Salim Tamari's Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and PDF

This groundbreaking publication on smooth Palestinian tradition is going past the standard point of interest of the 1948 warfare to deal with the sooner, youth. Drawing on formerly unavailable biographies of Palestinians (including Palestinian Jews), Salim Tamari bargains 11 vignettes of Palestine's cultural existence within the momentous first half the 20th century.

Download e-book for iPad: Constructing Bangladesh: Religion, Ethnicity, and Language by Sufia M. Uddin

Highlighting the dynamic, pluralistic nature of Islamic civilization, Sufia M. Uddin examines the advanced background of Islamic country formation in Bangladesh, previously the jap a part of the Indian province of Bengal. Uddin specializes in major moments within the region's background from medieval to trendy instances, analyzing the interaction of language, renowned and scholarly spiritual literature, and the colonial adventure as they contributed to the production of a different Bengali-Islamic identification.

Read e-book online Şehrengiz, Urban Rituals and Deviant Sufi Mysticism in PDF

Şehrengiz is an Ottoman style of poetry written in honor of varied towns and provincial cities of the Ottoman Empire from the early 16th century to the early eighteenth century. This publication examines the city tradition of Ottoman Istanbul via Şehrengiz, because the Ottoman house tradition and traditions were formed through a continuing fight among conflicting teams working towards political and non secular attitudes at odds.

New PDF release: Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices: Explorations

Exploring the specific nature and function of neighborhood pilgrimage traditions between Muslims and Catholics, Muslim and Catholic Pilgrimage Practices attracts really on south critical Java, Indonesia. during this sector, the hybrid neighborhood Muslim pilgrimage tradition is formed through conventional Islam, the Javano-Islamic sultanates, and the Javanese tradition with its powerful Hindu-Buddhist historical past.