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  • Kindred Voices

    A Literary History of Medieval Anatolia

    de Michael Pifer ...
    The fascinating story of how premodern Anatolia’s multireligious intersection of cultures shaped its literary languages and poetic masterpiecesBy the mid-thirteenth century, Anatolia had become a place of stunning cultural diversity. Kindred Voices explores how the region’s Muslim and Christian poets grappled with the multilingual and multireligious worlds they inhabited, attempting to impart ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • An Armenian Mediterranean

    Words and Worlds in Motion

    Edición de Kathryn Babayan, Michael Pifer ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book rethinks the Armenian people as significant actors in the context of Mediterranean and global history. Spanning a millennium of cross-cultural interaction and exchange across the Mediterranean world, essays move between connected histories, frontier studies, comparative literature, and discussions of trauma, memory, diaspora, and visual culture. Contributors dismantle narrow, national ... Leer más

    $116.99 USD

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  • Lost Wisdom

    Rethinking Modernity in Iran

    de Abbas Milani ...
    In the essays collected here, Abbas Milani uses an impressive array of cross-disciplinary Western and Iranian theories and texts to investigate the crucial question of modernity in Iran today. He offers a wealth of new insights into the thousand-year-old conflict in Iran between the search for modernity and the forces of religious obscurantism. The essays trace the roots of Shiite Islamic ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The World of Persian Literary Humanism

    de Hamid Dabashi ...
    Humanism has mostly considered the question “What does it mean to be human?” from a Western perspective. Dabashi asks it anew from a non-European perspective, in a groundbreaking study of 1,400 years of Persian literary humanism. He presents the unfolding of this vast tradition as the creative and subversive subconscious of Islamic civilization. ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Conflicted Antiquities

    Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity

    de Elliott Colla ...
    Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting the relevant Arabic archives, Elliott Colla demonstrates that the emergence of Egyptology—the study of ancient Egypt and its material legacy—was as consequential for modern Egyptians as it was for ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Persophilia

    Persian Culture on the Global Scene

    de Hamid Dabashi ...
    From the Biblical period and Classical Antiquity to the rise of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, aspects of Persian culture have been integral to European history. A diverse constellation of European artists, poets, and thinkers have looked to Persia for inspiration, finding there a rich cultural counterpoint and frame of reference. Interest in all things Persian was no passing fancy but an ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Sufism and Society

    Arrangements of the Mystical in the Muslim World, 1200–1800

    Edición de John Curry, Erik Ohlander ...
    Series series Routledge Sufi Series
    In recent years, many historians of Islamic mysticism have been grappling in sophisticated ways with the difficulties of essentialism. Reconceptualising the study of Islamic mysticism during an under-researched period of its history, this book examines the relationship between Sufism and society in the Muslim world, from the fall of the Abbasid caliphate to the heyday of the great Ottoman, Mughal ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Arabic Literature for the Classroom

    Teaching Methods, Theories, Themes and Texts

    Edición de Mushin al-Musawi ...
    Arabic Literature for the Classroom argues for a more visible presence of Arabic within the humanities and social sciences, stressing the need to make Arabic literature available as a world literature, without damaging its own distinctive characteristics.The nineteen chapters which make up this book broach theoretical and methodical cultural concerns in teaching literatures from non-American ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Orientalism

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran

    Iconic Woman and Feminine Pioneer of New Persian Poetry

    Edición de Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, Nasrin Rahimieh ...
    The pioneering Iranian poet and filmmaker Forugh Farrokhzad was an iconic figure in her own day and has come to represent the spirit of revolt against patriarchal and cultural norms in 1960s Iran. Four decades after her tragic death at the age of 32, "Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran" brings her ground-breaking work into new focus. During her lifetime Farrokhzad embodied the vexed ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Between Two Worlds

    The Construction of the Ottoman State

    de Cemal Kafadar ...
    Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography from the perspective of a cultural historian demonstrates how ethnic, tribal, linguistic, religious, and political affiliations were all at play in the struggle for power in Anatolia and the Balkans ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Zarathustra

    Myth - Message - History

    de Abolghassem Khamneipur ...
    ZARATHUSTRA WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST historical personalities known to us, and he forever shifted the course of civilization. Nevertheless, publications about him are fragmented and written for specialized academics only, making them incomprehensible to the general public. This book, for the first time, presents an easy and reader-friendly view for the educated general public. It examines its ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD