Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs
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Author : Harvard University (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.). Center for Middle Eastern Studies
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Release : 1959
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Author : Nadia Maria El-Cheikh
Publisher : Harvard CMES
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 19,61 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780932885302
This book studies the Arabic-Islamic view of Byzantium, tracing the Byzantine image as it evolved through centuries of warfare, contact, and exchanges. Including previously inaccessible material on the Arabic textual tradition on Byzantium, this investigation shows the significance of Byzantium to the Arab Muslim establishment and their appreciation of various facets of Byzantine culture and civilization. The Arabic-Islamic representation of the Byzantine Empire stretching from the reference to Byzantium in the Qur'an until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 is considered in terms of a few salient themes. The image of Byzantium reveals itself to be complex, non-monolithic, and self-referential. Formulating an alternative appreciation to the politics of confrontation and hostility that so often underlies scholarly discourse on Muslim-Byzantine relations, this book presents the schemes developed by medieval authors to reinterpret aspects of their own history, their own self-definition, and their own view of the world.
Author : Willard A. Beling
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,19 MB
Release : 1960
Category : History
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Page : 180 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Middle East
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Author : Flagg Miller
Publisher : Harvard CMES
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780932885326
This book studies contemporary Arab political poetry, providing insights into how modern Arab media forms are shaped by language and culture. By examining lives and works of individual poets, singers, and audiences, it shows how tribalism is a resource for critical reform when expressed in tropes of community, place, person, and history.
Author : Roger Owen
Publisher : Harvard CMES
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 13,62 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780932885265
Land was the major economic resource in the pre-modern Middle East. Questions of ownership, of access, of management and of control occupied a central role in administration, in law, and in rural practice over many centuries. Nevertheless, the subject of land and property relations is still not well understood.
Author : Kathleen M. Langley
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 30,52 MB
Release : 2012-07-01
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Author : Kathryn Babayan
Publisher : Harvard CMES
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780932885289
Focusing on idealists and visionaries who believed that Justice could reign in our world, this book explores the desire to experience utopia on earth. Reluctant to await another existence, individuals with ghuluww, or exaggeration, emerged at the advent of Islam, expecting to attain the apocalyptic horizon of Truth.
Author : Kathryn Babayan
Publisher : Harvard CMES
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,3 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674032040
This anthology explores different genealogies of sexuality and questions some of the theoretical emphases and epistemic assumptions affecting current histories of sexuality.