wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Artillery of Heaven
ISBN: 9780801475757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century, shortly after the arrival of the first American Protestant missionaries in the Middle East. He tells the dramatic tale of the conversion and death of As'ad Shidyaq, the earliest Arab convert to American Protestantism. The struggle over this man's body and soul and over how his story might be told changed the actors and cultures on both... The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Mak... |
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89,15 zł |
Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
ISBN: 9780801446214 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Makdisi presents a foundational American encounter with the Arab world that occurred in the nineteenth century, shortly after the arrival of the first American Protestant missionaries in the Middle East. He tells the dramatic tale of the conversion and death of As'ad Shidyaq, the earliest Arab convert to American Protestantism. The struggle over this man's body and soul and over how his story might be told changed the actors and cultures on both... The complex relationship between America and the Arab world goes back further than most people realize. In Artillery of Heaven, Ussama Mak... |
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328,04 zł |
The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon
ISBN: 9780520218468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, Ussama Makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a particular country. His study challenges those who have viewed sectarian violence as an Islamic response to westernization or simply as a product of social and economic inequities among religious groups. The religious violence of the nineteenth century, which culminated in sectarian mobilizations and massacres in 1860, was a complex, multilayered, subaltern expression of modernization, he says, not a primordial reaction to it. Makdisi argues...
Focusing on Ottoman Lebanon, Ussama Makdisi shows how sectarianism was a manifestation of modernity that transcended the physical boundaries of a part...
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149,12 zł |
Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World
ISBN: 9780520258884 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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129,06 zł |
Faith Misplaced: The Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations: 1820-2001
ISBN: 9781586489618 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A provocative account of the decayed relationship between the U.S. and Arab world, and a powerful recommendation for how it can be salvaged
A provocative account of the decayed relationship between the U.S. and Arab world, and a powerful recommendation for how it can be salvaged
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106,53 zł |
Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World
ISBN: 9780520385764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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129,06 zł |
Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa
ISBN: 9780253217981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. ..". constitutes an important and much needed intervention on the themes of memory and violence in Middle East studies." Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa Barbara The Middle East and North Africa form a region united by a common history of armed conflict and repeated international efforts at producing a lasting peace. This interdisciplinary collection explores the connections between memories of past violence and the violence of present memories, the context for all contemporary efforts at conflict resolution and reconciliation. The contributors examine the 1954 1962... ..". constitutes an important and much needed intervention on the themes of memory and violence in Middle East studies." Lisa Hajjar, University of... |
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115,93 zł |