What was popular entertainment like for everyday Arab societies in Middle Eastern cities during the long nineteenth century? In what ways did café culture, theatre, illustrated periodicals, cinema, cabarets, and festivals serve as key forms of popul...Daugiau...
The present work uncovers the pivotal role translations in the periodical Hawar played in the formation of a Kurdish cultural identity. In this light, it foregrounds translators agency and their contributions in novel contexts and thus fills a cruc...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Sep-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503640061)
How to raise a child became a central concern of intellectual debate from Cairo to Beirut over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Intimately linked with discussions around capitalism and democracy, considerations abou...Daugiau...
How to raise a child became a central concern of intellectual debate from Cairo to Beirut over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Intimately linked with discussions around capitalism and democracy, considerations abou...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 04-Jun-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111344812)
This volume revisits the long 19th century in the Middle East from the perspective of emerging subjectivity as a fundamentally new attitude of the individual vis-ą-vis the World. Stephan Guths holistic vision interprets emerging subjectivity as the...Daugiau...
A study of the Arabic literature produced in Southeast Asia and the Arabic texts that circulated there during the early modern period, this book offers new insights both into the Arabic literary heritage and into the relationships between Southeast A...Daugiau...
What was popular entertainment like for everyday Arab societies in Middle Eastern cities during the long nineteenth century? In what ways did café culture, theatre, illustrated periodicals, cinema, cabarets, and festivals serve as key forms of popul...Daugiau...
This book argues that eighteenth-century British travel writings about the Arabian overland routes to India offered fascinating anecdotes of encounters that allow us to rethink Enlightenment understanding of the meaning of improvement. Travelling...Daugiau...
Edward Said, the famous Palestinian American scholar and activist, was one of the twentieth centurys most iconic public intellectuals, whose pioneering and – to some – controversial work on Orientalism shaped Middle Eastern and postcolonial s...Daugiau...
How was the ancient Middle Eastincluding Egypt, Babylonia, and Persia imagined and employed for artistic, scholarly, and political purposes in Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America, circa 16001800 ?...Daugiau...
This cross-disciplinary volume makes the case for the Levant as a unit of analysis for the study of cultural production and change over the long-term in the Eastern Mediterranean-- This cross-disciplinary volume makes the case for the Levan...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Sep-2021, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Blue Dome Press, ISBN-13: 9781682060292)
Award-winning author Bradley Steffens introduces Ibn al-Haytham in this first full biography ever written about him. Though not a household name as far as the history of science goes, with his major contributions going largely unnoticed and uncredite...Daugiau...
Edward Said, the famous Palestinian American scholar and activist, was one of the twentieth centurys most iconic public intellectuals, whose pioneering and to some controversial work on Orientalism shaped Middle Eastern and postcolonial studi...Daugiau...
From the 1880s through the 1920s a motley collection of American scholars, soldiers of fortune, institutional bureaucrats, and financiers created the academic fields that give us our knowledge of the ancient Near East. Bruce Kuklicks new book beg...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 04-Dec-2018, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691656564)
From the 1880s through the 1920s a motley collection of American scholars, soldiers of fortune, institutional bureaucrats, and financiers created the academic fields that give us our knowledge of the ancient Near East. Bruce Kuklicks new book beg...Daugiau...
Ayalon analyses how the advent of mass printing shaped the intellectual and cultural movements of the time, and how it encouraged the creation of new forms of literary heritage. This unique presentation is essential for students and scholars of Arab...Daugiau...
Timur (or Tamerlane) is famous as the fourteenth-century conqueror of much of Central Eurasia and the founder of the Timurid dynasty. His reputation lived on in his native lands and reappeared some three centuries after his death in the form of ficti...Daugiau...
This volume provides the first survey of the unexplored connections between Machiavellis works and the Islamic world, running from the Arabic roots of The Prince to its first translations into Ottoman Turkish and Arabic. This survey also explores th...Daugiau...
