Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso. Briggs, Asa and Peter Burke. 2005. A Social History of the Media from Gutenberg to the Internet. Cambridge: Polity Press. Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. 2006. \"Introduction: Did Somebody Say New Media?\" In Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Thomas Kennan eds., New Media/Old Media: A History and Theory Reader. New York: Routledge, pp. 1-11. Deibert, Ronald. 1997. Parchment, Printing and Hypermedia: Communication in World Order Transformation. New York: Columbia University Press. Elsaesser, Thomas. 2006. \"Early Film History and Multi-Media: An Archaeology of Possible Futures?\" In Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Thomas Kennan eds., New Media/Old Media: A History and Theory Reader. New York: Routledge, pp. 13-26. Jenkins, Henry. 2006. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: New York University Press. Luhman, Niklas. 2000. The Reality of the Mass Media. Cambridge: Polity Press. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. 2006. \"Network Subjects or, The Ghost is the Message.\" In Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Thomas Keenan eds., New Media/Old Media: A History and Theory Reader. New York: Routledge, pp. 335-345. Saenger, Paul. 1997. \"Introduction\" to Space Between Words: The Origins of Silent Reading. Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 1-17. Thorburn, David and Henry Jenkins eds. 2003. Rethinking Media Change: The Aesthetics of Transition. Boston: MIT Press.

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Orientalism and Religion: Postcolonial Theory, India and the ’Mystic East‘

In this nearly outstanding work, the author describes in elegant detail the legal, educational, and administrative workings of Ibb, a small city in Yemen, in the 19th and 20th centuries. I had not heard of Ibb before, but will not now forget it. How nice to go to Ibb, I thought while reading the book, to sit under the tree and listen to the qadi (judge), or to discuss fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) with the Mufti in his halls. What a pleasant place it seems to be, a still functioning, organic, classical Islamic town. Brinkley Messick is a powerful observer. The underpinnings of life in Ibb are extensively, yet tastefully, examined, as is Ibb's setting in the larger context of Yemen. Many interesting personages are introduced in these pages, and Messick writes of them with sympathy and familiarity. Particularly intriguing is his description of fiqh manuals and their uses. These are the many basic handbooks of the madhhabs (interpretations of the shari'a based on the work of the early signal scholars of Islam). They are semantic and linguistic jewels, condensations and distillations of practical Islam, as it has until recently been known. These works are expounded in commentaries and are still used in traditional education throughout the Islamic world. In fact, there can be no detailed transmission of the knowledge and teachings of practical Islam without them. During the Spanish Inquisition (1478), while the Muslims of Spain were being "ethnically cleansed," as it were, these manuals were the one type of literature the beleaguered Muslims continually produced and preserved, written in their Eljamiado script and language. Many contemporary authors write tiresomely "about" Islamic topics, as from an isolated, distant, and elevated vantage point. Because of the ubiquitousness of this approach, one might think it the normal way of dealing with the subject. For a perspicacious reader, however, such works never answer the questions of how or why. All things Islamic are to some degree out of sync with what is thought to be normal in our Western perspective. True understanding requires more audacious intellectual approaches. Messick has achieved such an approach. Although it is a bit short on the why, this book's strong suit is how Islam actually works in a specific setting. It is the best description in English I have come across of how Islam is taught, learned, and put to use in a real location. Further, the author humanizes his subjects. The players are met in their formal roles, as they would like to be met, rather than as abstractions, dates, and figures. The flow of l9th-20th century Yemeni history is nicely represented in these pages. The reader is treated to an outline of the formation of Yemen as it came to be, concentrating on the special intellectual personalities and events that built the institutions that made pre-Ottoman Yemen what it was. The imperialism of the Ottomans in the Islamic world was unlike that of the British and French, whose machinations were to sink the traditional ship of classical Islam. …

The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society

The first book of its kind, this richly informative and comprehensive guide to the world of late antiquity offers the latest scholarship to the researcher along with great reading pleasure to the browser. In eleven comprehensive essays and in over 500 encyclopedic entries, an international cast of experts provides essential information and fresh perspectives on the history and culture of an era marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecedented political upheavals that remade the map of the known world, and the creation of art of enduring glory. By extending the commonly accepted chronological and territorial boundaries of the period--to encompass Roman, Byzantine, Sassanian, and early Islamic cultures, from the middle of the third century to the end of the eighth--this guide makes new connections and permits revealing comparisons. Consult the article on \"Angels\" and discover their meaning in Islamic as well as classical and Judeo-Christian traditions. Refer to \"Children,\" \"Concubinage,\" and \"Divorce\" for a fascinating interweaving of information on the family. Read the essay on \"Barbarians and Ethnicity\" and see how a topic as current as the construction of identity played out in earlier times, from the Greeks and Romans to the Turks, Huns, and Saxons. Turn to \"Empire Building\" to learn how the empire of Constantine was supported by architecture and ceremony. Or follow your own path through the broad range of entries on politics, manufacturing and commerce, the arts, philosophy, religion, geography, ethnicity, and domestic life. Each entry introduces readers to another facet of the postclassical world: historic figures and places, institutions, burial customs, food, money, public life, and amusements. A splendid selection of illustrations enhances the portrait. The intriguing era of late antiquity emerges completely and clearly, viewed in a new light, in a guide that will be relished by scholars and general readers alike.

Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World

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Multivalent Paradigm of Interpretation and the Aura or Anima of the Object

This article discusses a painting of the Great Dam of Aswan made by Abdel Hadi al-Gazzar in 1964 and immediately crowned as the iconic image of Egypt in the heroic age of the Nasser regime. The painting clearly adopts the aesthetic language of surrealism, illustrating a particular zeitgeist in the Egyptian artistic milieu and mirroring the individual and genuine artistic response of al-Gazzar to the utopian, almost mythical status given to surrealism in Egypt in the first half of the last century. This work of art is dealt with here as a reflection of the changing social and political context in Egypt in the 1950s and the early 1960s under the governor-ship of the charismatic ruler Gamal Abdel Nasser, and as influenced by the global Cold War era.

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