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Ērān ud Anērān

Author : Carsten Binder

Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 32,96 MB

Release : 2006

Category : History

ISBN : 9783515088299

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Lange Zeit hat man das iranische Reich der Sasaniden (3.-7. Jh.) nahezu ausschließlich als militärischen Gegenspieler von Römern und Byzantinern wahrgenommen. Der Tagungsband macht dagegen die Vielfalt der politischen, wirtschaftlichen und kulturellen Kontakte zwischen Ost und West in ihrer Zeit sowie der römischen Iran- und der iranischen Rombilder ebenso deutlich wie die Spezifika des östlichen Reiches. Aus dem Inhalt Josef Wiesehöfer: Statt einer Einleitung: ,Randkultur' oder ,Nabel der Welt'? Das Sasanidenreich und der Westen. Anmerkungen eines Althistorikers Janine Balty: Mosaïques romaines, mosaïques sassanides: jeux d'influences réciproques Jan Willem Drijvers: Ammianus Marcellinus' Image of Sasanian Society Philippe Gignoux: Prolégomènes pour une histoire des idées de l'Iran sassanide: convergences et divergences Rika Gyselen: Note de glyptique sassanide. 6. Le phénomène des motifs iconographiques communs à l'Iran sassanide et au bassin méditerranéen Udo Hartmann: Mareades - ein sasanidischer Quisling? Matthäus Heil: Perser im spätrömischen Dienst Philip Huyse: Die sasanidische Königstitulatur: Eine Gegenüberstellung der Quellen Andreas Luther: Roms mesopotamische Provinzen nach der Gefangennahme Valerians (260) Antonio Panaino: Women and Kingship. Some remarks about the enthronisation of Queen Boran and her sister *Azarmigduxt Rolf Michael Schneider: Orientalism in Late Antiquity. The Oriental in Imperial and Christian Imagery Ursula Weber: Ankündigung eines prosopographischen Projektes



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Publisher : Odile Jacob

Page : 515 pages

File Size : 43,13 MB

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ISBN : 2738198600

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The Last Lingua Franca

Author : Nicholas Ostler

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 353 pages

File Size : 50,85 MB

Release : 2010-11-23

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0802717713

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Examines the rise and fall of English as the most widely spoken language in human history and discusses what language will overtake its dominance as English-speaking nations are challenged by the rising wealth of Brazil, Russia, India and China.



The Taming of the Demons

Author : Jacob P. Dalton

Publisher : Yale University Press

Page : 325 pages

File Size : 30,51 MB

Release : 2011-06-28

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0300153929

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The Taming of the Demons examines mythic and ritual themes of violence, demon taming, and blood sacrifice in Tibetan Buddhism. Taking as its starting point Tibet's so-called age of fragmentation (842 to 986 C.E.), the book draws on previously unstudied manuscripts discovered in the "library cave" near Dunhuang, on the old Silk Road. These ancient documents, it argues, demonstrate how this purportedly inactive period in Tibetan history was in fact crucial to the Tibetan assimilation of Buddhism, and particularly to the spread of violent themes from tantric Buddhism into Tibet at the local and the popular levels. Having shed light on this "dark age" of Tibetan history, the second half of the book turns to how, from the late tenth century onward, the period came to play a vital symbolic role in Tibet, as a violent historical "other" against which the Tibetan Buddhist tradition defined itself. -- Georges Dreyfus



Sufism in the Secret History of Persia

Author : Milad Milani

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 227 pages

File Size : 25,90 MB

Release : 2014-10-14

Category : Religion

ISBN : 1317544587

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Sufism formed one of the cultures of resistance which has existed in the social fabric of Persia since antiquity. Such resistance continues to manifest itself today with many looking to Sufism as a model of cooperation between East and West, between traditional and modern. 'Sufism in the Secret History of Persia' explores the place of Sufi mysticism in Iran's intellectual and spiritual consciousness through traditional and contemporary Sufi thinkers and writers. Sufism in the Secret History of Persia examines the current of spirituality which extends from the old Iranian worship of Mithra to modern Islam. This current always contains elements of gnosis and inner knowing, but has often provided impetus for socio-political resistance. The study describes how these persisting pre-Islamic cultural and socio-religious elements have secretly challenged Muslim orthodoxies and continue to shape the nature and orientation of contemporary Sufism.



A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews

Author : Avner Falk

Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

Page : 868 pages

File Size : 12,62 MB

Release : 1996

Category : History

ISBN : 9780838636602

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This includes the evolution of the Hebrew religion as a projective response to the inner conflicts produced by the human family; the sociopsychological development of the Israelite kingdoms in Canaan; the fascinating duality of Jewish life in the "Diaspora"; and the emotional ties of the Jews to their idealized motherland from the Babylonian exile to modern political Zionism.



The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism

Author : Reza Zia-Ebrahimi

Publisher : Columbia University Press

Page : 466 pages

File Size : 37,92 MB

Release : 2016-03-15

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0231541112

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Reza Zia-Ebrahimi revisits the work of Fath?ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded modern Iranian nationalism. In their efforts to make sense of a difficult historical situation, these thinkers advanced an appealing ideology Zia-Ebrahimi calls "dislocative nationalism," in which pre-Islamic Iran is cast as a golden age, Islam is reinterpreted as an alien religion, and Arabs become implacable others. Dislodging Iran from its empirical reality and tying it to Europe and the Aryan race, this ideology remains the most politically potent form of identity in Iran. Akhundzadeh and Kermani's nationalist reading of Iranian history has been drilled into the minds of Iranians since its adoption by the Pahlavi state in the early twentieth century. Spread through mass schooling, historical narratives, and official statements of support, their ideological perspective has come to define Iranian culture and domestic and foreign policy. Zia-Ebrahimi follows the development of dislocative nationalism through a range of cultural and historical materials, and he captures its incorporation of European ideas about Iranian history, the Aryan race, and a primordial nation. His work emphasizes the agency of Iranian intellectuals in translating European ideas for Iranian audiences, impressing Western conceptions of race onto Iranian identity.



The Roman Empire in Context

Author : Johann P. Arnason

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 549 pages

File Size : 33,33 MB

Release : 2010-12-23

Category : History

ISBN : 1444390201

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Through a series of original essays by leading international scholars, The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives offers a comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire’s role and achievement and, more broadly, establishes Rome’s significance within comparative studies. Fills a gap in comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire’s role and achievement Features contributions from more than a dozen distinguished scholars from around the world Explores the relevance of important comparativist themes of state, empire, and civilization to ancient Rome



Multiculturalism and Identity Politics

Author : Kalika Shah

Publisher : Partridge Publishing

Page : 555 pages

File Size : 34,69 MB

Release : 2019-12-20

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1543706193

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This book aims at analysing the fiction produced by the expatriate Parsee writers of the Indian subcontinent: Bapsi Sidhwa, Rohinton Mistry and Boman Desai. These Parsee writers of the South Asian origin have emigrated to Canada and USA in the latter part of the twentieth century. Their works offer several possibilities seen from the multicultural point of view. The fiction of these Parsee diasporic writers examines the problem of migration, relocation and changing identities from a vantage point of distance gained by an insider’s view of their community and an outsider’s view from the host country. Dislocations, even when voluntary, always have a traumatic side to it due to the process of acculturation, assimilation into or differences with the host country and the issue of rights and privileges in the new location. For the diasporic communities of different backgrounds, their memory, history and cultural beliefs are the important factors that determine their identities. These Parsee novels demonstrate how individual and group/collective identities of the Parsees get constructed and reconstructed/redefined against the changing multinational contexts.



Handbook of Medieval Studies

Author : Albrecht Classen

Publisher : Walter de Gruyter

Page : 2822 pages

File Size : 49,39 MB

Release : 2010-11-29

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 3110215586

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This interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.