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From Turtle Island to Gaza
With a sure voice, Groulx, an Anishnaabee writer, artistically weaves together the experiences of Indigenous peoples in settler Canada with those of the people of Palestine, revealing a shared understanding...
ISBN: 9781771992619
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Architecture and Tourism in Italian Colonial Libya
An Ambivalent Modernism
To be a tourist in Libya during the period of Italian colonization was to experience a complex negotiation of cultures. Against a sturdy backdrop of indigenous culture and architecture, modern metropolitan...
ISBN: 9780295741413
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Axis of Hope
Iranian Women's Rights Activism across Borders
Political tensions between Iran and the United States in the post-9/11 period and the Global War on Terror have set the stage for Iranian women’s rights activists inside and outside Iran as they...
ISBN: 9780295746326
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Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in Eighteenth-Century Damascus
Damascus was for centuries a center of learning and commerce. Drawing on the city's dazzling literary tradition-a rich collection of poetry, chronicles, travel accounts, and biographical dictionaries-as...
ISBN: 9780295999906
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Cities of the Dead
The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan
A Kyrgyz cemetery seen from a distance is astonishing. The ornate domes and minarets, tightly clustered behind stone walls, seem at odds with this desolate mountain region. Islam, the prominent religion...
ISBN: 9780295993980
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The New Woman in Uzbekistan
Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism
Winner of the Association of Women in Slavic Studies Heldt PrizeWinner of the Central Eurasian Studies Society History and Humanities Book AwardHonorable mention for the W. Bruce Lincoln...
ISBN: 9780295988191
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Afghanistan's Endless War
State Failure, Regional Politics, and the Rise of the Taliban
Going beyond the stereotypes of Kalashnikov-wielding Afghan mujahideen and black-turbaned Taliban fundamentalists, Larry Goodson explains in this concise analysis of the Afghan war what has really...
ISBN: 9780295980508
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The Martyrs of Karbala
Shi'i Symbols and Rituals in Modern Iran
This innovative study examines patterns of change in Shi’i symbols and rituals over the past two centuries to reveal how modernization has influenced the societal, political, and religious culture...
ISBN: 9780295984551
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The Merchant Houses of Mocha
Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port
Gaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. Its very name became synonymous with Yemen's most...
ISBN: 9780295989112
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Modern Clan Politics
The Power of "Blood" in Kazakhstan and Beyond
Edward Schatz explores the politics of kin-based clan divisions in the post-Soviet state of Kazakhstan. Drawing from extensive ethnographic and archival research, interviews, and wide-ranging secondary...
ISBN: 9780295984476
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A Moveable Empire
Ottoman Nomads, Migrants, and Refugees
A Moveable Empire examines the history of the Ottoman Empire through a new lens, focusing on the migrant groups that lived within its bounds and their changing relationship to the state's...
ISBN: 9780295989488
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Islamist Mobilization in Turkey
A Study in Vernacular Politics
Winner of the William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist AnthropologyThe emergence of an Islamist movement and the startling buoyancy of Islamic political parties in Turkey--a model of secular...
ISBN: 9780295982915
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Activists in Office
Kurdish Politics and Protest in Turkey
Thousands of Kurdish politician-activists have been prosecuted and imprisoned, and hundreds have been murdered for espousing Kurdish political and cultural rights over the past twenty years. The...
ISBN: 9780295990507
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Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran
Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran traces the history of the Bakhtiyari tribal confederacy of the Zagros Mountains through momentous times that saw the opening of...
ISBN: 9780295989952
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The Transformation of Islamic Art during the Sunni Revival
The transformation of Islamic architecture and ornament during the eleventh and twelfth centuries signaled profound cultural changes in the Islamic world. Yasser Tabbaa explores with exemplary lucidity...
ISBN: 9780295981338
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Modernism and the Middle East
Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century
This provocative collection of essays is the first book-length treatment of the development of modern architecture in the Middle East. Ranging from Jerusalem at the turn of the twentieth century...
ISBN: 9780295987941
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Nationalizing Iran
Culture, Power, and the State, 1870-1940
When Naser al-Din Shah, who ruled Iran from 1848 to 1896, claimed the title Shadow of God on Earth, his authority rested on premodern conceptions of sacred kingship. By 1941, when Mohammad Reza Shah...
ISBN: 9780295988207
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Shiraz in the Age of Hafez
The Glory of a Medieval Persian City
In the fourteenth-century Persian city of Shiraz, poets composed, scholars studied, mystics sought hidden truths, ascetics prayed and fasted, drunkards brawled, and princes and their courtiers played...
ISBN: 9780295983912
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Coffee and Coffeehouses
The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East
Drawing on the accounts of early European travelers, original Arabic sources on jurisprudence and etiquette, and treatises on coffee from the period, the author recounts the colorful early history...
ISBN: 9780295962313
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The Tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam
The tyrannical monster Zahhak upon whose shoulder grew serpents that feasted daily on the brains of Iran’s youth; the giant hero Rostam who vanquished entire armies with his immense strength and...
ISBN: 9780295975672
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