Reading Arabia

Author : Andrew C. Long
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815652328

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Reading Arabia by Andrew C. Long Pdf

Reading Arabia traces the evolving tradition of British Orientalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, examining the role of mass print culture in constructing the British public’s perception of “Arabia.” Long brings together close readings and ideological analyses of primary texts by Richard Burton, Charles Doughty, Robert Cunninghame Graham, Marmaduke Pickthall, and T. E. Lawrence, along with pamphlets, journalism and commentary, silent films, stage spectacles, and travel literature. Through these texts, Long examines the fantasy of the Orient and its constitutive function. Building on the pioneering work of Edward Said, Reading Arabia looks beyond foreign policy debates and issues of human rights to show how British Orientalism is rooted in words and phrases of a popular culture that shaped the way the public read and imagined the Arab world.

Author : Noah Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Books and reading
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU55984088

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Books and Reading by Noah Porter Pdf

Author : George Douglas Atkins,Michael L. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Deconstruction
ISBN : UOM:39015012256197

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Writing and Reading Differently by George Douglas Atkins,Michael L. Johnson Pdf

Author : Anthony Sattin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393242676

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The Young T. E. Lawrence by Anthony Sattin Pdf

An intimate biography of the years that turned T. E. Lawrence into Lawrence of Arabia. Lawrence of Arabia's heroism during the Arab revolt and his disgust at the subsequent betrayal of the Arabs in the postwar negotiations have become the stuff of legend. But T. E. Lawrence’s adventures in the Levant began long before the outbreak of war. This intimate biography is the first to focus on Lawrence in his twenties, the untold story of the awkward archaeologist from Oxford who, on first visiting "The East," fell in love with Arab culture and found his life's mission. Few people realize that Lawrence’s classic autobiography, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, was not the first book to carry that iconic title. Lawrence himself burned his original draft. Anthony Sattin here uncovers the story Lawrence wanted to conceal: the truth of his birth, his tortuous relationship with a dominant mother, his deep affection for an Arab boy, and the personal reasons that drove him from student to spy. Drawing on surviving letters, diaries, and accounts from close confidantes, Sattin brings a biographer’s eye for detail and a travel writer's verve to Lawrence's extraordinary journeys through the region with which his name is forever connected. In a masterful parallel narrative, The Young T. E. Lawrence charts the maturation of the man and the incipient countries he treasured, both coming of age at a time when the world’s foundations were coming undone.

Author : G. Rex Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317186304

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A Traveller in Thirteenth-Century Arabia / Ibn al-Mujawir's Tarikh al-Mustabsir by G. Rex Smith Pdf

This is the first English translation of the Tarikh al-Mustabsir, written in the early quarter of the thirteenth century by Ibn al-Mujawir. The text is a fascinating account of the western and southern areas of the Arabian Peninsula by a man from the east of the Islamic world, probably from Khurasan in Iran. Ibn al-Mujawir was a man who in all probability followed the age-old Islamic practice of making the pilgrimage to Mecca and thereafter travelling in the area to further his business interests. His route began in Mecca and essentially ran south through the Red Sea coastal plain, Tihamah, down into the Yemen and along the southern coast of the peninsula. He paused long in Aden, where he observed closely the activities of the port to report at some length on its administration, its taxes, its markets, its currency, its weights and measures, and the like. His route then continued along the southern coast of Arabia into the Gulf, and he presumably returned home to the east via Iraq. The author is a wonderful observer of people: their buildings, their dress, their customs, their agriculture, their food and their history. This book is a unique source for the social and economic history of thirteenth-century south Arabia, written with a humour and wit otherwise unknown in the writings of medieval Islam. The text is of major linguistic importance too, written as it is in a far from classical Arabic. This translation is fully annotated with an introduction, appendices, glossary and full index, and contains maps and illustrations.

Author : Best reading
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Best books
ISBN : OXFORD:590079201

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The best readings, hints on the selection of books [&c.] ed. by F.B. Perkins. 4th revised ed by Best reading Pdf

Author : William Swinton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Earth (Planet)
ISBN : UCAL:B4512176

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Introductory Geography in Readings and Recitations by William Swinton Pdf

Author : Charles John Ellicott (bp. of Gloucester)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600091526

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The New Testament commentary for schools, ed. by C.J. Ellicott by Charles John Ellicott (bp. of Gloucester) Pdf

Author : Neha Vora
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : 1503601595

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Teach for Arabia by Neha Vora Pdf

Teach for Arabia offers an ethnographic account of the experiences of students, faculty, and administrators in Education City, Qatar. Education City, home to the branch campuses of six elite American universities, represents the Qatari government's multibillion dollar investment over the last two decades in growing a local knowledge-based economy. Though leaders have eagerly welcomed these institutions, not all citizens embrace the U.S. universities in their midst. Some critics see them as emblematic of a turn away from traditional values toward Westernization. Qatari students who attend these schools often feel stereotyped and segregated within their spaces. Neha Vora considers how American branch campuses influence notions of identity and citizenship among both citizen and non-citizen residents and contribute to national imaginings of the future and a transnational Qatar. Looking beyond the branch campus, she also confronts mythologies of liberal and illiberal peoples, places, and ideologies that have developed around these universities. Supporters and detractors alike of branch campuses have long ignored the imperial histories of American universities and the exclusions and inequalities that continue to animate daily academic life. From the vantage point of Qatar, Teach for Arabia challenges the assumed mantle of liberalism in Western institutions and illuminates how people can contribute to decolonized university life and knowledge production.

Author : Ebtisam A. Sadiq
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781482880342

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Marmaduke Pickthall Reinstated by Ebtisam A. Sadiq Pdf

Marmaduke Pickthall was a prolific British novelist, essayist, journalist, and short story writer who was positively received by his contemporaries for his fictional oeuvre, but is hardly known in the current literary world. Despite his obvious talents, Pickthall was unfortunately ignored when the English literary canon was formed in the mid-twentieth century. Today, he is only remembered for his conversion to Islam, his Turkish sympathies, and his translation of the Holy Quran to English in 1930. Ebtisam A. Sadiq, Naela H. Danish, and Afra S. Al-Shiban rely on extensive research of nineteenth-century British literature with the hope of reintroducing Pickthall to the literary world. In comprehensive analysis that includes the forgotten authors Eastern novels, Western tales, and collections of short stories, the researchers utilize contemporary theories of criticismparticularly postcolonialism, modern realist traditions, and feminismto scrutinize and highlight the nature of his contribution to English literature. Included are examinations of Pickthalls affiliation or withdrawal from literary traditions like Victorianism and Modernism and what exactly determines his canonical status. Marmaduke Pickthall Reinstated shares research and examinations of a forgotten authors literary works with the intent that they finally find a long overdue place in mainstream English literature.

Author : Edmund Beale Sargant,Bernhard Whishaw
Publisher : London, Frowde
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Best books
ISBN : UOM:39015033641062

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A Guide Book to Books by Edmund Beale Sargant,Bernhard Whishaw Pdf

Author : Buchanan Blake
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:AH5ZXL

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How to Read the Prophets: Ezekiel by Buchanan Blake Pdf

Author : Thomas W. Lippman
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781597978767

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Saudi Arabia on the Edge by Thomas W. Lippman Pdf

Of all the countries in the world that are vital to the strategic and economic interests of the United States, Saudi Arabia is the least understood by the American people. Saudi Arabia's unique place in Islam makes it indispensable to a constructive relationship between the non-Muslim West and the Muslim world. For all its wealth, the country faces daunting challenges that it lacks the tools to meet: a restless and young population, a new generation of educated women demanding opportunities in a closed society, political stagnation under an octogenarian leadership, religious extremism and intellectual backwardness, social division, chronic unemployment, shortages of food and water, and troublesome neighbors. Today's Saudi people, far better informed than all previous generations, are looking for new political institutions that will enable them to be heard, but these aspirations conflict with the kingdom's strict traditions and with the House of Saud's determination to retain all true power. Meanwhile, the country wishes to remain under the protection of American security but still clings to a system that is antithetical to American values. Basing his work on extensive interviews and field research conducted in the kingdom from 2008 through 2011 under the auspices of the Council on Foreign Relations, Thomas W. Lippman dissects this central Saudi paradox for American readers, including diplomats, policymakers, scholars, and students of foreign policy.

Author : Paget Jackson Toynbee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019394022

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Dante Studies and Researches, by Paget Toynbee ... by Paget Jackson Toynbee Pdf

Author : Joseph Dellapenna
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 991 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004478947

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Suing Foreign Governments and Their Corporations, 2nd Edition by Joseph Dellapenna Pdf

When Suing Foreign Governments and Their Corporations was first published in 1988, one reviewer predicted that it would become the bible for all attorneys litigating such cases. Since then, the book has become the standard work on the intricacies of litigation under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. In the most recent Supreme Court decision applying the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, both the majority and the dissent cited the book as the definitive work on the topic.