Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early-Modern Capitalism (1600-1800)

Nelly Hanna

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• Little has been written about the economic history of Egypt prior to its incorporation into the European capitalist economy. While historians have min... Lees meer

Literary Optics

Maha Abdelmegeed

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• In L iterary Optics, Maha AbdelMegeed offers a compelling and far-reaching alternative to the traditional mode of analyzing Arabic literature through ... Lees meer

Islamic Roots of Capitalism

Peter Gran, Gran Peter

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• Challenging the ethnocentric notion that a capitalist economy could only be transferred to the peripheral states through contact with Europe, this tex... Lees meer

Making Big Money in 1600

Nelly Hanna

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• This text examines the re-emergence of the economic sector in Cairo during the 17th century, and its complex influences on social conditions. It trace... Lees meer

Unveiling the Harem

Mary Ann Fay

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• There is a long history in the West of representing Middle Eastern women as uniformly oppressed by Islam, by Islamic law, and by men. Stereotypical vi... Lees meer

Persistence of Orientalism

Peter Gran

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• Why is the 1798 Napoleonic invasion of Egypt routinely accepted as a watershed moment between premodern and modern in general histories on the Middle ... Lees meer

Literary Optics

Maha Abdelmegeed

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• In L iterary Optics, Maha AbdelMegeed offers a compelling and far-reaching alternative to the traditional mode of analyzing Arabic literature through ... Lees meer

New Mamluks

Amira El-Azhary Sonbol

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• This study of modern Egypt aims to open the debate regarding new terms and methods for understanding the Middle East and Islamic societies. Sonbol sho... Lees meer

Gender and Class in the Egyptian Women's Movement, 1925-1939

Cathlyn Mariscotti

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• The women's movement in Egypt has been heralded as improving the lives of women in Egypt and paving the way for women throughout the Arab world. As se... Lees meer

Shi'ites of Lebanon

Rula Jurdi Abisaab, Malek Abisaab

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• The complex history of Lebanese Shi'ites has traditionally been portrayed as rooted in religious and sectarian forces. The Abisaabs uncover a more nua... Lees meer

Family and Court

Iris Agmon

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• The popular image of the family and the court of law in Muslim societies is one of traditional, unchanging social frameworks. Iris Agmon suggests an e... Lees meer

Making Big Money in 1600

Nelly Hanna

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• Nelly Hanna's work challenges the standard perceptions about Middle East society and economy of the seventeenth century. Both novel in its approach an... Lees meer

Minorities and the Modern Arab World

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• In the wake of recent upheavals across the Arab world, a simplistic media portrayal of the region as essentially homogenous has given way to a new tho... Lees meer

Pragmatism in Islamic Law

Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• In Pragmatism in Islamic Law, Ibrahim presents a detailed history of Sunni legal pluralism and the ways in which it was employed to accommodate the ch... Lees meer

Minorities and the Modern Arab World

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• In the wake of recent upheavals across the Arab world, a simplistic media portrayal of the region as essentially homogenous has given way to a new tho... Lees meer

Militant Women of a Fragile Nation

Malek Abisaab

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• In Militant Women of a Fragile Nation, Malek Abisaab takes a gendered approach to labor conflicts, anti-colonial struggles, and citizenship in modern ... Lees meer

The Persistence of Orientalism

Peter Gran

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• Why is the 1798 Napoleonic invasion of Egypt routinely accepted as a watershed moment between premodern and modern in general histories on the Middle ... Lees meer

The Large Landowning Class and the Peasantry in Egypt, 1837-1952

Raouf Abbas, Assem El-Dessouky

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• In Egypt, the landowning class first arose in the early part of the nineteenth century from land grants given to extended family members and friends o... Lees meer

The Shi'ites of Lebanon

Rula Jurdi Abisaab, Malek Abisaab

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• The complex history of Lebanese Shi'ites has traditionally been portrayed as rooted in religious and sectarian forces. The Abisaabs uncover a more nua... Lees meer

The Holy Land in Transit

Steven Salaita

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• Steven Salaita's ambitious and thought-provoking work compares the dynamics of settler colonialism in the United States related to Native Americans wi... Lees meer

Pragmatism in Islamic Law

Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• In Pragmatism in Islamic Law, Ibrahim presents a detailed history of Sunni legal pluralism and the ways in which it was employed to accommodate the ch... Lees meer

Native Tongue, Stranger Talk

Michelle Hartman

• Hardcover | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• Can a reality lived in Arabic be expressed in French? Can a French-language literary work speak Arabic? In Native Tongue, Stranger Talk Hartman shows ... Lees meer

The Holy Land in Transit

Steven Salaita

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• Steven Salaita's ambitious and thought-provoking work compares the dynamics of settler colonialism in the United States related to Native Americans wi... Lees meer

In Praise of Books

Nelly Hanna

• Paperback | Engels | Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
• In fine detail, the author explores economic influences on culture during periods of plenty and poverty. She examines the bond between commerce and es... Lees meer