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Man of the Pen, Pillar of the State: Hatem Beg Ordubadi and the Safavid Empire - Colin Mitchell, Dalhousie University, Canada 4.      The Idea of Iran in the Safavid Period: Dynastic Pre-eminence and Urban Pride - Rudi Matthee, University of Delaware, USA 5.      Safavid Town Planning - Sussan Babaie, The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK 6.      From Absolute Prince to Despot: The Political Representations of Safavid Iran in Seventeenth-Century France - Aurélie Salesse-Chabrier, Université de Lyon, France 7.      The Idea of Baqer al-Majlesi as ‘The Idea of Iran: The Safavid Era’ - Andrew J. Newman, University of Edinburgh, UK 8.      Practising Philosophy, Imagining Iran in the Safavid Period- Sajjad Rizvi, University of Exeter, UK 9.      Popular Religiosity and Vernacular Turkic: A Qezelbash Catechism from Safavid Iran - Ferenc Csirkés, Sabanci University, Turkey 10.   ‘O Muhibbi! You’ve Lit Your Lamp with Khosrow’s Burning Passion’: Persian Poetry as Perceived by Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Authors - Benedek Péri, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary 11.   Commercial Relations between Safavid Persia and Western Europe Willem Floor, Independent scholar 12.   ‘The World is an Oyster and Iran, the Pearl’: Representations of Iran in Safavid Persian Travel Literature - Maryam Ala Amjadi, Independent scholar 13.   Local and Transregional Places in the Works of Safavid Men of Letters - Sunil Sharma, Boston University, USA 14.   Shi‘i Rulers, Safavid Alliance and the Religio-Political Landscape of the Deccan - Roy S. Fischel 15.   Safavids and Ozbeks - Florian Schwarz, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria 16.   The Evolution of the Safavid Policy towards Eastern Georgia - George Sanikidze, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia 17.   Flora in Safavid Paintings from Shah Tahmasp’s Shahnama and Later Works - Sheila R. Canby, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA 18.   The Making of New Art: From the Khazana to its Audience at the Court of Shah Soleyman - Negar Habibi, Geneva","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737163280727,"sku":"9780755633784","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780755633784.jpg?v=1723811020"},{"product_id":"peace-movements-in-islam-9780755643189","title":"Peace Movements in Islam","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJuan Cole\u003c\/b\u003e is a public intellectual, prominent blogger and essayist, and the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, USA. He is the translator of \u003ci\u003eBroken Wings\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Vision by \u003c\/i\u003eKhalil Gibran.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA bold yet singular addition to the discourse on pacifist streams in Islam where there are resources galore on militant Islam. * The Muslim World Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays is a needed book. It mirrors the richness of what goes on in the Muslim world: groundbreaking theological work with clear political implications and peace practices and humanitarian work which are not new and not unknown in the history of Islam. The articles dealing with history, in particular, demonstrate how persons of Muslim faith have made important contributions towards peace – although, like so many others, they have not always succeeded. * Journal of Peace Research *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Peace Movements in Islam: History, Religion and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, edited by Juan Cole is a “must read,” an antidote to media and polemicists’ portrayal of Islam as a religion of war and to former President Donald Trump’s declaration that “Islam hates us.” An excellent collection of scholars take the reader on a journey from the time of the Prophet Muhammad to today, underscoring the long tradition of peace that exists in contrast to the rhetoric and actions of militant movements.\" * John L. Esposito, Georgetown University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eNowhere has the charged topic of Islam and peace been as deftly and broadly addressed as in this collection of essays edited by the maestro of public scholarship on Islam, Juan Cole. From Qur’anic dicta to historical exemplars to modern day perspectives on fundamentalism, women and Trump, the contributors eschew easy platitudes or apologia, providing a kaleidoscope of insight that will attract the general reader as also the academic specialist. * Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eThis is an especially timely volume given the high levels of Islamophobia and the racialization of Muslims globally that continue to put Muslims at risk through being conceptualized as inherently violent. * Zayn Kassam, John Knox McLean Professor and Chair of Religious Studies, Pomona College, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  1. Between Compassion and Justice: Locating an Islamic Definition of Peace, A. Rashied Omar 2. The Qur’an on doing Good to Enemies, Juan Cole  3. A Different Kind of Striving: Jihad as Peacemaking, Asma Afsaruddin  4. Internal Peace versus Being in Society: Sufi Dilemmas, Alexander D. Knysh 5. Principled Pacifism in Islamic West Africa, Rudolph Ware 6. Rashid Rida and the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, Elizabeth F. Thompson 7. Paradise Bound: Righteous Others in the Writings of Rashid Rida, Mohammad Hassan Khalil  8. Abdul Ghaffar Khan: An Islamic Ghandi, James L. Rowell 9. Islam and Peace: A Muslim Fundamentalist Perspective, Sherman A. Jackson 10. Women, Religion, and Peace Leadership in Bosnia and Herzegovina,  Zilka Spahic Šiljak 11. Muslim American Activism in the Age of Trump, Grace Yukich  Contributors Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737165050199,"sku":"9780755643189","price":23.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780755643189.jpg?v=1723811022"},{"product_id":"texts-scribes-and-transmission-9780755645381","title":"Texts Scribes and Transmission","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWafi Momin\u003c\/b\u003e is Head of the Ismaili Special Collections Unit at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK, where he teaches courses on developments in modern and contemporary Muslim Societies and aspects of Islam in South Asia. He received his doctorate in South Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago, US, and has written articles on Ismaili tradition in South Asia and its interaction with Indic religious movements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough the variety of subjects covered, the up-to-dateness of their content, and the formal quality of the book as a whole, there is no doubt that this open access and richly illustrated volume ... will provide an excellent basis for future research not only in the field of Ismaili studies \u003ci\u003estricto sensu\u003c\/i\u003e, but also in Islamic studies more generally. * Bulletin of the School of African and Oriental Studies *\u003cbr\u003eThis invaluable volume will be of immense value and interest to scholars working primarily in the field of manuscript studies, Ismaili studies and cultural studies of the Islamic world. * The Muslim World Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  Note on Contributors Transliteration, Dates, and Abbreviations Introduction, \u003ci\u003eWafi A. Momin, Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003eSection I: THE SHAPING OF A NEW FIELD\u003c\/b\u003e    1. Ismaili Manuscripts and Modern Scholarship in Ismaili Studies, \u003ci\u003eFarhad Daftary, Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  2. Husain Hamdani, Paul Kraus, and a Suitcase Full of Manuscripts, \u003ci\u003eFrançois de Blois, \u003c\/i\u003eUniversity of Cambridge, UK    \u003cb\u003eSection II: \u003ci\u003eRASA'IL IKHWAN AL-SAFA', KITAB AL-ZINA, AND THEIR MANUSCRIPT TRADITION\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e    3. The \u003ci\u003eIkhwan al-Safa\u003c\/i\u003e’s Epistles on Logic in Some Manuscripts of the IIS Arabic Collection, \u003ci\u003eCarmela Baffioni, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  4. The Missing Link? MS 1040: An Important Copy of the \u003ci\u003eRasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa’\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eOmar Ali-de-Unzaga, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  5. The Manuscript Copies of Abu Hatim al-Razi’s \u003ci\u003eKitab al-Zina\u003c\/i\u003e at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, \u003ci\u003eCornelius Berthold, University of Hamburg, Germany\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003eSection III: EXPLORING TWO EARLY TAYYIBI WORKS AND THEIR TRANSMISSION\u003c\/b\u003e    6. The \u003ci\u003eMajmu’ al-tarbiya\u003c\/i\u003e between Text and Paratext: Exploring the Social History of a Community’s Reading Culture, \u003ci\u003eDelia Cortese, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  7. Textual, Orthographic Variations and Scribes’ Annotations: A Possible Tool for the Transmission Analysis of the Text?, \u003ci\u003eMonica Scotti, University of Naples \"L'Orientale\", Italy\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003eSection IV: REVISITING NIZARI HISTORY OF ALAMUT TIMES\u003c\/b\u003e    8. Alamut and Badakshan: Newly identified \u003ci\u003eSargudhasht-i Sayyidna \u003c\/i\u003eManuscripts and their Background, \u003ci\u003eMiklos Sarközy, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  9. '\u003ci\u003eAhd-i Sayyidna\u003c\/i\u003e, a Newly Discovered Treatise on the Consolidation of the Nizari \u003ci\u003eDa'wa\u003c\/i\u003e in Alamut, \u003ci\u003eKarim Javan,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  10. The Discovery, Description and Publication of the Manuscripts of Two Major Niazari Ismaili Texts from the Alamut Period: The \u003ci\u003eHaft Bab and the Diwan-i Qa’imiyyat\u003c\/i\u003e of Hasan-i Mahmud-i Katib, \u003ci\u003eS. J. Badakhchani\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003eSECTION V: COMMUNAL SCRIPT, SCRIBAL ELITE, AND SATPANTH MANUSCRIPT CULTURE\u003c\/b\u003e    11. Khwajah Sindhi (Khojki): Its Name, Manuscripts and Origin, \u003ci\u003eShafique N. Virani\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Toronto, Canada\u003c\/i\u003e  12. A Forgotten Voice: The Agency of Scribal and Literate Elite and the Satpanth Manuscript Culture, \u003ci\u003eWafi A. Momin, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003eSETION VI: IDENTITY, CULTURAL INTERACTIONS, AND ESOTERIC INTERPREATION AMONG CENTRAL ASIAN ISMAILI COMMUNITIES\u003c\/b\u003e    13. Ismaili-Sufi Relationships in the Light of the Ni’mat Allahi Manuscripts in the Holdings of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, \u003ci\u003eOrkhan Mir-Kasimov, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  14. Poems of Allegiance: Shah Diya-i-i Shughnani’s Salam-nama, \u003ci\u003eNourmamadcho Nourmamadchoev, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  15. The Sahifat al-nazirin: Reflections on Authorship and Confessional Identity in a 15th-Century Central Asian Text, \u003ci\u003eDaniel Beben\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  16. The Seven Pillars of the Shari’a and the Question of Authority in the Central Asian Ismaili Manuscripts: An Ismaili Esoteric Discourse, \u003ci\u003eYahia Baiza, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cb\u003eSECTION VII: APPROACHING TEXTUAL TRANSMISSION THROUGH QUR’ANIC MANUSCRIPTS AND HOLOGRAPH AUTOGRAPH COPIES\u003c\/b\u003e    17. Writing the Qur’an between the Lines: Preliminary Remarks on Marginalia in the Qur’an Manuscripts held by The Institute of Ismaili Studies, \u003ci\u003eAsma Hilali\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK\u003c\/i\u003e  18. The Making of a Holograph: Authorial Arabic Manuscripts in the Special Collections of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, \u003ci\u003eWalid Ghali\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK\u003c\/i\u003e List of illustrations  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737166066007,"sku":"9780755645381","price":24.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780755645381.jpg?v=1723811022"},{"product_id":"gaza-under-hamas-9780755634392","title":"Gaza Under Hamas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBjorn Brenner \u003c\/b\u003eserves as Military Advisor to the United Nations Special Envoy for Syria. Prior to joining the UN, he was Lecturer at the Swedish Defence University in Stockholm and Research Fellow at Institut francais du Proche-Orient in Amman, Jordan. He is the author of numerous articles on Palestinian and Israeli politics and is a frequently appearing commentator in the media on Middle Eastern affairs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgainst heaps of reductionist literature and media portrayals that render Hamas as an extremist terrorist group, Bjorn Brenner provides in this book an authoritative and empirical study that debunks such Western, and mainly official, depictions of the movements. Disintersted in either vilifying or glorifying Hamas, this finely structured book is based on four years of direct field research, firsthand observations, and data collection. * Journal of Palestine Studies *\u003cbr\u003eWhat makes Brenner’s account especially valuable is its focus on how Hamas has managed to create a functioning government in Gaza – a subject that is little known – as opposed to Hamas’s behavior towards Israel, which the author explains is not discussed in this book as it has been extensively studied by others [...] This book is recommended for providing other insights into the nature of its [Hamas's] rule which, due to the author’s access to Hamas leaders and operatives, will not be found in other studies. * Perspectives on Terrorism *\u003cbr\u003eA useful contribution to the study of Hamas’s exercise of state power. * The Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eFor academic researchers, policy makers, NGOs and broader civil society members interested in Islamist experiences and practices of governance this is a must read. The book not only helps address many misconceived notions about the challenges which Hamas has faced since it was elected in 2006 but it also assists readers in nuancing the particular context in which such a case of Islamist governance actually operates. * Michelle Pace, Professor of Politics and International Studies, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University; Honorary Professor, University of Birmingham *\u003cbr\u003eThis is one of the rare books about Hamas that manages to be both balanced and insightful. Based on a broad range of primary sources, this in-depth study of Gaza under Hamas rule provides as full and comprehensive a picture as possible. A must-read for scholars, students, and diplomats alike! * Peter Neumann, Professor of Security Studies at the War Studies Department, King’s College London; Director of the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation *\u003cbr\u003eBjörn Brenner has contributed invaluable research through his book “Gaza under Hamas: from Islamist democracy to Islamist governance” (2017). Apart from establishing the centrality of Hamas rule to a political solution for Palestine, the book also expounds upon the spectrum of misconceptions, strengths and flaws associated with the movement. This approach provides a detailed assessment of Hamas in relation to Gaza and its unique circumstances, while dispelling mainstream manipulation, to which, as Brenner points out, academia has also contributed. * Israel Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eConstitutes a significant contribution to the Hamas-related literature. It departs from the conventional discussion about the group's role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and treats Hamas as an instance of Islamic governance. Moreover, the book is written in a way that renders it useful to both the specialized and the general readership. It contains information that helps one reconstruct the conditions leading to the status quo in the Gaza Strip and also provides the full picture, including the background and aftermath, of incidents that made headlines but soon fell into oblivion. * Middle East Policy *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations  Foreword by Shaul Mishal  Preface to the second edition  Glossary of terms  Introduction by Magnus Ranstorp  1. Islamists in power by democratic means  2. Gaining power and relating to the opposition  3. Radicalisation and the emergence of splinter groups  4. The de-radicalisation of Islamists by Islamists  5. Social order in the midst of political chaos  6. The new political order and the judicial system  7. Islamist governance Hamas-style  8. Hamas beyond elections and governance  Epilogue by Benedetta Berti  Notes  Select bibliography  Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737167638871,"sku":"9780755634392","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780755634392.jpg?v=1723811022"},{"product_id":"familiar-futures-9780804793179","title":"Familiar Futures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIraq was the first postcolonial state recognized as legally sovereign by the League of Nations amid the twentieth-century wave of decolonization movements. It also emerged as an early laboratory of development projects designed by Iraqi intellectuals, British colonial officials, American modernization theorists, and postwar international agencies. \u003ci\u003eFamiliar Futures\u003c\/i\u003e considers how such projectsfrom the country''s creation under British mandate rule in 1920 through the 1958 revolution to the first Ba''th coup in 1963reshaped Iraqi everyday habits, desires, and familial relations in the name of a developed future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSara Pursley investigates how Western and Iraqi policymakers promoted changes in schooling, land ownership, and family law to better differentiate Iraq''s citizens by class, sex, and age. Peasants were resettled on isolated family farms; rural boys received education limited to training in agricultural skills; girls were required to take home economics courses; and\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFamiliar Futures\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary book, at once theoretically informed and empirically rich. Sara Pursley offers an original and compelling reading of the relationship between decolonization and modernity in Iraq that considers time, economic development, political sovereignty, psychology, education, and the importance of gender in the articulation of national identity. It is an example of critical history at its best.\" -- Joan W. Scott * Institute for Advanced Study *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFamiliar Futures\u003c\/i\u003e marks an important examination of the intellectual underpinnings of the development projects shaped by Iraqi nationalists, revolutionaries, and intellectuals. Sara Pursley offers an original reading of modern Iraqi history and a thoughtful meditation on time and selfhood.\" -- Dina Rizk Khoury * George Washington University *\u003cbr\u003e\"Addressing the generative tension between modernity as a transformative promise of the future and as a repetition of the same, \u003ci\u003eFamiliar Futures\u003c\/i\u003e explores sovereignty and subject formation in twentieth-century Iraq as inextricably linked to temporality, gender, and sexuality. In this brilliant work of imaginative scholarship and interdisciplinary theorization, Sara Pursley pushes us to rethink the history of the modern Middle East and the postcolonial predicament more broadly.\" -- Omnia El Shakry, University of California * Davis *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFamiliar Futures\u003c\/i\u003e seems destined to approach the hallmark of intellectual distinction to which so many historians aspire––to say something so interesting and important that it captures the attention of readers who might otherwise have no particular reason to care about the narratives and details so central to our own fields.\"––Kevin Jones, \u003ci\u003eArab Studies Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sara Pursley's excellent book is full of insights and in-depth reflections....\u003ci\u003eFamiliar Futures\u003c\/i\u003e will be highly influential as a critique of concepts of modernity in modern Middle Eastern societies.\" -- Peter Wien * \u003ci\u003eMiddle East Journal\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"The first pages [of \u003ci\u003eFamiliar Futures\u003c\/i\u003e] set the scene for the main questions of the book: the relationship between revolutionary time and gendered time, the intensified investment in girls' and women's lives, how economic development and the gendered social reform came to trump all other visions of the good life, and how the Iraqi territorial state came to infiltrate the intimate lives of Iraqi subjects and to mold their experience of citizenship. The answers to these questions, Pursley offers, have everything to do with particular modern temporal sensibilities that came to dictate Iraqi citizens' orientation to the future.\" -- Samera Esmeir * \u003ci\u003eModern Intellectual History\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"Through an expert weaving of social theory and social history, including close readings of works by Iraqi intellectuals written in Arabic, Pursley demonstrates how family and gender reform initiatives served to institutionalize the 'disciplinary and biopolitical power' of the state over its national subjects.\" -- Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt * \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Middle East Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"In a Koselleckian tradition, Pursley not only offers us a tantalizing critique of modernization and modernity, but also challenges us to rethink the boundaries between history, historiography and theory: an opportunity to reflect on the positioning of the history of Iraq within interdisciplinary theories.\" -- Sara Farhan * \u003ci\u003eReview of Middle East Studies\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Iraqi Futures and the Age of Development chapter abstract\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis chapter introduces the central concepts of the book. Modern Iraqi futures were familiar because they were produced through reforms of familial and other intimate practices, imagined to already be somebody else's past or present, and paradoxically reproductive of existing forms of unevenness. They were also disrupted by other imaginaries of the future, which might be familiar because they were drawn from Islamic discursive traditions or were near or close futures that might be realizable because they have some connection to the present. These last discourses stood outside, and sometimes against, the modern political and conjugal imaginary of reproductive futurism, in which the figure of the child embodies the nation's yearned-for but congenitally receding future. The chapter also looks at how Iraq was an overdetermined space for the coming together of three previously distinct conceptions of development in the interwar period: the economic, the national, and the psychobiological.\u003c\/p\u003e 1Sovereignty, Violence, and the Dual Mandate chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThis chapter looks at British practices in governing Iraq in the occupation and mandate eras (1914\u0026lt;-\u0026gt;32). While British officials often invoked discourses emphasizing the psychological underdevelopment and sexual nondifferentiation of Iraqi subjects, this did not lead to their support for the expansion of modern biopolitical or disciplinary institutions in Iraq. British governance was primarily necropolitical, relying on violent punitive techniques such as hanging, whipping, corvée labor, bombing or burning down villages, and cutting off water and food to rebellious towns. The chapter traces how these practices were implicated in the production of Iraq as a bounded territorial space over which post-Ottoman sovereignty could be asserted and economic development, as the extraction of resources, carried out. The use of corporeal violence in mandate Iraq, while hardly exceptional in the history of the British empire, was shaped by new technologies of rule and explained through emerging narratives of developmental psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e 2Determining a Self chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eIraqi nationalist elites in the 1920s and 1930s called for the expansion of disciplinary and biopolitical techniques, in opposition to British policy. This chapter explores education and the military as key domains in which these struggles played out, mainly in this period over the bodies and minds of male youth, and engages with the writings of the Arab nationalist and \"father of Iraqi education\" Sati al-Husri. In contrast to usual scholarly concerns with the (Arabist or Iraqist) content of nationalist narratives prevalent in Iraq's schools and military, the chapter explores these institutions as temporal-spatial regimes that worked to make a sovereign Iraqi future familiar even while temporally deferring it. An emerging Arabist and statist discourse envisioned precocious demands for Iraq's independence as symptoms of backwardness, not progress, and accused those making such demands of being both less modern and less Iraqi than those working toward a deferred sovereignty.\u003c\/p\u003e 3The Gendering of School Time chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThis chapter explores how the curriculum and pedagogies implemented in the 1920s were challenged in the 1930s by a new generation of education officials, many of whom were educated in the United States. Influenced by American conceptual vocabularies of pragmatism and adapted education, the new educators criticized the unified school curriculum implemented by al-Husri's ministry, calling for a \"differentiated curriculum\" governed by the urban-rural difference and the male-female difference. From 1932 to 1958, often in response to the advice of US and global development organizations, the Iraqi school system was increasingly differentiated by sex, with more and more of the school time of female students devoted to mandatory home economics education. The chapter proposes that this peculiarity makes Iraq a productive context for examining pedagogies of domesticity in the late interwar and postwar periods.\u003c\/p\u003e 4Generational Time and the Marriage Crisis chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eIn the years around World War II, Iraqi officials were increasingly concerned that a crisis was brewing in the form of a generation of educated youth who were taking up leftist ideologies. This chapter explores how generational affiliations produced largely by the expansion of public schooling—often in combination with extended family ties along intragenerational lines, that is, between siblings and cousins—worked to foster political mobilization within the underground but hugely popular Iraqi Communist Party (ICP). The widespread sense of generational crisis was expressed in three more specific crises prominent in public discourse during these years: the crisis of adolescence, the crisis of girls' education, and the marriage crisis. Efforts to intervene in and stabilize the stage of adolescence drew on new, globally circulating psychological theories as well as on specific forms of postwar economic development expertise. Conceptions of modern sexual difference and desire were central to these interventions.\u003c\/p\u003e 5The Family Farm and the Peculiar Futurist Perspective of Development chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThe chapter examines efforts to reform rural families on the Dujayla Land Settlement Project, one of the world's first programs attracting the new international organizations founded after 1945 to launch the global \"age of development.\" The idea was to create a class of small \"family\" farmers by distributing land to some of the landless poor. Yet the isolated family farm model used to design the settlement, which was based on US Cold War modernization and agrarian reform theory, contributed to ecological and social catastrophe. The nuclear family type, while failing to take hold as a widespread social reality in rural Iraq, had significant effects on rural lives. By working as a standardized grid for development operations, this model altered agricultural practices and thus the land, while making certain kinds of \"family\" relationships legible so that they could be worked on by techniques of governmentality and development.\u003c\/p\u003e 6Revolutionary Time and Wasted Time chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eAfter the 1958 revolution, state officials and political party leaders stressed the need to combat \"stagnation\" in the economy and the bodies of laborers. The word used for this condition was jumud, \"a frozen state.\" Many agreed on the need to \"suspend\" or \"to freeze\" various kinds of political mobilization in the present. Sexual difference was crucial to both parts of this process: the conquering of economic stagnation or jumud and the enforcement of political stagnation or tajmid. The chapter focuses on a controversy over a communist women's rural literacy project, which critics saw as violating the tacit terms of the alliance between the state and middle-class feminists. The project was not believed to propagate techniques for the policing of families in the name of the child's and the nation's future, but to be a symptom of social promiscuity threatening the political order.\u003c\/p\u003e 7Law and the Post-Revolutionary Self chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThis chapter examines the 1959 Personal Status Law, Iraq's first unified national family code under the control of the state. It argues that the law's drive to make marriage more stable, while simultaneously making the conjugal home less permeable to strangers, discloses the use of a reproductive-futurist reasoning to create a properly modern and timeless domestic sphere. The chapter explores responses to the law from communists, Bathists, liberals, and Sunni and Shii ulama'. It considers a Shii juristic critique by the mujtahid Muhammad Bahr al-Ulum, who argued that the law only appeared to promote progressive change, while actually replacing the temporally and spatially dynamic Islamic systems of jurisprudence with legal stasis. This critique suggests a key difference between the modern state's tendency to produce a static space and earlier Islamic understandings of \"the state,\" or al-dawla, as cyclical and thus ever-changing.\u003c\/p\u003e Epilogue: Postcolonial Heterotemporalitiess chapter abstract\u003cp\u003eThe epilogue explores a famous work by the artist Jawad Salim, Nusb al-Hurriyya, or the Monument to Freedom, which still stands in Baghdad's Liberation Square. The work has usually been read as a linear-historical narrative of the Iraqi nationalist movement and the 1958 revolution it produced. Engaging with a rich tradition of Arabic language art criticism on the monument, the chapter shows how this work also evokes multiple and heterogeneous conceptions of time, often drawn from the Islamic discursive tradition, that can be read as subversive of contemporary developmentalist reasoning. For example, Islamic cyclical imaginaries of time do not work against promises of radical historical change in the monument but on the contrary give such promises more imaginative purchase than they typically achieve in linear modernization narratives, with their tendency to open onto a singular and static future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737371783511,"sku":"9780804793179","price":91.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804793179.jpg?v=1723811154"},{"product_id":"the-israeli-radical-left-9780812250473","title":"The Israeli Radical Left","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Israeli Radical Left\u003c\/i\u003e, Fiona Wright traces the dramatic as well as the mundane paths taken by radical Jewish Israeli leftwing activists, whose critique of the Israeli state has left them uneasily navigating an increasingly polarized public atmosphere. This activism is manifested in direct action solidarity movements, the critical stances of some Israeli human rights and humanitarian NGOs, and less well-known initiatives that promote social justice within Jewish Israel as a means of undermining the overwhelming support for militarism and nationalism that characterizes Israeli domestic politics. 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Stein, Duke University *\u003cbr\u003e\"How to act politically and responsibly in an environment that requires complicity with state-sanctioned oppression as part of everyday life may be the ethical dilemma of our time. Fiona Wright takes up the challenge of addressing it and makes major contributions to the fields of political anthropology and the anthropology of ethics. Read this book; it is extraordinary.\" * Jarrett Zigon, author of \u003ci\u003eA War on People: Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"In a world increasingly driven by the search for purity in political struggles, Wright carefully and courageously focuses on the complicity and ambiguity intrinsic to ethics and politics. Examining the Israeli Radical Left, who reject the Israeli state while simultaneously being embedded in and affectively formed by it, she explores what politics means for those who desire equality and yet benefit from the privileges of inequality. 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Read Shakespeare, and you become Cleopatra, Hamlet, or Bottom. Or at the very least, you experience the plays as if you are in a small room alone with them, and they are speaking to your life, your sensibility.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on fifty years as a Shakespearean, Leonard Barkan has produced a captivating book that asks us to reconsider what it means to read. Barkan violates the rule of distance he was taught and has always taught his students. He asks: Where does this brilliantly contrived fiction actually touch \u003ci\u003eme\u003c\/i\u003e? 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Set against the backdrop of the moral panic over Asian gangs' in the mid-1990s, and based on 5 years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explored the idea of the gang', friendships, and the role of brothers' in the formation, performance and negotiation of ethnic, religious and gendered identities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Asian Gang Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e picks up the story of the Asian gang' over the subsequent two decades, examining the changing identities of the original participants as they transition into adulthood in the context of increased public and political concerns over Muslim masculinities, spanning the War on Terror, grooming gangs' and increased Islamophobia. 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