Author : Rachid El Hour
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 2022-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9004513108
An original and relevant study on female sanctity in Morocco that relies both in oral and written hagiographical sources. Memory and Presence of Female Saints in Ksar el Kebir focuses on the local to reflect on the wider and very relevant phenomenon of religious devotion and women in Western Islam.
Author : Rachid El Hour
Publisher : Studies in the History and Soc
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 14,16 MB
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004513099
"This book discusses hagiographical sources from Morocco taking in consideration the often-overlooked oral tradition. Orality, as is shown in this study, completes and enriches the vision of hagiography that written sources traditionally has offered. The most relevant example in this book is the high presence of female saints in oral narratives that were not included in any other written sources. Recovering oral tradition to study hagiography as well as the role of female saints in Morocco has been one of the main areas of focus in this study as well as problematizing the dependence and dialogue between written and oral culture and can help to understand the diffusion and presence of similar phenomena in other areas of Morocco"--
Author : Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 14,55 MB
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9004681612
This book sheds light on the final process of slavery in Morocco, unraveling the contemporary roots of servility and stereotypes about blackness in the Arab world. Unlike other generalist analyses, this research focuses on the practice of servitude through a case study in the city of Tetouan. Until well into the twentieth century, bought women arrived in the city to join the domestic labor market, also becoming signs of social distinction. This historical ethnography is paradigmatic in reconstructing the relations between masters and domestics of slave origin, putting names and faces to subaltern people to rescue them from oblivion.
Author : Josiah Blackmore
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 17,84 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816648328
Delving into the Portuguese imperial experience, 'Moorings' enriches our understanding of historical and literary imagination during a significant period of Western expansion.
Author : Jerome Rothenberg
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520273850
"Global anthology of twentieth-century poetry"--Back cover.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9004279350
The expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain (1609-1614) represents an important episode of ethnic, political and religious cleansing which affected about 300,000 persons. The controversial measure was legimitized by an ideology of religious and political unity that served to defend the expulsion of them all, crypto-Muslims and sincere converts to Christianity alike. The first part focuses on the decision to expel the Moriscos, its historical context and the role of such institutions as the Vatican and the religious orders, and nations such as France, Italy, the Dutch Republic, Morocco and the Ottoman Empire. The second part studies the aftermath of the expulsion, the forced migrations, settlement and Diaspora of the Moriscos, comparing their vicissitudes with that of the Jewish conversos. Contributors are Youssef El Alaoui, Rafael Benítez Sánchez Blanco, Luis Fernando Bernabé Pons, Paulo Broggio, Miguel Ángel de Bunes Ibarra, Antonio Feros, Mercedes García-Arenal, Jorge Gil Herrera,Tijana Krstić, Sakina Missoum, Natalia Muchnik, Stefania Pastore, Juan Ignacio Pulido Serrano, James B. Tueller, Olatz Villanueva Zubizarreta, Bernard Vincent, and Gerard Wiegers.
Author : Maria Manuel Lisboa
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783747566
In these powerful and stylishly written essays, Maria Manuel Lisboa dissects the work of Paula Rego, the Portuguese-born artist considered one of the greatest artists of modern times. Focusing primarily on Rego's work since the 1980s, Lisboa explores the complex relationships between violence and nurturing, power and impotence, politics and the family that run through Rego's art. Taking a historicist approach to the evolution of the artist's work, Lisboa embeds the works within Rego's personal history as well as Portugal's (and indeed other nations') stories, and reveals the interrelationship between political significance and the raw emotion that lies at the heart of Rego's uncompromising iconographic style. Fundamental to Lisboa's analysis is an understanding that apparent opposites - male and female, sacred and profane, aggression and submissiveness - often co-exist in Rego's work in a way that is both disturbing and destabilising. This collection of essays brings together both unpublished and previously published work to make a significant contribution to scholarship about Paula Rego. It will also be of interest to scholars and students of contemporary painting, Portuguese and British feminist art, and the political and ideological aspects of the visual arts.
Author : Hsain Ilahiane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 42,22 MB
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1442281820
Berbers, also known as Imazighen, are the ancient inhabitants of North Africa, but rarely have they formed an actual kingdom or separate nation state. Ranging anywhere between 15-50 million, depending on how they are classified, the Berbers have influenced the culture and religion of Roman North Africa and played key roles in the spread of Islam and its culture in North Africa, Spain, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Taken together, these dynamics have over time converted to redefine the field of Berber identity and its socio-political representations and symbols, making it an even more important issue in the 21st century. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Berbers contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, places, events, institutions, and aspects of culture, society, economy, and politics. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Berbers.
Author : Edward Westermarck
Publisher :
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 34,16 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Folklore
ISBN :
Author : Edith Wharton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 2015-12-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781522863946
In 1921, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, earning the award for The Age of Innocence. But Wharton also wrote several other novels, as well as poems and short stories that made her not only famous but popular among her contemporaries. That included her good friend Henry James, and she counted among her acquaintances Teddy Roosevelt and Sinclair Lewis.
