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Author : Parvin Darabi,Romin P. Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021945543
A mother and son recall a childhood of limited resources, tensions, and religiously advocated child abuse during the politically tempestuous '50s and '60s in Iran. Photos.
Author : Farzaneh Milani
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815602669
"From Library Journal : Traditionally, Iranian women have been veiled from public view and constrained from public expression. Milani illustrates that in Iran the 19th-century movement to unveil was closely linked to women's emergence as literary figures. This, the first work devoted to the rich literature of the female writers of Iran, is itself an example of great literature from an Iranian female writer. With poetic insight, Milani dis cusses the themes of disclosure and secrecy that have delineated the Iranian woman's universe and characterized her expression. Highly recommended for all literature, anthropology, and women's studies collections."--Amazon.ca.
Author : LaLeh Azhadi
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557451647
Author : Reza Afshari
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812201055
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Are the principles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights truly universal? Or, as some have argued, are they derived exclusively from Western philosophic traditions and therefore irrelevant to many non-Western cultures? Should a state's claims to indigenous traditions, and not international covenants, determine the scope of rights granted to its citizens? In his strong defense of the Declaration, Reza Afshari contends that the moral vision embodied in this and other agreements is a proper response to the abuses of the modern state. Asserting that the most serious violations of human rights by state rulers are motivated by political and economic factors rather than the purported concern for cultural authenticity, Afshari examines one particular state that has claimed cultural exception to the universality of human rights, the Islamic Republic of Iran. In his revealing case study, Afshari investigates how Islamic culture and Iranian politics since the fall of the Shah have affected human rights policy in that state. He exposes the human rights violations committed by ruling clerics in Iran since the Revolution, showing that Iran has behaved remarkably like other authoritarian governments in its human rights abuses. For more than two decades, Iran has systematically jailed, tortured, and executed dissidents without due process of law and assassinated political opponents outside state borders. Furthermore, like other oppressive states, Iran has regularly denied and countered the charges made by United Nations human rights monitors, defending its acts as authentic cultural practices. Throughout his study, Afshari addresses Iran's claims of cultural relativism, a controversial thesis in the intense ongoing debate over the universality of human rights. In prison memoirs he uncovers the actual human rights abuses committed by the Islamic Republic and the sociopolitical conditions that cause or permit them. Finally, Afshari turns to little-read UN reports that reveal that the dynamics of power between UN human rights monitors and Iranian leaders have proven ineffective at enforcing human rights policy in Iran. Critically analyzing the state's responses, Afshari shows that the Islamic Republic, like other oppressive states, has regularly denied and countered the charges made by UN human rights monitors, and when denials were patently implausible, it defended its acts as authentic cultural practices. This defense is equally unconvincing, since it lacked domestic cultural consensus.
Author : Khaldoun Samman,Mazhar Al-Zo'by
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317257318
Featuring Immanuel Wallerstein, Joseph Massad, Marnia Lazreg, and other well-known and emerging new authors, this book seeks a more accurate understanding of Islam and Islamic societies' role and relations to global cultural and economic realities. The book confronts a trend today of analyzing Islam as a "cultural system" that stands outside of, and even predates, modernity. The authors see this trend as part of a racist discourse unaware of the realities of contemporary Islam. Islamic societies today are products of the world capitalist system and cannot be understood as being separate from its forces. The authors offer a more carefully constructed and richer portrait of Islamic societies today and forcefully challenge the belief that Islam is not part of, nor much affected by, the modern world-system.
Author : Laura Fitzgerald
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553383881
Raised amidst the confines of Iranian society, young Tamila Soroush escapes the oppression of Iran for the freedom of America, enjoying her everyday acts of rebellion against her background and capturing her new life through the lens of her camera, all the while searching for a husband who can prevent her return home. Original.
Author : Humberto Garcia
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421403533
A corrective addendum to Edward Said’s Orientalism, this book examines how sympathetic representations of Islam contributed significantly to Protestant Britain’s national and imperial identity in the eighteenth century. Taking a historical view, Humberto Garcia combines a rereading of eighteenth-century and Romantic-era British literature with original research on Anglo-Islamic relations. He finds that far from being considered foreign by the era’s thinkers, Islamic republicanism played a defining role in Radical Enlightenment debates, most significantly during the Glorious Revolution, French Revolution, and other moments of acute constitutional crisis, as well as in national and political debates about England and its overseas empire. Garcia shows that writers such as Edmund Burke, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, and Percy and Mary Shelley not only were influenced by international events in the Muslim world but also saw in that world and its history a viable path to interrogate, contest, and redefine British concepts of liberty. This deft exploration of the forgotten moment in early modern history when intercultural exchange between the Muslim world and Christian West was common resituates English literary and intellectual history in the wider context of the global eighteenth century. The direct challenge it poses to the idea of an exclusionary Judeo-Christian Enlightenment serves as an important revision to post-9/11 narratives about a historical clash between Western democratic values and Islam.
Author : Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442662582
Narratives of monastic life in Anglo-Saxon England depict individuals as responsible agents in the assumption and performance of religious identities. To modern eyes, however, many of the ‘choices’ they make would actually appear to be compulsory. Stealing Obedience explores how a Christian notion of agent action – where freedom incurs responsibility – was a component of identity in the last hundred years of Anglo-Saxon England, and investigates where agency (in the modern sense) might be sought in these narratives. Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe looks at Benedictine monasticism through the writings of Ælfric, Anselm, Osbern of Canterbury, and Goscelin of Saint-Bertin, as well as liturgy, canon and civil law, chronicle, dialogue, and hagiography, to analyse the practice of obedience in the monastic context. Stealing Obedience brings a highly original approach to the study of Anglo-Saxon narratives of obedience in the adoption of religious identity.
Author : Eneas Sweetland Dallas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : England
ISBN : CORNELL:31924066352018
Author : George C. Chesbro
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504046534
A detective’s search for a missing friend “careens ahead with the speed and promise of danger of the Indy 500” (The Washington Post Book World). With a genius IQ, a past career as a circus acrobat, and a black belt in karate, criminology professor Dr. Robert Frederickson—better known as “Mongo the Magnificent”—has a decidedly unusual background for a private investigator. He also just so happens to be a dwarf. Mongo’s friend and sensei, Veil Kendry, is pretty magnificent himself. A devoted martial arts instructor and extremely successful abstract artist, Veil single-handedly transformed his shady neighborhood in New York City’s Lower East Side into a safe haven from crime and corruption. But when Mongo enters Veil’s abandoned apartment and finds a bullet hole, a cryptic oil painting, and an envelope addressed to him containing $10,000, he starts to worry that Veil’s reputation as a vigilante has gotten him into the worst sort of trouble. Determined to find his friend, Mongo attempts to rule out any enemies from Veil’s past—details of which Veil has never shared with him. But as he uncovers the shocking truth of Veil’s time in the Vietnam War—participating in dangerous CIA missions under the call sign “Archangel”—Mongo soon finds enemies aplenty, ones that will do anything to make sure the past remains a secret . . . In addition to creating “the most engaging detective in decades,” author George C. Chesbro introduces the character of Veil Kendry, who would go on to have his own series (Library Journal). Two Songs This Archangel Sings is the 5th book in the Mongo Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Author : Ryan Abaddi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1736642413
The fight to save a life started with a mysterious black granite box. What lay inside thrust him into a world filled with shadows and ghosts. Then he meets Death. When Keegun looks beyond the veil and sees the gruesome future murder of a close friend, the only person who cares for him, he must make a fatal decision. Would he save her at the cost of another's life? A dark and evil presence stalks Keegun as he begins his journey down a road that will test his humanity, and bring him face to face with his worst nightmares. But he isn't prepared for what lies ahead, or the secrets that will be revealed along the way... Find out more in book one of this supernatural horror thriller series that will leave you wondering what lies beyond the veil.
Author : R. M. Bishop
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385482739
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : Jacob Rama Berman
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814789506
Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series American Arabesque examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture, arguing that these representations play a significant role in the development of American national identity over the century, revealing largely unexplored exchanges between these two cultural traditions that will alter how we understand them today. Moving from the period of America's engagement in the Barbary Wars through the Holy Land travel mania in the years of Jacksonian expansion and into the writings of romantics such as Edgar Allen Poe, the book argues that not only were Arabs and Muslims prominently featured in nineteenth-century literature, but that the differences writers established between figures such as Moors, Bedouins, Turks and Orientals provide proof of the transnational scope of domestic racial politics. Drawing on both English and Arabic language sources, Berman contends that the fluidity and instability of the term Arab as it appears in captivity narratives, travel narratives, imaginative literature, and ethnic literature simultaneously instantiate and undermine definitions of the American nation and American citizenship.
Author : James Hogg,S. R. Crockett,Andrew Lang,H. Rider Haggard
Publisher : Palimpsest Book Production Limited
Page : 1045 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781910486108
A Scottish lost treasures collection of three classic adventure novels, each offering a superbly plotted and descriptive narrative. Bundled by subject matter rather than author, the books create a compelling trilogy. "Palimpsest's eClassics series, Scottish Lost Treasures, shows us how much poorer Britain's cultural heritage would be without Scottish writers ... The best example I've seen of how curation and presentation can bring old books to new audiences" - The Observer "This strikes me as a fantastic venture, and one I hope will expand further" - Professor Willy Maley, University of Glasgow, Scotland on Sunday
Author : JOHN OWEN,Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781618980588