The Organization of Power : aspects of bureaucracy in the ancient Near East /
: Papers of a symposium sponsodred by the Oriental Institute and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicagom, April 16-17, 1983. : xii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. : Bibliograpy : pages 158-159. : 0918986516 (pbk.)
Islam and modernism in Egypt : a study of the modern reform movement inaugurated by Muḥammad ʻAbduh /
: The first part of a dissertation submitted in 1928 to the Graduate faculty of the University of Chicago, Department of Old Testament, for degree of doctor of philosophy. It forms an introductory study for a translation into English, not yet published, of a work on the Islāmic caliphate by ʻAlī ʻAbd al-Rāzik. Cf. Pref. : viii, 283 pages ; 23 cm. : Bibliography : pages [269]-274.
Sacred Law in the Holy City : The Khedival Challenge to the Ottomans as seen from Jerusalem, 1829-1841 /
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The Muslim community's political and socio-economic role in Jerusalem under Ottoman administration during the 1830s is analyzed in this volume from a natural law perspective. A bitter political contest between Sultan Mahmud II and Muhammad Ali Pasha resulted in the military occupation of Syria and imposition of a brutal new political and legal regime which crushed the indigenous elites of southern Syria. Through a careful analysis of the archives of the Islamic law court of Jerusalem, the study offers a fresh appraisal of how the Ottoman Empire ruled Jerusalem and considers the Muslim response, elucidating the reasons for the breakdown of their relations with non-Muslim Ottoman subjects and differentiating the Ottoman understanding of law and government from that of their enemies, the Wahhabis.
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago, 1993. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789047405207
9789004138100
Civic ideology, organization, and law in the Rule scrolls : a comparative study of the Covenanters' sect and contemporary voluntary associations in political context /
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Over the past sixty years, several studies have demonstrated that the Dead Sea Scrolls sect was one of numerous voluntary associations that flourished in the Hellenistic-Roman age. Yet the origins of organizational and regulatory patterns that the sect shared with other associations have not been adequately explained. Drawing upon sociological studies of modern associations, this book argues that most ancient groups appropriated patterns from the state. Comparison of the Rule Scrolls with Greco-Roman constitutional literature, as well as philosophical, rabbinic, and early Christian texts, shows that the sect's appropriation helped articulate an \'alternative civic ideology\' by which members identified themselves as subjects of a commonwealth alternative and superior to that of the status quo. Like other associations with alternative civic ideology, the Covenanters studied constitution and law with the intention of reform, anticipating governance of restored Israel at the End of Days.
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Revised version of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 2007. :
1 online resource (xxv, 586 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [525]-552) and indexes. :
9789004212183 :
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