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Encyclopedia of Philosophy
This volume includes an appendix, containing entries from "Albert the Great" to "Xenophon," a thematic outline of contents, bibliographies, and an index to the reference set.
Desiring Arabs
Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Arabs soon became viewed as backward. Rather than focusing exclusively on how these views developed in the West, in Desiring Arabs Joseph A. Massad reveals the history of how Arabs represented their own sexual desires. To this aim, he assembles a massive and diverse compendium of Arabic writing from the nineteenth century to the present in order to chart the changes in Arab sexual attitudes and ...
Modernity in Islamic Tradition
What does it mean to be modern? This study regards the concept of ‘society’ as foundational to modern self-understanding. Identifying Arabic conceptualizations of society in the journal al-Manar, the mouthpiece of Islamic reformism, the author shows how modernity was articulated from within an Islamic discursive tradition. The fact that the classical term umma was a principal term used to conceptualize modern society suggests the convergence of discursive traditions in modernity, rather than a mere diffusion of European concepts.
Cafe Stories
Hiro Kau datang dari kegelapan. Dewi bergaun putih pemegang kunci jiwa dan hatiku. Lalu, kau pergi. Aku hanya bisa menunggumu. Di mejacafe ini, berteman secangkir espresso dan coretan-coretan tanganku yang mengisahkan tentang mimpi-mimpi kita yang tertunda. Dan ketika muncul seorang perempuan bermata bintang, haruskah aku tetap menunggu? Lana Pejamkan matamu! Jangan lihat, jangan bicara! Aku bukan dewi yang kau puja dulu. Percuma kau termangu, aku tak lagi pantas untukmu. Tak lagi pantas untuk mimpi-mimpi indah yang selama ini kau coretkan dengan pensilmu. Berdiri dan melangkahlah dari meja penantianmu. Aku tak pantas untukmu. Izinkan kujumput sebisaku sebait kenangan tentangmu. Yang pernah memenuhiku dengan rindu dan pilu. [Mizan, Qanita, Romansa, Remaja, Indonesia]
Biography of a Revolution
It is not Egypt's 2011 revolution that opened a space for women's and feminist activism, but--as this book shows--the long history of women's activism that created the intellectual and political background for revolution. By centering the experiences and ideas of multiple generations of women activists and intellectuals, Lucia Sorbera traces the feminist genealogies of Egypt's nationalist, student, Marxist, labor, human rights, and democratic social movements. Biography of a Revolution gathers a series of interrelated intimate and relational stories, charting in vivid detail the entanglements between women's aspirations across a century of politics and friendships. This historical analysis innovatively deploys decolonial and indigenous feminist epistemologies, bringing women's, gender, and feminist history into the center of Egypt's political, social, and intellectual history. More than a decade after the 2013 military coup, women's intellectual and political activism remains crucial to keeping the embers of revolution aglow.
Islam and the Orientalist World-system
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.
Perspective: Selected Essays on Space in Art and Design
'Perspective: Selected Essays on Space in Art and Design' explores the ways in which visual and physical space have been designed and experienced in different cultures. This book amplifies the significance of space as a design element by examining its implications in various contexts through a global perspective of art and design.
Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Finance and Sustainable Technology
This book shows latest research on artificial intelligence for sustainable technology. ICGER 2021 was organized by the Accounting, Finance and Banking Department at Ahlia University, Bahrain, and was conducted on the 15th and 16th of September. The strategic partners included the University of Jordan, the Bahrain Economists Society, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants: ACCA, Al-Barka Banking Group and the International Computer Auditing Education Association: ICAEA . The theme of the ICGER 2021 centered around artificial intelligence for sustainable finance and sustainable technology. Accordingly, the papers presented at the conference provided a holistic view of sustainable f...
Arab Culture and the Novel
This book explores the complex relationship between the novel and identity in modern Arab culture against a backdrop of contemporary Egypt. It uses the example of the Egyptian novel to interrogate the root causes – religious, social, political, and psychological – of the lingering identity crisis that has afflicted Arab culture for at least two centuries.
Converting Cultures
This volume considers the concept of conversion as a tool for understanding transformations to modernity. It examines conversions to modernity within the Ottoman domain, India, China, and Japan as a reaction to the pressures of colonialism and imperialism.
