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De Gruyter Stairway to Paradise: Jews, Blacks, and the American Music Revolution
Book SynopsisStairway to Paradise reveals how American Jewish entrepreneurs, musicians, and performers influenced American popular music from the late nineteenth century till the mid-1960s. From blackface minstrelsy, ragtime, blues, jazz, and Broadway musicals, ending with folk and rock 'n' roll. The book follows the writers and artists' real and imaginative relationship with African-American culture's charisma. Stairway to Paradise discusses the artistic and occasionally ideological dialogue that these artists, writers, and entrepreneurs had with African-American artists and culture. Tracing Jewish immigration to the United States and the entry of Jews into the entertainment and cultural industry, the book allocates extensive space to the charged connection between music and politics as reflected in the Jewish-Black Alliance - both in the struggle for social justice and in the music field. It reveals Jewish success in the music industry and the unique and sometimes problematic relationships that characterized this process, as their dominance in this field became a source of blame for exploiting African-American artistic and human capital. Alongside this, the book shows how black-Jewish cooperation, and its fragile alliance, played a role in the hegemonic conflicts involving American culture during the 20th century. Unintentionally, it influenced the process of decline of the influence of the WASP elite during the 1960s. Stairway to Paradise fuses American history and musicology with cultural studies theories. This inter-disciplinary approach regarding race, class, and ethnicity offers an alternative view of more traditional notions regarding understanding American music's evolution.
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De Gruyter German Jews and the Persistence of Jewish Identity in Conversion: Writing the Jewish Self
Book SynopsisThis book explores the fraught aftermath of the German Jewish conversionary experience through the story of one family as it grapples with the meaning of its Jewish origins in a post-Holocaust, post-conversionary milieu. Utilizing archival family texts and multiple interviews spanning three generations, beginning with the author’s German Jewish parents, 1940s refugees, and engaging the insights of contemporary scholars, the book traces the impact of a contested Jewish identity on the deconstruction and reconstruction of the Jewish self. The Holocaust as post-memory and the impact of the German Jewish culture personified by the author’s parents leads to a retrieval of a lost Jewish identity, postmodern in its implications, reinforcing the concept of Judaism as ultimately a family affair. Focusing on the personal to illuminate a complex historical phenomenon, this book proposes a new cultural history that challenges conventional boundaries of what is Jewish and what is not.
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De Gruyter China and Ashkenazic Jewry: Transcultural Encounters
Book Synopsis In the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention. This volume will be the first to focus on the transcultural exchange between Ashkenazic Jewry and China. The essays here investigate how this exchange of texts and translations, images and ideas, has enriched both Jewish and Chinese cultures and prepared for a global, inclusive world literature.The book breaks new ground in the field, covering such new topics as the images of China in Yiddish and German Jewish letters, the intersectionality of the Jewish and Chinese literature in illuminating the implications for a truly global and inclusive world literature, the biographies of prominent figures in Chinese-Jewish connections, the Chabad engagement in contemporary China. Some of the fundamental debates in the current scholarship will also be addressed, with a special emphasis on how many Jewish refugees arrived in Shanghai and how much interaction occurred between the Jewish refugees and the resident Chinese population during the wartime and its aftermath.
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De Gruyter Contemporary Jewish Communities in Three European Cities: Challenges of Integration, Acculturation and Ethnic Identity
Book Synopsis Contemporary Jewish identity, integration and acculturation in Europe has become an urgent topic in view of the current wave of antisemitism and reliable research on the present state of Jewish identity is scarce. Lilach Lev Ari has chosen three ethnically diverse communities – Paris, Brussels, and Antwerp – that can shed a light on the identity and acculturation of the Jewish minority in Europe. To understand patterns of social integration of native-born and immigrant Jews in the three host societies she applies the correlational quantitative method and has conducted semi-structured interviews. The study can promote further understanding of Jewish continuity within the non-Jewish host societies in a situation, when there is a concern about the resilience and strength of the Jewish communities vis-à-vis new waves of antisemitism.
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tredition Jüdische Adressen Oldenburgs
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tredition Die fünfte Stunde
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Saage Books Chemin vers la première communion Le livre de préparation complet pour filles et garçons
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Springer Deutsche Muslime – muslimische Deutsche: Begegnungen mit Konvertiten zum Islam
Book SynopsisDas Buch befasst sich mit dem bislang noch weitgehend unbehandelten Gebiet der Konversion von Deutschen zum Islam und beruht auf langjährigen Feldstudien der Autorin in Deutschland. Es bietet neue Einsichten in die Zusammenhänge und Spannungen, die dieses stetig wachsende religiöse Phänomen in Deutschland und darüber hinaus hervorbringt.Von Jahr zu Jahr nimmt die Zahl der Europäer, die sich dem Islam zuwenden, zu. Die vorliegende Publikation erforscht wie insbesondere Deutsche den Islam für sich entdecken, ihre Verbundenheit zum Islam trotz der gesellschaftlich eher ablehnenden Haltung und Furcht leben, wie sie sich zu den eingewanderten Muslimen in Beziehung setzen und wie sie die Debatten um Rasse, Religion und europäischer Zugehörigkeit erleben und mitgestalten.Esra Özyürek wirft einen Blick darauf, wie die Gesellschaft konvertierte Mitbürger an den Rand drängt und deren nationale Loyalität in Frage stellt. Im Gegenzug versuchen sich die zum Islam konvertierten Deutschen von Migranten aus muslimisch geprägten Ländern abzugrenzen und einen „entnationalisierten“ Islam, frei von türkischen oder arabischen Traditionen, zu etablieren.Table of ContentsDeutscher Islam, rassifizierte Muslime .- Ein Islam mit deutschem Antlitz.- Die Distanzierung von migrantischen Muslimen.- Ostdeutsche Konversionen zum Islam nach dem Mauerfall.- Der Islam als eine Möglichkeit, Deutscher zu werden.- Salafismus – die Zukunft des europäischen Islam?.- Schlussfolgerungen.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Die Kirche als Marke stark machen: Ein
Book SynopsisDie Kirchen stecken in der Krise; die Austritte und die Ausweitung konfessionsloser Milieus nehmen weiter zu. Der Wunsch nach sozialem Halt und Orientierungen hat sich allerdings nicht vermindert. Im Gegenteil: Die Kirche steht heute im Aufmerksamkeitswettbewerb und muss ihre Form der „Überzeugungsarbeit“ neu erfinden. Vor diesem Hintergrund zeigen die Autoren, dass die Funktionsweise der Marke als „soziales Bündnissystem“ zu verstehen ist. Marke ist mehr als Logo oder Werbung, sie gruppiert Menschen um eine konkrete Leistungsidee. Die Autoren erläutern die Grundlagen und Dynamiken der markensoziologischen Markenführung und beziehen sie auf die „Marke Kirche“. Im Praxisteil erhält der Leser einen klaren Leitfaden, den sog. genetischen Code der Marke, wie man eine Gemeinde oder kirchliche Institution planvoll entwickeln und stärken kann.Die Autoren:Prof. Dr. Oliver Errichiello und Dr. Arnd Jürgen Zschiesche sind Geschäftsführer des Büros für Markenentwicklung in Hamburg sowie Dozenten für Markensoziologie, Brandmanagement und Markenführung an den Hochschulen Luzern und Mittweida, der Universität Hamburg sowie der Europäischen Medien- und Business-Akademie (EMBA) in Hamburg.Table of ContentsWie verkauft man Kirche? und: Wie wirkt eine Marke?.- Planvolle und langfristige Stärkung einer kirchlichen Organisation.- Vertrauen als Überzeugungsstrategie.
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Springer VS Betroffenheitsphase Mediodoxie und Machtfeld
£34.99
Prodinnova Révolution chrétienne et Révolution sociale
£17.09
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Suivre la Voie de la Tijaniyya
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Hussein Elasrag Les Qualités Sublimes du Prophète Muhammad Khasail Nabawi
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MADAREK COMPANY FOR PUBLISHING AND DISTRIBUTION Truce with Incidents .. Days .. Life
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Rushd Bookstore General Theories in Islamic Jurisprudence
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Rushd Bookstore Environmental attitudes in Islam
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Independent Publisher Why Islam
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Clube de Autores Yeshua Ou Jesus
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Imam Publishing Le Jardin des Vertueux
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Vida Publishers Teologia Pop
Book SynopsisLa cultura popular es el escenario que moldea donde vivimos, nos movemos y somos. En las canciones, películas, novelas, memes y series, se evidencian convicciones y preguntas punzantes de nuestra generación. La cultura popular es una liturgia secular: el terreno donde se labra la identidad personal y la memoria colectiva, el plato donde se ensayan escenarios de posibles futuros. La teología del siglo XXI se ve en la titánica tarea de establecer una mediación entre sus certezas fundacionales y las frenéticas experiencias que nos rodean. Como cada generación cristiana a lo largo de la historia, nos vemos ante el desafío de volver a representar —en un escenario nuevo y ante desafíos desconocidos— la antigua historia de la salvación. Teología Pop es el fruto de las búsquedas y los hallazgos de una generación ec
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Forb Publications Definiendo religión desde la Sociología: Scientology: Análisis y comparación de sus doctrinas y sistemas religiosos
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Libro Dei Personaggi E Del Comportamento
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Brill Regierung und Verwaltung des Vorderen Orients in islamischer Zeit
Trade Review'...a welcome appearance...' J. Derek Latham, Bulletin of the BSMES, vol. 17.
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Brill Oriental Responses to the West: Comparative Essays in Select Writers from the Muslim World
Book SynopsisModern writers and scholars from the Islamic East have represented actual or fictional encounters with the West in a surprising variety of ways. Far from constituting a mono- lithic approach to the West, as Western "Orientalism" often tended to, these writings reveal an interest in and sometimes acute perception of cross-cultural conflict and synthesis. The very difficulties experienced by writers and critics immersed in two or more cultures have led to new creative and innovative forms of response to the West. By shifting focus in East-West relations towards the East, it initiates further interdisciplinary discussions.
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Brill Islam in Bangladesh
Book SynopsisThis study, done within the comprehensive Weberian framework, focuses on religion and social change in Bangladesh through an imaginative use of qualitative as well as quantitative methods of modern social research. It first provides a sociological interpretation of the origin and development of Islam in Bengal using historical and literary works on Bengal. The main contribution is based on two sample surveys conducted by Mrs. Banu in 20 villages of Bangladesh and in three areas in the metropolitan Dhaka city. Using these survey data, she gives a sociological analysis of Islamic religious beliefs and practices in contemporary Bangladesh, and more importantly, she studies the impact of the Islamic religious beliefs on the socio- economic development and political culture in present-day Bangladesh. She also shows how Islam compares with modern education in social 'transforming capacity'. This careful and rigorous work is a notable contribution to sociology of religion and helps to deepen our understanding of the interactions between religious and social changes common to many parts of the Third World.Table of ContentsList of Tables Preface I Social Anomalies, a Prophetic Break and the Growth of Islam in Bengal (from AD 1201 to 1757) II Changes in Islam in Bengal Area during the British and post-British Periods III Religious Beliefs in Bangladesh Islam IV Social bases of Islamic Religious Beliefs V Islamic Religious Practice in Bangladesh and its Social Bases VI Islam and Muslim-Hindu Relations in Bangladesh VII Islam and Socio-economic Development in Bangladesh VIII Islam and Women in Bangladesh IX Islam and Political Culture in Bangladesh X Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Brill Humanism in the Renaissance of Islam: The Cultural Revival during the Buyid Age
Book SynopsisUnder the enlightened rule of the Buyid dynasty (945-1055 A.D.) the Islamic world witnessed an unequalled cultural renaissance. This book is an investigation into the nature of the environment in which the cultural transformation took place and into the cultural elite who were its bearers. After an extensive introductory section setting the stage, the book deals with the main schools and circles and with the outstanding individual representatives of this renaissance. The main expression of this renaissance was a philosophical humanism that embraced the scientific and philosophical heritage of Classical Antiquity as a cultural and educational ideal. Along with this philosophical humanism, a literary humanism was cultivated by litterateurs, poets, and government secretaries. This renaissance was marked by a powerful assertion of individualism in the domains of literary creativity and political action. It thrived in a remarkably cosmopolitan atmosphere — Baghdad, the center of the ‘Abbāsid empire and of Buyid rule.Trade Review'...a colourful picture of the life of an interesting group of people.' W. Montgomery Watt, Middle East Journal, 1987. '...a wealth of detailed information...' Ira M. Lapidus, American Historical Review. '...rendra bien des services à tous ceux qui s'intéressent à ce 'siècle buyide'.' Abdallah Cheikh Moussa, Studia Islamica, 1991. '...a fascinating book, full of stimulating views and of a wide erudition.' Remke Kruk, Bibliotheca Orientalis, 1988.
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Brill Islamic Desk Reference: Compiled from The Encyclopaedia of Islam
Book SynopsisThe growing demand for concise and factual information about the history and culture of Islam has now been met with the Islamic Desk Reference. This handy one-volume work contains a condensation of the subject-matter of The Encyclopaedia of Islam, the most prestigious and valuable reference work for Islamic studies published this century. In a brief, orderly and intelligible form the Islamic Desk Reference provides thus a unique and valuable quick reference tool for those interested in the religion, the believers and the countries of the Islamic world. All entries in the Islamic Desk Reference are given in English. Thus, names of Arabic origin which in the West were corrupted to another spelling, e.g. Ibn Sina to Avicenna, al-Kuhl to alcohol, are found under the latter term. The Islamic Desk Reference contains maps, diagrams and genealogical tables for easy reference, and illustrations.Trade Review'Un instrument de travail et de référence fort utile, surtout pour des non-spécialistes.' Yves Thoraval, Le Monde Diplomatique, 1994. 'The reference is a handy, one-volume condensation of the subject matter found in the much larger Encyclopaedia of Islam...the book would be most useful to the general reader and in libraries catering to the general public, although experts will also find the volume of use in quickly ascertaining dates or basic information.' David L. White, American Reference Books Annual, 1995. 'Concise, factual, and all-inclusive…' The Reader's Catalog Bulletin, 1994. '...on félicitera E. van D. pour cette initiative et pour le résultat réussi de ce travail.' Claude Gilliot, bulletin d'Islamologie et d'Etudes Arabes, 1995. '...an extremely useful introduction to the major characters, places, institutions, and customs of the Muslim world...The Islamic Desk Reference's major accomplishment is to offer an accurate and fast access to the history and religion of the Muslim peoples.' Middle East Quarterly.
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Brill The Thousand and One Nights
Book SynopsisAlmost three centuries have passed since the oldest manuscript of The Thousand and One Nights arrived in Europe. Since then, the Nights have occupied the minds of scholars world-wide, in particular the questions of origin, composition, language and literary form. In this book, Muhsin Mahdi, whose critical edition of the text brought so much praise, explores the complex literary history of the Nights, bringing to fruition the search for the archetype that constituted the core of the surviving editions, and treating the fascinating story of the growth of the collection of stories that we now know as The Thousand and One Nights.
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Brill Early Mamluk Syrian Historiography, Volume 1
Book SynopsisThis laudable work offers a study, translation and partial edition of one of the most important early Mamluk sources and its author. In addition to the work's contribution to Mamluk history, it also makes a significant contribution towards the ultimate goal of having the key texts of early Mamluk historiography accessible to scholars. In this first volume the life and work of al-Yūnīnī (d. 1326), the textual history of his Chronicle, its historiographic significance and textual filiation with other independent sources are presented and discussed.Trade Review'...une étape importante de la recherché sur le début de l'historiographie mamelouke en general et sur al-Yūnīnī en particulier.' Anne-Marie Eddé, Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologiques, 2001.
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Brill Dutch Jews as Perceived by Themselves and by Others: Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on the History of the Jews in the Netherlands
Book SynopsisHow did Jews in the Netherlands view themselves and how were they viewed by others? This is the single theme around which the twenty-five essays in this volume, written by scholars from the Netherlands, Israel and other countries, revolve. The studies encompass a variety of topics and periods, from the beginning of the Jewish settlement in the Dutch Republic through the Shoah and its aftermath. They include examinations of the Sephardi Jews in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Jews in the periods of Emancipation and Enlightenment, social and cultural encounters between Jews and non-Jews throughout the ages, the image of the Jew in Dutch literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the churches' attitudes toward Jews. Also highlighted are the second World War and its consequences, Dutch Jews in Israel and Israelis in the contemporary Netherlands.
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Brill The Jews in Late Ancient Rome: Evidence of Cultural Interaction in the Roman Diaspora
Book SynopsisIt was long believed that Roman Jews lived in complete isolation. This book offers a refutation of this thesis. It focuses on the Jewish community in third and fourth-century Rome, and in particular on how this community related to the larger, non-Jewish world that surrounded it. Jewish archaeological remains and funerary inscriptions are examined from various angles, and compared to pagan and early Christian material. This volume provides an important and useful addition to the literature on Roman Jewry.Trade ReviewWinner of the 1996 Keetje Hodshon Prize, awarded by the Dutch Society of Sciences. From reviews of the hardcover edition: 'It is truly a tour de force...Rutgers deserves the highest praise for his comprehensiveness, thoroughness, and accuracy in examining the epigraphic evidence. His work marks a tremendous advance over that of Leon.' Louis H. Feldman, The Jewish Quarterly Review, 1996. 'A richly complex and fascinating book.' Nicholas de Lange, Bulletin of Judaeo-Greek Studies, 1996.
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Brill The Mongol Empire and its Legacy
Book SynopsisThe Mongol Empire was founded by Chinggis Khan in the early thirteenth century. Within the span of two generations it embraced most of Asia. It left a lasting impact on this area and its people, which was often far from negative! The volume offers fresh perspectives on the Mongol Empire and its legacy. Various authors approach the matter from a variety of views, including political, military, social, cultural and intellectual. In doing so, they shed a new light on the Mongol Empire. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.Trade ReviewFrom reviews of the hardcover edition: 'Scholars fascinated with Chinggis Khan and the Eurasian steppe will not be disappointed.' Charles C. Kolb, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington DC 20506, Religious Studies Review, 1999. 'The book is a must-read for the specialist and worth a close look by generalists. Recommended.' Word Trade, 1999. 'The volume is a welcome and useful addition to the growing body of modern studies on the Mongol empire, offering fresh perspectives and shedding new light on some old problems.' Peter B. Golden (Rutgers University), The International History Review, 2000.Table of ContentsList of Maps and Figure List of Abbreviations Notes on Dates and Transliterations List of Contributors Introduction Early History of the Mongol Empire What the Partridge Told the Eagle: A Neglected Arabic Source on Chinggis Khan and the Early History of the Mongols, Robert G. Irwin From Ulus to Khanate: The Making of the Mongol States, c. 1220-c. 1290, Peter Jackson The Mongols in the Middle East Mongol Nomadism and Middle Eastern Geography: Qīshlāqs and Tümens, John Masson Smith, Jr. Mongol Imperial Ideology and the Ilkhanid War against the Mamluks, Reuven Amitai-Preiss The Īlkhān Öljeitü’s Conquest of Gīlān (1307): Rumour and Reality, Charles Melville The Āthār wa ahyāʾ of Rashīd al-Dīn Fadl Allāh Hamadānī and His Contribution as an Agronomist, Arboriculturist and Horticulturist, A.K.S. Lambton The Letters of Rashīd al-Dīn: Īlkhānid Fact or Timurid Fiction? A.H. Morton The Mongols in China and the Far East Mongol Empire and Turkicization: The Evidence of Food and Foodways, Paul D. Buell Notes on Shamans, Fortune-tellers and Yin-Yang Practitioners and Civil Administration in Yüan China, Elizabeth Endicott-West Qubilai Qaʾan and ʾPhags-pa bLa-ma, Sh. Bira Qubilai Qaʾan and the Historians: Some Remarks on the Position of the Great Khan in Pre-modern Chinese Historiography, T.H. Barrett The Legacy of the Mongol Empire China as a Successor State to the Mongol Empire, Hidehiro Okada Some Comments on the Consequences of the Decline of the Mongol Empire on the Social Development of the Mongols, Udo B. Barkmann How Mongol were the Early Ottomans? Rudi Paul Lindner The Early History of the Moghul Nomads: The Legacy of the Chaghatai Khanate, Hodong Kim The Legitimacy of Khanship among the Oyirad (Kalmyk) Tribes in Relation to the Chinggisid Principle, Junko Miyawaki The Vicissitudes of Mongolian Historiography in the Twentieth Century, Thomas N. Haining Index
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Brill Dutch Jews as Perceived by Themselves and by Others: Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on the History of the Jews in the Netherlands
Book SynopsisHow did Jews in the Netherlands view themselves and how were they viewed by others? This is the single theme around which the twenty-five essays in this volume, written by scholars from the Netherlands, Israel and other countries, revolve. The studies encompass a variety of topics and periods, from the beginning of the Jewish settlement in the Dutch Republic through the Shoah and its aftermath. They include examinations of the Sephardi Jews in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Jews in the periods of Emancipation and Enlightenment, social and cultural encounters between Jews and non-Jews throughout the ages, the image of the Jew in Dutch literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the churches' attitudes toward Jews. Also highlighted are the second World War and its consequences, Dutch Jews in Israel and Israelis in the contemporary Netherlands.
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Brill In Praise of Song: The Making of Courtly Culture in al-Andalus and Provence, 1005-1134 A.D.
Book SynopsisThis volume offers a reconstruction of the court culture of the taifa kings of al-Andalus (11th century A.D.), using both visual and textual evidence. A focus of particular attention is the court of the Banū Hūd at Zaragoza, and that dynasty's palace, the Aljafería. Principle written sources are not histories and chronicles, but the untranslated poetic anthologies of al-ḥimyarī and al-Fatḥ ibn Khāqān. The first part of the book addresses taifa visual and literary languages, with especial emphasis on connections between the literary and visual aspects of taifa aesthetics. The sections on the Aljafería's ornamental program will be of particular interest, not only to historians of Islamic art, but to students of all visual traditions with strong non-figural components. In addition, Part One also proposes that taifa court culture has been considered as a culture of "courtly love," and this argument also forms the point of departure for Part Two. The second part of the study uses luxury objects of Islamic and Limousine production as a point of departure for a detailed comparison of the thematics of taifa poetry in classical Arabic on the themes of courtly love and pleasures with those of the better-known Provençal tradition.Table of ContentsDedication Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Glossary of Arabic Terms Introduction Part One: The Culture of Courtly Love in al-Andalus, 1005-1134 A.D. Introduction To Part One: Posing the Problem: The Aljafería and its Historiography 1. Initial Impressions: First Readings of Space and Ornament 2. Approaches and Academic Contexts Chapter One: Ceremonial Space, Pleasurable Space, and the Majlis al-Uns in Later Taifa Court Culture 1. Introduction 2. Ceremonial Space and the Aesthetic of Variety 3. The Realm of Ritual Pleasure: An Aesthetic of the Ambiguous Chapter Two: Models of Good Behavior: Early 11th-century Precedents for Culture of Courtly Love at the Courts of the Later Mulûk al-Tawâ’if 1. The Politics of Legitimacy: Panegyric and the Construction of Royal Identity Under the ' mirî Rulers and during the Fitna 2. Al-Himyarî’s Badî` fi Wasf al-Rabî` and Its Subjects, the Kuttâb: an Andalusî Anthology 3. The Andalusî “Loving Subject:” Early Appearances at the ` mirî Courts 4. TheElegant King: The Beginnings of "Courtly" Royal Panegyric in al-Andalus 5. The Cult of Pleasure and the “Courtly” Sovereign at the Court of the Banû Hamm 6. Images of “Courtliness:” Depicting the Majlis and the Courtly Sovereign Chapter Three: Analogy, Metaphor and Courtly Love: A Reconstruction of the Nadîm’s Sensibilities 1. The Analogical Habit of Thought 2. A World of Similarities: Badî` and the Wondrous Possibilities of Metaphor 3. The Esthetics of Metaphor: Badî` in a Later Taifa Court Context 4. Mystical Possibilities: the Symbol as a Point in Common between Mystical and Philosophical Paths Toward Illumination 5. Courtliness, Love and Language Chapter Four: The Makings of Paradise: The Consequences of Analogical Thought for Palace Ornament and its Reception in a Later Taifa Court Context 1. Introduction 2. The Nadîm Looks Up and Listens 3. Seeing Paradise 4. Philosophical Implications 5. The Majlis: Analogical Portal to the Seven Heavens Conclusion To Part One: Tawhîd: The Unity of Sacred and Profane in the Aljafería’s Microcosmos Part Two: Courtly Courts as a Sites of Cultural Interaction Intro To Part Two: The Case of the Two Caskets: Comparative Considerations Chapter One: A Question of Influence?: Some Considerations on the Muwashshaha Chapter Two: In the Context of Courtliness Chapter Three: The Question of Language Chapter Four: The Andalusî-Occitan Panegyric: Poetics of Courtly Love Chapter Five: Al-`Arab wa-l-`Ajam: Cultural Interaction Along the Northern Frontier in the 11th Century Conclusion: The Two Caskets Again: Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Brill Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East: Studies on Iran in the Safavid Period
Book SynopsisThe volume comprises a collection of 20 of the 43 papers presented at the Third International Round Table on Safavid Persia, held at the University of Edinburgh in August, 1998 and edited by the Round Table's organiser. The Third Round Table, the largest of the series to date, continued the emphasis of its predecessors on understanding and appreciating the legacy of the Safavid period by means of exchanges between both established and 'newer' scholars drawn from a variety of fields to facilitate an exchange of ideas, information, and methodologies across a broad range of academic disciplines between scholars from diverse disciplines and research backgrounds with a common interest in the history and culture of this period of Iran's history.
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Brill Texts, Documents and Artefacts: Islamic Studies in Honour of D.S. Richards
Book SynopsisThe volume brings together 17 articles by leading Islamicists and Arabists, on a variety of topics in Medieval and Early Modern times, including the Qur‘ān, Shi'ism, Ἁbbāsid historiography, the Crusaders, and Mamluk history.Trade Review'Die Reichaltigkeit des Bandes macht es zu einem Vergnügen, den dort enthaltenen, reichhaltigen Gedanken nachzugehen. Eine Festschrift im besten Sinne des Wortes.' Rüdiger Lohlker, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 2004.
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Brill Religion and Education among Latinos in New York City
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the role of religion in the educational achievement of Hispanics. In particular, it assesses the influence of religion on parental involvement in children's educational experiences. The book compares Catholic and Protestant parents' opinions and practices against the backdrop of socio-economic factors, such as levels of income and schooling. In its examination of the relationships between family, church and school, the study explores how religion and other cultural traits such as family structure, language, and ethnic identity, interact and yield particular educational outcomes. The study shows that religion can make a positive difference in the education of Latinos. Religion is a resource that parents can tap into for the benefit of their children. Teachers, school administrators, policy makers and religious leaders will find this study useful as they strive to understand and change Latinos' educational status.
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Brill The Dutch Intersection: The Jews and the Netherlands in Modern History
Book SynopsisThis collection of historical studies deals with the multiple connections between the history and culture of the Jews of the Netherlands from the beginning of the seventeenth century until the period after the Holocaust, and phenomena and processes that distinguish the history of the Jewish people in the modern period. The Jews of the Netherlands were not only nourished by the cultural creativity of the great Sephardi and Ashkenazi centers, East and West, but also at various stages they served as a source of inspiration for Jews elsewhere in the Jewish Diaspora. The articles of this volume examin the influence of general Jewish history on that of the Jews of the Netherlands and focus on events and processes that highlight the significance of of Dutch Jewry for modern Jewish culture.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Bernard D. Cooperman Amsterdam from an International Perspective: Tolerance and Kehillah in the Portuguese Diaspora Adam Sutcliffe The Boundaries of Community: Urban Space and Intercultural Interaction in Early Modern, Sephardi Amsterdam, and London Yosef Kaplan Amsterdam, the Forbidden Lands, and the Dynamics of the Sephardi Diaspora Jonathan Schorsch Mosseh Pereyra de Paiva: An Amsterdam Portuguese Jewish Merchant Abroad in the Seventeenth Century Harm den Boer Amsterdam as “Locus” of Iberian Printing in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Gary Schwartz The Temple Mount in the Lowlands Michael Studemund-Halévy The Persistence of Images: Reproductive Success in the History of Sephardi Sepulchral Art Evelyne Oliel-Grausz Patrocinio and Authority: Assessing the Metropolitan Role of the Portuguese Nation of Amsterdam in the Eighteenth Century Jonathan Israel Philosophy, Deism, and the Early Jewish Enlightenment (1655–1740) Shlomo Berger Yiddish Book Production in Amsterdam between 1650–1800: Local and International Aspects Hilde Pach “In Hamburg a High German Jew Was Murdered”: The Representation of Foreign Jews in the Dinstagishe un Fraytagishe Kuranten (Amsterdam, 1686–1687) Avriel Bar-Levav Amsterdam and the Inception of the Jewish Republic of Letters Stefan Litt Ashkenazi-Dutch Pinkassim as Sources for Studying European-Jewish Migration: The Cases of Middelburg and The Hague in the Eighteenth Century Gérard Nahon The Hague, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Jerusalem: David de Pinto and the Jesiba Magen David, 1750–1767 Shalom Sabar From Amsterdam to Bombay, Baghdad, and Casablanca:The Infl uence of the Amsterdam Haggadah on Haggadah Illustration among the Jews in India and the Lands of Islam Irene E. Zwiep A Maskil Reads Zunz: Samuel Mulder and the Earliest Dutch Reception of the Wissenschaft des Judentums Bart Wallet Dutch National Identity and Jewish International Solidarity: An Impossible Combination? Dutch Jewry and the Signifi cance of the Damascus Affair (1840) Rivka Weiss-Blok Jewish Artists Facing Holland Benjamin Ravid Alfred Klee and Hans Goslar: From Amsterdam to Westerbork to Bergen Belsen Evelien Gans Next Year in Paramaribo: Galut and Diaspora as Scene-changes in the Jewish Life of Jakob Meijer Elrud Ibsch Writing against Silence. Jewish Writers of the Generation-After in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, and France: A Comparison David Weinberg Patrons or Partners? Relations between the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Dutch Jewish Community in the Immediate Postwar Period Manfred Gerstenfeld International Aspects of the Restitution Process in the Netherlands at the End of the Twentieth Century
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Brill Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan
Book SynopsisThis publication offers a wide-ranging account of the Mongols in western and eastern Asia in the aftermath of Genghis Khan's disruptive invasions of the early thirteenth century, focusing on the significant cultural, social, religious and political changes that followed in their wake. The issues considered concern art, governance, diplomacy, commerce, court life, and urban culture in the Mongol world empire as originally presented at a 2003 symposium at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and now distilled in this volume. This collection of 23 papers by many of the main authorities in the field demonstrates both the scope and the depth of the current state of Mongol-related studies and will undoubtedly inspire and provoke further research. The text is profusely illustrated by 27 color and 110 black-and-white illustrations.Trade Review"...this is a highly important collection which stresses the significance and fertility of cultural transmission in Mongol Eurasia and particularly its expressions in western Asia." Michal Biran in MESA Bulletin 41.2 (2007), 204-205.
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Brill On the Road to Being There: Studies in Pilgrimage and Tourism in Late Modernity
Book SynopsisThis volume consists of a collection of twelve empirical studies addressing theoretical and practical issues relating to pilgrimage and tourism activities, particularly assessing the ways in which religious expressions have changed as a result of the technological and social changes of late modernity that affect human behavior in a more general sense.
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Brill Religion, Globalization, and Culture
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together over 25 articles by many of the most important authors who have worked on issues directly related to the theme of religion and globalization. An additional emphasis on culture flags the inclusion of the relation of religion to its wider social context and also permits questioning the boundaries of religion so as to avoid a strong bias in favour of the analysis of institutionalized religion. The key emphasis of the book, however, is the focus specifically on religion, a topic that is still largely ignored in the burgeoning literature on globalization. The articles are divided into five subthemes: theoretical issues; historical approaches to religion and globalization; forms and boundaries of religion; key issues (such as ecology and gender); and regional perspectives. Contributors: Afe Adogame, Elisabeth Arweck, Lori Beaman, Peter Beyer, John Boli, Gary Bouma, Dave Brewington, George Van Campbell, José Casanova, Paul Freston, Nobutaka Inoue, Laurel Kearns, Otto Maduro, Vasilios Makrides, Meredith McGuire, Vincenzo Pace, Rubina Ramji, James T. Richardson, Ole Riis, Roland Robertson, Marie-Andrée Roy, Shandip Saha, John H. Simpson, James V. Spickard, William Stahl, George Thomas, Bryan Turner, Margit Warburg, Michael Wilkinson.Trade ReviewThe detailed nature of this volume’s arguments and illustrations and its good use of previous literature make it invaluable for graduate students and scholars who want to develop their understanding of globalization beyond a basic introduction to the topic. It deserves a place on the shelf of anyone interested in the interconnection between religion, globalization and culture and would be an important reference in any university library. - Mark D. Chapman, in: Studies in Religion, Vol 39, Iss 2 (2010).
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Brill Mediene Remnants: Yiddish Sources in the Netherlands Outside of Amsterdam
Book SynopsisThis inventory provides a survey of the extant Yiddish sources in Dutch archives and collections outside of Amsterdam. Until now, an overview and quantitative summary of the available Yiddish sources in The Netherlands was lacking. The compilation represents only a modest beginning, for the amount of material that has survived is enormous. An inventory relating to the Jewish community of Amsterdam requires a separate volume. The present inventory aims to stimulate new research-projects on the history of Ashkenazi Jewry in the Netherlands and to facilitate the research of the west-Yiddish speech variant that was spoken by the Ashkenazi Jews in The Netherlands.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART ONE PUBLIC RECORDS Jewish Communities Independent Institutions Supra-Communal Institutions PART TWO PRIVATE RECORDS Rabbis Commercial Records Private Archives Appendix I Appendix II Bibliography
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Brill Imagining Creation
Book SynopsisImagining Creation is a collection of views on creation by noted authors from different disciplines. Topics include creation accounts and iconography from Mesopotamia and Egypt, and cosmologies from India and Africa. Special attention is devoted to creation in the Scriptures (Bible and Koran) and related oral traditions on Genesis from Slavonic Europe, as well as Kabbalah. Some of the creations myths are earlier and some later than the Bible, while a number of the discussed texts offer alternative approaches to the beginnings of the universe. The contributions provide many new perspectives on the origins of man and his world from diverse cultures. The volume is the proceedings of a symposium on creation stories held at University College London.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Foreword Markham Geller and Mineke Schipper Chapter One Introduction Mary Douglas Chapter Two Mesopotamian Creation Stories W. G. Lambert Chapter Three Creation Stories in Ancient Egypt Stephen Quirke Chapter Four You Can’t Get Here from There: The Logical Paradox of Ancient Indian Creation Myths Wendy Doniger Chapter Five Stories of the Beginning: Origin Myths in Africa South of the Sahara Mineke Schipper Chapter Six Modern Jewish Attitudes to the Concept of Myth Wout Jac. van Bekkum Chapter Seven Extract from Genesis 1–2 Translation and Commentary, Norton, NY 1996 Robert Alter Chapter Eight The Bible in the Making: Slavonic Creation Stories Florentina Badalanova Chapter Nine Arab Creation Stories beyond the Pale Abdullah al-Udhari Chapter Ten Lurianic Creation Myths Daphne Freedman Index
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Brill Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 18
Book SynopsisResearch in the Social Scientific Study of Religion (RSSSR) publishes reports of innovative studies that pertain empirically or theoretically to the scientific study of religion, including spirituality, regardless of their academic discipline or professional orientation. RSSSR is published annually with the kind support of Loyola College, Maryland, USA. This volume of RSSSR contains several articles on spiritual development among adolescents, spiritual transcendence, Jung and pastoral counseling and spirituality and religiosity. In addition to this, a special section of nine articles is devoted to several aspects of positive psychology and its usage in practice.Trade ReviewResearchers, scholars, teachers, religious leaders, and graduate and professional students in the social and behavioral sciences, religion, and theology who include attention to the scientific investigation of religion and spirituality.Table of ContentsREGULAR ARTICLES Openness and Spiritual Development in Adolescents. Brien S. Kelley, Aurelie M. Athan, and Lisa F. Miller Jung: Mentor for Pastoral Counselors. William J. Sneck The Relations Among Spirituality and Religiosity and Axis II Functioning in Two College Samples. Ralph L. Piedmont, Catherine J. Hassinger, Janelle Rhorer, Martin F. Sherman, Nancy C. Sherman, and Joseph E. G. Williams Associations between Humility, Spiritual Transcendence, and Forgiveness. Christie Powers, Ruth K. Nam, Wade C. Rowatt, and Peter C. Hill SPECIAL SECTION ON POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY Introduction to Special Section on Positive Psychology. Joseph W. Ciarrocchi and Gina Yanni-Brelsford The Vocation Identity Questionnaire: Measuring the Sense of Calling. Diane E. Dreher, Katherine A. Holloway, and Erin Schoenfelder Spirituality and God-Attachment as Predictors of Subjective Well-Being for Seminarians and Nuns in India. Dudley Mendonca, K. Elizabeth Oakes, Joseph W. Ciarrocchi, William J. Sneck, and Kevin Gillespie Child Abuse, Personality, and Spirituality as Predictors of Happiness in Maltese College Students. Michael Galea, Joseph W. Ciarrocchi, Ralph L. Piedmont, and Robert J. Wicks Spiritual Transcendence and Religious Practices in Recovery from Pathological Gambling: Reducing Pain or Enhancing Quality of Life? James M. Walsh, Joseph W. Ciarrocchi, Ralph Piedmont, and Deborah Haskins Patience as a Virtue: Religious and Psychological Perspectives. Sarah A. Schnitker and Robert A. Emmons Inward, Outward, Upward Prayers and Personal Character. Kevin L. Ladd, Meleah L. Ladd, Peter Ashbaugh, Danielle Trnka, Julie Harner, Kate St. Pierre, and Ted Swanson Life Satisfaction and Spirituality in Adolescents. Brien S. Kelley and Lisa Miller The Relationship Between Spirituality Assessed Through Self-transcendent Goal Strivings and Positive Psychological Attributes. Gary K. Leak, Kristina DeNeve, and Adam Gretemen
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Brill Encyclopaedia of Islam - Three 2007-2
Book SynopsisThe Third Edition of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam is an entirely new work, with new articles reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship. It will appear in four substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world.Table of ContentsAaron Abān al-Lāḥiqī Abangan Abay Qunanbayulı ‘Abbās b. Abī l-Futūḥ ‘Abbās Sarwānī ‘Abbūd, Mārūn ‘Abd al-‘Azīz al-Amawī ‘Abd al-Bārī ‘Abd al-Ḥayy, Ṣāliḥ ‘Abd al-Ilāh ‘Abd al-Muṭṭalib b. Hāshim ‘Abd al-Quddūs, Iḥsān ‘Abd al-Raḥmān, ‘Ā’isha ‘Abd al-Rashīd al-Tattawī ‘Abd al-Ra’ūf Fitrat (‘Abdorrauf Fitrat) ‘Abd al-Ṣabūr, Ṣalāḥ ‘Abd al-Ṣamad al-Palimbānī ‘Abdāllah b. al-Ḥusayn ‘Abdallāh Pasha ‘Abdan, Abū Muḥammad Abdullah b. Abdul Kadir Munsyi Abdurrauf Singkili Abikoesno Tjokrosoejoso al-Abīwardī, Abū l-Muẓaffar Muḥammad Ablution Abū ‘Alqama al-Naḥwī Abū Du’ād al-Iyādī Abū Dulāma Abū Fudayk Abū Ḥafṣ al-Miṣrī Abū Ḥafṣ al-Shiṭranjī Abū Ḥātim al-Sijistānī Abū Hurayra Abū Isḥāq al-Ilbīrī Abū l-‘Amaythal Abū l-‘Ibar Abū l-Najm Abū Misḥal Abū Righāl Abū l-Ṭayyib al-Lughawī Abū Yūsuf Ya‘qūb al-Manṣūr Abū Zayd al-Qurashī Abū Ziyād al-Kilābī Abū Zur‘a al-Dimashqī Abū Ḥanīfa Acre Adabiyya School Aden ‘Adliyya Courts Afdeeling B Agadir Agung, Sultan Agus Salim Ahmad Rifa’i (or Ripangi) Ahmad Sanusi bin Abdurrahim of Sukabumi ‘Ā’isha Qandīsha ‘Ajmān al-Afḍal b. Badr al-Jamālī al-Afwah b. al-Awdī al-Akhṭal al-Akwa‘, Muḥammad Alamūt al-‘Aqaba al-Arrajānī al-‘Askarī, Abū Hilāl al-‘Aṭṭās, Aḥmad b. Ḥasan Alauddin Riayat Syah al-Kahar (of Aceh) Alauddin Tumenanga Ri Gaukanna, Sultan al-‘Awāzim al-Azhar (modern period) al-Azharī, Abū Manṣūr al-‘Aẓm Family Alembic Algerian Literature Algorithm ‘Alī al-Zaybaq, Romance of ‘Alī b. Khalaf al-Kātib ‘Alī b. Muḥammad Wafā’ ‘Alī Bey al-Kabīr Ali Haji, Raja ‘Alī Ḥaydar ‘Alī Qulī Khān Aliran Awlād al-Nās ‘Amal (Judiciary Practice) Amangkurat I, Susunan al-‘Amāra Amber Amīn, Qāsim Amman Ampel, Sunan ‘Amr b. Qamī’a Amulet Anatomy Ansor ‘Antar, Sīrat Anwā’ Apology Appeal Aqueduct Ardabil Argots Arms and Armour Artificial insemination Arung Palakka A‘shā Hamdān Astrology Attributes of God Āvāz ‘Awlaqī Aws b. Ḥajar Ayisyiyah Ayyūb, Dhū l-Nūn Ayyūb, Rashīd Ayyūbids ‘Azīma and Rukhṣa ‘Azzām, Samīra
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Brill Encyclopaedia of Islam - Three 2007-3
Book SynopsisThe Third Edition of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam is an entirely new work, with new articles reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship. It will appear in four substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world.Table of ContentsAbān b. ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd II (ʿAbdülhamīd II) ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Hamadhānī ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ṣāliḥ ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Baghdādī ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Marāghī, Ibn Ghaybī ʿAbdallāh b. Ṭāhir ʿAbdallāh, Mirzā ʿAbdallāh al-Tulanbi ʿAbdī Bukhārī ʿAbduh, Muḥammad Abdulmuhyi ʿAbīd b. al-Abraṣ Abid Husain Abortion Abraham Bar Ḥiyya Abrogation Abū Bishr Ḥawshab al-Thaqafī Abū Dā’ūd al-Sijistānī Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī Abū l-Futūḥ al-Rāzī Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar b. Jamī` Abū Ḥayya al-Numayrī Abū l-Hudā l-Ṣayyādī Abū Jahl Abū Kāmil Shujāʿ al-Miṣrī Abū Māḍī, īliyā Abū Maʿshar Abū Rīda, Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Hādī Abū Ṭāhir Ṭarsūsī Abū Tammām Abū ʿUbayda b. al-Jarrāḥ Abū l-Walīd al-Ḥimyarī Abyan Adab al-qāḍī ʿAdī b. Ḥātim Afghanistan, Art and Architecture Ahl-i ḥadīth Aḥmad, name of the Prophet Aḥmad Bey Aḥmad Khaṭīb (Minangkabau) Aḥmad Yār ʿAjārida ʿAlī Mubārak Allahu akbar Amān Amghar Āmina al-ʿĀmm wa-l-Khāṣṣ Andalusian Art and Architecture Anṣārī, Mukhtār Aḥmad Apollo Group ʿAqīqa Archimedes Architecture ʿArīf Çelebī Arslan, Shakīb Arsūf, battle of Āṣāf al-Dawla Ashanti Aşık Veysel Assassins ʿĀṭıf Efendi ʿAyn Mūsā Ayyām al-ʿArab al-Azhar al-Azharī, Abū Manṣūr ʿAzīma and Rukhsa al-ʿAẓm family ʿAzzām, Samīra al-Bayātī, ʿAbd al-Wahhāb
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