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times

    de Christopher de Bellaigue ...
    “The finest Orientalist of his generation” (Wall Street Journal) rewrites everything we thought we knew about the modern history of the Islamic world.In this “stylishly written, surprisingly moving chronicle” (Harper’s), Christopher de Bellaigue presents an absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. “The ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Broken Wings (Mobi Classics)

    de Kahlil Gibran ...
    al-Ajniha al-Mutakassira (Broken Wings, 1912) Kahlil Gibran (born January 6, 1883 in Bsharri, modern day Lebanon, which was part of Ottoman controlled Syria at the time; died April 10, 1931 in New York City, United States) was a Lebanese American artist, poet, writer, philosopher and theologian. He is the third-bestselling poet in history after William Shakespeare and Laozi. Excerpted from ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Edward Said

    A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation

    Edición de Adel Iskandar, Hakem Rustom ...
    Edward W. Said (1935–2003) ranks as one of the most preeminent public intellectuals of our time. Through his literary criticism, his advocacy for the Palestinian cause, and his groundbreaking book Orientalism, Said elegantly enriched public discourse by unsettling the status quo. This indispensable volume, the most comprehensive and wide-ranging resource on Edward Said’s life and work, spans his ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Destiny Disrupted

    A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes

    de Tamim Ansary ...
    “A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world” (San Francisco Chronicle)We in the West share a common narrative of world history. But our story largely omits a whole civilization whose citizens shared an entirely different narrative for a thousand years as the Islamic world saw it, from the time of Mohammed through the fall of the Ottoman Empire to the ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

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  • Desert Songs of the Night

    1500 Years of Arabic Literature

    Edición de Suheil Bushrui ...
    A unique and extraordinary collection, Desert Songs of the Night presents some of the finest poetry and prose by Arab writers, from the Arab East to Andalusia, over the last 1,500 years. From the mystical imagery of the Qur'an and the colourful stories of The Thousand and One Nights, to the powerful verses of longing of Mahmoud Darwish and Nazik al-Mala'ika, this captivating collection includes ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus