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Author | : Ann E. Zimo |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2024-09-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1512826464 |
In Plain Sight draws from a wide array of interdisciplinary sources to show how Muslims, seemingly hostile to the entire crusading enterprise, integrated themselves into the kingdom founded in the wake of the First Crusade. The book examines how Muslims, whether Sunni or Shi‘a or Druze, fit into society in the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, uncovering the daily reality of their experience. Exploring how and to what extent Muslims interacted with the Frankish ruling elite, historian Ann E. Zimo presents a new vantage point from which to reconsider the popularly accepted notion that the crusades, and by extension the crusader states, were a locus of a monolithic clash between West and East or between Christianity and Islam. By untangling the relations between the Muslim communities and their rulers, Zimo offers a more fully realized image of a society too multifaceted to be reasonably reduced to a black-and-white binary opposition. Zimo not only re-reads the well-known Frankish sources, including narrative chronicles, letters, charters, and legal treatises, but combines them with an investigation of the Arabic documentary base, including chronicles, biographies, fatwa literature, pilgrimage guides, and treaties which are not translated and largely inaccessible to most historians of the crusades. She also draws from the enormous and growing body of scholarship generated by archaeologists whose work can often provide insights into the aspects of the past not recorded in the historical record. By casting such a wide evidentiary net, In Plain Sight sheds new light on Frankish society and how Muslims fit into it, offering major revisions to the current conception of population distribution within the kingdom and the nature of the Frankish polity itself.
Author | : John Doerper |
Publisher | : Compass America Guides |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2008-11-18 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1400007402 |
Covering cities, states, and regions of the United States, these richly illustrated handbooks capture the character and culture of important American destinations, along with topical essays, color maps, and capsule reviews of restaurants and hotels.
Author | : Rudi Matthee |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 525 |
Release | : 2023-06-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0197754651 |
Islam is the only major world religion that resists the juggernaut of alcohol consumption. In many Islamic countries, alcohol is banned; in others, it plays little role in social life. Yet, Muslims throughout history did drink, often to excess--whether sultans and shahs in their palaces, or commoners in taverns run by Jews or Christians. This evocative study delves into drinking's many historic, literary and social manifestations in Islam, going beyond references to 'hypocrisy' or the temptations of 'forbidden fruit'. Rudi Matthee argues that alcohol, through its 'absence' as much as its presence, takes us to the heart of Islam. Exploring the long history of this faith--from the eight-century Umayyad dynasty to Erdogan's Turkey, and from Islamic Spain to modern Pakistan--he unearths a tradition of diversity and multiplicity in which Muslims drank, and found myriad excuses to do so. They celebrated wine and used it as a poetic metaphor, even viewing alcohol as a gift from God--the key to unlocking eternal truth. Drawing on a plethora of sources, Matthee presents Islam not as an austere and uncompromising faith, but as a set of beliefs and practices that embrace ambivalence, allowing for ambiguity and even contradiction.
Author | : Ron Milner |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780814329290 |
A collection of four plays by contemporary playwright, screenwriter, and director Ron Milner. Much of Black literature from the 1940s through the 1960s deals with the search for identity and asks the question, Should Blacks define themselves in relationship to white people and white culture? In dramatizing the struggles and desires of the Black working class and lower middle class, renowned Detroit playwright Ron Milner responds to this question by letting Black culture - Black music in particular - be not only his subject but part of his form of expression and way of being in the world. The four Milner plays collected here - Checkmates, What the Wine-Sellers Buy, Jazz-Set, and Urban Transition - are characterized by their attention to African American social and psychological culture. Checkmates (1990) explores the relationships of two Black couples who are generations apart in age and attitudes - one new at the games and realities of love, the other experienced. What the Wine-Sellers Buy (1974), a coming-of-age tale set on Detroit streets in the 1950s, looks at the conflict between the lure of the streets and a mother's teachings. The highly innovative Jazz-Set is Milner's tribute to jazz - a play that works like a jazz composition, where the musicians and music are one and characters' life experiences and memories are "played" as music. Urban Transition (1995) picks up on themes introduced in What the Wine-Sellers Buy to examine how the drug subculture has made its way into current mainstream culture. Ron Milner is one of America's most prolific and foremost playwrights. His plays have become required texts in many of the emerging repertory theaters of the Black and progressive theater communities. Four Plays will be of interest to students of the theater, theater scholars, and those interested in African American and American literature.
Author | : E.H. Rodwell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2017-07-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351668951 |
This book, first published in 1931, shows in a simple, sound and lucid manner how the genius of two poets (Omar Khayyam and FitzGerald) brought together by the genius of an Orientalist (Professor Cowell) culminated in a very strange, very beautiful and profound English poem. This book is concerned with the genuineness of the verses ascribed to Omar Khayyam, and consists of a comparison of the original Arabic, a paraphrase, and FitzGerald’s first and fourth editions.
Author | : Various Authors |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1142 |
Release | : 2021-03-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1351625179 |
RLE: Persia is a Routledge Library Editions set that reissues five out-of-print classics that examine the history and culture of this key country in the Middle East. Two titles consist of close readings of Persian poems, and by extension are examinations of the country’s wider literature. Two others study the country’s domestic and international history, and the final volume studies an aspect of the Sufi branch of Islam.
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Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Boston (Mass.) |
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Author | : Ron Milner |
Publisher | : Samuel French, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780573618109 |
Author | : Joseph Addison Alexander |
Publisher | : Kregel Publications |
Total Pages | : 1004 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780825494291 |
A foremost linguist of his time, Alexander carefully examines the book of Isaiah from the original Hebrew and highlights nuances and insights.
Author | : E. Thomas Hughes |
Publisher | : Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 9781593730291 |
Written by the founders of The Food Museum in Albuquerque, NM, this book explores the fascinating regional ingredients that make up the heritage of French food.