Views from the edge : essays in honor of Richard W. Bulliet /
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Language: English
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Columbia University Press for the Middle East Institute, Columbia University,
2004.
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Call Number: DS35.4 .A2 V54 2004
Table of Contents:
- •Preface / •Neguin Yavari, Lawrence G. Potter and Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim •Doing it : Richard W. Bulliet and Islamic studies / •Fred Donner •Richard W. Bulliet : personal observations / •Leila Fawaz •Richard W. Bulliet : bibliography •Trading diaspora, state building and the idea of national interest / •Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe •Palestinian and Jordanian views of the Balfour Declaration / •Alexander Bligh •Standards of living in East and West : England and Egypt before and after the Black Death / •Stuart J. Borsch •Ancient Iranian ideas in a modern context : aspects of royal legitimacy under Muhammad Riza Shah Pahlavi / •Jamsheed K. Choksy •A note on biblical narrative and 'Abbasid history / •Tayeb El-Hibri •Historical patterns of higher education for women in Morocco since independence / •Patricia C. Gloster-Coates •'Arib al-Ma'muniya : a third/ninth century 'Abbasid courtesan / •Matthew S. Gordon •The ideas of Amir Shakib Arslan before and after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire / •Mahmoud Haddad •City administration in Hafez's Shiraz / •John Limbert •From artistic endeavor to economic enterprise; horsemanship from the 18th to the 20th centuries / •Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim •Capturing imagination : the Buja and medieval Islamic mappa mundi / •Karen C. Pinto •Herat under the Karts : social and political forces / •Lawrence G. Potter •Khurasan and the crises of legitimacy : a comparative historiographical perspective / •Parvaneh Pourshariati •Women in the sectarian politics of Lebanon / •Sofia Saada •Islam, Italy's internal frontier / •Ariel Salzmann •The rise of the Ottoman Empire : the Black Death in medieval Anatolia and its impact on Turkish civilization / •Uli Schamiloglu •"The tomb of the twelfth Imam" and other tales of crime / •Reeva Spector Simon •Islam on the eighteenth-century stage : Voltaire's Mahomet crosses the Atlantic / •Denise A. Spellberg •The gendered edge of Islam / •Elizabeth Thompson •Polysemous texts and reductionist readings : women and heresy in the Siyar al-Muluk / •Neguin Yavari.