The Fall of the Caliphate of Córdoba : Berbers and Andalusis in Conflict /
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This book is a discussion of the complex events which surround the breakup of the Muslim Caliphate of Córdoba in the early eleventh century. The focus of the study concerns quite a short period of time: 1009-1031 A.D., although a wide-ranging investigation of the political structure of Muslim Spain is embarked on. A thorough narrative of the events is followed by separate discussions of some of the main groups involved in the civil wars, the Marwānids (the supporters of a legitimately-appointed Umayyad representative), the saqāliba (Slavs), the Berbers and the Christians of northern Spain. This book is able to fill the gap in our knowledge of this hitherto little-understood period of Spanish history and tackles important questions, such as the attitude towards the Berbers, tribal solidarity and the importance of land-reforms during the 10th century
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1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004610828
Analyzing collapse : the rise and fall of the Old Kingdom /
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This book explores the long-term trends in the development of what was the first complex civilization in history, the Old Kingdom of Egypt (c. 2650-2200 BC), the period that saw the construction of eternal monuments such as Djoser's Step Pyramid complex in Saqqara, the pyramids of the great Fourth Dynasty kings in Giza, and spectacular tombs of high officials throughout Egypt. The present study aims to show that the historical trajectory of the period was marked by specific processes that characterize most of the world's civilizations: the role of the ruling elite, the growth of bureaucracy, the proliferation of interest groups, and adaptation to climate change, to name but a few -- and the way that these processes held the germ of ultimate collapse. The case is made that the rise and fall of the Old Kingdom state is of relevance to the study of the anatomy of development of any complex civilization.
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xv, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789774168383
bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, NUMBER 199 - (Fall 2011)
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The Monastery of St Matthew the Potter al-Dayr al-Qadis al-Anba Mata'us al-Fakhuri, Esna -- the Wall Paintings From the Temple of Amenhotep ||| at Wadi es-Sebua: Conservation, Preservation, and Documentation -- "Restoring and Conserving a Tympmum from the North Chapel of the Senwosret ||| Pyramid Complex at Dahshur" -- Crumbling Challenge and Presentation Puzzle: the Karanis Site Management Project -- Egypt and the Block Sea Slave Trade During the Thirteenth Century -- An Introduction to the Palace in Ancient Egypt -- Director General of Upper Egypt and the Oases Presents Lectures -- ARCE Group Enjoys the Beauty and History of Cyprus -- Endowment Donors as of 7/21/2011 -- Annual Report.
bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, NUMBER 199 - (Fall 2011)
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The Monastery of St Matthew the Potter al-Dayr al-Qadis al-Anba Mata'us al-Fakhuri, Esna -- the Wall Paintings From the Temple of Amenhotep ||| at Wadi es-Sebua: Conservation, Preservation, and Documentation -- "Restoring and Conserving a Tympmum from the North Chapel of the Senwosret ||| Pyramid Complex at Dahshur" -- Crumbling Challenge and Presentation Puzzle: the Karanis Site Management Project -- Egypt and the Block Sea Slave Trade During the Thirteenth Century -- An Introduction to the Palace in Ancient Egypt -- Director General of Upper Egypt and the Oases Presents Lectures -- ARCE Group Enjoys the Beauty and History of Cyprus -- Endowment Donors as of 7/21/2011 -- Annual Report.
bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, NUMBER 181 - (Fall/Winter - 2001/2002)
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the Reconstruction of a Group of Wooden Models from the Tomb of Djehutynakht in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Nadia Lokma --Center Update -- Finding What Belzoni Didn't Take Foundation Deposit Pits in the Western Valley of the Kings / Richard H. Wilkinson -- Between Comite and Community: The Restoration of Al-Salih Tala'i / Alaa El-Habashi -- The Cairo Mapping Project / Nicholas Warner -- Conservation of the Cave Church at the Monastery of St. Paul / by the Red Sea Michael Jones.
bulletin of the American Research Center in Egypt, NUMBER 181 - (Fall/Winter - 2001/2002)
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the Reconstruction of a Group of Wooden Models from the Tomb of Djehutynakht in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston / Nadia Lokma --Center Update -- Finding What Belzoni Didn't Take Foundation Deposit Pits in the Western Valley of the Kings / Richard H. Wilkinson -- Between Comite and Community: The Restoration of Al-Salih Tala'i / Alaa El-Habashi -- The Cairo Mapping Project / Nicholas Warner -- Conservation of the Cave Church at the Monastery of St. Paul / by the Red Sea Michael Jones.
New Zealand's Muslims and multiculturalism /
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Issues of integration, multiculturalism and policies of ethnic and religious minority rights have gained greatly in significance in recent years, especially in relation to Muslims. This book deals with the Muslim minority in New Zealand, with special emphasis on policy aspects relevant to the integration of Muslims in the host society. The book also discusses many other issues, among which are Muslim political representation, inner coherence of the Muslim community, effects of public policies, differentiated citizenship, gender issues and gender equality, and points of friction with the encapsulating host society, including the effects of sharia application, radicalism and the fallout of the Danish cartoon affair.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789047440703 :
1570-7571 ; :
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David Jones : a Christian modernist? : new approaches to his art, poetry and cultural theory /
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David Jones: A Christian Modernist? is a major reassessment of the work of the poet, artist and essayist David Jones (1895-1974) in light of the complex, ambiguous idea of a 'Christian modernism'. His richly experimental and palimpsestic poetry, art and thought drew extensively on Christian tradition and symbolism as a key to the future: rejecting a technocratic and utilitarian modernity in favour of a revitalised culture of sign and sacrament. This volume examines historical influences on Jones's development, his impassioned engagement with the idea of modernity and with modernist literature and art, the theological sources and resonances of his work, and contemporary or late-modern perspectives on his achievement.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004356993 :
1877-3192 ; :
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Climbing Together: Relational Morality and Meaningful Action in Intercultural Community Engagement /
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Scholars and commentators have noted the frequent inefficacy of "development," and criticized the power relations it entrenches. Aware of these problems, some North Americans choose to disengage from transnational work. But the reality is that we cannot avoid participating in global networks that affect people in many countries, and there are vast inequalities in access to resources that need to be addressed. Through philosophical insights, narrative accounts, and testimony from community members, we can discover a path between development and disengagement, through which relational morality and meaningful action can enrich intercultural collaboration and yield many fruits.
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1 online resource (245 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004707344
Orthodox Christians and Muslims in Cappadocia : Local Interactions in an Ottoman Countryside (1839-1923) /
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This book traces the history of everyday relations of Greek-Orthodox Christians and Muslims of Cappadocia, an Ottoman countryside inhabited by various ethno-religious groups, either sharing the same settlements, or living in neighbouring villages. Based on Ottoman state archives, testimonies collected by the Centre of Asia Minor Studies, and various pre-1923 hand-written and printed sources mostly in Ottoman- and Karamanli-Turkish, and Greek, the study covers the period from 1839 to 1923 and proposes an anthropological perspective on everyday cross-religious interactions. It focuses on questions such as identification and mapping of communities, sharing of space and resources, use of languages, and religiosity in the context of conversions and of shared sacred spaces and beliefs to investigate everyday realities of a multireligious rural society which disappeared with the fall of the Empire.
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1 online resource (350 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004547704
Myths, martyrs, and modernity : studies in the history of religions in honour of Jan N. Bremmer /
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This volume in honour of Jan N. Bremmer contains the contributions of numerous students, colleagues, and friends offered to him on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Throughout his career, Bremmer has distinguished himself as an internationally renowned scholar of religion both past and present, including first and foremost Greek and Roman religion, but also early Christianity and post-classical developments in religion and spirituality. In line with these three main areas of Bremmer's research, the volume is divided into three parts, bringing together contributions from distinguished scholars in many fields. The result is a diverse book which provides a broad spectrum of original ideas and innovative approaches in the history of religions, thus reflecting the nature of the scholarship of Bremmer himself.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004193659 :
0169-8834 ; :
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Annual review of the sociology of religion /
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Recent studies show that atheism is increasing. The reasons for this development have not as yet been examined thoroughly. Many atheists continue to be residual groups in surveys on religiosity, making it difficult to examine who they are and why they have chosen to be atheists. Moreover, they are minority groups in most countries (former Soviet bloc countries are left out of discussion); many do not identify with any organized groups of atheists or agnostics. Atheist groups and ideologies, then, represent a wide range of attitudes, behaviour and ways of acting towards religion. The lack of a clear definition of what being atheist (or an unbeliever) means today invites us to study the issue in greater depth. This volume represents a first attempt at understanding and scrutinizing atheism. Thanks to all contributors, it provides both a global perspective and specific insights into specific cases.
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1 online resource : color illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004319301 :
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New faith in ancient lands : Western missions in the Middle East in the nineteenth and early twentienth [i.e. twentieth] centuries /
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Over the centuries, the Middle East has held an important place in the religious consciousness of many Christians in West and East. In the nineteenth century, these interests culminated in extensive missionary work of Protestant and Roman Catholic organisations, among Eastern Christians, Muslims and Jews. The present volume, in articles written by an international group of scholars, discusses themes like the historical background of Christian geopiety among Roman Catholics and Protestants, and the internal tensions and conflicting aims of missions and missionaries, such as between nationalist and internationalist interests, between various rival organisations and between conversionalist and civilizational aims of missions in the Ottoman Empire. In a synthetic overview and a comprehensive bibliography an up-to-date introduction into this field is provided.
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Proceedings of a symposium held in Jan. 2005 at the Universiteit Leiden. :
1 online resource (xi, 339 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-328) and index. :
9789047411406 :
0924-9389 ; :
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Voicing Vulnerable Bodies Living on the Edges : The Autoethnography of a Transnational Mariposa /
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Panama has been considered one of the most developed countries in Latin America. With high skylines and a modern metro system, this Central American country hides a true reality when we explore it in a deeper level. Like many other marginalized groups, LGBT communities in Panama have been invisible and ignored by the State. Incidents related to homophobia, transphobia, and hate crime have been taken for granted for many years. Instead, LGBT individuals have been blamed for behaving against social and sometimes religious norms. This book answers the researcher's questions: (1) How can I use my transnational mariposa consciousness to document my lived experiences as a maricón in Panama? (2) What does it mean to be a gay man in Panama nowadays? (3) How do trans women's experiences with a hostile society shape their everyday existence?
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1 online resource (153 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004714779
Prophetic vocation in the New Testament and today /
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"Produced within the framework of a consultation ... at the Ecumenical Institute, Bossey, Switzerland from 12-17 September 1975."
English, French, or German. :
1 online resource (viii, 248 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004266568 :
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Earthly Adams and Pious Philosophers : A Theological Anthropological Lens to the Sixteenth-Century Astronomical Revolution /
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Focusing on the works of a select group of Lutheran astronomers in the Wittenberg sphere of influence, Earthly Adams and Pious Philosophers establishes a theological anthropological blueprint that echoed in their contributions to the sixteenth-century astronomical revolution. In challenging canonical cosmology and its Scholastic advocates, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Tycho Brahe, and Caspar Peucer invoked intellectual piety and a pessimist epistemology tailored to Luther's understanding of man after the Fall. The fruitful ignorance to which they submitted can be seen as part of a larger view of the self and the world, the astronomer, the academic scholar and the university, that was essentially theologically informed.
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1 online resource (225 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004387751
Women and knowledge in early Christianity /
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Women and knowledge are interconnected in several ways in late ancient and early Christian discourses, not least because wisdom (Sophia) and spiritual knowledge (Gnosis) were frequently personified as female entities. Ancient texts deal with idealized women and use feminine imagery to describe the divine but they also debate women's access to and capacity of gaining knowledge. Combining rhetorical analysis with social historical approaches, the contributions in this book cover a wide array of source materials, drawing special attention to the so-called Gnostic texts. The fourteen essays, written by prominent experts of ancient Christianity, are dedicated to Professor Antti Marjanen (University of Helsinki).
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1 online resource (x, 379 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004344938 :
0920-623X ; :
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Social relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915 /
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Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, 1870-1915 offers new, microhistoric and non-nationalist perspectives on the late 19th century history of the province of Diyarbekir. Focusing on a period dominated by violent conflicts between the authorities and various local elites and population groups of the region - urban Muslims, Kurds, Armenians, Syrian Christians and others - this book offers new insights into the social history of the region and the origins of the Armenian and Kurdish \'Questions\', which were to gain such prominence in the 20th century.
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1 online resource (x, 369 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789004232273 :
1380-6076 ; :
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