Between Caravan And Sultan The Bayruk Of Southern Morocco

Author : Mohamed Hassan Mohamed
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004183827

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Between Caravan and Sultan: The Bayruk of Southern Morocco by Mohamed Hassan Mohamed Pdf

This work presents a study of the history and identity of the Moroccan Bayruk family. The first part of the book gives an outline of the main referents in both the Bayruk vision of ‘self’, and academic discourses on Maghribian history: the dynasty, caravan and ‘tribe’. It identifies discrepancies in scholarly presentations of the Bayruk and traces them back to two overlapping issues of translation and conception. For the remainder of the book a variety of sources are used to highlight the role of textuality in the creation of the Bayruk image in academic discourse. As a result this book demonstrates how the Bayruk family can be used as a case-study to revise the existing interpretations of Maghribian history and modes of identification.

Author : Mohamed Hassan Mohamed
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004183797

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Between Caravan and Sultan: The Bayruk of Southern Morocco by Mohamed Hassan Mohamed Pdf

Using an ensemble of sources and current concepts, this book proposes new ways of conceiving the place of the caravan and the dynasty in Maghribian historical experiences and modes of identification.

Author : Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues,Manuela Santos Silva,Jonathan W. Spangler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351035125

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Dynastic Change by Ana Maria S.A. Rodrigues,Manuela Santos Silva,Jonathan W. Spangler Pdf

Dynastic Change: Legitimacy and Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Monarchy examines the strategies for change and legitimacy in monarchies in the medieval and early modern eras. Taking a broadly comparative approach, Dynastic Change explores the mechanisms employed as well as theoretical and practical approaches to monarchical legitimisation. The book answers the question of how monarchical families reacted, adjusted or strategised when faced with dynastic crises of various kinds, such as a lack of a male heir or unfitness of a reigning monarch for rule, through the consideration of such themes as the role of royal women, the uses of the arts for representational and propaganda purposes and the impact of religion or popular will. Broad in both chronological and geographical scope, chapters discuss examples from the 9th to the 18th centuries across such places as Morocco, Byzantium, Portugal, Russia and Western Europe, showing readers how cultural, religious and political differences across countries and time periods affected dynastic relations. Bringing together gender, monarchy and dynasticism, the book highlights parallels across time and place, encouraging a new approach to monarchy studies. It is the perfect collection for students and researchers of medieval and early modern monarchy and gender.

Author : Patrick Manning,Abigail Owen
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822986270

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Knowledge in Translation by Patrick Manning,Abigail Owen Pdf

In the second millennium CE, long before English became the language of science, the act of translation was crucial for understanding and disseminating knowledge and information across linguistic and geographic boundaries. This volume considers the complexities of knowledge exchange through the practice of translation over the course of a millennium, across fields of knowledge—cartography, health and medicine, material construction, astronomy—and a wide geographical range, from Eurasia to Africa and the Americas. Contributors literate in Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Minnan, Ottoman, and Persian explore the history of science in the context of world and global history, investigating global patterns and implications in a multilingual and increasingly interconnected world. Chapters reveal cosmopolitan networks of shared practice and knowledge about the natural world from 1000 to 1800 CE, emphasizing both evolving scientific exchange and the emergence of innovative science. By unraveling the role of translation in cross-cultural communication, Knowledge in Translation highlights key moments of transmission, insight, and critical interpretation across linguistic and faith communities.

Author : Jennifer Lofkrantz
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 9781648250644

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Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa by Jennifer Lofkrantz Pdf

Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads. In this pioneering study--the first to cover ransoming, or the release of a prisoner prior to enslavement for cash or kind, in African regions south of the Sahara--Jennifer Lofkrantz focuses on a broad temporal and geographical area raning from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries and including present-day Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and Morocco. The work concentrates particularly on the nineteenth-century jihad era and on the Sokoto Caliphate and the Umarian States. The overall period was a time of intense intellectual debate over the questions of who was and who was not a Muslim, how Islamic law could and should be implemented, what rights and protections recognized freeborn Muslims should have, and what role governments should play in ensuring those rights especially during a time when slavery was legal. Ransoming discourses and procedures expose Muslim West African answers to these questions as well as providing a lens on broader issues and ideas on slavery, freedom, and religious and ethnic identity. Based on research conducted mostly in Mali, Niger, Nigeria, and France and on Arabic-, French-, and English-language archival sources, treatises, personal correspondence, oral sources and testimony, biographical data, travel reports, and early colonial documents, this study approaches the question of ransoming of captives through an examination, first, of intellectual debates among pre-nineteenth-century West African scholars on issues of ransoming; second, of nineteenth-century policies based on understandings of those intellectual debates in the context of the jihads; and, finally, of West African practices of ransoming in the nineteenth century.

Author : Demet Güzey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781442255074

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Food on Foot by Demet Güzey Pdf

What did great adventurers eat during their expeditions to the far corners of the world? How did they view the role of food in their survival and wellbeing? What about hikers and backpackers today who set out to enjoy nature, pushing their own boundaries of comfort for adventure. How does food impact their experience? And what do they have in common with pilgrims and soldiers? Food is a significant element of our relationship with nature. Whether a historical expedition or a weekend camping trip, a journey made on foot requires sustenance. Without mastering our relationship with food we would have not been to the South Pole or summited Mt. Everest or expanded to the west of America. However, in the reporting of these expeditions so far food has rarely taken a central role. It is possible to take a different stance and look at our time on trails with food as the leading character. Here, Demet Güzey offers a fun and interesting read on the social and cultural history, developments and challenges in food on trails and in the wild. She explores personal accounts, news articles and anecdotes to highlight how food has accompanied us in mountaineering, desert travel, and pilgrimage, in the army or on the street. From tinned foods to foraging in the wild, worm-infested hardtack to palate-dulling army rations, loss of appetite in high altitude to starvation at the trenches, no stone is left unturned in this tour of how we manage food on foot, and how disasters happen when we do not manage it so well. Readers will delight in both the stories of many of the famous explorations and the more current journeys.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Africa
ISBN : IND:30000146491471

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African Economic History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ute Röschenthaler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004524675

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A History of Mali’s National Drink by Ute Röschenthaler Pdf

This study follows green tea from China to Mali along its historical trade routes halfway around the world, examining the circumstances of its introduction, the course of the tea ritual, the equipment to prepare and consume it, and the meanings that it assumed.

Author : James A.O.C. Brown
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004216013

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Crossing The Strait by James A.O.C. Brown Pdf

The Strait of Gibraltar is a ubiquitous symbol of the supposed dividing line between Europe and the Muslim world. This book re-evaluates that perception with reference to new archival evidence about the links between the Gharb region of Morocco and Gibraltar and the establishment of the Moroccan consulate there, focusing on the period around 1750-1850. It shows the development of a complex set of political, social and economic relationships across the strait that connected Morocco to Gibraltar and beyond. In the light of this evidence, the book challenges prevailing arguments that emphasise the isolationist impulses of the Moroccan sultanate and Moroccan society, and highlights the extent to which European expansion in this period was shaped by local responses.

Author : Kim Searcy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004185999

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The Formation of the Sudanese Mahdist State by Kim Searcy Pdf

This book is the first analysis of the Sudanese Mahdiyya from a socio-political perspective that treats how relationships of authority were enunciated through symbol and ceremony. The book focuses on how the Mahdi and his second-in-command and ultimate successor, the Khalifa Abdallahi, used symbols, ceremony and ritual to articulate their power, authority and legitimacy first within the context of resistance to the imperial Turco-Egyptian forces, and then within the context of establishing an Islamic state.

Author : Chouki El Hamel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139620048

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Black Morocco by Chouki El Hamel Pdf

Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. Chouki El Hamel argues that we cannot rely solely on Islamic ideology as the key to explain social relations and particularly the history of black slavery in the Muslim world, for this viewpoint yields an inaccurate historical record of the people, institutions and social practices of slavery in Northwest Africa. El Hamel focuses on black Moroccans' collective experience beginning with their enslavement to serve as the loyal army of the Sultan Isma'il. By the time the Sultan died in 1727, they had become a political force, making and unmaking rulers well into the nineteenth century. The emphasis on the political history of the black army is augmented by a close examination of the continuity of black Moroccan identity through the musical and cultural practices of the Gnawa.

Author : Hamit Bozarslan,Cengiz Gunes,Veli Yadirgi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1027 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108583015

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The Cambridge History of the Kurds by Hamit Bozarslan,Cengiz Gunes,Veli Yadirgi Pdf

The Cambridge History of the Kurds is an authoritative and comprehensive volume exploring the social, political and economic features, forces and evolution amongst the Kurds, and in the region known as Kurdistan, from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Written in a clear and accessible style by leading scholars in the field, the chapters survey key issues and themes vital to any understanding of the Kurds and Kurdistan including Kurdish language; Kurdish art, culture and literature; Kurdistan in the age of empires; political, social and religious movements in Kurdistan; and domestic political developments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Other chapters on gender, diaspora, political economy, tribes, cinema and folklore offer fresh perspectives on the Kurds and Kurdistan as well as neatly meeting an exigent need in Middle Eastern studies. Situating contemporary developments taking place in Kurdish-majority regions within broader histories of the region, it forms a definitive survey of the history of the Kurds and Kurdistan.

Author : Jane Hathaway
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791486108

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A Tale of Two Factions by Jane Hathaway Pdf

Winner of the 2003 Ohio Academy of History Outstanding Publication Award This revisionist study reevaluates the origins and foundation myths of the Faqaris and Qasimis, two rival factions that divided Egyptian society during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Egypt was the largest province in the Ottoman Empire. In answer to the enduring mystery surrounding the factions' origins, Jane Hathaway places their emergence within the generalized crisis that the Ottoman Empire—like much of the rest of the world—suffered during the early modern period, while uncovering a symbiosis between Ottoman Egypt and Yemen that was critical to their formation. In addition, she scrutinizes the factions' foundation myths, deconstructing their tropes and symbols to reveal their connections to much older popular narratives. Drawing on parallels from a wide array of cultures, she demonstrates with striking originality how rituals such as storytelling and public processions, as well as identifying colors and emblems, could serve to reinforce factional identity.

Author : Jean-Louis Michon
Publisher : World Wisdom, Inc
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781933316512

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Introduction to Traditional Islam, Illustrated by Jean-Louis Michon Pdf

"Behind the clamorous headlines of militant and political Islam lies the more serene and cultivated form that is traditional Islam, which now is increasingly under threat from both fundamentalists and modern secularists. Author Jean-Louis Michon unveils this lesser-known dimension of Islam while capturing the essence and beauty of this often misinterpreted religion, which has over 1.5 billion adherents (about a quarter of the world's population)." "Illustrated with over 270 color photographs, Introduction to Traditional Islam is divided into four parts: 1: the foundations of Islam, which highlights the pillars of the faith as well as the traditional Islamic city and its holistic vision of life; 2: the message of Islamic art; 3: music and spirituality; and 4: the way of Sufism, the inward or mystical dimension of Islam."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Benjamin F. Soares
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015064725958

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Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa by Benjamin F. Soares Pdf

This engaging collection of essays offers new insights into the multi-faceted and changing encounters of Muslims and Christians in Africa in the past and closer to the present.