Crafts and Craftsmen of the Middle East

Suraiya Faroqhi, Randi Deguilhem

• Hardcover | Engels | Islamic Mediterranean | nr. 4
• Crafts and Craftsmen of the Middle East presents research on craft workers within and outside the guild structure from the modern and contemporary Med... Lees meer

Standing Trial

• Hardcover | Engels | Islamic Mediterranean | nr. 6
• 'Standing Trial' focuses on the relationship between the law and the concept of the person in modern Arab societies. It directly addresses the questio... Lees meer

Money, Land and Trade

• Hardcover | Engels | Islamic Mediterranean
• The study of the economic history of Islamic lands before 1800 has lagged behind the political, diplomatic and social history of the same area. This b... Lees meer

Shattering Tradition

Walter Dostal, Wolfgang Kraus

• Hardcover | Engels | Islamic Mediterranean
• Few deny that in the Muslim world religion and law are intimately linked. However, local legal realities mean that Islamic law is often pushed out of ... Lees meer

Constituting Modernity

• Hardcover | Engels | Islamic Mediterranean | nr. 5
• This text originated from a critique of a liberal understanding of property relation as one between a person and a "thing". States are perceived to be... Lees meer

Outside in

• Hardcover | Islamic Mediterranean
• An individual who does not conform to social or legal norms may well be relegated to a marginal status in society. The contributors to this volume exp... Lees meer

Writing the Feminine

• Hardcover | Islamic Mediterranean
• Conventional wisdom qualifies the Mediterranean Muslim woman as a passive person subjected to the tyranny and misogyny of her religion, society, and m... Lees meer