Author: Iraq. Civil CommissionerPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Compilation of Proclamations, Notices, Etc., Relating to the Civil Administration and Inhabitants of the Baghdad Wilayat Issued from 22nd December, 1916, to December 31st, 1918
Author: Iraq. Civil CommissionerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations: The British Commonwealth ; excluding the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and Pakistan. 2nd. ed
Author: A Post-war Bibliography of the Near Eastern Mandates
Author: American University of Beirut. Faculty of Arts and SciencesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabic newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publications
Author: American University of Beirut. Faculty of Arts and SciencesPublisher:
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Values in Islamic Culture and the Experience of History
Author: N. S. KirabaevPublisher: CRVP
ISBN: 9781565181335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Other Shiites
Author: Alessandro MonsuttiPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039112890
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Shia Islam is a central issue in contemporary politics. Often associated with Iran, Shiite communities actually exist in many Islamic countries. Focusing on the «other Shiites» outside Iran, this book offers a survey of their diversity and multiplicity in the last two centuries. The contributions cover three major topics. The first part deals with the relationship of Shia minorities to the Sunni regimes. Secondly the public affirmation of their identities through specific rituals and social attitudes is analysed. Finally, the third part of this volume examines the strengthening of these identities through traditional religious rituals and cultural performances, or through the re-interpretation and adaptation of these to present-day life. Coming from various academic backgrounds, the authors have used different methodologies and have been engaged in field-work.
Journey Among Brave Men
Author: Dana Adams SchmidtPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802146767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A gripping account of an award-winning journalist’s journey into the heart of rebel territory during the First Iraqi-Kurdish War. On July 4, 1962, New York Times foreign correspondent Dana Adams Schmidt left his post in Beirut to be voluntarily smuggled into Iraqi Kurdistan. It was the beginning of a nearly two-month journey that would climax in a days-long visit with the leader of the Kurdish rebellion, the most loved and feared man in Kurdistan, Mullah Mustafa Barzani. Accompanied by armed Kurdish guides and a 72-year-old Turkish interpreter, the six-feet-three-inch, seersucker-suit-clad Schmidt traveled, often at night, a secret route by foot, mule, horse and, on two occasions, jeep into the high Kurdish mountains to report on “the fightingest people in the Middle East” as no foreign journalist had done before. The physical dangers were acute—his group was strafed more than once by the Iraqi air force. Along the way, Schmidt learned about the history and culture of the Kurds, whose cause Barzani hoped Schmidt could convey to the world. Originally published in 1964 and now back in print with a new foreword by historian Charles Glass, Journey Among Brave Men is an enduring testament to the power of audacious journalism and to the strong will of the Kurds, an embattled people who remain in search of an independent state today. “One can only marvel at the author’s indefatigable industry and power of enthusiasm, which makes him one of the most reliable of all daily paper reporters . . . An excellent, fair and patently honest piece of work.”—The New York Times
Afghanistan's Islam
Author: Nile GreenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520294130
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
"This book provides the first ever overview of the history and development of Islam in Afghanistan. It covers every era from the conversion of Afghanistan through the medieval and early modern periods to the present day. Based on primary sources in Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu and Uzbek, its depth and scope of coverage is unrivalled by any existing publication on Afghanistan. As well as state-sponsored religion, the chapters cover such issues as the rise of Sufism, Sharia, women's religiosity, transnational Islamism and the Taliban. Islam has been one of the most influential social and political forces in Afghan history. Providing idioms and organizations for both anti-state and anti-foreign mobilization, Islam has proven to be a vital socio-political resource in modern Afghanistan. Even as it has been deployed as the national cement of a multi-ethnic 'Emirate' and then 'Islamic Republic,' Islam has been no less a destabilizing force in dividing Afghan society. Yet despite the universal scholarly recognition of the centrality of Islam to Afghan history, its developmental trajectories have received relatively little sustained attention outside monographs and essays devoted to particular moments or movements. To help develop a more comprehensive, comparative and developmental picture of Afghanistan's Islam from the eighth century to the present, this edited volume brings together specialists on different periods, regions and languages. Each chapter forms a case study 'snapshot' of the Islamic beliefs, practices, institutions and authorities of a particular time and place in Afghanistan"--Provided by publishe
Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four
Author: Jerome RothenbergPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520273850
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
"Global anthology of twentieth-century poetry"--Back cover.
Mecca of Revolution
Author: Jeffrey James ByrnePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199899142
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Through an examination of Algeria's interactions with the wider world from the beginning of its war of independence to the fall of its first post-colonial regime, Mecca of Revolution provides the Third Worldist perspective on twentieth century international history. Featuring pioneering research on multiple continents, it rejuvenates the fields of diplomatic history and post-colonial studies.