Protestants, Gender and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria, Paperback - Deanna Ferree Womack

The Ottoman Syrians - residents of modern Syria and Lebanon - formed the first Arabic-speaking Evangelical Church in the region. This book offers a...

For a long time, American Christians have been hearing a story about Islam. Its a story about conflict and hostility, about foreigners and stranger...

Reducere. For hundreds of years, skilled craftspeople in the Syrian centers of Aleppo, Damascus, and Homs produced intricately woven textiles for the royal c...

An observatory and a lighthouse form the nexus of this major new investigation of science, religion, and the state in late Ottoman Egypt. Astronomy...

Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference - Madeline Zilfi

Reducere. Uncovering a history buried by different nationalist narratives (Jewish, Israeli, Arab and Palestinian) this book looks at how the late Ottoman era...

A lively and original study tracing the development of 'laziness' as a social problem in the Ottoman Empire over the long nineteenth-century. Hafez...

Publisher: Syracuse University PressAuthor(s): Nazan MaksudyanIllustration(s): 16 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 264Collection: Gend...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Necati (University of Bamberg, Germany) AlkanNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dimension...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Available in English for the first time, Julius von Schlosser's seminal work in the history of art and collecting was the first study to interpret ...

Explores the literary culture of the Ottoman Empire's Sephardic JewsPublisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Olga BorovayaIllustration(s): 8 b...

DescriptionAs the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving be...

Modern scholarship generally treats the "debate about women" (querelle des femmes) as a late medieval phenomenon, perhaps touched upon by canonic a...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for...

This is an outstanding collection of essays which brings together for the first time the work of a group of writers well--known in the Marxist--fem...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 234 x 157 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

This collection of articles written by feminist scholars focuses on intimate Arab familial relationships. The authors identify key family relations...

A new history uncovers the crucial role women played in the great transformations of medical science and health care that accompanied the Italian R...

Reducere. Written forms of Arabic composed during the era of the Ottoman Empire present an immensely fruitful linguistic topic. Extant texts display a proxim...

On fire for God--a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to re...

This study investigates the 'exceptional' staging of the life of Catherine of Siena by a female actor and a female patron in 1468 Metz. Integrating...

This highly original book provides a social, cultural, and political history of Slavic Muslim women of the Yugoslav region in the first decades of ...

The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex, focusing on ideas and individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender cate...

Reducere. From its birth in 1839, photography has participated in modernity as much as it has symbolized it. Its capacity to record and display and its claim...

Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war's devastations had become clear? Were its leaders '...

About the AuthorReem Bassiouney is professor of linguistics at the American University in Cairo. Her books include Language and Identity in Modern ...

Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious s...

Reducere. Women in Saudi Arabia are often described as either victims of patriarchal religion and society or successful survivors of discrimination imposed o...

Reducere. A myth-shattering view of the Islamic world's myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance. Many of ...

Tackling politics, society, religion, and economy, this book explores the 11 years of Asad's rule between the clampdown on Damascus Spring in 2001 ...

China's Grandmothers explores the status and lives of grandmothers in China from the late Qing to the present. Using a wide range of historical and...

An account of the alliance between the Catholic Church and the Italian Fascist regime in their campaign against Protestants Based on previously und...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Mahmoud AltarabinIllustration(s): 167 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages: 186Collection: Routledge St...

The Arabic Club Readers are a series of banded, colourful and fun books for young learners of Arabic, designed to nurture confidence and motivation

The Early Ottoman Peloponnese: A study in the Light of an Annotated editio princeps of the TT10-1/14662 Ottoman Taxation Cadastre (ca. 1460-1463) i...

Reducere. It is the height of the Renaissance. The "princes" of the states which 400 years later will be united into the country of Italy are trying to maint...

The Russian Military Intervention in Syria examines Russia's foreign policy and attempts to protect its interests in the Middle East and former Sov...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): Gerard J. WomackNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 205 x 24Cover type: Paperback /...

The first illustrated, architectural history of the 'Alid shrines, increasingly endangered by the conflict in Syria