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The Dangers of Poetry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 388

The Dangers of Poetry

Poetry has long dominated the cultural landscape of modern Iraq, simultaneously representing the literary pinnacle of high culture and giving voice to the popular discourses of mass culture. As the favored genre of culture expression for religious clerics, nationalist politicians, leftist dissidents, and avant-garde intellectuals, poetry critically shaped the social, political, and cultural debates that consumed the Iraqi public sphere in the twentieth century. The popularity of poetry in modern Iraq, however, made it a dangerous practice that carried serious political consequences and grave risks to dissident poets. The Dangers of Poetry is the first book to narrate the social history of po...

The Twelver Shia in Modern Times
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

The Twelver Shia in Modern Times

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001-01-01
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This publication discusses the development of Shiite Islam since the 18th century in its various aspects. Its 21 contributions focus on the transformation of theological traditions, the role of internal criticism and ideological and political tendencies in the 20the century.

Islamic Family Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 418

Islamic Family Law

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1990
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Artikler om praktisering af islamisk familieret i Mellemøsten, Europa, Syd- og Sydøstasien samt Kina.

Arab Women Writers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 552

Arab Women Writers

Arab women's writing in the modern age began with 'A'isha al-Taymuriya, Warda al-Yaziji, Zaynab Fawwaz, and other nineteenth-century pioneers in Egypt and the Levant. This unique study-first published in Arabic in 2004-looks at the work of those pioneers and then traces the development of Arab women's literature through the end of the twentieth century, and also includes a meticulously researched, comprehensive bibliography of writing by Arab women. In the first section, in nine essays that cover the Arab Middle East from Morocco to Iraq and Syria to Yemen, critics and writers from the Arab world examine the origin and evolution of women's writing in each country in the region, addressing fi...

The Renewal of Islamic Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

The Renewal of Islamic Law

  • Categories: Law

A study of Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr - an Iraqi scholar whose ideas were influential in the rise of political Islam.

Persian Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Persian Literature

First published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Messiah of Shiraz
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 781

The Messiah of Shiraz

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Based throughout on original Persian and Arabic sources, most in manuscript, this is an exhaustive overview of Babi history and doctrine. Alongside Amanat's "Resurrection and Renewal," this distillation of a lifetime's work on the movement brings Babi studies into the twentieth century.

Guardians of Shi'ism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 253

Guardians of Shi'ism

Based on a political sociology of two families of religious scholars, al-Hakim and al-Khu'i, Elvire Corboz explains the internal workings of transnational leadership patterns in Shi'ism for the first time.

The Shi'is of Iraq
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 339

The Shi'is of Iraq

The Shi'is of Iraq provides a comprehensive history of Iraq's majority group and its turbulent relations with the ruling Sunni minority. Yitzhak Nakash challenges the widely held belief that Shi'i society and politics in Iraq are a reflection of Iranian Shi'ism, pointing to the strong Arab attributes of Iraqi Shi'ism. He contends that behind the power struggle in Iraq between Arab Sunnis and Shi'is there exist two sectarian groups that are quite similar. The tension fueling the sectarian problem between Sunnis and Shi'is is political rather than ethnic or cultural, and it reflects the competition of the two groups over the right to rule and to define the meaning of nationalism in Iraq. A new introduction brings this book into the new century and illuminates the role that Shi`is could play in postwar Iraq.