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Islam
This lavishly illustrated work by two renowned scholars narrates the history of the spread of Islam all over the world, from its birth in Arabia in the seventh century to the present day. Islam remains an active and stillspreading phenomenon whose influence in different parts of the world is profound, and, to many non-Muslims, mysterious and little understood. With its 180 maps, 200 illustrations and carefully prepared text, the book brings clarity and under-standing to a religious and cultural force of great contemporary significance.
The Impact of Religion on Social Cohesion, Social Capital Formation and Social Development in Different Cultural Contexts
What is the glue of society? Which forms of sociability help to overcome social needs and poverty? The role of religion and religious institutions are often expected to be relevant to questions like these. But until today, these issues were seldom raised from a theological perspective. This volume opens the discourses on social cohesion, social capital formation, and social development for the theological debate, presenting theoretical reflections and empirical research by scholars from different religion-related disciplines. (Series: Studies on Religion and Culture / Studien zu Religion und Kultur - Vol. 4)
The African Slave Trade and Its Suppression
A comprehensive bibliography dealing specifically with African slave trade. This volume has been sub-classified for easier consultation and the compiler has provided, where possible, descriptions and comments on the works listed.
The Cambridge Companion to Global Literature and Slavery
Highlights the shifting terrain in literary studies of slavery and challenges the notion of what constitutes slavery and its representation.
The City and the Wilderness
The City and the Wilderness recounts the journeys and microhistories of Indo-Persian travelers across the Indian Ocean and their encounters with the Burmese Kingdom and its littoral at the turn of the nineteenth century. As Mughal sovereignty waned under British colonial rule, Indo-Persian travelers and intermediaries linked to the East India Company explored and surveyed the Burmese Empire, inscribing it as a forest landscape and Buddhist kingdom at the crossroads of South and Southeast Asia. Based on colonial Persian travel books and narratives in which Indo-Persian knowledge and perceptions of the wondrous edges of the Indian Ocean merged with Orientalist pursuits, The City and the Wilderness uncovers fading histories of inter-Asian crossings and exchanges at the ends of the Mughal world.
Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550–1850
The study of slavery and coerced labour is increasingly conducted from a global perspective, and yet a dual Eurocentric bias remains: slavery primarily brings to mind the images of Atlantic chattel slavery, and most studies continue to be based – either outright or implicitly – on a model of northern European wage labour. This book constitutes an attempt to re-centre that story to Asia. With studies spanning the western Indian Ocean and the steppes of Central Asia to the islands of South East Asia and Japan, and ranging from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, this book tracks coercion in diverse forms, tracing both similarities and differences – as well as connections – between systems of coercion, from early sales regulations to post-abolition labour contracts. Deep empirical case studies, as well as comparisons between the chapters, all show that while coercion was entrenched in a number of societies, it was so in different and shifting ways. This book thus not only shows the history of slavery and coercion in Asia as a connected story, but also lays the groundwork for global studies of a phenomenon as varying, manifold and contested as coercion.
Translocal Connections across the Indian Ocean
The book describes the worlds where Swahili is spoken as multi-centred contexts that cannot be thought of as located in a specific coastal area of Kenya or Tanzania. The articles presented discuss a range of geographical areas where Swahili is spoken, from Somalia to Mozambique along the Indian Ocean, in Europe and the US. In an attempt to de-essentialize the concepts of translocality and cosmopolitanism, the emphasis of the book is on translocality as experienced by different social strata and by gender and cosmopolitanism as an acquired attitude. Contributors are: Katrin Bromber, Gerard van de Bruinhorst, Francesca Declich, Rebecca Gearhart Mafazy, Linda Giles, Ida Hadjivayanis, Mohamed Kassim, Kjersti Larsen, Mohamed Saleh, Maria Suriano, Sandra Vianello.
Peerage & Baronetage 2011
This is the last remaining and only printed reference guide to the British aristocracy currently available.
Islam
Narrates the history of the spread of Islam all over the world, from its birth in Arabia in the seventh century. With 180 maps and 200 illustrations, this book appeals to readers interested in political, dynastic, and contemporary developments.
Historia islamu
Historia islamu dotyczy polityki, społeczeństwa, gospodarki i rozwoju cywilizacji islamskiej. Większość historyków uważa, że islam powstał w Mekce i Medynie na początku VII wieku n.e., około 600 lat po założeniu chrześcijaństwa. Muzułmanie jednak uważają, że nie zaczęło się to od Mahometa, ale że była to pierwotna wiara innych, których uważają za proroków, takich jak Jezus, Dawid, Mojżesz, Abraham, Noe i Adam. W 610 roku ne Mahomet zaczął otrzymywać to, co muzułmanie uważają za boskie objawienia. Przesłanie Mahometa podbiło garstkę zwolenników i spotkało się z rosnącym sprzeciwem ze strony mekkańskich osobistości. W 622 r., Kilka lat po utracie ochrony wraz ze śmiercią wpływowego wujaAbu Taliba, Mahomet wyemigrował do miasta Yathrib (obecnie znanego jakoMedina). Wraz ze śmiercią Mahometa w 632 r. Wybuchła różnica zdań co do tego, kto zastąpi go jako przywódcę społeczności muzułmańskiej podczas kalifatu Rashidun.
