Social groups: religious groups and communities Books
Ergon Verlag Die Islamische Ehe in Sudasien: Zeitgenossische
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£28.50
Ergon Verlag Performing Religion: Actors, Contexts, and Texts:
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£54.75
Ergon Verlag Internal Outsiders - Imagined Orientals?:
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£39.00
Ergon Verlag Organisation Des Islams in Deutschland:
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£57.00
Ergon Verlag Akhbar Khadija Bt. Khuwaylid in the Islamic
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£42.00
Gerlach Press Islam and Humanity - The Consequences of a
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£999.99
Gerlach Press The Muslim Theology of Huzn: Sorrow Unravelled
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£105.84
Gerlach Press Bahrain's Surviving Dynasty: The Al Khalifa's
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£136.44
Archeobooks A World Hidden in Books: Old Hebrew Printed Works
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£33.25
Archeobooks Ha-Makadoni: Images of Alexander the Great in
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£38.00
Archeobooks The Amsterdam of Polish Jews: Old Hebrew Printed
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£33.25
Archeobooks Judaica in the Collection of the National Museum
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£128.00
Archeobooks From the Richness of Islamic History
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£18.00
Archeobooks Symbols and Forms in Jewish Art
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£185.25
Archeobooks Development of Salafism in Northern Nigeria
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£38.00
Herder & Herder Pérdida de la Ambigüedad, La
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£21.36
Editorial Kairos A Mitad de Camino: La Falacia de la Iluminación
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£17.78
Obelisco Apellidos Judeoespaoles, Los
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£19.23
NIAS Press Modern Muslim Identities: Negotiating Religion
Book SynopsisThis book explores a central tension in identity politics: how the state, civil society and people in general may want to create and maintain cultural, religious and social cohesion while paradoxically their practices in everyday life often run counter to this. Malaysia is no exception. Here, a political elite maintains control and cultural dominance but must juggle political pressure from Islamic and Malay supremacists with that from moderate civil society groups. This gives rise to a complex interplay of do mination, accommodation and negotiation between the state and its citizens. At the heart of this study is the conjuncture between Malay ethnicity and Islamic faith, hence its examination of the state discourse on 'civilizational Islam'. However, other areas are also explored, including the arts as a contested space. The result is a thought-provoking study combining philosophical and social theory with anthropological insights.Trade Review'This important study sheds new light on changing Muslim identities in contemporary Malaysia, questioning existing distinctions between state and civil society, religion and secularism and ethnicity and religion and calling for new ways of understanding processes of Islamisation in the modern world.' - Joel S. Kahn, La Trobe University 'It is simply a first-class piece of work, one of real intellectual distinction and substantive originality. It offers an important commentary on the current Malaysian situation, and how it has been sedulously fashioned over recent history, and so makes a significant contribution to Malaysian studies.' - Clive Kessler, University of New South Wales 'This marks an original and very timely contribution to Malaysian studies. Hoffstaedter has demonstrated the profound effects of state religious policies and ideologies upon the everyday identities of practicing Muslims. He does this with great ethnographic nuance and original theoretical insights.' - Andrew Willford, Cornell University 'Gerhard Hoffstaedter presents a thought provoking case study on the many social and political forces that have interacted to push Malay identity along an exclusive trajectory. - This is a dangerous pattern, unfortunately discernable also in other parts of the Muslim world.' - Shahram Akbarzadeh, University of MelbourneTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments; 1. Identity formation and its articulation; 2. Malayness and Islam; 3. Ordered spaces: Naming places and defining boundaries; 4. Engineering Muslim Malay identities; 5. Other Malays and Malaysia(n)s: Resistance and change; 6. Islamicity: Experiencing the divine light; 7. Between a cosmopolitan ethic and politicide of its people; 8. Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
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NIAS Press Rethinking Community in Myanmar: Practices of
Book SynopsisThis is the first anthropological monograph of Muslim and Hindu lives in contemporary Myanmar. In it, Judith Beyer introduces the concept of "we-formation" as a fundamental yet underexplored capacity of humans to relate to one another outside of and apart from demarcated ethno-religious lines and corporate groups. We-formation complements the established sociological concept of community, which suggests shared origins, beliefs, values, and belonging. Community is not only a key term in academic debates; it is also a hot topic among Beyer's interlocutors in urban Yangon, who draw on it to make claims about themselves and others. Invoking "community" is a conscious and strategic act, even as it asserts and reinforces stereotypes of Hindus and Muslims as minorities. In Myanmar, this understanding of community keeps self-identified members of these groups in a subaltern position vis-a-vis the Buddhist majority population. Beyer demonstrates the concept's enduring political and legal role since being imposed on "Burmese Indians" under colonial British rule. But individuals are always more than members of groups. The author draws on ethnomethodology and existential anthropology to reveal how people's bodily movements, verbal articulations, and non-verbal expressions in communal spaces are crucial elements in practices of we-formation. Her participant observation in mosques and temples, during rituals and processions, and in private homes reveals a sensitivity to tacit and intercorporeal phenomena that is still rare in anthropological analysis. Rethinking Community in Myanmar develops a theoretical and methodological approach that reconciles individuality and intersubjectivity and that is applicable far beyond the Southeast Asian context. Its focus on we-formation also offers insights into the dynamics of resistance to the attempted military coup of 2021. The newly formed civil disobedience movement derives its power not only from having a common enemy, but also from each individual's determination to live freely in a more just society.Trade Review“Beyer’s book and her fascinating fieldwork in the varied groups of Indian descent in Rangoon, reshapes not just how we understand people who have long been dismissively homogenized in Burmese and academic discourse, but it offers insightful reformulations of how people construct identity unlimited by the categories imposed upon them.”(Alicia Turner, Assistant Professor of Humanities and Religious Studies at York University); “Judith Beyer’s impressive ethnographic account of Muslims and Hindus in Yangon invites us to consider the dialectic between everyday experiences of co-existence and categorical claims of community without collapsing the distinctions between these practices. This monograph introduces a valuable theoretical framework for delving into the formation of we-ness without assuming that this is inevitably conjoined with processes of othering. I expect that concepts like ‘we-formation’ will quickly be adopted by scholars in a variety of fields including myself.” (Vered Amit, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada); "Judith Beyer’s brilliant ethnography of ‘practices of we-formation’ among Muslims and Hindus in urban Yangon compellingly demonstrates that neither the individual nor the community is sui generis; each is a condition of the possibility of the other. Beyer’s in-depth fieldwork, vivid writing, and theoretical insights make this book a stunning contribution to existential anthropology.” (Michael Jackson, Distinguished Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School)
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Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki Giovera Ricordare: Meminisse Iuvabit
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£17.92
Viella Editrice Il Cielo Sereno E l'Ombra Della Shoah: Otto
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£26.27
Viella Editrice Sognando Sion: Ebraismo E Sionismo Tra Nazione,
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£49.71
Viella Editrice Il Califfo Di Dio: Storia del Califfato Dalle
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£33.25
Gregorian & Biblical Press Religion and Politics: Religious Liberty and
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£26.00
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Arabi. Arabs Recount Arabia Before Islam. Part
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£68.40
Peeters Publishers The Hidden Heritage of Diaspora Judaism: Essays
Book SynopsisIn recent scholarly debates concerning the history of the Jews in Roman times, the study of the Diaspora has begun to play an increasingly important part. New archaeological and inscriptional discoveries have provided scholars with much evidence to demonstrate that, in later Roman times, the majority of Jews lived outside the Land of Israel, in communities that could be found in virtually every corner of the Roman world. An investigation of how all these Jewish communities related to the Greco-Roman world surrounding them has become a central theme in the study of ancient Jewish history. In the present collection of essays, Dr. L.V. Rutgers, author of the award-winning The Jews in Late Ancient Rome (1995), investigates how Diaspora Jews defined their identity while interacting with temporary non-Jewish society. Bringing to bear on this issue archaeological, epigraphical, and historical evidence, the author investigates Jewish and non-Jewish evidence side-by-side in an attempt to shed new light on the question of how physical remains can help us to revise current perceptions of Jewish life in the Diaspora. In an introductory chapter Dr. Rutgers uses the evidence collected elsewhere in this book to argue that the Jews of antiquity must have had a very clearly defined sense of identity. Discussing some of the methodological problems that face scholars working in this particular field of study, Dr. Rutgers also questions the idea that variety is characteristic of Diaspora Judaism.
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Peeters Publishers Spinoza Hebraisant: L'hebreu Dans Le Tractatus
Book SynopsisEtant donne l'actualite de Spinoza et le grand nombre d'editions et de traductions du Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, il etait important de faire le point sur une dimension negligee: celle de l'hebreu chez cet auteur. Cette langue est particulierement presente dans le Tractatus Theologico-Politicus et dans le Compendium Grammatices Linguae Hebraeae. L'hebreu est analyse grammaticalement par Spinoza, mais sa Grammaire est restee inachevee. L'etude de l'hebreu par Spinoza l'amene a une conception tres originale du texte et de la textualite. L'articulation latino-hebraique reproduit en un certain sens l'articulation qu'il existe dans la Bible hebraique entre le texte de l'Ecriture et le texte de la Lecture.
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Peeters Publishers Memorial I.-S. Revah: Etudes Sur Le Marranisme,
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Peeters Publishers Les Dialectes Kurdes Meridionaux: Etude
Book SynopsisCette etude linguistique des dialectes kurdes meridionaux est le fruit d'un quart de siecle d'investigations sur les parlers du sud du Kurdistan, dont la plupart sont peu ou mal connus, et meme tout a fait inconnus. Ces dialectes, qui couvrent de vastes territoires en Iran et en Iraq, sont certainement une des cles essentielles pour la comprehension de la linguistique et de l'histoire kurdes, et plus generalement iraniennes. Le present ouvrage qui decrit dans le detail, et en tenant compte de la gamme exhaustive des variantes locales, les systemes phonologique, morphologique et syntaxique, est entierement base sur des enquetes de terrain personnelles et directes, a partir de sources fiables et verifiees. Outre une reflexion sur les grands problemes de la dialectologie kurde, il reunit pour la premiere fois, dans une analyse linguistique globale, l'immense richesse dialectale des villes, villages et campagnes du sud du Kurdistan et constitue une reference fondamentale et indispensable sur cette grande region.
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Peeters Publishers Torah et Science: Perspectives Historiques et
Book SynopsisPar son enseignement au Seminaire Israelite de France et a l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Section de Sciences Religieuses), et par son oeuvre ecrite, Charles Touati a fourni des contributions de premiere importance a l'etude de la Torah et de la hokhmah, les sciences sacrees et les sciences profanes, dans le judaisme talmudique et medieval. En particulier, son apport a la connaissance de Gersonide et des philosophes et halakhistes provencaux a ete decisif. Des disciples et des collegues, en France et a l'etranger, lui offrent un tribut d'articles (en francais ou en anglais) qui illustrent le theme, constitutif du judaisme et de ses contradictions, des relations entre la Torah et la hokhmah, depuis l'epoque hellenistique jusqu'a nos jours. Contributeurs: R. Brague, S. Feldman, P. Fenton, G. Freudenthal, R. Goetschel, A. Guetta, M. Hadas-Lebel, W.Z Harvey, M. Kellner, D. Lasker, J.-P. Rotschild, D. Schwartz, C. Sirat. L'ouvrage comprend une bibliographie des travaux de Ch. Touati.
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Peeters Publishers La Langue DES Sages: Materiaux Pour Une Etude
Book SynopsisDepuis une cinquantaine d'annees, l'etude philologique et linguistique de l'hebreu mishnique - "la langue des sages" comme on la designe en hebreu contemporain s'est considerablement developpee. Sous l'impulsion d'E.-Y. Kutscher, la phonologie, la morphologie, la semantique, la syntaxe de l'hebreu mishnique, l'analyse de ses relations avec la langue de la Bible et avec l'arameen, la mise en lumiere de ses multiples traditions et de ses differents dialectes, ont ete renouvelees en profondeur. Les etudes de detail se sont multipliees. Cet ouvrage a pour ambition d'offrir au lecteur, qu'il s'interesse aux etudes juives ou a la linguistique semitique, une synthese des travaux recents. Il se compose de deux parties: une introduction generale a l'hebreu mishnique (sources, documents, histoire de la recherche) et une analyse linguistique de quatre textes choisis.
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Peeters Publishers Tables Et Index De La Revue Des Etudes Juives,
Book SynopsisComprend, pour les quarante livraisons parues entre 1980 et 1999, des tables par annees, des tables des auteurs, les theses routenues recemment, des auteurs dont les livres ont ete recenses, un index thematique, un index des manuscrits, ainsi que des tables et un index des illustrations. Une breve introduction en facilite le maniement et dresse un historique rapide de ces vingt ans de la Revue, dont les point forts sont demeures dans le periode l'Antiquite tardive, le moyen age et les temps modernes consideres du point de vue de l'histoire des litteratures juives comme de celui de l'histoire materielle et sociale des juifs, avec de tres riches rubriques bibliographiques qui couvrent aussi la periode contemporaine.
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Peeters Publishers Redefining Christian Identity: Cultural
Book Synopsis"Cultural interaction in the Middle East since the Rise of Islam" - such was the title of a combined research project of the Universities of Leiden and Groningen aimed at describing the various ways in which the Christian communities of the Middle East expressed their distinct cultural identity in Muslim societies. As part of the project the symposium "Redefining Christian Identity, Christian cultural strategies since the rise of Islam" took place at Groningen University on April 7-10, 1999. This book contains the proceedings of this conference.From the articles it becomes clear that a number of distinct "cultural strategies" can be identified, some of which were used very frequently, others only in certain groups or at particular periods of time. The three main strategies that are represented in the papers of this volume are: (i) reinterpretation of the pre-Islamic Christian heritage; (ii) inculturation of elements from the new Islamic context; (iii) isolation from the Islamic context. Viewed in time, it is clear that the "reinterpretation" of older Christian heritage was particularly important in the first two centuries after the rise of Islam, the seventh and eighth centuries, that "inculturation" was the dominant theme of the Abbasid period, in the ninth to twelfth centuries, whereas from the Mongol period onwards, from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries, "isolation" more and more often occurs, although inculturation of elements from the predominantly Muslim environment never came to a complete standstill.
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Peeters Publishers 'Abbasid Studies: Occasional Papers of the School
Book SynopsisThe School of 'Abbasid Studies, originally founded as a co-operative venture by scholars at the Universities of St. Andrews and Glasgow in Scotland during the 1980s, is a joint enterprise involving the Universities of St. Andrews, Cambridge and Leuven. It aims to promote, foster and cultivate the academic study of the 'Abbasid dynasty. This book is a volume of sixteen papers delivered by a distinguished array of leading scholars at a meeting of the School of 'Abbasid Studies at the University of Cambridge in July 2002. It provides a fully contemporary insight into the cutting edge of 'Abbasid Studies, and includes works ranging from Arabic philosophy and jurisprudence to religious, intellectual and institutional history, literature and grammar. The contents of the volume are divided into three principal foci of interest (Institutions and Concepts, Figures, and Archaeology of a Discipline), and the work is accompanied by a substantial introduction by the Editor.
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Peeters Publishers Islam and the European Union
Book SynopsisIn 2001, the European Consortium of Church and State Research focused its annual meeting on the highly topical issue of the legal position of Muslim communities in the European Union. The present book comprises updated analyses on Belgium, Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Austria and the United Kingdom. The studies extend from general questions of legal status to specific issues such as building mosques or cemeteries, ritual slaughter, and from language rights to family issues and education, thus providing an in-depth view of the legal framework for a developing European Islam.
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Peeters Publishers De Zenon D'Elee a Poincare: Receuil D'etudes En
Book SynopsisL'oeuvre de Roshdi Rashed se deploie selon deux directions principales: la naissance, dans les Temps Modernes, des mathematiques sociales et de la theorie des probabilites d'une part, et l'histoire des sciences exactes (mathematiques, optique...) a l'epoque de la Renaissance de l'Islam classique d'autre part. Cette oeuvre de longue haleine n'a cesse d'elargir la connaissance que nous avons de ces dernieres, par l'edition et la traduction de textes nouveaux, la reconstitution des traditions conceptuelles dans lesquelles ces textes s'inscrivent, ainsi que par la mise en resonance de ces traditions. Elle agit en meme temps comme une genealogie de certaines formes de la mathesis moderne. Sans manifeste ni discours sur la methode, les travaux de Roshdi Rashed proposent un approfondissement constant de la tradition de l'epistemologie historique illustree par Gaston Bachelard et Georges Canguilhem. C'est pourquoi ces travaux ne laissent indifferent ni l'helleniste, ni bien sur l'arabisant specialiste de champs connexes, ni le medieviste, ni les specialistes de l'histoire des sciences modernes. C'est ce dont temoigne ce recueil d'etudes, dues a d'eminents collegues de Roshdi Rashed et a ses eleves.
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Peeters Publishers Oeuvre Mathematique D'al-Sijzi. Volume 1:
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Peeters Publishers Jewish Ceremonial Objects in Transcultural
Book SynopsisThe opening of a new permanent exhibition on religion in the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam in November 2004, which was accompanied by a catalogue entitled "Gifts from the Heart: Ceremonial Objects from the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam", gave rise to the idea for this volume. Both this publication and the preceding catalogue on the museum's textiles collection (1997) explore Dutch Jewish ceremonial objects, their aesthetic quality and historical background. This issue of "Studia Rosenthaliana" covers a wider field: the setting is Europe rather than local, and the primary focus is ceremonial objects in their transcultural context. The first cluster of contributions explore the origins of the forms and symbolism of various ceremonial objects, and interpret them as the outcome of the interplay between Jewish (religious) tradition and the surrounding culture. The articles in the second group deal with the impact of specific historical circumstances on objects, their conception and production. In the third section, two inventories of ceremonial objects belonging to Amsterdam's Sephardi and Ashkenazi communities of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are presented. Following our tradition, the volume concludes with an appropriate item from the Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana.
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Peeters Publishers Memoires, Mentalites Religieuses, Art Funeraire:
Book SynopsisConsiderer l'epitaphier juif du "Dieweg" comme une bibliotheque de pierre, dont les ouvrages furent ecrits par une communaute d'hommes et de femmes issus de quinze pays differents, constitue la ligne directrice de cet ouvrage. Les epitaphes, examinees comme des fragments de memoire et de mentalite enchasses dans le mineral, nous ont revele des indices historiques, sociologiques, epigraphiques et artistiques qui, tout au long du developpement, projettent un eclairage particulier et novateur sur la pensee juive contemporaine. Car, si le point de depart de nos travaux d'inventaire concernait la sauvegarde et l'etude d'un patrimoine funeraire juif, la presente publication s'inscrit pleinement dans le corpus plus vaste de l'etude des attitudes du judaisme face a la mort. Ainsi, notre propos s'efforce-t-il de voir dans quelle mesure les pensees gravees dans la pierre pendant pres de cent ans refletent-elles des aspects de la vie sociale et religieuse des communautes juives de Bruxelles? Les monuments qui surgissent de-ci de-la de l'epais feuillage, arborent une mosaique de langues - anglais, allemand, francais, hebreu, neerlandais et yiddish - qui, au travers des citations bibliques, talmudiques et des compositions profanes, relatent les differentes attitudes de nos predecesseurs devant la vie, devant la mort.
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Peeters Publishers Language Politics and Language Survival: Yiddish
Book Synopsis"Language Politics and Language Survival: Yiddish among the haredim in post-war Britain" outlines the history and development of the Yiddish language as it is used among Ultra-Orthodox Jews in contemporary Britain. The language policies of these communities are analysed and placed within the greater socio-historical and religious context of rabbinic justifications for the use of Jewish languages, and of Yiddish in particular. Reasons for the general abandonment of Yiddish outside of the "haredi" world are also summarized and placed in juxtaposition with the Yiddish language of loyalty of the "haredim". Yiddish language and corpus planning in "haredi" schools is analysed using communal documents and newspaper articles, educational assessments of Jewish schools compiled by "Her Majesty's Inspectors", a number of interviews with communal educators, tape recordings of lessons given in Yiddish, and observations made during my own visits to "haredi" educational institutions. A significant part of this book is dedicated to the analysis of the Yiddish language itself as it is currently used in Britain. The analysis of spoken Yiddish is based on recordings of speech patterns collected in the course of field work in "haredi" schools in London and Manchester and focuses primarily on dialectal usage based on religious sect and the geographic region within Britain. A brief sociological analysis of "haredi" literature in Yiddish is provided in order to demonstrate the ideological function of Yiddish language texts in contemporary Britain, and in the "haredi" world in general. The primary materials used for this are texts produced by, and published within, the "haredi" communities of Britain.
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Peeters Publishers Les Auteurs Chretiens Latins Du Moyen Age Sur Les
Book SynopsisAnalyse exhaustive et critique des ecrits des auteurs latins chretiens ( principalement ceux figurant dans la Patrologia latina ), concernant les juifs et le judaisme. Utilisant, lorsqu'elles existent, les editions critiques et la bibliographie scientifique attenante, cet ouvrage s'attache d'une part aux morceaux concernant les juifs et le judaisme en general - en rapport avec les commentaires chretiens et juifs de la Bible -, d'autre part a des textes concernant les juifs reels en leur temps et les rapports qu'ils auraient effectivement entretenus avec eux. L'ensemble fournit un panorama de sources ideologiques, a savoir les Peres de l'Eglise et leur attitude par rapport au judaisme ainsi qu'un apport historique documentaire tres riche pour une epoque ( le Haut Moyen Age ) pauvre en sources sur les juifs. A cette reimpression du livre paru en 1963 est jointe une Introduction nouvelle de Gilbert Dahan, Directeur de Recherche au C.N.R.S. et Directeur d'Etudes a l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes ( Sorbonne, Paris ).
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Peeters Publishers Bibliografie Over Het Jodendom En Israel Voor Het
Book SynopsisIs er een boek verschenen over de Joodse geschiedenis van mijn woonplaats? Welke moderne Israelische literatuur is in Nederland beschikbaar? Zijn er Joodse kookboeken en waar vind ik informatie over de kabbala? Op dit soort vragen geeft de Bibliografie over het Jodendom en Israel een antwoord. Het geeft een minitieus overzicht van de boeken in het Nederlandse taalgebied die toegang verschaffen tot de Joodse cultuur en de Israelische samenleving. Korte, doeltreffende omschrijvingen bij de titels geven een goed inzicht in de inhoud van de boeken. Van wetenschappelijke werken tot kinderboeken, fotoboeken tot romans: alles wat tussen 1992 en 2006 verscheen met een Joodse thematiek heeft zijn plaats gevonden in deze bibliografie. Iedereen die geinteresseerd is in Jodendom en Israel zal hierin veel van zijn gading vinden.
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Peeters Publishers Sources and Approaches Across Disciplines in Near
Book SynopsisThis volume collects papers from the 24th Congress of the Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI) in 2008 at the University of Leipzig. Original research and new approaches illustrate its theme of Sources and Approaches across Disciplines in Near Eastern Studies. The studies span Muslim culture, civilizations, and intellectual thought in the medieval and modern periods. The contributions demonstrate the benefits of following methodological and interdisciplinary approaches that draw upon literary criticism, sociology and anthropology in the field of Qur'anic studies, religion, philosophy and mysticism; state and society; literature and rhetoric; philology and linguistics; mathematics and astronomy; art and epigraphy; and Islamic sciences and economic history. The volume also highlights the commonalities and overlaps that exist between these different branches and fosters cooperative study across a wide cultural, historical, and sociological milieu. Rather than following an isolated approach to their areas of study, academics in different fields of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies benefited from one another's methodologies, and collectively built a wide body of knowledge.
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Peeters Publishers Negotiating Autonomy and Authority in Muslim
Book SynopsisThe present volume contains the proceedings of a workshop that took place as part of a larger project carried out by the Groningen Research School for the Study of the Humanities (GRSSH). The framework of the overall research perspective was a study of 'the autonomy of culture and its components'. In November 2006, colleagues from various departments at the University of Groningen who work in the field of Islamic studies jointly organised a workshop on the subject of 'autonomy and Islam'. For and from each of our disciplines, i.e. anthropology, psychology, pedagogy, philology and religious studies, internationally renowned scholars were invited to participate.
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Peeters Publishers Islam and Globalisation: Historical and
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the Proceedings of the 25th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (Naples, September 8-12, 2010) on Islam and Globalisation: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Besides a general view on globalisation (Agostino Cilardo) and the history of the Union on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary (Urbain Vermeulen), the contributions concern History (Axel Havemann, Pasquale Macaluso, Antonino Pellitteri, Maria Giovanna Stasolla, Maria Vidyasova), Islam (Roswitha Badry, Marek M. Dziekan, Dmitry Frolov, Christopher Melchert, Katarzyna Pachniak, Orsolya Varsanyi), Islamic Law (María Arcas Campoy, Reiner Brunner, Ana María Carballeira Debasa & Camilo Álvarez De Morales, Agostino Cilardo, Vasco Fronzoni, Wilferd Madelung), Literature & Linguistics (Abdessamad Belhaj, Julia Bray, Hélène Condylis, Francesca Maria Corrao, Adelya Gaynutdinova, Ali Kadem Kalati, Vladimir Lebedev, Ewa Machut-Mendecka, Mariangela Masullo, Barbara Michalak-Pikulska, Christina Ossipova, Arie Schippers, Krystyna Skarzynska-Bochenska, Ludmila Torlakova, Urbain Vermeulen, Monika Winet), Travel (Oriana Capezio, Roberta Denaro, Maria Grazia Sciortino, Richard van Leeuwen), Philosophy & Science (Carmela Baffioni, Daniel De Smet, Montse Díaz-Fajardo, Paulina B. Lewicka, Miklós Maróth, Juan Martos Quesada & María del Carmen Escribano Ródenas, Antonella Straface, Johannes Thomann), Art (Vincenza Grassi, Eva-Maria von Kemnitz).
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Peeters Publishers Les communautés juives du sud-ouest de la France:
Book SynopsisCe livre est un recueil de recherches linguistiques sur les usages liturgiques et vernaculaires de l'hébreu dans les communautés de rite portugais du Sud-Ouest de la France. Il comprend aussi une édition de plusieurs textes liturgiques illustrant cette tradition. La présente étude comprend onze chapitres répartis en trois parties. La première partie relate les circonstances de la découverte des cahiers de Péreyre qui sont décrits brièvement avec des extraits significatifs, notamment le texte intégral de l'office du nouvel An. Ces textes sont accompagnés de commentaires linguistiques et d'annotations sur d'autres aspects de ces sources. La deuxième partie traite exhaustivement de questions linguistiques soulevées par l'hébreu liturgique en usage dans ces communautés et par des données tirées de la langue parlée et des documents écrits à Bordeaux et à Bayonne au cours des trois derniers siècles. Enfin, la troisième partie est principalement consacrée aux mots hébreux et araméens qui émaillent les langues parlées et écrites (espagnol, français et, dans une moindre mesure, portugais) de la nation portugaise et de ses descendants. L'ensemble est agrémenté d'un riche appareil d'annotations grammaticales de plus ou moins grande ampleur.
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Peeters Publishers Arabic and Islamic Studies in Europe and Beyond.
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the proceedings of the 26th Conference of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants that took place in Basel, Switzerland, in September 2012. The theme of the volume, "Arabic and Islamic Studies in Europe and Beyond", indicates that research in Arabic and Islamic Studies is not only carried out in Europe but also in many non-European regions of the world. Furthermore, it expresses that Muslim history no longer represents an exclusive field of research remote from public attention. Nevertheless, the focus of Arabic and Islamic Studies is still highly specialized, calling on researchers to devote their academic lives to learning and practicing the major (and minor) languages of Islamic history and culture. In this regard, Arabic and Islamic Studies need to find an equilibrium, again and again, between disciplinary immersion and intellectual openness. The present collection contributes to these endeavors and struggles while reflecting the highly variegated nature of research in Islamic and Arabic Studies.
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