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Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women
When thinking of intrepid travelers from past centuries, we don't usually put Muslim women at the top of the list. And yet, the stunning firsthand accounts in this collection completely upend preconceived notions of who was exploring the world. Editors Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz, and Sunil Sharma recover, translate, annotate, and provide historical and cultural context for the 17th- to 20th-century writings of Muslim women travelers in ten different languages. Queens and captives, pilgrims and provocateurs, these women are diverse. Their connection to Islam is wide-ranging as well, from the devout to those who distanced themselves from religion. What unites these adventurers is a concern for other women they encounter, their willingness to record their experiences, and the constant thoughts they cast homeward even as they traveled a world that was not always prepared to welcome them. Perfect for readers interested in gender, Islam, travel writing, and global history, Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women provides invaluable insight into how these daring women experienced the world—in their own voices.
Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca
Narrating the pilgrimage to Mecca discusses a wide variety of historical and contemporary personal accounts of the pilgrimage to Mecca, most of which presented in English for the first time. The book addresses how being situated in a specific cultural context and moment in history informs the meanings attributed to the pilgrimage experience. The various contributions reflect on how, in their stories, pilgrims draw on multiple cultural discourses and practices that shape their daily lifeworlds to convey the ways in which the pilgrimage to Mecca speaks to their senses and moves them emotionally. Together, the written memoirs and oral accounts discussed in the book offer unique insights in Islam’s rich and evolving tradition of hajj and ʿumra storytelling. Contributors Kholoud Al-Ajarma, Piotr Bachtin, Vladimir Bobrovnikov, Marjo Buitelaar, Nadia Caidi, Simon Coleman, Thomas Ecker, Zahir Janmohamed, Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany, Ammeke Kateman, Yahya Nurgat, Jihan Safar, Neda Saghaee, Leila Seurat, Richard van Leeuwen and Miguel Ángel Vázquez.
Theater in the Middle East
The collected essays from noteworthy dramatists and scholars in this book represent new ways of understanding theater in the Middle East not as geographical but transcultural spaces of performance. What distinguishes this book from previous works is that it offers new analysis on a range of theatrical practices across a region, by and large, ignored for the history of its dramatic traditions and cultures, and it does so by emphasizing diverse performances in changing contexts. Topics include Arab, Iranian, Israeli, diasporic theatres from pedagogical perspectives to reinvention of traditions, from translation practices to political resistance expressed in various performances from the nineteenth century to the present.
Politics and Poetica of Rights in Modern Iran
This book delves into the history of subjective rights within the context of 19th-century Iran, specifically during the eventful Qajar era. The crux of its research lies in the emergence and evolution of the concept of subjective rights as opposed to the notion of objective rights. During this pivotal period, this transition marked a paradigm shift from “right as to be right” to “right as to have a right.” A central pillar of this book is the creation of a meta-theory, one that sheds light on the semantical evolution of the concept of rights. Within these pages, readers will find a concise history, tracing the conceptual path that led from the objective to the subjective realm of rights. In addition to these historical explorations, it delves into the intricate field of rights theory, investigating the foundations and justifications of rights. Employing the Hohfeldian framework, it analyses various conceptions of rights as they manifest within travel literature, enlightenment literature, and dream literature of the Qajar era. This book will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in Iranian studies, Iranian history, Persian literature and human rights.
The Diffusion of “Small” Western Technologies in the Middle East
In recent years we have become interested in the diffusion of “small” Western technologies in the countries of the Middle East during the 19th and 20th centuries, the era of Imperialism and first globalization. We postulated a contrast between “small” and “big” technologies. Under the latter category we may understand railway systems, electricity grids, telegraph networks, and steam navigation, imposed by foreign powers or installed by connected local entrepreneurs. But many “small” Western technologies, such as sewing machines, typewriters, pianos, eyeglasses, and similar consumer goods, which had been developed and manufactured in Europe and America, were wanted, and willin...
Azja i Afryka: inność - odmienność - różnorodność
Inność, odmienność, różnorodność – te trzy słowa stanowią myśl przewodnią niniejszej książki. Nie traktujemy ich znaczeń literalnie, może się wręcz wydawać, że niektóre ze zgromadzonych w tym zbiorze tekstów aż nadto wykraczają poza ramy znaczeniowe tych terminów. Tym niemniej, jednym z naszych zamierzeń było udowodnienie, że mogą być one rozmaicie rozumiane – w ten sposób mamy bowiem możliwość ukazać kolejny wymiar różnorodności: różnorodność sensów, znaczeń i indywidualnych interpretacji. W książce znalazły się 23 artykuły, napisane przez badaczy i badaczki Azji i Afryki, związanych i związane z polskimi oraz zagranicznymi ośrodkami n...
Azja i Afryka : religie - kultury - języki
Książka Azja i Afryka. Religie – kultury – języki jest publikacją zbiorową, prezentującą dokonania najmłodszych badaczy skupionych wokół Wydziału Orientalistycznego Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. W książce odnaleźć można artykuły z zakresu takich dziedzin, jak: arabistyka, islamoznawstwo, malaistyka, iranistyka, hebraistyka, semitystyka, etiopistyka, indologia, japonistyka, sinologia czy mongolistyka. W wielu wypadkach są to badania pionierskie w skali naszego kraju, nad którymi wcześniej nie były prowadzone szczegółowe studia. Niektóre tematy zostały podjęte po raz pierwszy w literaturze polskojęzycznej. Poszczególne artykuły zostały zgrupowane tematycznie w czterech rozdziałach, poświęconych: językom, religiom, kulturom i wierzeniom, historii oraz literaturom Azji i Afryki.
Friedrich Rosen
The German lacuna in Edward Said’s 'Orientalism' has produced varied studies of German cultural and academic Orientalisms. So far the domains of German politics and scholarship have not been conflated to probe the central power/knowledge nexus of Said’s argument. Seeking to fill this gap, the diplomatic career and scholarly-literary productions of the centrally placed Friedrich Rosen serve as a focal point to investigate how politics influenced knowledge generated about the “Orient” and charts the roles knowledge played in political decision-making regarding extra-European regions. This is pursued through analyses of Germans in British imperialist contexts, cultures of lowly diplomat...
Genesis. Rivista della Società italiana delle storiche (2023) Vol. 22/1
Il tema Viaggi a cura di Elisabetta Serafini e Antonietta Angelica Zucconi Elisabetta Serafini, Antonietta Angelica Zucconi, Viaggi e genere: un’introduzione Alessia Facineroso, Unfolding Italy. Viaggiatrici inglesi nel “lungo” Risorgimento Elena Musiani, «Per lungo tempo ho viaggiato da sola e da straniera». Intrecci di sguardi e di narrazioni nell’Europa della prima modernizzazione Irene Gaddo, Donne e montagna: viaggi e scritture femminili sulle Alpi occidentali tra XIX e XX secolo Nicoleta Roman, L’Orient s’en va. Nineteenth-Century Western Women Travellers and their Routes of Knowledge for South-Eastern Europe Alice Boeri, Donne in Cina a metà Ottocento. Opportunità e li...
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Oto historia odwrócona o 180 stopni. W swojej fascynującej panoramie dziejów Europy i świata, od czasów starożytnych aż po współczesność, Peter Frankopan podważa tradycyjną perspektywę europocentryczną, podkreślając niesłychanie istotną rolę, jaką odegrały kraje Bliskiego Wschodu i Azji. Jego imponujące dzieło to mozaika procesów historycznych, gospodarczych, społecznych i kulturowych. Szlaki handlowe, epidemia dżumy w Europie, kształtowanie się Imperium Brytyjskiego, oświeceniowe demokracje a kolonializm i niewolnictwo, ekonomiczny aspekt II wojny światowej – opowieść Frankopana pomaga zrozumieć wiele zaskakujących mechanizmów i powiązań, które decyd...
