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Middle East and the making of the modern world / Schayegh, Cyrus 2017  Book
Schayegh, Cyrus Book
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Publication Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2017.
Description x, 486pYellow spine
Summary/Abstract This book is a socio-spatial history of the Middle East, and uses that case to reflect more broadly on the making of the modern world. Pivoting around Bilād al-Shām (Greater Syria) - alternatingly zooming in on cities and nation-states and zooming out to neighboring countries, imperial and transnational links, and overseas diasporas - it asks: Why, how, and in which stages did well-rooted cities and regions mold a dynamic modern world economy and powerful modern states, and how were they remolded in return? Covering culture, the economy, and administration from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century in five chapters, each prefaced by one person's illustrative story, the book identifies three key developments in the late Ottoman period. Cities were transformed but remained powerful; interurban ties grew stronger; and Bilād al-Shām became more integrated. These developments did not end in 1918 but, as is shown next, deeply shaped post-Ottoman times. While quartered, Bilād al-Shām became an umbrella region for Palestine, Transjordan, Syria and Lebanon, and forced French and British rulers to coordinate policies. And while cities lionized their weight in transnational circuits as well as reimagined themselves as national places to assert their rank in new nation-states, the latter were from the start multi-urban and transnationalized spaces. Building on the Middle Eastern case, the book argues that the modern world cannot be truly grasped by studying globalization or state formation or urbanization, as many histories do. Rather, the modern world's most fundamental socio-spatial feature is what can be called transpatialization: the intertwinement of cities, regions, states, and global circuits in faster changing and more mutually transformative ways than before in history.
Standard Number 9780674088337 Hb.
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World of Islam: Faith, people culture / Lewis, Bernard 1976  Book
Lewis, Bernard Book
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Publication London, Thames & Hudson, 1976.
Description 360pWhite Spine
Summary/Abstract Explores every aspect of Islam, its social life, trade, mysticism, literature, music, science and warfare at a time when Western interest in the Islamic world is growing as never before.
Contents The faith and the faithful : Lands and people of Islam / Bernard Lewis Five pillars of Islam Belief, opinion and toleration The rule of the law Free men, freedmen and 'people of the pact' Who owned the land? The man-made setting : Islamic art and architecture / Richard Ettinghausen The forces of unity Arabic script The rejection of sculpture The mosque : origins and meaning Colour : the response to environment Dust, heat and gardens The Islamic interior Cities and Citizens : The growth and culture of urban Islam / Oleg Grabar Time, place and status The quarters The religious community Wealth The 'state' Taste The Islamic city Tension and reilience The mystic path : Sufi tradition / Fritz Meier Classical Sufiism Textbooks and transition The orders The mystical cult of Muhammad Sufiism and the State Marginal groups Sufiism and literature Jewellers of the world : The heritage of Islamic literature / Charles Pellat Above literature : the Quran Poetry of the desert The poetry of wine and love Creation and convention Challenge from Persia Literature for rthe people Neo-Persian Arabic prose The dimensions of sound : Islamic music - philosophy, theory and practice / A. Shiloah Folk music Art music Technique and expression : the modes Religion and music Theory and practice Six periods of Islamic music The scientific enterprise : Islamic contributions to the development of science / A.I. Sabra The appropriation of ancient learning The opposition Innovation and tradition : mathematics Astronomy : theory and observation Light and vision Al-Andalus versus the East Armies of the prophet : Strategy, tactics and weapons in Islamic warfare / Edmond Bosworth The Arab eruption Consolidating the conquests The make up of the armies Tactics and battle The seige Slace systems A revolution in warfare : firearms War at sea Moorish Spain : The golden age of Cordoba and Granada / Emilio Garcia Gomez The conquest and the people The Umayyads A multi-racial culture Almanzor and civil war Three wrtiers of the civil war Ibn Quzman, poet of Muslim Spain The kingdon of Granada Land of the lion and the sun : The flowering of Iranian civilization / Roger M. Savoy The rebirth of Iran The Safavids The mystique of the monarchy The land and people Religion and philosophy Literature, science and art Iran and the West Modern Iran The Ottoman Empire : R+The rise and fall of Turkish domination / Norman Itzkowitz The Seljuqs of Rum A new wave : the Ottomans Mehmed the Conqueror Structure of the Ottoman state At the court of the sultan The long decline Muslim India : From the coming of Islam to Independence / S.A.A. Rizvi Before the Mughuls Flowering and decline Kings and the court The social classes The legacy of architecture The art of the miniature A goldan age of Islamic science The impact of the West Islam today : Problems of the 19th and 20th centuriesn / Elie Kedourie Threat and resistance 'Necessary reforms' Enlightenment versus tradition Islam and Communist Russia India : partition and paradox Islam - faith or social order? Epilogue Chronological chart of islam Bibliography
Standard Number 0500276242 Pb.
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