A book that calls us to witness our place in history Sally RooneyAn urgent and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle and the power of narrative from the Women s Prize shortlisted author of Enter Ghost.
What does the politics of solidarity look like in practice, and how can left-wing organizations grow-in numbers and power-while remaining accountable to the broader movements of which they are a part?
Der früheste nennenswerte Anlaß, der die Redekraft und große Autorität des Johannes Chrysostom zeigte, war die Fastenzeit des Jahres 387, als er seine "Homilien über die Bildsäulen" hielt.
In this book, first published in Hebrew in 1975 and now available in English for the first time with an introduction by Noam Chomsky, Amnon Kapeliouk traces the policies and attitudes that led to the 1973 Arab-Israel war.
For the exhausted, the hurting, and the faithful, The After Party helps reframe our political identity away from the "e;what"e; of political positions and toward the "e;how"e; being centered on Jesus.
Based on previously unexploited primary sources, this is the first comprehensive biography of Yosef Haim Brenner, one of the pioneers of Modern Hebrew literature.
El quinto y último Cuaderno dedicado a la historia de Israel empieza con la sucesión de Herodes el Grande y acaba con la represión de la revuelta de Bar Kokbá.
An American Muslim Guide to the Art and Life of Preaching explores the art and craft of creating effective Islamic sermons and delivering them with care, passion, and integrity.
Now in an updated second edition, Gabriel Said Reynolds tells the story of Islam in this brief illustrated survey, beginning with Muhammad's early life and rise to power, then tracing the origins and development of the Qur'an juxtaposed with biblical literature, and concluding with an overview of modern and fundamentalist narratives of the origin of Islam.
An American Muslim Guide to the Art and Life of Preaching explores the art and craft of creating effective Islamic sermons and delivering them with care, passion, and integrity.
Hailed as one of the greatest novels of all time and a classic of world literature, War and Peace unfolds in the early nineteenth century during the turbulent years of the Napoleonic invasion of Russia.
In "Nofretete: Herrscherin im Namen des Aton" bringt Yasmin Abdel-Rahman die faszinierende Geschichte einer der berühmtesten Königinnen des alten Ägyptens zum Leben.
THE Zend-Avesta is the sacred book of the Parsis, that is to say, of the few remaining followers of that religion which feigned over Persia at the time when the second successor of Mohammed overthrew the Sassanian dynasty, and which has been called Dualism, or Mazdeism, or Magism, or Zoroastrianism, or Fire-worship, according as its main tenet, or its supreme God, or its priests, or its supposed founder, or its apparent object of worship has been most kept in view.
Vor tausenden von Jahren regierten in Ägypten immer wieder Frauen mit fast uneingeschränkter Macht – obwohl sie in einer männlich dominierten Gesellschaftsordnung lebten.
Mit wegweisender Klarheit und profundem Wissen durchdringt Gilles Kepel die komplexen Krisen und Konflikte, die seit Jahrzehnten den arabisch-islamischen Raum, seine Gesellschaften und die Welt in Atem halten.
The decade of war and violence culminating in the Conference of Lausanne was formative for the modern state of Turkey, as it was for interwar Europe's diplomacy and appeasement.
Lo que en algún momento los intelectuales europeos definieron como "Medio Oriente" constituye la región más caliente, inestable e incomprendida del planeta.
In 2012, Steve Green, billionaire and president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores, announced a recent purchase of a Biblical artefact-a fragment of papyrus, just discovered, carrying lines from Paul's letter to the Romans, and dated to the second century CE.
Given the historical and cultural richness of countries in the Middle East region, as well as the economic development many have exhibited in recent years, tourism planning and development gains much significance for both scholars and practitioners.
Given the historical and cultural richness of countries in the Middle East region, as well as the economic development many have exhibited in recent years, tourism planning and development gains much significance for both scholars and practitioners.
John Quigley brings a necessary international law perspective to bear on the seemingly intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict in this updated edition of his important book.
Charles Hirschkind's unique study explores how a popular Islamic media form the cassette sermon has profoundly transformed the political geography of the Middle East over the last three decades.
First scholarly, multi-disciplinary re-assessment of Howard Carter's discovery and excavation of Tutenkhamun's tomb and the impact of the find on our understanding of the material culture of Ancient Egypt.
This volume sheds light on how particular constructions of the 'Other' contributed to an ongoing process of defining what 'Israel' or an 'Israelite' was, or was supposed to be in literature taken to be authoritative in the late Persian and Early Hellenistic periods.
Muslim intellectuals who sought to establish the boundaries of modern Muslim identityMuslim modernism was a political and intellectual movement that sought to redefine the relationship between Islam and the colonial West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
An essential history of Wahhabism from its founding to the Islamic StateIn the mid-eighteenth century, a controversial Islamic movement arose in the central Arabian region of Najd that forever changed the political landscape of the Arabian Peninsula and the history of Islamic thought.
This richly textured social history recovers the voices and experiences of poor Egyptians--beggars, foundlings, the sick and maimed--giving them a history for the first time.
Voices of Freedom: The Middle East and North Africa showcases essays from activists, journalists, novelists, and scholars whose areas of expertise include free speech, peace and reconciliation, alterity-otherness, and Middle Eastern and North African religions and literatures.
