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Book SynopsisMuqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.Trade Review'The issues of this journal...serve as a reliable annual on Islamic and even non-Islamic research.' Carolyn Kane, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1994. '...a great tool for many a researcher...In a variety of manners, questions every generation should ask, are set afresh in the light of new discoveries and techniques...' Yolande Crowe, Bibliotheca Orientalis, 1994.Table of ContentsOleg Grabar, Between Connoisseurship and Technology: A Review Howard Crane, Traditional Pottery Making in the Sardis Region of Western Turkey Jonathan M. Bloom, The Introduction of the Muqarnas into Egypt Marilyn Jenkins, Mamluk Jewelry: Influences and Echoes Doris Behrens-Abouseif, The Takiyyat Ibrahim al-Kulshani in Cairo Godfrey Goodwin, Gardens of the Dead in Ottoman Times Jale Erzen, Sinan as Anti-Classicist Maurice Cerasi, Late Ottoman Architects and Master Builders R.D. McChesney, Four Sources on Shah ‘Abbas's Building of Isfahan Elizabeth B. Moynihan, The Lotus Garden Palace of Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur William G. Klingelhofer, The Jahangiri Mahal of the Agra Fort: Expression and Experience in Early Mughal Architecture

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Book SynopsisMuqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.Trade Review'...Die Zeitschrift Muqarnas gehört zu den wichtigsten und anregendsten aktuellen Veröffentlichungen auf dem Gebiet der islamischen Kunst...' M. Barrucand, Der Islam, 1988.Table of ContentsOleg Grabar, An Exhibition of High Ottoman Art Nasser Rabbat, The Meaning of the Umayyad Dome of the Rock Jamel Akbar, Khatta and the Territorial structure of Early Muslim Towns Saleh Lamei Mostafa, The Cairene Sabil: Its Form and Meaning Sergei Chmelnizkij, Methods of Constructing Geometric Ornamental Systems in the Cupola of the Alhambra I.I. Notkin, Genotypes of Spatial Form in the Architecture of the East Perween Hasan, Sultanate Mosques and Continuity in Bengal Architecture Iqtidar Alam Khan, New Light on the History of Two Early Mughal Monuments of Bayana Eva Baer, Jeweled Ceramics from Medieval Islam: A Note on the Ambiguity of Islamic Ornament Peter Chelkowski, Narrative Painting and Painting Recitation in Qajar Iran Donna Stein, Three Photographic Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Iran B.W. Robinson, Qajar Lacquer Layla S. Diba, Persian Painting in the Eighteenth Century Nancy Micklewright, Late-Nineteenth-Century Century Ottoman Wedding Costumes as Indicators of Social Change

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Book SynopsisMuqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.Trade Review'...Die Zeitschrift Muqarnas gehört zu den wichtigsten und anregendsten aktuellen Veröffentlichungen auf dem Gebiet der islamischen Kunst...' M. Barrucand, Der Islam, 1988.Table of ContentsOleg Grabar, Europe and the Orient: An Ideologically Charged Exhibition Thomas Leisten, Between Orthodoxy and Exegesis: Some Aspects of Attitudes in the Shariʿa toward Funerary Architecture Sergei Chmelnizkij, The Mausoleum of Muhammad Bosharo Sheila S. Blair, Sufi Saints and Shrine Architecture in the Early Fourteenth Century Michael E. Bonine, The Sacred Direction and City Structure: A Preliminary Analysis of the Islamic Cities of Morocco D. Fairchild Ruggles, The Mirador in Abbasid and Hispano-Umayyad Garden Typology Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq, An Epigraphical Journey to an Eastern Islamic Land Ulrike Al-Khamis, The Iconography of Early Islamic Lusterware from Mesopotamia: New Considerations Scott Redford, How Islamic Is It? The Innsbruck Plate and Its Setting Gülru Necipoğlu, From International Timurid to Ottoman: A Change of Taste in Sixteenth-Century Ceramic Tiles Leonard Helfgott, Carpet Collecting in Iran, 1873–1883: Robert Murdoch Smith and the Formation of the Modern Persian Carpet Industry Jo Tonna, The Poetics of Arab-Islamic Architecture

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Book SynopsisMuqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.Table of ContentsOleg Grabar, K. A. C. Creswell and His Work Julian Raby, Reviewing the Reviewers J.W. Allan, New Additions to the New Edition Robert Hillenbrand, Creswell and Contemporary Central European Scholarschip Eric Fernie, The History of Medieval Architecture from Carolingian to Romanesque: Criteria and Definitions from 1925 to the Present Day Cyril Mango, Approaches to Byzantine Architecture J.M. Rogers, Architectural History as Literature: Creswell’s Reading and Methods Jonathan M. Bloom, Creswell and the Origins of the Minaret John Warren, Creswell’s Use of the Theory of Dating by the Acuteness of the Pointed Arches in Early Muslim Architecture Sheila S. Blair, Surveyor versus Epigrapher Alastair Northedge, Creswell, Herzfeld, and Samarra G.R.D. King, Creswell’s Appreciation of Arabian Architecture Mark Horton, Primitive Islam and Architecture in East Africa Gloria Karnouk, The Creswell Library: A Legacy Teresa Fitzherbert, The Creswell Photographic Archive at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford R.W. Hamilton, Keppel Archibald Cameron Creswell, 1879–1974 Note: R.D. McChesney, Postscript to “Four Sources on Shah ʿAbbas’s Building of Isfahan”

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Book SynopsisMuqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.Table of ContentsContents Christopher S. Taylor, 'Reevaluating the Shi‘i Role in the Development of Monumental Islamic Funerary Architecture: The Case of Egypt.' Nuha N.N. Khoury, 'The Mihrab Image: Commemorative Themes in Medieval Islamic Architecture.' Doris Behrens-Abouseif, 'The Facade of the Aqmar Mosque in the Context of Fatimid Ceremonial.' Mohammad Al-Asad, 'The Mosque of Muhammad ‘Ali in Cairo.' Marilyn Jenkins, 'Early Medieval Islamic Pottery: The Eleventh Century Reconsidered.' Robert B. Mason, Ronald M. Farquhar, and Patrick E. Smith, 'Lead-Isotope Analysis of Islamic Glazes: An Exploratory Study.' A. Ghouchani and C. Adle, 'A Sphero-Conical Vessel as Fuqqā‘a, or a Gourd for 'Beer.'' Summer S. Kenesson, 'Nasrid Luster Pottery: The Alhambra Vases.' Massumeh Farhad, 'An Artist's Impression: Mu‘in Musavvir's Tiger Attacking a Youth.' Barbara Finster, 'An Outline of the History of Islamic Religious Architecture in Yemen.' Robert Hillenbrand, 'Turco-Iranian Elements in the Medieval Architecture of Pakistan: The Case of the Tomb of Rukn-i ‘Alam at Multan.' Subhash Parihar, 'A Little-Known Mughal College in India: The Madrasa of Shaykh Chillie at Thanesar.' Wijdan Ali, 'The Status of Islamic Art in the Twentieth Century.'

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Book SynopsisMuqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.Table of ContentsOleg Grabar Bibliography, 1953–93 ANNABELLE SIMON-CAHN, The Fermo Chasuble of St. Thomas Becket and Hispano-Mauresque Cosmological Silks: Some Speculations on the Adaptive Reuse of Textiles EVA R. HOFFMAN, The Author Portrait in Thirteenth-Century Arabic Manuscripts: A New Islamic Context for a Late-Antique Tradition JONATHAN M. BLOOM, On the Transmission of Designs in Early Islamic Architecture YASSER TABBAA, Survivals and Archaisms in the Architecture of Northern Syria, ca. 1080–ca. 1150 HAFEZ K. CHEHAB, On the Identification of ʿAnjar (ʿAyn al-Jarr) as an Umayyad Foundation GHAZI BISHEH, From Castellum to Palatium: Umayyad Mosaic Pavements from Qasr al-Hallabat in Jordan NUHA N. N. KHOURY, The Dome of the Rock, the Kaʿba, and Ghumdan: Arab Myths and Umayyad Monuments NASSER RABBAT, The Dome of the Rock Revisited: Some Remarks on al-Wasiti’s Accounts BEATRICE ST. LAURENT and ANDRÁS RIEDLMAYER, Restorations of Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock and Their Political Significance, 1537–1928 ARCHIE G. WALLS, Ottoman Restorations to the Sabil and to the Madrasa of Qaytbay in Jerusalem M. TAREK SWELIM, An Interpretation of the Mosque of Sinan Pasha in Cairo MOHAMMAD AL-ASAD, The Mosque of al-Rifaʿi in Cairo KHALED ASFOUR, The Domestication of Knowledge: Cairo at the Turn of the Century DANIEL PIPES, Egyptian Family Life in 1919 JAMEL AKBAR, Gates as Signs of Autonomy in Muslim Towns SCOTT REDFORD, The Seljuqs of Rum and the Antique HOWARD CRANE, Evliya Çelebi’s Journey through the Pamphylian Plain in 1671–72 GÜLRU NECIPOĞLU, Challenging the Past: Sinan and the Competitive Discourse of Early­Modern Islamic Architecture ESIN ATIL, The Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Festival TÜLAY ARTAN, The Kadırga Palace: An Architectural Reconstruction AYDA AREL, Gothic Towers and Baroque Mihrabs: The Post-Classical Architecture of Aegean Anatolia in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries WALTER B. DENNY, Quotations in and out of Context: Ottoman Turkish Art and European Orientalist Painting FAY ARRIEH FRICK, Possible Sources for Some Motifs of Decoration on Islamic Ceramics LISA GOLOMBEK, The Paysage as Funerary Imagery in the Timurid Period THOMAS W. LENTZ, Dynastic Imagery in Early Timurid Wall Painting SHEILA S. BLAIR, The Development of the Illustrated Book in Iran EDWARD J. KEALL, “One Man’s Mede Is Another Man’s Persian; One Man’s Coconut Is Another Man’s Grenade” MASSUMEH FARHAD and MARIANNA SHREVE SIMPSON, Sources for the Study of Safavid Painting and Patronage, or Méfiez-vous de Qazi Ahmad ZAHRA FARIDANY-AKHAVAN, All the King’s Toys SHEILA R. CANBY, Depictions of Buddha Sakyamuni in the Jamiʿ al-Tavarikh and the Majmaʿ al-Tavarikh ANTHONY WELCH, Architectural Patronage and the Past: The Tughluq Sultans of lndia MICHAEL BRAND, Orthodoxy, Innovation, and Revival: Considerations of the Past in Imperial Mughal Tomb Architecture PERWEEN HASAN, The Footprint of the Prophet MICHAEL W. MEISTER, Style and Idiom in the Art of Uparāmala DEBORAH KLIMBURG-SALTER, Dokhtar-i-Noshirwan (Nigar) Reconsidered NANCY SHATZMAN STEINHARDT, The Tangut Royal Tombs near Yinchuan ZAKARIA ALI, Notes on the Sejarah Melayu and Royal Malay Art Cumulative Authors’ Index, Muqarnas vols. 1–10 (1982–92)

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Book SynopsisMuqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.Table of ContentsAVINOAM SHALEM, Fountains of Light: The Meaning of Medieval Islamic Rock Crystal Lamps CHARLES E. NICKLIES, The Church of the Cuba near Castiglione di Sicilia and Its Cultural Context M. JAMES BLACKMAN and SCOTT REDFORD, Glazed Calcareous Clay Ceramics from Gritille, Turkey R. STEPHEN HUMPHREYS, Women as Patrons of Religious Architecture in Ayyubid Damascus CAROLINE WILLIAMS, The Mosque of Sitt Hadaq MEHRDAD SHOKOOHY, Sasanian Royal Emblems and Their Reemergence in the Fourteenth-Century Deccan CAMMY BROTHERS, The Renaissance Reception of the Alhambra: The Letters of Andrea Navagero and the Palace of Charles V. BARBARA BREND, A Sixteenth-Century Manuscript from Transoxiana: Evidence for a Continuing Tradition in Illustration HAFEZ CHEHAB, Reconstructing the Medici Portrait of Amir Fakhr al-Din al-Maʿani SUSSAN BABAIE, Shah ʿAbbas II, the Conquest of Qandahar, the Chihil Sutun, and Its Wall Paintings EBBA KOCH, Diwan-i ʿAmm and Chihil Sutun: The Audience Halls of Shah Jahan DWIGHT F. REYNOLDS, Feathered Brides and Bridled Fertility: Architecture, Ritual, and Change in a Northern Egyptian Village

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Book SynopsisMuqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.Table of ContentsEditor’s Note Oleg Grabar, 'Michael Meinecke and His Last Book.' Thomas Leisten, 'Mashhad al-Nasr: Monuments of War and Victory in Medieval Islamic Art.' Jere L. Bacharach, 'Marwanid Umayyad Building Activities: Speculations on Patronage.' Nasser Rabbat, ‘Al-Azhar Mosque: An Architectural Chronicle of Cairo’s History.’ Howyda N. Al-Harithy, 'The Complex of Sultan Hasan in Cairo: Reading between the Lines.' Nuha N.N. Khoury, ‘The Meaning of the Great Mosque of Cordoba in the Tenth Century.’ Michael Cooperson, 'Baghdad in Rhetoric and Narrative.' Aptullah Kuran, 'A Spatial Study of Three Ottoman Capitals: Bursa, Edirne, and Istanbul.' Filiz Çağman and Zeren Tanindi, 'Remarks on Some Manuscripts from the Topkapi Palace Treasury in the Context of Ottoman-Safavid Relations.' Yildirim Yavuz, 'The Restoration Project of the Masjid al-Aqsa by Mimar Kemalettin (1922-26)' Anthony Welch, 'A Medieval Center of Learning in India: The Haus Khas in Delhi.' Alpay Özdural, 'On Interlocking Similar or Corresponding Figures and Ornamental Patterns of Cubic Equations.'

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Book SynopsisMuqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.Table of ContentsStephen Vernoit, 'The Rise of Islamic Archaeology' Doris Behrens-Abouseif, 'The Lion-Gazelle Mosaic at Khirbat al-Mafjar' Francisco Prado-Vilar, 'Circular Visions of Fertility and Punishment: Caliphal Ivory Caskets from al-Andalus' Avinoam Shalem, 'Jewels and Journeys: The Case of the Medieval Gemstone Called al-Yatima' F.B. Flood, 'Umayyad Survivals and Mamluk Revivals: Qalawunid Architecture and the Great Mosque of Damascus' Ayşil Tükel Yavuz, The Concepts that Shape Anatolian Seljuq Caravanserais' Amy Singer, 'The Mülknāmes of Hürrem Sultan's Waqf in Jerusalem' Klaus Kreiser, 'Public Monuments in Turkey and Egypt, 1840-1916' Karin Rührdanz, 'About a Group of Truncated Shāhnāmas: A Case Study in the Commercial Production of Illustrated Manuscripts in the Second Part of the Sixteenth Century' Salome Zajadacz-Hastenrath, 'A Note on Babur's Lost Funerary Enclosure at Kabul' Ebba Koch, 'Mughal Palace Gardens from Babur to Shah Jahan, (1526-1648)' Anthony Welch, 'The Shrine of the Holy Footprint in Delhi' Timothy Insoll, 'Mosque Architecture in Buganda, Uganda'

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Book SynopsisMuqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.Table of ContentsK.A.C. Creswell, Mardīn and Diyārbekr Ulrike Al-Khamis, An Early Bronze Ewer Reexamined Cynthia Robinson, Ubi Sunt: Memory and Nostalgia in Taifa Court Culture David J. Roxburgh, Disorderly Conduct?: F.R. Martin and the Bahram Mirza Album Lucienne Thys-Şenocak, The Yeni Valide Mosque Complex at Eminönü Sabri Jarrar, Suq al-Ma‘rifa: An Ayyubid Hanbalite Shrine in al-Haram al-Sharif Alpay Özdural, Sinan's Arşın: A Survey of Ottoman Architectural Metrology Maurice Cerasi, The Formation of Ottoman House Types: A Comparative Study in Interaction with Neighboring Cultures Ron Fuchs, The Palestinian Arab House and the Islamic 'Primitive Hut' Ali S. Asani and Carney E.S. Gavin, Through the Lens of Mirza of Delhi: The Debbas Album of Early-Twentieth-Century Photographs of Pilgrimage Sites in Mecca and Medina Jürgen Wasim Frembgen, Religious Folk Arts as an Expression of Identity: Muslim Tombstones in the Gangar Mountains of Pakistan

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Book SynopsisMuqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.Table of ContentsRafi Grafman and Myriam Rosen-Ayalon, The Two Great Syrian Umayyad Mosques: Jerusalem and Damascus Mariam Rosser-Owen, A Córdoban Ivory Pyxis Lid in the Ashmolean Museum Eva Baer, The Human Figure in Early Islamic Art: Some Preliminary Remarks Ömür Bakirer, The Story of Three Graffiti Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, "In the Image of Rum": Ottoman Architectural Patronage in Sixteenth-Century Aleppo and Damascus Leonid A. Beliaev and Alexei Chernetsov, The Eastern Contribution to Medieval Russian Culture Willem Floor, Art (Naqqashi) and Artists (Naqqashan) in Qajar Persia Mohammad Al-Asad, The Mosque of the Turkish Grand National Assembly in Ankara: Breaking with Tradition Hana Taragan, Architecture in Fact and Fiction: The Case of the New Gourna Village in Upper Egypt

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Book SynopsisMuqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.Table of ContentsRaya Shani and Doron Chen, On the Umayyad Dating of the Double Gate in Jerusalem Finbarr B. Flood, The Medieval Trophy as an Art Historical Trope: Coptic and Byzantine "Altars" in Islamic Contexts Howayda Al-Harithy, The Concept of Space in Mamluk Architecture R.D. McChesney, Architecture and Narrative: The Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa Shrine. Part 1: Constructing the Complex and lts Meaning, 1469-1696 Ruba Kana’an, Waqf, Architecture, and Political Self-Fashioning: The Construction of the Great Mosque of Jaffa by Muhammad Aga Abu Nabbut Armen Ghazarian and Robert Ousterhout, A Muqarnas Drawing from Thirteenth-Century Armenia and the Use of Architectural Drawings during the Middle Ages Oya Pancaroğlu, Socializing Medicine: Illustrations of the Kitāb al-Diryāq Oleg Grabar and Mika Natif, Two Safavid Paintings: An Essay in Interpretation Nebahat Avcioğlu, Ahmed I and the Allegories of Tyranny in the Frontispiece to George Sandys's Relation of a Journey Caroline Williams, John Frederick Lewis: "Reflections of Reality"

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Book SynopsisMuqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.Table of ContentsEva Baer, The Illustrations for an Early Manuscript of Ibn Butlan's Da‘wat al-Aṭibbā’ in the L.A. Mayer Memorial in Jerusalem Anthony Welch, Hussein Keshani, and Alexandra Bain, Epigraphs, Scripture, and Architecture in the Early Delhi Sultanate David J. Roxburgh, Persian Drawing, ca. 1400-1450: Materials and Creative Procedures R.D. McChesney, Architecture and Narrative: The Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa Shrine. Part 2: Representing the Complex in Word and Image, 1696-1998 Machiel Kiel, The Quatrefoil Plan in Ottoman Architecture Reconsidered in Light of the "Fethiye Mosque" of Athens Shirine Hamadeh, Splash and Spectacle: The Obsession with Fountains in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul Willem Floor, The Talar-i Tavila or Hall of Stables, a Forgotten Safavid Palace Brian L. McLaren, The Italian Colonial Appropriation of Indigenous North African Architecture in the 1930's Jeffrey B. Spurr, Person and Place: The Construction of Ronald Graham's Persian Photo Album

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Book SynopsisMuqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Alain Fouad George, The Geometry of the Qurʾan of Amajur: A Preliminary Study of Proportion in Early Arabic Calligraphy Anna Contadini, A Bestiary Tale: Text and Image of the Unicorn in the Kitāb naʿt al-ḥayawān (British Library Or. 2784) Persis Berlekamp, Painting as Persuasion: A Visual Defense of Alchemy in an Islamic Manuscript of the Mongol Period Stefano Carboni, The Painted-Glass Decoration of the Mausoleum of Ahmad ibn Sulayman al-Rifaʿi in Cairo Marcus Milwright, Modest Luxuries: Decorated Lead-glazed Pottery in the South of Bilad al-Sham (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries) Heather Ecker, The Great Mosque of Cordoba in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Deborah Howard, Death in Damascus: Venetians in Syria in the Mid-Fifteenth Century Zeynep Yürekli, A Building between the Public and Private Realms of the Ottoman Elite: The Sufi Convent of Sokollu Mehmed Pasha in Istanbul Ahmet Ersoy, A Sartorial Tribute to Late Tanzimat Ottomanism: The Elbise-i ʿOsmāniyyeAlbum Kishwar Rizvi, Religious Icon and National Symbol: The Tomb of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran Mary McWilliams, Collecting by the Book: The Shaping of Private and Public Collections Valérie Gonzalez, The Comares Hall in the Alhambra and James Turrell's Space that Sees: A Comparison of Aesthetic Phenomenology

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Book SynopsisMuqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.Table of ContentsAdel T. Adamova (translated by J. M. Rogers), The Iconography of A Camel Fight Nurhan Atasoy, Ottoman Garden Pavilions and Tents Serpil Bağcı, Old Images for New Texts and Contexts: Wandering Images In Islamic Book Painting Kaveh Bakhtiar, Palatial Towers of Nasir Al-Din Shah Doris Behrens-Abouseif, European Arts and Crafts at the Mamluk Court Michele Bernardini, The Illustrations of a Manuscript of the Travel Account of François de la Boullaye le Gouz in the Library of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome John Carswell and Julian Henderson, Rhyton? Write On ... Pedro Moura Carvalho, What Happened to the Mughal Furniture? The Role of the Imperial Workshops, the Decorative Motifs Used, and the Influence of Western Models Anna Contadini, A Wonderful World: Folios from a Dispersed Manuscript of the Nuzhat-Nāma Yolande Crowe, A Late Safavid Dish: A Cluster of Exotic Trees and Foliage Giovanni Curatola, A Sixteenth-Century Quarrel about Carpets Ibolya Gerelyes, Seeking the East in the West: The Zsolnay Phenomenon Rosalind A. Wade Haddon, Two Ceramic Pieces from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Robert Irwin, Futuwwa: Chivalry and Gangsterism in Medieval Cairo A. A. Ivanov (translated by J. M. Rogers), A Second “Herat Bucket” and its Congeners Jeremy Johns and Nadia Jamil, Signs of the Times: Arabic Signatures as a Measure of Acculturation in Norman Sicily Manuel Keene, Old World Jades outside China, from Ancient Times to the Fifteenth Century: Section One Nasser D. Khalili, A Recently Acquired Incense Burner in the Khalili Collection G. R. D. King, The Paintings of the Pre-Islamic Kaʿba Mark Kramarovsky, The “Sky Of Wine” of Abu Nuwas and Three Glazed Bowls from the Golden Horde, Crimea Jens Kröger, On Mahmud b. Ishaq al-Shihabi’s Manuscript of Yüsuf va Zulaykhā of 964 (1557) Boris I. Marshak, An Early Seljuq Silver Bottle from Siberia Alison Ohta, Filigree Bindings of the Mamluk Period Bernard O’Kane, Chaghatai Architecture and the Tomb of Tughluq Temūr at Almaliq Julian Raby, Nur Al-Din, the Qastal al-Shuaybiyya, and the “Classical Revival” Günsel Renda, Sindbādnāma An Early Ottoman Illustrated Manuscript Unique in Iconography and Style Tim Stanley, The Books of Umur Bey Zeren Tanindi, Bibliophile Aghas (Eunuchs) at Topkapı Sarayı Rachel Ward, The Inscription on the Astrolabe by ʿAbd al-Karim in the British Museum Owen Wright, The Sight of Sound Filiz Yenişehirioğlu, Ottoman Ceramics in European Contexts

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Book SynopsisMuqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.Table of ContentsCONTENTS LUKE TREADWELL, “Mihrab and ʿAnaza” or “Sacrum and Spear”? A Reconsideration of an Early Marwanid Silver Drachm HANA TARAGAN, The “Speaking” Inkwell from Khurasan: Object as “World” in Iranian Medieval Metalwork YURY KAREV, Qarakhanid Wall Paintings in the Citadel of Samarqand: First Report and Preliminary Observations YVONNE DOLD-SAMPLONIUS AND SILVIA L. HARMSEN, The Muqarnas Plate Found at Takht-i Sulayman: A New Interpretation AYŞİN YOLTAR-YILDIRIM, A 1498-99 Khusraw Va Shīrīn: Turning the Pages of an Ottoman Illustrated Manuscript SAMER AKKACH, The Poetics of Concealment: Al-Nabulusi’s Encounter with the Dome of the Rock EBBA KOCH, The Taj Mahal: Architecture, Symbolism, and Urban Significance CAROLINE FINKEL AND VICTOR OSTAPCHUK, Outpost of Empire: An Appraisal of Ottoman Building Registers as Sources for the Archeology and Construction History of the Black Sea Fortress of Özi MAURICE CERASI, The Urban and Architectural Evolution of the Istanbul Divanyolu: Urban Aesthetics and Ideology in Ottoman Town Building PAOLO GIRARDELLI, Architecture, Identity, and Liminality: On the Use and Meaning of Catholic Spaces in Late Ottoman Istanbul SUSAN GILSON MILLER, Finding Order in the Moroccan City: The Ḥubus of the Great Mosque of Tangier as an Agent of Urban Change

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Book SynopsisMuqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.Table of ContentsCONTENTS DORIS BEHRENS-ABOUSEIF, The Islamic History of the Lighthouse of Alexandria STEPHENNIE MULDER, The Mausoleum of Imam al-Shafiʿi ANNA CONTADINI, A Question in Arab Painting: The Ibn al-Sufi Manuscript in Tehran and Its Art-Historical Connections CHAD KIA, Is the Bearded Man Drowning? Picturing the Figurative in a Late-Fifteenth-Century Painting from Herat MARYAM EKHTIAR, Practice Makes Perfect: The Art of Calligraphy Exercises (Siyāh Mashq) in Iran ABDOLHAMID KESHMIRSHEKAN, Discourses on Postrevolutionary Iranian Art: Neotraditionalism during the 1990s WILLEM FLOOR, The Woodworking Craft and Its Products in Iran ELIZABETH LAMBOURN, Brick, Timber, and Stone: Building Materials and the Construction of Islamic Architectural History in Gujarat HUSSEIN KESHANI, Architecture and the Twelver Shiʿi Tradition: The Great Imambara Complex of Lucknow İ$LKNUR AKTUĞ KOLAY AND SERPİL ÇELİK, Ottoman Stone Acquisition in the Mid-Sixteenth Century: The Süleymaniye Complex in Istanbul VİLDAN SERDAROĞLU, When Literature and Architecture Meet: Architectural Images of the Beloved and the Lover in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Poetry SELİN İPEK, Ottoman Ravzva-ı Mutahhara Covers Sent from Istanbul to Medina with the Surre Processions MARCUS MILWRIGHT, So Despicable a Vessel: Representations of Tamerlane in Printed Books of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

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Book SynopsisMuqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are being published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.Table of ContentsPREFACE SİBEL BOZDOĞAN AND GÜLRU NECİPOĞLU, Entangled Discourses: Scrutinizing Orientalist and Nationalist Legacies in the Architectural Historiography of the “Lands of Rum” INTRODUCTION CEMAL KAFADAR, A Rome of One’s Own: Reflections on Cultural Geography and Identity in the Lands of Rum I. ETHNICIZED DISCOURSES ON THE ARTS AND ARCHITECTURES OF ISLAMIC GEOGRAPHIES HEGHNAR ZEITLIAN WATENPAUGH, An Uneasy Historiography: The Legacy of Ottoman Architecture in the Former Arab Provinces KISHWAR RIZVI, Art History and the Nation: Arthur Upham Pope and the Discourse on “Persian Art” in the Early Twentieth Century OYA PANCAROĞLU, Formalism and the Academic Foundation of Turkish Art in the Early Twentieth Century FINBARR BARRY FLOOD, Lost in Translation: Architecture, Taxonomy, and the Eastern “Turks” II. DOMINANT NARRATIVES IN HISTORIOGRAPHIES OF THE OTTOMAN ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE AHMET ERSOY, Architecture and the Search for Ottoman Origins in the Tanzimat Period GÜLRU NECİPOĞLU, Creation of a National Genius: Sinan and the Historiography of “Classical” Ottoman Architecture SHIRINE HAMADEH, Westernization, Decadence, and the Turkish Baroque: Modern Constructions of the Eighteenth Century SİBEL BOZDOĞAN, Reading Ottoman Architecture through Modernist Lenses: Nationalist Historiography and the “New Architecture” in the Early Republic III. INTERFACE OF HISTORIOGRAPHY WITH INSTITUTIONAL PRACTICES IN MODERN TURKEY S.M. CAN BİLSEL, “Our Anatolia”: Organicism and the Making of Humanist Culture in Turkey SCOTT REDFORD, “What Have You Done for Anatolia Today?”: Islamic Archaeology in the Early Years of the Turkish Republic WENDY SHAW, Museums and Narratives of Display from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic NUR ALTINYILDIZ, The Architectural Heritage of Istanbul and the Ideology of Preservation CONTRIBUTORS CORRIGENDUM

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Book SynopsisMuqarnas is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.Muqarnas 28 contains articles on a number of topics including shadow puppets, the concept of fann, Byzantine and Ottoman architecture, and seventeenth-century Persian painting. The "Notes and Sources" section includes a discussion of an early fifteenth-century Khamsa in the Bryn Mawr College Library.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Editor’s Foreword: In Memoriam: Oleg Grabar (1929–2011) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bibliography of Professor Oleg Grabar, 2007–2010 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alain F. George, The Illustrations of the Maqāmāt and the Shadow Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Marcus Milwright, On the Date of Paul Kahle’s Egyptian Shadow Puppets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adam Mestyan, Arabic Lexicography and European Aesthetics: The Origin of Fann . . . . . . . . . . . . Amy S. Landau, From Poet to Painter: Allegory and Metaphor in A Seventeenth-Century Persian Painting by Muhammad Zaman, Master of Farangī-Sāzī . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lisa Golombek, The So-Called “Turabeg Khanom” Mausoleum in Kunya Urgench: Problems of Attribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Suna Çağaptay, Frontierscape: Reconsidering Bithynian Structures and Their Builders on the Byzantine–Ottoman Cusp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Doris Behrens-Abouseif, The Complex of Sultan Mahmud I in Cairo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NOTES AND SOURCES Filiz Çağman and Zeren Tanındı, Selections from Jalayirid Books in the Libraries of Istanbul . . . . . Yael Rice, An Early Fifteenth-Century Khamsa from Shiraz in the Bryn Mawr College Library . . . . . . Oleg Grabar†, On Knowledge and Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Book SynopsisMuqarnas is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources. Muqarnas 29 features a subset of articles involving cross-cultural interactions between East and West as manifested in the visual culture of the region.Table of ContentsEditor’s Foreword Gülru Necipoğlu, VISUAL COSMOPOLITANISM AND CREATIVE TRANSLATION: ARTISTIC CONVERSATIONS WITH RENAISSANCE ITALY IN MEHMED II’S CONSTANTINOPLE Cristelle Baskins, THE BRIDE OF TREBIZOND: TURKS AND TURKMENS ON A FLORENTINE WEDDING CHEST, CIRCA 1460 Ana Pulido-Rull, A PRONOUNCEMENT OF ALLIANCE: AN ANONYMOUS ILLUMINATED VENETIAN MANUSCRIPT FOR SULTAN SÜLEYMAN Suzan Yalman, ʿALA AL-DIN KAYQUBAD ILLUMINATED: A RUM SELJUQ SULTAN AS COSMIC RULER Matthew D. Saba, ABBASID LUSTERWARE AND THE AESTHETICS OF ʿAJAB Jasmin Badr and Mustafa Tupev, THE KHOJA ZAINUDDIN MOSQUE IN BUKHARA Ünver Rüstem, THE AFTERLIFE OF A ROYAL GIFT: THE OTTOMAN INSERTS OF THE SHĀHNĀMA-I SHĀH̛Ī Edhem Eldem, MAKING SENSE OF OSMAN HAMDI BEY AND HIS PAINTINGS Notes and Sources Pierre Siméon, HULBUK: ARCHITECTURE AND MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE CAPITAL OF THE BANIJURIDS IN CENTRAL ASIA (NINTH–ELEVENTH CENTURIES)

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Book SynopsisMuqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World is sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In this thirtieth-anniversary issue of Muqarnas, various scholars provide their thoughts on the publication’s impact on the field of Islamic art. The volume contains articles on historiographical issues as well as others that emphasize the multicultural expansion of the field. There are also essays on Timurid and Safavid manuscript painting and al-Hariri’s Maqāmāt.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Gülru Necipoğlu, Reflections on Thirty Years of Muqarnas Benedict Cuddon, A Field Pioneered by Amateurs: The Collecting and Display of Islamic Art in Early Twentieth-Century Boston Silvia Armando, Ugo Monneret de Villard (1881–1954) and the Establishment of Islamic Art Studies In Italy Ayşin Yoltar-Yildirim, Raqqa: The Forgotten Excavation of an Islamic Site in Syria by the Ottoman Imperial Museum in the Early Twentieth Century D. Fairchild Ruggles, At the Margins of Architectural and Landscape History: The Rajputs of South Asia Jennifer Pruitt, Methodi in Madness: Recontextualizing the Destruction of Churches in the Fatimid Era Peter Christensen, “As if she were Jerusalem”: Placemaking in Sephardic Salonica David J. Roxburgh, In Pursuit of Shadows: Al-Hariri’s Maqāmāt Abolala Soudavar, The Patronage of the Vizier Mirza Salman Lâle Uluç, An Iskandarnāma of Nizami Produced for Ibrahim Sultan NOTES AND SOURCES Serpil Bağci, Presenting Vaṣṣāl Kalender’s Works: The Prefaces of Three Ottoman Albums Gülru Necipoğlu, “Virtual Archaeology” in Light of a New Document on the Topkapı Palace’s Waterworks and Earliest Buildings, circa 1509 Ebba Koch, The Wooden Audience Halls of Shah Jahan: Sources and Reconstruction

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Book SynopsisInscriptions on buildings are a distinctive feature of Islamic architecture, and this book studies the 79 surviving monumental inscriptions in the Iranian world from the first five centuries of the Muslim era (A.D. 622-1106), the period in which all the major trends of monumental epigraphy in the area were set. These foundation, commemorative, and funerary texts come from the region between Iraq and Soviet Central Asia. Written primarily in Arabic, they embellished architectural monuments and furnishings whose nature implies the construction of major buildings. An extended introduction discusses such general topics as titulature, patronage, and stylistic development. Each text is then presented individually with photographs, drawings, transcriptions, translations and an extensive commentary, which presents the inscription in its larger palaeographic and historical contexts.Trade Review'...collects together secondary material which is scattered and difficult to locate.' J.M. Rogers, BSOAS, 1992. '...cette somme de travail patient et érudit qui apporte une contribution notable à l'épigraphie arabe.' Solange Ory, Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologiques, 1993. '...this is a very important work of scholarship which will be of great benefit to a wide range of scholars in different fields of Islamic studies.' Carole Hillenbrand, Journal of Semitic Studies, 1996.

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Book SynopsisThe Yahuda Collection was bequeathed to the National Library of Israel by one of the twentieth century's most knowledgeable and important collectors, Abraham Shalom Yahuda (d. 1951). The rich and multifaceted collection of 1,186 manuscripts, spanning ten centuries, includes works representing the major Islamic disciplines and literary traditions. Highlights include illuminated manuscripts from Mamluk, Mughal, and Ottoman court libraries; rare, early copies of medieval scholarly treatises; and early modern autograph copies. In this groundbreaking Arabic catalogue, Efraim Wust synthesizes the Islamic and Western manuscript traditions to enrich our understanding of the manuscripts and their compositions. His combined treatment of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscripts preserves the integrity of the collection and honors the multicultural history of the Islamic intellectual tradition.Table of ContentsForeword Haggai Ben Shammai Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abraham Shalom Yahuda: The Scholar, the Collector and the Collections Raquel Ukeles Author’s Introduction Efraim Wust Subject Index List of Symbols Yahuda Ms. Ar. 1–599 List of Bibliographic Abbreviations

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Book SynopsisThe Pahlavi Widēwdād (Vidēvdād), The Law (Serving to Keep) Demons Away, a fifth-century Middle Persian commentary on the Avestan Vidēvdād, describes rules and regulations that serve to prevent pollution caused by dead matter, menstrual discharges, and other agents. It recognizes the perpetual presence of the demons, the forces of the Evil Spirit –forces that should be fought through law-abiding conduct. In spite of its formidable textual problems, the commentary provides an invaluable quarry for the rules of the Zoroastrian community through its citation of regulations for the conduct of its members. Many topics are covered, from jurisprudence to penalties, procedures for dealing with pollution, purification, and arrangements for funerals. Viewed together, they provide the reader with an exquisite interlace of a community’s concerns.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 Creation of the Different Lands Chapter 2 Jam’s Golden Rule and the Great Winter Chapter 3 Delightful and Demonic Places on Earth Chapter 4 Contracts and Offenses Chapter 5 Dead Matter and Defilement Chapter 6 Contamination of the Land by Corpses Chapter 7 On Nasuš, the She Demon of Dead Matter Chapter 8 Purification Rituals after Death Chapter 9 The Baršnūm Purification Chapter 10 Formulae Against the Demons Chapter 11 Exorcisms for Purification Chapter 12 On Ritual Observance for the Dead Chapter 13 Veneration of Dogs Chapter 14 Crime of Killing an Otter Chapter 15 Sinners Deserving a Death Sentence Chapter 16 Impurity During Menstruation Chapter 17 Proper Disposition of Hair and Nails Chapter 18 The Unworthy Priest and the Rooster Chapter 19 Temptation of Zarathushtra by the Evil Spirit Chapter 20 Zoroastrian Concepts of Medicine Chapter 21 Invocations Against the Demons Chapter 22 Antidotes Against the Evil Spirit Conclusion Glossary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisGlobalized Religion and Sexual Identity reflects on the ways religion, gender and sexual identity are framed and regulated in multiple spheres across the globe. Controversies in the public arena regarding religion and sexual identity often construct these categories as inherently oppositional or already in conflict. As state policies regarding sexuality and sexual diversity develop, promoting inclusivity and non-discrimination, it is imperative to develop a more nuanced discussion regarding the relationship of religion/ideology to sexual diversity and sexuality. The goal of this volume is to explore religion and sexual identity from a range of countries across the globe, focusing on the theme of religious/ideological voices in state policies, such as same-sex marriage, identification, and education.Trade Review"As socio-cultural constructions, religion and sexuality — as well as their intersections — should be studied in their specific contextual configurations. That precise challenge is taken up in this volume. Fourteen chapters describe such intersections in different contexts. [...] As this overview suggests, this book has a lot to offer with respect to current debates on religion and sexual diversity." R.R. Ganzevoort, VU University, in Journal of Empirical Theology 28 (2015), 144-145.

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Book SynopsisThis book investigates whether the presence of Muslim representatives in city councils improves substantive representation of Muslim interests across 32 London boroughs. It theorizes that descriptive representation of minorities leads to improved responsiveness to minority interests contingent on the percentage of minority representatives, the proportion of minorities in the district, level of party fragmentation among minority representatives, their political incorporation, and the electoral competitiveness of the district. It uses multivariate regression analysis to test the effects of these five explanatory variables. It validates the quantitative findings with case studies of three London boroughs while also investigating the role of representational styles of Muslim councillors on their political attitudes and behavior.Table of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures Abbreviations Ch. 1: Introduction: Muslims in Western Politics Ch. 2: Muslims and Minority Politics in Britain Ch. 3: Government Responsiveness to Muslim Interests Ch. 4: Across London Boroughs Ch. 5: London Borough Councils and Tower Hamlets Ch. 6: London Borough of Newham Ch. 7: London Borough of Hackney Ch. 8: Comparative Analysis and Muslims in National Governement Ch. 9: Conclustion References Index

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Book SynopsisChanfi Ahmed shows how West African ʿulamāʾ, who fled the European colonization of their region to settle in Mecca and Medina, helped the regime of King Ibn Sa’ud at its beginnings in the field of teaching and spreading the Salafῑ-Wahhabῑ’s Islam both inside and outside Saudi Arabia. This is against the widespread idea of considering the spread of the Salafῑ-Wahhābῑ doctrine as being the work of ʿulamāʾ from Najd (Central Arabia) only. We learn here that the diffusion of this doctrine after 1926 was much more the work of ʿulamāʾ from other parts of the Muslim World who had already acquired this doctrine and spread it in their countries by teaching and publishing books related to it. In addition Chanfi Ahmed demonstrates that concerning Islamic reform and mission (daʿwa), Africans are not just consumers, but also thinkers and designers.Trade Review'Chanfi Ahmed’s West African Ulama and Salafism in Mecca and Medina. Jawāb al-Ifrῑqῑ - The Response of the African presents a critical approach into the study of what could be termed as the encroachment of Wahabbism in present West Africa in general and Nigeria, Mali, and Mauritania in particular. [...] Chanfi therefore, gives detailed information on the first set of migrants to Mecca and Medina, their interpretation of Hijra, and Jihad, and a description of the routes they followed in the cause of the migration and the factors that led to it.' - Yusuf Abdullahi Yusuf, University of Jos, in: African Studies Quarterly Volume 16, Issue 2 (March, 2016) 'It is more likely than not, that students of Islam in Africa, Arabists as well as Africanists will find Chanfi's work rich, engaging and, at the same time, stimulating. His scholarly horizons as well as his wit reading of Arabic texts bring excitement to observers of the African condition who are interested in finding today's questions in yesterday's answers. West African ʿulamāʾ and Salafism in Mecca and Medina evokes what is achievable in the task of retrieving Africa's reservoir of history when multidimensional linguistic skills are summoned to exhume the corpus of the African past.' - Mbaye Lo, Duke University, in: Research Africa Review Vol. 1 No. 1 pp.18-21, June 2017 [https://sites.duke.edu/researchafrica/ra-reviews/vol-1-no-1/]Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Hijra on the Sudan Road (Ṭarīq al-Sūdān) Hijra in Islam and West Africa: A Movement of People, Ideas, and Hope Hijra, Jihād, the Mahdī, and Ḥajj in Islam and in West African Islam The Hijra Related to the Mahdī The Reaction of the Colonizers to the Muhājirīn 2 The ʿUlamāʾ Forerunners of the Hijra and Teachers in the Mosque of the Prophet in Medina Shaykh Alfā Hāshim al-Fūtī (1866–1931): A Genius for Survival Muḥammad ʿAbdallāh b. Maḥmūd al-Madanī (Ag Maḥmūd Abdullahi): The “Intransigent” Salafī Missionary 3 The ʿUlamāʾ of the Second Generation, Heirs of the Hijra and Teachers in the First Islamic Institutes in Saudi Arabia Ḥammād al-Anṣārī (1344–1418/1925–97) “Riḥlat min Ifrīqyā ilā bilād al-ḥaramayn” [Traveling from Africa to the two holy cities] The Anṣār al-Sunna in Sudan The Legacy of Shaykh Ḥammād al-Anṣārī in West Africa ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Yūsuf al-Ifrīqī Jawāb al-Ifrīqī [Response of the African] Tawḍīḥ al-ḥajj wa-l-ʿumra kamā jāʾa fī l-kitāb wa-l-sunna [Explanation of ḥajj and ʿumra according to the Qurʾān and the Sunna] 4 The Dār al-Ḥadīth in Medina and the Ahl al-Ḥadīth The Dār al-Ḥadīth in Mecca The Establishment and Expansion of the Ahl al-Ḥadīth Movement in the Eighteenth Century Muḥammad Ḥayāt al-Sindī (d. 1163/1750) Walī Allāh Dihlawī (1703–63) Ṣāliḥ al-Fullānī (1752–3/1803) Muḥammad b. ʿAlī l-Shawkānī (1173–1250/1760–1832) Nadhīr Ḥusayn Dihlawī (1805–1902) Ṣādiq Ḥasan Khān (1834–90) Ṣanāʿullāh Amristari (1868–1948) The Doctrine of Ahl al-Ḥadīth as Reflected by these ʿUlamāʾ A Brief Political History of the Hijaz in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Educational Institutions Founded in the Hijaz by the Ottomans and the Ashrāf Nation-State or Umma-State: ʿUlamāʾ Support of the Saudi State Maʿhad al-Riyāḍ al-ʿIlmi (Riyadh Institute of Islamic Religious Sciences) 5 The ʿUlamāʾ of the Third Generation: Teachers and Administrators in the First Islamic Universities of Saudi Arabia Shaykh ʿUmar b. Muḥammad Fallāta (1345–1419/1926–98) Writings, Lectures, and Teaching of ʿUmar Fallāta Muḥammad al-Amīn al-Jakanī l-Shinqīṭī (Āb Wuld Ukhtūr) (1325–93/1907–73) The Writings of Shaykh Shinqīṭī 6 Africa in the Islamic University of Medina History of the Foundation of the University Africa in the Daʿwa Policy of the Islamic University of Medina and of the Saudi State as Reflected in the Statutes and Other Texts of the University Daʿwa in Africa By and With the Africans Shaykh Taqī l-Dīn al-Hilālī (d. 1407/1987) 7 Biography (Tarjama) in the Islamic Tradition according to the ʿUlamāʾ The Concept and Tradition of Tarjama (Biography) according to ʿUmar Fallāta and ʿAṭiyya Sālim ʿAṭiyya Muḥammad Sālim with al-Ifrīqī and al-Shinqīṭī The Teaching Method of al-Ifrīqī (Manhaj al-Ifrīqī) ʿAṭiyya Muḥammad Sālim with Shaykh al-Amīn al-Shinqīṭī (Āb Wuld Ukhtūr) The Tarjama according to Shaykh ʿUmar Fallāta in his Conference Paper on Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ifrīqī An Interpretation Conclusion Bibliography Works and Primary Sources in Arabic Works in Other Languages Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a collected volume that crosses traditional boundaries between methodologies. Each of its sixteen articles is based on imaginative combinations of data provided by excavations, artifacts, monuments, urban topography, rural layouts, historical narratives and/or archival records. The volume as a whole demonstrates the effectiveness of interdisciplinary research applied to historical, cultural and archaeological problems. Its five sections - Economics and Trade, Governmental Authority, Material Culture, Changing Landscapes, and Monuments – bring forth original studies of the medieval, Ottoman and modern Middle East, amongst others, of voiceless and silenced social groups. Contributors are: Nitzan Amitai-Preiss, Jere L. Bacharach, Simonetta Calderini, Delia Cortese, Katia Cytryn-Silverman, Miriam Frenkel, Haim Goldfus, Hani Hamza, Stefan Heidemann, Miriam Kühn, Ayala Lester, Nimrod Luz, Yoram Meital, Daphna Sharef-Davidovich, Oren Shmueli, Yasser Tabbaa, Daniella Talmon-Heller, and Bethany Walker.Trade Review“This is a volume that has accumulated researchers’ papers rich both, in providing information concerning contemporary documentation and archaeological findings, questioning the objective validity of reported statements as sources as well as in putting to doubt already established perceptive paths while suggesting new interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to historical inquiry.” Stavros Nikolaidis in Journal of Oriental and African Studies 24 (2015) 461-466. "It's praiseworthy interdisciplinary approach and the strong focus on the nexus of material and textual evidence recommend it in whole and part to graduate seminars and specialists in the field." George Malagaris in Journal of Islamic Studies 28, 3 (2017)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Contributors List of abbreviations List of illustrations INTRODUCTION Daniella Talmon-Heller, Katia Cytryn-Silverman, and Yasser Tabbaa, Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East PART ONE – ECONOMICS AND TRADE Jere Bacharach, Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Teaching and Studying Numismatic Evidence Stefan Heidemann, How to Measure Economic Growth in the Middle East? A Framework of Inquiry for the Middle Islamic Period Donald Whitcomb, Ladies of Quseir: Life on the Red Sea Coast in Ayyūbid Times PART TWO – GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY Nitzan Amitai-Preiss, What Happened in 155 A.H. / 771–72 A.D? The Testimony of Lead Seals Simonetta Calderini and Delia Cortese, The Architectural Patronage of the Fāṭimid Queen-Mother Durzān (d. 385/995): An interdisciplinary analysis of literary sources, material evidence and historical context Bethany J. Walker, On Archives and Archaeology: Reassessing Mamlūk Rule from Documentary Sources and Jordanian Fieldwork PART THREE – MATERIAL CULTURE Miriam Frenkel and Ayala Lester, Evidence of Material Culture from the Geniza – An Attempt to Correlate Textual and Archaeological Findings Yasser Tabbaa, Originality and Innovation in Syrian Woodwork of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Miriam Kühn, Two Mamlūk minbars in Cairo: Approaching Material Culture through Narrative Sources PART FOUR – CHANGING LANDSCAPES Nimrod Luz, Icons of Power and Religious Piety: The Politics of Mamlūk Patronage Oren Shmueli and Haim Goldfus, The Early Islamic City of Ramla in Light of New Archaeological Discoveries, G.I.S. Applications, and a Re-examination of the Literary Sources Daphna Sharef-Davidovich, The Role of the Imperial Palaces in the Urbanization Process of Istanbul, 1856–1909 PART FIVE – MONUMENTS Hani Hamza, Turbat Abū Zakariyya Ibn ʿAbd Allāh Mūsa (chief surgeon of al-Bīmāristān al-Manṣūrī) and his social status according to his endowment deed (waqfiyya) Maximilian Hartmuth, Oral tradition and architectural history: a sixteenth-century Ottoman mosque in the Balkans in local memory, textual sources, and material evidence Yoram Meital, Deliberately Not Empty: Reading Cairo’s Unknown Soldier Monument Index

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Book SynopsisThe contributions in this volume aim to reflect the variety of current Muslim social practices and life-worlds in Germany. The volume presents fresh theoretical approaches and in-depth analyses of a rich mosaic of communities, cultures and social practices. Issues of politics, religion, society, economics, media, art, literature, law and gender are addressed.Trade ReviewChoice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title Award Winner, December 2008. Readable and authoritative chapters on prayer leaders, the legal status of Islamic contracts, the growing importance since the 1980s of identity politics, gender issues, South Asian Muslims, pop music, language and educational issues, Muslims as consumers, and how Muslims are portrayed in the German media make this book a must for anyone interested in the changing face of Islam in Germany today. D.F. Eickelman,CHOICE, 2008 Together the chapters provide a broad and interesting overview over many important aspects of the dynamic process in which Muslims and Islam are becoming a part of German society. Af Heiko Henkel, Tidsskrift for Islamforskning, 2010Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Tables, Figures, Maps and Illustrations List of Contributors Islam and Muslims in Germany: An Introductory Exploration, Jörn Thielmann PART I - FRAMING OF MUSLIM LIFE WORLDS (LEBENSWELTEN) Euro-Islam: Some Empirical Evidences, Faruk Şen Islamic Norms in Germany and Europe, Mathias Rohe Religiousness among Young Muslims in Germany, Kea Eilers, Clara Seitz, Konrad Hirschler PART II - ISLAM AND SOCIAL PRACTICE Governmentality, Pastoral Care and Integration, Levent Tezcan Prayer Leader, Counselor, Teacher, Social Worker, and Public Relations Officer—On the Roles and Functions of Imams in Germany, Melanie Kamp Christian-Muslim Encounter—Recent Issues and Perspectives, Friedmann Eissler The Bellicose Birth of Euro-Islam in Berlin, Wolfgang G. Schwanitz PART III - COMMUNITIES AND IDENTITIES Muslims’ Collective Self-description as Refl ected in the Institutional Recognition of Islam: The Islamic Charta of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany and Case Law in German Courts, Nikola Tietze Islamic Instruction in German Public Schools: The Case of North-Rhine-Westphalia, Margrete Søvik Difficult Identifications: The Debate on Alevism and Islam in Germany, Martin Sökefeld Philosophers, Freedom Fighters, Pantomimes: South Asian Muslims in Germany, Claudia Preckel PART IV - CULTURE Turkish-German Filmmaking: From Phobic Liminality to Transgressive Glocality? Viola Shafik A Literary Dialogue of Cultures: Arab Authors in Germany, Yafa Shanneik The Entertainment of a Parallel Society? Turkish Popular Music in Germany, Maria Wurm PART V - MEDIA “I can watch both sides”—Media Use among Young Arabs in Germany, Judith Pies Islam in German Media, Sabine Schiffer The Turkish Press in Germany: A Public In-between Two Publics? Christoph Schumann PART VI - GENDER Re-fashioning the Self through Religious Knowledge: How Muslim Women Become Pious in the German Diaspora, Jeanette S. Jouili Gender in Transition: The Connectedness of Gender and Ethnicity in Biographies of Female Entrepreneurs of Turkish Background, Verena Schreiber PART VII - ISLAMIC ECONOMIES OR BUSINESS AS USUAL? Transculturality as Practice: Turkish Entrepreneurs in Germany, Robert Pütz The Construction of ‘Turks in Germany’ as a Target Group of Marketing, Matthias Kulinna Islamic Financing Transactions in European Courts, Kilian Bälz General Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Comfort of Kin Monika Schreiber presents a study of the social and religious life of the Samaritans, a minority in modern Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Utilizing approaches ranging from anthropological theory and method to comparative history and religion, she approaches this community from diverse empirical and epistemic angles. Her account of the Samaritans, usually studied for their Bible and their role in ancient history, is enriched by a thorough treatment of the Samaritan family, a powerful institution rooted in notions of patrilineal descent and perpetuated in part by consanguineous marriage (which differs from incest in degree rather than in kind). Schreiber also discusses how the tiny community is affected by its demographic predicament, intermarriage, and identity issues.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Who Are the Samaritans? Part I: Samaritan Ethnicity and Community Chapter 1: A Community of Faith Chapter 2: An Accidental People: A Survey of Samaritan History Chapter 3: A Community of Practice Chapter 4: No Exit, No Entrance? The Bounds of Community Part II: Samaritan Family and Marriage Chapter 5: It’s All in the Family: From Ethnic Identity to Practical Kinship Chapter 6. Bintī li-ibn ʿammhā—My Daughter Is for Her Cousin: Samaritan Marital Preferences Chapter 7: Too Close for Comfort? A Critical View of an Ancient Legacy Chapter 8: Single, Samaritan, Male: A Local Discourse on Minority and Choice Chapter 9: The Family Politic Epilogue: Will the Samaritans Endure?

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Book SynopsisDid the first generation Holocaust writers not warn us against the risks of imagination? Does it not create an illusion that the unimaginable can be imagined, the unrepresentable represented? Clearly this warning has not been taken up by David Grossman. Fully embracing imagination’s power, his novel See under: Love offers a profound reflection on how the twenty-first century can assume the heritage of the Shoah and remember the ‘unmemorable’ in a proper way. The essays in this volume reflect on this one novel, though each from its own angle. Focusing on one single novel shows the surplus value of a multispectral reflection on one central problem, in this case the allegedly inconceivable and unspeakable nature of the Shoah.Table of ContentsThe Contributors Introduction, Marc De Kesel & Katarzyna Szurmiak Summary of the Novel, Jan Ceuppens Quod Vide, or the Displacement of Meaning In the Narrative Construction of Love, Dany Nobus Guerrilla War with Words. The Language of Resistance to the Shoah, Olga Kaczmarek Grossman’s White Room and Schulzian Empty Spaces, Katarzyna Szurmiak The Laugh of a God Who Doesn’t Exist, Marc De Kesel The Perpetrator, Bettine Siertsema Diasporic Remarks, Dirk De Schutter The Holocaust’s Muses – On Voices, Appropriation and Misappropriation in Grossman’s Novel and W.G. Sebald’s Prose Fiction, Jan Ceuppens The Novel Form and the Timing of the Nation, Pieter Vermeulen Torag, Dolgan, Ning, Gyoya, Orga - Diaspora Under the Sign of Salmon, Ortwin De Graef On Some Adornean Catchwords, Erik Vogt Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMuslims in Interwar Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the history of Muslims in interwar Europe. Based on personal and official archives, memoirs, press writings and correspondences, the contributors analyse the multiple aspects of the global Muslim religious, political and intellectual affiliations in interwar Europe. They argue that Muslims in interwar Europe were neither simply visitors nor colonial victims, but that they constituted a group of engaged actors in the European and international space. Contributors are Ali Al Tuma, Egdūnas Račius, Gerdien Jonker, Klaas Stutje, Naomi Davidson, Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld, Umar Ryad, Zaur Gasimov and Wiebke Bachmann. This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access.Trade Review“This book is a very valuable piece of scholarship based on primary sources, documents, journals and private collections and it introduces not only a new perspective on the Muslim presence in Europe, but also a wide array of thus far unknown sources, publications, activities, organizations, networks and significant actors.” Dzevada Susko in Journal of Muslims in Europe 7 (2018), 133-137.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Towards a Trans-Cultural History of Muslims in Interwar Europe, Bekim Agai, Umar Ryad and Mehdi Sajid Chapter 1: In Search of Religious Modernity: Conversion to Islam in Interwar Berlin, Gerdien Jonker Chapter 2: Salafiyya, Ahmadiyya and European Converts to Islam in the Interwar Period, Umar Ryad Chapter 3: Conversion of European Intellectuals to Islam: The Case of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje alias ʿAbd al-Ghaffār, Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld Chapter 4: Muslim Bodies in the Metropole: Social Assistance and “Religious” Practice in Interwar Paris, Naomi Davidson Chapter 5: Indonesian Islam in Interwar Europe: Muslim Organizations in the Netherlands and Beyond, Klaas Stutje Chapter 6: Moros y Cristianos: Religious Aspects of the Participation of Moroccan Soldiers in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), Ali Al Tuma Chapter 7: Muslims of Inter-War Lithuania: The Predicament of a Torn Autochthonous Ethno-Confessional Community, Egdūnas Račius Chapter 8: Transnational Life in Multicultural Space: Azerbaijani and Tatar Discourses in Interwar Europe, Zaur Gasimov and Wiebke Bachmann

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Book SynopsisAn urban biography, Brody: A Galician Border City in the Long Nineteenth Century reconciles 150 years of the town’s socioeconomic history with its cultural memory. The first comprehensive study of this city under Habsburg-Austrian rule, Börries Kuzmany advises against reading urban history solely through the national lens. Besides exploring Brody’s extraordinary ethno-confessional structure—Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians—Kuzmany examines the interrelation between the city’s geographical location at the imperial border, its standing as a key commercial hub in East-Central Europe, and its position as a major springboard for the dissemination of the Haskalah in Galicia and the Russian Empire. After delving into the contradictory perceptions of Brody in travelogues, fiction and memory books, Kuzmany uses contemporary and historical photographs to provide an illustrated walking tour of this now Ukrainian town.Table of ContentsPreface List of figures, maps and tables List of abbreviations and specific terms 1 Introduction Part I: The Economic Rise and Fall of the Town of Brody 2 The Success Story (1630–1815) Part II: An Extraordinary Galician Small Town 4 Austria’s Most Jewish City 5 The Christian Minorities 6 Religion–Language–Nation School: A Multicultural Lebenswelt 7 Border City Part III: Perceptions of Brody in History 8 Placing Brody 9 Places of Memory in and of Brody 10 Conclusion: Brody—A Story of Failed Success? Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIssues in Religion and Education, Whose Religion? is a contribution to the dynamic and evolving global debates about the role of religion in public education. This volume provides a cross-section of the debates over religion, its role in public education and the theoretical and political conundrums associated with resolutions. The chapters reflect the contested nature of the role of religion in public education around the world and explore some of the issues mentioned from perspectives reflecting the diverse contexts in which the authors are situated. The differences among the chapters reflect some of the particular ways in which various jurisdictions have come to see the problem and how they have addressed religious diversity in public education in the context of their own histories and politics.

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Book SynopsisThe relationship between religious majorities and minorities in the Middle East is often construed as one of domination versus powerlessness. While this may indeed be the case, to claim that this is only, or always, so is to give a simplified picture of a complex reality. Such a description lays emphasis on the challenges faced by the minorities while overlooking their astonishing ability to mobilize internal and external resources to meet these challenges. Through the study of strategies of domination, resilience, and accommodation among both Muslim and non-Muslim minorities, this volume throws into relief the inherently dynamic character of a relationship which is increasingly influenced by global events and global connections.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Preface Introduction: Domination, Self-empowerment, Accommodation, Anh Nga Longva PART I: NON-MUSLIM MINORITIES 1. Millets: Past and Present, Maurits H. van den Boogert 2. From the Dhimma to the Capitulations: Memory and Experience of Protection in Lebanon, Anh Nga Longva 3. Contemporary Muslim-Christian Relations in Egypt: Local Dynamics and Foreign Influences, Grégoire Delhaye 4. Land, Law, and Family Protection in the West Bank, Bård Kårtveit 5. Conviviality and Conflict in Contemporary Aleppo, Annika Rabo 6. Freedom of Religion in Sudan, Anne Sofie Roald 7. From Power to Powerlessness: Zoroastrianism in Iranian History. Michael Stausberg 8. Bahaʾis of Iran: Power, Prejudices, and Persecution, Margit Warburg PART II: MUSLIM MINORITIES 9. Shiʿi Identity Politics in Saudi Arabia, Laurence Louër 10. Nationalism and Confessionalism: Shiʿis, Druzes and Alawis in Syria and Lebanon, Kais M. Firro 11. Education and Minority Empowerment in the Middle East, Catherine Le Thomas 12. Alevis in Turkish Politics, Ali Çarkoğlu and Nazlı Çağın Bilgili 13. Nationalism and Religion in Contemporary Iran, Eliz Sanasarian Conclusion: Nation-Building and Minority Rights in the Middle East, Elizabeth Picard Index

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Book SynopsisWarsaw was once home to the largest and most diverse Jewish community in the world. It was a center of rich varieties of Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Socialism, Diaspora Nationalism, Zionism, and Polonization. This volume is the first to reflect on the entire history of the Warsaw Jewish community, from its inception in the late 18th century to its emergence as a Jewish metropolis within a few generations, to its destruction during the German occupation and tentative re-emergence in the postwar period. The highly original contributions collected here investigate Warsaw Jewry’s religious and cultural life, press and publications, political life, and relations with the surrounding Polish society. This monumental volume is dedicated to Professor Antony Polonsky, chief historian of the new Warsaw Museum for the History of Polish Jews, on the occasion of his 75th birthday.Trade ReviewThis excellent collection of essays pays a fitting tribute to Antony Polonsky who has been instrumental to the field of Polish-Jewish history for almost four decades as a teacher, scholar, and founding editor of POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry...This complex and dynamic history [of Warsaw] is analysed in twenty-four chapters that range from the economic history of the early modern Jewish mercantile elite to the cultural history of clothing decrees to the religious history of Warsaw’s rabbis to the intellectual history of the city’s Jewish historians during the interwar era. Students and established scholars wishing to conduct research on Warsaw’s Jewish history will turn to this volume as an indispensable first source for some of the most recent research in the field."-- Michael Meng, Clemson University, ZfO JECES 66 (2017) 2, pp. 261-263. "Warsaw. The Jewish Metropolis" is an impressive collection of twenty five scholarly essays devoted to Warsaw and its Jewish community, from the earliest (mostly illegal) Jewish settlements in the Polish capital in the sixteenth century to the destruction and reconstruction of the Jewish community in the twentieth century." -Dr. Milosz K. Cybowski, Pol-Int (2015)Table of ContentsNotes on the Contributors Introduction PART ONE: THE RISE OF THE METROPOLIS Illegal Immigrants: The Jews of Warsaw, 1527–1792 Hanna Węgrzynek Merchants, Army Suppliers, Bankers: Transnational Connections and the Rise of Warsaw’s Jewish Mercantile Elite (1770–1820) Cornelia Aust In Warsaw and Beyond: the Contribution of Hayim Zelig Slonimski to Jewish Modernization Ela Bauer The Garment of Torah: Clothing Decrees and the Warsaw Career of the first Gerer Rebbe Glenn Dynner From Community to Metropolis: The Jews of Warsaw, 1850–1880 François Guesnet An Unhappy Community and an even Unhappier Rabbi Shaul Stampfer Distributing Knowledge: Warsaw as a Center of Jewish Publishing, 1850–1914 Nathan Cohen In Kotik’s Corner: Urban Culture, Bourgeois Politics and the Struggle for Jewish Civility in Turn of the Century Eastern Europe Scott Ury Hope and Fear: Y. L. Peretz and the Dialectics of Diaspora Nationalism, 1905–1912 Michael Steinlauf “Di Haynt-mishpokhe”: Study for a Group Picture Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov A Warsaw Story: Polish-Jewish Relations during the First World War Robert Blobaum The Capital of “Yiddishland”? Kalman Weiser The Kultur-Lige in Warsaw: A Stopover in the Yiddishists’ Journey between Kiev and Paris Gennady Estraikh Enduring Prestige, Eroded Authority: the Warsaw Rabbinate in the Interwar Period Gershon Bacon From Galicia to Warsaw: Interwar Historians of Polish Jewry Natalia Aleksiun Negotiating Jewish Nationalism in Interwar Warsaw Kenneth B. Moss PART TWO: DESTRUCTION OF THE METROPOLIS AND ITS AFTERMATH The Polish Underground Press and the Jews: The Holocaust in the Pages of the Home Army’s Biuletyn Informacyjny, 1940-1943 Joshua D. Zimmerman “The Work of My Hands is Drowning in the Sea, and You Would Offer Me Song?!”: Orthodox Behaviour and Leadership in Warsaw during the Holocaust Havi Dreifuss The Warsaw Ghetto in the Writings of Rachel Auerbach Samuel Kassow Stories of Rescue Activities in the Letters of Jewish Survivors about Christian Polish Rescuers, 1944-1949 Joanna B. Michlic The Politics of Retribution in Postwar Warsaw: In the Honor Court of the Central Committee of Polish Jews Gabriel N. Finder The End of a Jewish Metropolis? The Ambivalence of Reconstruction in the Aftermath of the Holocaust David Engel The Reconstruction of Jewish Life in Warsaw after the Holocaust: A Case Study of a Building and Its Residents Karen Auerbach In Search of Meaning after Marxism: The Komandosi, March 1968, and the Ideas that Followed Marci Shore “Context is everything.” Reflections on Studying with Antony Polonsky Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern Index

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Book SynopsisRecent nation-wide surveys of the Jews of France yielded a detailed picture of this community, one of the largest Jewish Diaspora populations, with a long and rich history. This book presents results and analyses of this survey for the first time in English. Key issues explored include demographics, representations of Jewish identity, expressions of community solidarity, social issues, and values. Data was analyzed using multi-dimensional techniques, revealing underlying structural relationships and an axiological typology. The translation of the French edition was expanded for accessibility to an English-speaking audience, including a background on history, socio-political climate and related philosophical works. The cumulative result is the most up-to-date and comprehensive look at the Jews of France at the turn of the third millennium. "...the empirical centerpiece of Cohen’s study is sound, invaluable, and often highly illuminating. In the short space provided this reviewer could not fully do justice to the wealth of information presented there..." Ethan Katz, University of CincinnatiTrade Review"A valuable addition to recent studies of French Jewry; is recommended to all College and University collections." Roger S. Kohn, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews (2012) Vol. 2, No. 1Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction to the Jewish Community of France Chapter 2: Empirical Study of the Jews of France at the Turn of the Millennium Chapter 3: French-Jewish Philosophical Writings on Jewish Identity Chapter 4: Reflections and Conclusions on the Jews of France at the Turn of the Third Millennia

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Book SynopsisNow in a new format with a more current and topical focus on a country level. While the strength of the Yearbook has always been the comprehensive geographical remit, starting with volume 7 the reports primarily concentrate on more specific and topical information. The most current research available on public debates, transnational links, legal or political changes that have affected the Muslim population, and activities and initiatives of Muslim organizations from surveyed countries are available throughout the Yearbook. At the end of each country report, an annual overview of statistical and demographic data is presented in an appendix. By using a table format, up-to-date information is quickly accessible for each country. To see how these changes affect the articles, please read this sample chapter about Austria. The Yearbook of Muslims in Europe is an essential resource for analysis of Europe's dynamic Muslim populations. Featuring up-to-date research from forty-six European countries, the reports provide cumulative knowledge of on-going trends and developments around Muslims in different European countries. In addition to offering a relevant framework for original research, the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe provides an invaluable source of reference for government and NGO officials, journalists, policy-makers, and related research institutions.Table of ContentsFrom the Preface: As in the past, this Yearbook includes reports on the situation of Muslims in almost every European country, 44 altogether in this volume. [...] While ensuring continuity to a certain extent, this volume of the Yearbook contains some significant changes in terms of its structure and format. Following discussions among members of the editorial team and feedback we have received from colleagues, we decided to give the country reports a more current and topical focus. Therefore, each report in this volume primarily concentrates on events, trends, and developments of 2014. As in the past, the reports provide factual (though not necessarily neutral) information. By focussing on developments of the previous calendar year, each report offers a fresh annual overview. Over the years, the reports provide cumulative knowledge of on-going trends and developments around Muslims in different European countries.

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Book SynopsisIn Theory of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity and the Bahá’í Faith Mikhail Sergeev offers a new interpretation of the Soviet period of Russian history as a phase within the religious evolution of humankind by developing a theory of religious cycles, which he applies to modernity and to all the major world faiths of Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. Sergeev argues that in the course of its evolution religion passes through six common phases—formative, orthodox, classical, reformist, critical, and post-critical. Modernity, which was started by the European Enlightenment, represents the critical phase of Christianity, a systemic crisis that could be overcome with the appearance of new religious movements such as the Bahá’í Faith, which offers a spiritual extension of the modern worldview.Trade Review"There is no doubt that Sergeev’s theory of religious cycles and his philosophical, sociological and political analysis of the evolution of religion, presents a significant scholarly value, not only in theological but also in philosophical and sociological contexts, because ... it sets the landmarks of understanding and reinterpretation of pressing problems of modern humanity." - Natalya Shelkovaya "It should be acknowledged that Mikhail Sergeev’s book is undoubtedly a profound and thorough scholarly work, based on a wide range of sources. Not only is it a valuable contribution to studies in the evolution of human religious and social consciousness, but it also outlines possible perspectives for that evolution in the future." - Youli A. Loannesyan "[T]his is an extremely important book in understand that religions change or evolve according to a precise system of phases. Sergeev has argued clearly, too, that this evolution comes not from a simplistic "decline in faith", but from a highly complex series of interactions between texts, traditions, and believers, and the forces of modernity and cultural change." - Benjamin B. Olshin, The University of the Arts "In this insightful and provocative book, Sergeev creatively takes the reader through the world religions, with a remarkable and easy-to-understand table of comparisons at the end. It shows not only his deep interest in religions but also a fair and accurate understanding of the Bahá’i Faith, which takes up a major part of this book. ... In my opinion this book provides the best bridging of religious changes I have read. It is more relevant now than any time since the Enlightenment, so is highly recommended." - Gity Banan Etemad, Temple University, Philadelphia, PATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword Preface Part I 1. Cycles of Religion: Theory and Application 1.1. Model of Religious Cycle 1.2. The Cycle of Judaism 1.3. The Cycle of Buddhism 1.4. The Cycle of Christianity 1.5. The Cycle of Islam 2. The Project of Modernity: Pro et Contra 2.1. Defining Modern Times 2.2. The Project of the Enlightenment 2.3. Critics of Modernity Part II 3. The Bahá’í Faith: A New Paradigm 3.1. Modernity as a Point of Departure 3.2. Traditional vs. Bahá’í Religion 3.3. The Enlightenment vs. Bahá’í Teachings 4. Principles of Bahá’í Organization 4.1. Interpretation vs. Administration 4.2. Approaches to Unity and Dissent 4.3. Conflation of Religion and State Conclusions Postscript: Theses on Modernity and the Bahá’í Faith Appendices Charts Structure of Religious cycle Religious Cycles of Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam World Religions: A Comprehensive Chart Comparative Tables Phases of Religion: A Comparative Table Sacred Scriptures and Sacred Tradition in World Religions Three Main Trends of the Enlightenment Thought Piotr Chaadaev and Two Main Ideological Trends in Modern Russia Theory of Religious Cycles vs. Classical Westernism and Slavophilism Comparative Table of New Religious Movements The Enlightenment Ideology / Soviet Marxism vs. the Bahá’í Faith Christianity vs. the Bahá’í Faith: A Doctrinal Summary Traditional Religions vs. the Enlightenment: Controversial Issues The Bahá’í Faith vs. Catholicism: Organizational Principles / Practices Religion and State: Comparative Table of Possible Bahá’í Models Timelines Timeline of World Religions Self-Governance, Parliamentarism and Democracy: A Timeline Bibliography Works Cited Additional Reading Index

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Book SynopsisThe Festschrift Darkhei Noam: The Jews of Arab Lands presented to Norman (Noam) Stillman offers a coherent and thought-provoking discussion by eminent scholars in the field of both the history and culture of the Jews in the Islamic World from pre-modern to modern times. Based on primary sources the book speaks to the resilience, flexibility, and creativity of Jewish culture in Arab lands. The volume clearly addresses the areas of research Norman Stillman himself has considerably contributed to. Research foci of the book are on the flexibility of Jewish law in real life, Jewish cultural life particularly on material and musical culture, the role of women in these different societies, antisemitism and Jewish responses to hatred against the Jews, and antisemitism from ancient martyrdom to modern political Zionism.Trade Review"Dr. Norman Stillman is one of the leading scholars of Jewish history, especially the history of the Jews in the Islamic World from pre-modern to modern times. This excellent collection raises questions about the remarkable flexibility of Jewish law in the day to day life of Jews in Arab lands; Jewish cultural life, particularly material and musical culture; the role of women in these different societies; Antisemitism and Jewish responses to hatred against the Jews, up to modern political Zionism." --David B. Levy, Touro College, NY, AJL Reviews, Volume VI, No.1Table of ContentsThe Contributors Foreword: President Boren, President of the University of Oklahoma Introduction by the three editors 1. Karaite and Sadducee Inheritance Law in Light of Yefet ben ʽElī’s Commentary on Genesis 36, Yoram Erder 2. Apes & the Sabbath Problem, Reuven Firestone 3. Notes on the Islamic Toponymy of the Holy Land and Holy City, Jacob Lassner 4. A Look at Women's Lives in Cairo Genizah Society, Renée Levine Melammed 5. The Custom of the Merchants in Geonic Jurisprudence and in Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, Mark Cohen 6. Yiṣhaq-i Kamāl – a Martyr in Bukhārā, Vera Basch Moreen 7. “Those Who Walk in the Court of Our Master the King”. The Sephardic Courtier Tradition Revisited, Jane Gerber 8. Deniers et marchandises; le financement commercial des juifs portugais à Bayonne au XVIIIe siècle, Gerard Nahon 9. A Pioneer Publication in Context: Abraham Zvi Idelsohn’s Gesänge der Marokkanischen Juden (1928/9), Edwin Seroussi 10. Two Judeo-Arabic Translations of the Scroll of Antiochus from Ghardaia (Algeria), Ofra Tirosh Becker 11. Secular Trends and Tradition: Post Immigration Debates and Practices among Yemeni Jews, Bat-Zion Eraqui-Klorman 12. Max Nordau: The Post-Herzl Years, Allan Arkush 13. Bibliography of Prof. Stillman’s Publications, Walker Robins Index

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Book SynopsisWhat happens when the idea of religious progress propels the shaping of modernity? In The Ahmadiyya Quest for Religious Progress. Missionizing Europe 1900 – 1965 Gerdien Jonker offers an account of the mission the Ahmadiyya reform movement undertook in interwar Europe. Nowadays persecuted in the Muslim world, Ahmadis appear here as the vanguard of a modern, rational Islam that met with a considerable interest. Ahmadiyya mission on the European continent attracted European ‘moderns’, among them Jews and Christians, theosophists and agnostics, artists and academics, liberals and Nazis. Each in their own manner, all these people strove towards modernity, and were convinced that Islam helped realizing it. Based on a wide array of sources, this book unravels the multiple layers of entanglement that arose once the missionaries and their quarry met.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Acronyms and Abbreviations Note on Spelling Glossary of German Terms Glossary of Islamic Terms Introduction Chapter 1. The Founder and His Vision Chapter 2. Preparing for Europe Chapter 3. Muslim Missions in Interwar Berlin Chapter 4. Converts in Search of Religious Progress Chapter 5. Jews into Muslims Chapter 6. The Berlin Mosque Library as a Site of Religious Exchange Chapter 7. The Mission in Nazi Germany Chapter 8. Reconfigurations within a Post-colonial World Archival Materials Bibliography General Index Index of Names

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Book SynopsisBy looking at the case of Lithuanian yeshivas in Israel, Yohai Hakak’s book explores the internal tensions and dynamics of religious orders during a stage of a relative ‘loss of charisma’, in which the enthusiasm of the founding generation has diminished. It is the first study to include participant observations conducted within these institutions, which are the sacred heart of this segregated and highly religious community. The book highlights the current crisis these fundamentalist institutions are going through marked by a dramatic growth in yeshiva dropout rates. It examines the new and innovative ways the rabbis are trying to respond to the crisis. As part of these attempts the rabbinical discourse portrays a unique utopian and egalitarian world governed by supernatural forces and unlimited spiritual resources and incorporates Western psychological and democratic ideas. "Hakak's book is a great scholarly achievement." Motti Inbari, University of North Carolina at Pembroke "In sum, the book manages to elaborate on important developments and changes in the Haredi world: The emergence of cautious deviance, questioning of old ideals, or the rise of individuality. At the same time Hakak explains how these changes inflict strains upon the social structure of the Haredi world. The book can be therefore recommended particularly to scholars dealing with the development within the Haredi society." Peter Lintl, Institut ür Politische Wissenschaft, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: The Literature: Fundamentalism and the Haredi Society: Between Tradition and Change Chapter 2: Collecting the Data: Beginnings Chapter 3: The Ideal Haredi Male Body: The Struggles between Body and Soul in Haredi Education Chapter 4: Equality or Excellence in Students’ Achievements Chapter 5: Holy Amnesia: Remembering Religious Sages as Superhumans or as Simply Human Chapter 6: Deviating, Resisting and Challenging the Ideal Male Bodily Model Chapter 7: Psychology and Democracy in the Name of the God? Modern and Secular Discourses on Parenting in the Service of Conservative Religious Aims Chapter 8: Will the Scholars’ Enclave Re-adjust? Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn Between Feminism and Orthodox Judaism, Yael Israel-Cohen offers an analysis of the activism and identity of women considered at the forefront of the feminist challenge to Orthodoxy. Through a look at women’s battle over synagogue ritual and the ordination of women rabbis, an intricate and complex picture of identity, resistance, and religious change is revealed. Some of the central questions that Yael Israel-Cohen explores are: How do modern Orthodox women strategize to implement feminist changes? How do they deal with what at least on the surface seem to be conflicting allegiances? How do they perceive their role as agents of change and what are the ramifications of their activism for how we understand the boundaries of Orthodoxy more generally? "Between Feminism and Orthodox Judaism represents an interpretive study at its finest. It is well-written, theoretically sophisticated, and grounded within the literature. I highly recommend this book for scholars and nonscholars alike who are interested in studies of women’s resistance in conservative settings." Faezeh Bahreini, University of South Florida, TampaTable of ContentsPart I: Religion, Modernity, and Women Chapter 1: Religious Change and Women's Agency in Conservative Religions Chapter 2: Orthodox Judaism and Women's Standing Chapter 3: Methodology Part II: Exclusion and Resistance Chapter 4: The Battle over Women's Standing in Synagogue Ritual Chapter 5: Orthodox Women Rabbis? "It's only a matter of time" Part III: Behind the Label: "I am an Orthodox Feminist" Chapter 6: The Cultural Contextualization of Orthodox Feminist Identity Chapter 7: Orthodox Feminists talk about Feminism in a Wider Perspective Part IV: Orthodox Feminism beyond a Gendered Discourse Chapter 8: The Trend towards an Increasingly Hybrid and Pluralistic Orthodoxy Chapter 9: The Present and the Future of Orthodox Feminism Appendix: Interview Questions

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Book SynopsisIn Architecture, Power and Religion in Lebanon, Ward Vloeberghs explores Rafiq Hariri’s patronage and his posthumous legacy to demonstrate how religious architecture becomes a site for power struggles in contemporary Beirut. By tracing the 150 year-long history of the Muhammad al-Amin Mosque – Lebanon’s principal Sunni mosque – and the subsequent development of the site as a commemoration venue, this account offers a unique illustration of how architecture, religion and power become discursively and visually entangled. Set in a multi-confessional society marked by social inequalities and political fragmentation, this interdisciplinary study analyses how architectural practice and urban reconfigurations reveal a nascent personality cult, communal mourning, and the consolidation of political territory in relation to constantly shifting circumstances.

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Book SynopsisIn Muslim Tatar Minorities in the Baltic Sea Region, edited by Ingvar Svanberg and David Westerlund, the contributors introduce the history and contemporary situation of these little known groups of people that for centuries have been part of the religious and ethnic mosaic of this region. The book has a broad and multi-disciplinary scope and covers the early settlements in Lithuania and Poland, the later immigrations to Saint Petersburg, Finland, Estonia and Latvia, as well as the most recent establishments in Sweden and Germany. The authors, who hail from and are specialists on these areas, demonstrate that in several respects the Tatar Muslims have become well-integrated here. Contributors are: Toomas Abiline, Tamara Bairasauskaite, Renat Bekkin, Sebastian Cwiklinski, Harry Halén, Tuomas Martikainen, Agata Nalborczyk, Egdunas Racius, Ringo Ringvee, Valters Scerbinskis, Sabira Ståhlberg, Ingvar Svanberg and David Westerlund.Trade Review“This volume is a detailed and fascinating examination of a loose-knit ethno-religious community spanning several states. […] Svanberg and Westerlund successfully demonstrate that a European Islam is not only possible but has been functioning for centuries, almost unnoticed.” Abdullah Drury in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 30:1 (2019), 116-118, DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2018.1541632 https://doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2018.1541632Table of ContentsList of illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface Introduction, Sebastian Cwiklinski Early Settlements 1. Lithuania, Tamara Bairašauskaitė and Egdūnas Račius 2. Poland, Agata S. Nalborzcyk Second Wave 3. Saint Petersburg, Renat Bekkin and Sabira Ståhlberg 4. Finland, Harry Halén and Tuomas Martikainen 5. Estonia, Toomas Abiline and Ringo Ringvee 6. Latvia, Valters Ščerbinskis Third Wave 7. Sweden, Sabira Ståhlberg and Ingvar Svanberg 8. Germany, Sebastian Cwiklinski Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the changing place of Islam in contemporary Central Asia, understanding religion as a “societal shaper” – a roadmap for navigating quickly evolving social and cultural values. Islam can take on multiple colors and identities, from a purely transcendental faith in God to a cauldron of ideological ferment for political ideology, via diverse culture-, community-, and history-based phenomena. The volumes discusses what it means to be a Muslim in today’s Central Asia by looking at both historical and sociological features, investigates the relationship between Islam, politics and the state, the changing role of Islam in terms of societal values, and the issue of female attire as a public debate. Contributors include: Aurélie Biard, Tim Epkenhans, Nurgul Esenamanova, Azamat Junisbai, Barbara Junisbai, Marlene Laruelle, Marintha Miles, Emil Nasritdinov, Shahnoza Nozimova, Yaacov Ro'i, Wendell Schwab, Manja Stephan-Emmrich, Rano Turaeva, Alon Wainer, Alexander Wolters, Galina M. Yemelianova, Baurzhan ZhussupovTrade Review“This volume includes contributions from a broad selection of scholars who have sought to enrich our understanding of Islam in Central Asia through in-depth empirical studies.” “very recommendable as an introduction to what it means to be Muslim in Central Asia and to some of the important works that have been done recently to deepen our understanding of the question.” Maria Louw, Aarhus University, in Anthropos 115 "a comprehensive study focusing on the place of Islam in contemporary Central Asia [...] This book is unreservedly recommended to researchers in this field. As a work characterised by novel ideas and critical thinking, it makes a fresh and serious contribution to the understanding of Islam in the Central Asian region and especially to ongoing developments in its transformation." Gulnar Nadirova and Dauren Aben, International Kazakh-Turkish University, in Europe-Asia Studies 72.4Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction   Marlene Laruelle Part 1: What Does It Mean to Be a Muslim in Today’s Central Asia? 1 How ‘Muslim’ are Central Asian Muslims? A Historical and Comparative Enquiry   Galina Yemelianova 2 Two Countries, Five Years: Islam in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Through the Lens of Public Opinion Surveys   Barbara Junisbai, Azamat Junisbai, and Baurzhan Zhussupov 3 Uzbekness and Islam: A Survey-based Analysis of Identity in Uzbekistan   Yaacov Roʾi and Alon Wainer Part 2: Islam, Politics, and the State 4 The Islamic Revival Party of Tajikistan: Episodes of Islamic Activism, Postconflict, Accommodation, and Political Marginalization   Tim Epkenhans 5 Power, “Original” Islam, and the Reactivation of a Religious Utopia in Kara-Suu, Kyrgyzstan   Aurélie Biard 6 Islamic Finance and the State in Central Asia   Alexander Wolters Part 3: Islam in Evolving Societies and Identities 7 Visual Culture and Islam in Kazakhstan: The Case of Asyl Arna’s Social Media   Wendell Schwab 8 Playing Cosmopolitan: Muslim Self-fashioning, Migration, and (Be-)Longing in the Tajik Dubai Business Sector   Manja Stephan-Emmrich 9 Informal Economies in the Post-Soviet Space: Post-Soviet Islam and Its Role in Ordering Entrepreneurship in Central Asia   Rano Turaeva Part 4: Female Attire as a Public Debate 10 The War of Billboards: Hijab, Secularism, and Public Space in Bishkek   Emil Nasritdinov and Nurgul Esenamanova 11 Hijab in a Changing Tajik Society   Shahnoza Nozimova 12 Switching to Satr: An Ethnography of the Particular in Women’s Choices in Head Coverings in Tajikistan   Marintha Miles Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWalter Benjamin derided Werner Scholem as a ‘rogue’ in 1924. Josef Stalin referred him as a ‘splendid man’, but soon backtracked and labeled him an ‘imbecile’, while Ernst Thälmann, chairman of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), warned his followers against the dangers of ‘Scholemism’. For the philosopher and historian Gershom Scholem, however, Werner was first and foremost his older brother. The life of German-Jewish Communist Werner Scholem (1895–1940) had many facets. Werner and Gerhard, later Gershom, rebelled together against their authoritarian father and the atmosphere of national chauvinism engulfing Germany during World War I. After inspiring his younger brother to take up the Zionist cause, Werner himself underwent a long personal journey before deciding to join the Communist struggle. Scholem climbed the party ladder and orchestrated the KPD's ‘Bolshevisation’ campaign, only to be expelled as one of Stalin's opponents in 1926. He was arrested in 1933, and ultimately murdered in the Buchenwald concentration camp seven years later. This first biography of Werner Scholem tells his life story by drawing on a wide range of original sources and archive material long hidden beyond the Iron Curtain of the Cold War era. First published in German by UVK Verlagsgesellschaft as Werner Scholem - eine politische Biographie (1895-1940), Konstanz, 2014.Trade ReviewReviews from the German press (quotes translated into English): "The most interesting parts of Hoffrogge's work are perhaps the thick descriptions of the Weimar Republic's communist milieu with its peculiar mixture of dogmatism and careerism, male chauvinism and women's emancipation, puritanism and sexual permissiveness. The interesting figure here is Scholem's wife Emmy, who came from humble background, eager to learn and climb the social ladder, aware of her chances for emancipation and equipped with all the weapons of a woman." - Gerd Koenen, DIE ZEIT, full review here “… in the field of historical research, it is the more refined work by Ralf Hoffrogge that will make a lasting impression. His reconstruction of events is the only one that allows us to understand Scholem's arrest and trial … ” - Lorenz Jaeger, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 4th 2014 “... Two recently published biographies that could not be more different are devoted to the life of this exceptional politician, to whom the historian Miriam Zadoff attributed an "agile temperament", but also depicted him in an apotheosis of suffering, comparing Scholem to the biblical Job. Quite different is the sober reconstruction of the historian Ralf Hoffrogge, invariably oriented towards the facts. Almost entirely without gaps, this political biography reconstructs the twisted lifeline of Scholem in the context of its time. The merit of both biographies consists not least in the fact that here for the first time a personality is portrayed who embodied in his intellectual and political action the intrinsic ambiguity of the period between the two world wars.” - Wolf Scheller in Jüdische Allgemeine Zeitung, full review here Documentary The filmmaker Niels Bolbrinker has portrayed Werner Scholem´s life in the short 17-minute documentary "Between Utopia and Counter Revolution". It features an impressive Interview with Scholem´s daugther Renee Goddard (*1923) who talks about the tragic arrest of her parents after the Nazis took power in 1933. The film is based on the recent biography written by Ralf Hoffrogge. Watch the subtitled documentary here .Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 Adolescent Years (1895–1914)  The Scholems: A German Family  Four Distinct Brothers  Rebellion(s): From Zionism to Socialism 2 World War and Revolution (1914–18)  War and Socialism in Hanover  A Red in Field Grey: Werner Scholem on the Eastern Front  Hospital Reflections, 1916  Lèse-majesté: A Soldier’s Day in Court  Werner and Emmy Scholem: A Mésalliance  All Quiet on the Western Front: Werner Misses the Revolution 3 A Rebel at the Editing Desk, a Rebel in Parliament (1919–24)  Independent Social Democracy and More: Werner Scholem as Agitator in the USPD  Journalism and Judiciary: Werner Scholem as Editor of the Rote Fahne  Reform or Revolution? A Parliamentarian in the Prussian Landtag  Scholem as School Reformer  Anti-Semitism and the Ostjuden Debate  A Reluctant Republican? Fighting Right-Wing Terror and Fascism  The Philosophy of History in the Landtag  Inflation, Crisis and Radicalisation  Reform or Revolution: Scholem’s Answer 4 Communism: Utopia and Apparatus (1921–6)  The Berlin Opposition (1921–3)  National Revolution on the Ruhr? Scholem and Schlageter in the Summer of 1923  From the Battle of the Ruhr to the ‘German October’ of 1923: New Conflicts in the KPD  Reaching for Power: Scholem and His Comrades Take Over the KPD  The Power of the Apparatus: Werner Scholem Organises the KPD  The Apparatus Strikes Back: The Left Opposition on the Defensive  Scholem Versus Stalin: A Question of Democracy? 5 A Reluctant Defector: Werner Scholem as Dissident (1926–8)  A Left Communist in the Reichstag  The Lenin League: Werner Scholem Founds a Party 6 Back to the Lecture Hall: Family and University Life in Berlin  ‘At Home with Communists’: Emmy and Werner in Private  Life as a Lawyer 7 The Triumph of Barbarism (1933–40)  The Arrest  Separate Paths: A Family Falls Apart  Espionage and Intrigue: Werner Scholem as a Literary Figure  The Hammerstein Case: Fiction and Reality  From the Supreme Court to the ‘People’s Court’: Scholem’s Last Trial  A Stolen Life: Plötzensee, Lichtenburg, Dachau  Murder in the Quarry 8 Remembering Werner Scholem Appendices 1 Chronology of Werner Scholem’s life 2 List of Werner Scholem’s Places of Detention, 1917–40 3 Selected Articles and Publications by Werner Scholem Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe volume is the first comprehensive compilation of texts on gender constructions, normative gender orders and their religious legitimizations, as well as current gender policies in Islamic Southeast Asia, which besides the Islamic core countries of Malaysia and Indonesia also comprises southern Thailand and Mindanao (the Philippines). The authors trace the impact of national development programmes, modernization, globalization, and political conflicts on the local and national gender regimes in the twentieth century, and elaborate on the consequences of the revitalization of a conservative type of Islam. The book, thus, elucidates the boundary lines of cultural and political processes of negotiation related to state, society, and community. It employs a broad analytical framework, offers rich empirical data and gives new insights into current debates on gender and Islam. Contributors include Nelly van Doorn-Harder, Farish A. Noor, Siti Musdah Mulia, Amporn Marddent, Maila Stivens, Alexander Horstmann, Amina Rasul-Bernardo, Monika Arnez, Susanne Schröter, Nurul Ilmi Idrus, Vivienne S.M. Angeles and Birte Brecht-Drouart.Trade ReviewAbout the hardback: 'This rich text is a welcome addition to the scant literature on women in Southeast Asia. [...] Highly recommended.' A. B. McCloud, CHOICE 51.5 (January 2014). doi: 10.5860/CHOICE.51-2959 'The main strength of the book lies in the examination of gender discourses in countries and organizations that have been under-researched. […] … an important contribution to gender studies and Islam.' Norshahril Saat in Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 29.2 (2014). DOI: 10.1355/sj29-2oTable of ContentsDedication Acknowledgements Susanne Schröter: Introduction Susanne Schröter: Gender and Islam in Southeast Asia. An Overview. Indonesia Nelly van Doorn-Harder: Polygamy and Harmonious Families: Indonesian Debates on Gender and Marriage Monika Arnez: A Dialogue with God? Islam and Lesbian Relationships in Two Post-Suharto Narratives Nurul Ilmi Idrus: Islam, Marriage and Gender Relations in Bugis Lontara’: A Critical Analysis of the Lontara Daramatasia Siti Musdah Mulia: Towards Justice in Marital Law: Empowering Indonesian Women Malaysia Maila Stivens: ‘Family Values’ and Islamic Revival: Gender, Rights and State Moral Projects in Malaysia Philippines Amina Rasul-Bernardo: The Role of Muslim Women in Democracy, Development, and Peace: The Philippine Case Vivienne S. M. Angeles: From Catholic to Muslim: Changing Perceptions of Gender Roles in a Balik-Islam Movement in the Philippines Birte Brecht-Drouart: Muslim Women Leaders in the Philippines Thailand Alexander Horstmann: Female Missionaries and Women’s Participation in Southern Thailand’s Chapter of the Tablighi Jama’at Amporn Marddent: Religious Piety and Muslim Women in Thailand Transnational Farish A. Noor: Woman as the Constitutive Other? The Place and Meaning of ‘Woman’ in the Worldviewof the Tablighi Jama’at Bibliography About the Authors Index

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