Faces of Ancient Arabia
Author | : Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.) |
Publisher | : Walters Art Gallery |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, Md.) |
Publisher | : Walters Art Gallery |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sabatino Moscati |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2012-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 048614769X |
Fascinating study examines Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Israelites, Persians, others. "...a valuable introduction, perhaps the best available in English." — American Historical Review. 32 halftones. 5 figures. 1 map.
Author | : A M Vasilev |
Publisher | : Saqi |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2014-05-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0863567797 |
How has Saudi Arabia managed to maintain its Arab and Islamic values while at the same time adopting Western technology and a market economy? How have its hereditary leaders, who govern with a mixture of political pragmatism and religious zeal, managed to maintain their power? This comprehensive history of Saudi Arabia from 1745 to the present provides insight into its culture and politics, its powerful oil industry, its relations with its neighbours, and the ongoing influence of the Wahhabi movement. Based on a wealth of Arab, American, British, Western and Eastern European sources, this book will stand as the definitive account of the largest state on the Arabian peninsula.
Author | : David W. Baker |
Publisher | : Baker Academic |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2004-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 080102871X |
Leading scholars provide an overview of current issues in Old Testament studies.
Author | : Stephen Schwartz |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2003-09-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400076293 |
Since its formation in 1932, Saudi Arabia has been ruled by two interdependent families. The Al Sa’uds control politics and the descendants of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab impose Wahhabism—a violent, fanatical perversion of the pluralistic Islam practiced by most Muslims. Stephen Schwartz argues that Wahhabism, vigorously exported with the help of Saudi oil money, is what incites Palestinian suicide bombers, Osama bin Laden, and other Islamic terrorists throughout the world. Schwartz reveals the hypocrisy of the Saudi regime, whose moderate facade conceals state-sponsored repression and terrorism. He also raises troubling questions about Wahhabi infiltration of America’s Islamic community and about U.S. oil companies sanitizing Saudi Arabia’s image for the West. This sharp analysis and eye-opening expose illuminates the background to the September 11th terrorist attacks and offers new approaches for U.S. policy toward its closest ally in the Middle East.
Author | : Eduard Suess |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Physical geography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry Whitney Bellows |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Europe |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ulrike Freitag |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2020-03-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108478794 |
An urban history of Jeddah from the late Ottoman period to the present day, seen through its diverse and changing population.
Author | : Kamila Pawlikowska |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2015-10-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004302263 |
Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965) is a study of a-physiognomic descriptions of the face. It demonstrates that writers such as George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, Edgar Allan Poe, Nicolay Gogol, Virginia Woolf and Witold Gombrowicz vigorously resisted the belief that facial features reflect character. While other studies tend to focus on descriptions which affirm physiognomy, this book examines portraits which question popular face-reading systems and contravene their common premise – the surface-depth principle. Such portraits reveal that physiognomic formula is a cultural construct, invented to abridge, organise and regulate legibility of the human face. Most importantly, strange and ‘unreadable’ fictional faces frequently expose the connection between physiognomic judgement and stereotyping, prejudice and racism.