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Muslim Law

An Historical Introduction to the Law of Inheritance

By: Alexander David Russell

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Muslim Law

An Historical Introduction to the Law of Inheritance

By: Alexander David Russell

This volume, orginally published in 1925, outlines the historical development of the Muslim law of inheritance in pre-Islamic Law. It discusses the ranking of heirs and guardians, reforms introduced by Muhammad, subsequent development of the law, and rise of the orthodox schools.

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Routledge

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1135029652

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9781135029654

Music, Piety, and Propaganda

The Soundscape of Counter-Reformation Bavaria

By: Alexander J. Fisher

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Music, Piety, and Propaganda

The Soundscape of Counter-Reformation Bavaria

By: Alexander J. Fisher

Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria explores the nature of sound as a powerful yet ambivalent force in the religious struggles that permeated Germany during the Counter-Reformation. Author Alexander J. Fisher goes beyond a musicological treatment of composers, styles, and genres to examine how music, and more broadly sound itself, shaped the aural landscape of Bavaria as the duchy emerged as a militant Catholic bulwark. Fisher focuses particularly on the ways in which sound—including bell-ringing, gunfire, and popular song, as well as cultivated polyphony—not only was deployed by Catholic secular and clerical elites to shape the religious identities of Bavarian subjects, but also carried the potential to challenge and undermine confessional boundaries. Surviving literature, archival documents, and music illustrate the ways in which Bavarian authorities and their allies in the Catholic clergy and orders deployed sound to underline crucial theological differences with their Protestant antagonists, notably the cults of the Virgin Mary, the Eucharist, and the saints. Official and popular rituals like divine worship, processions, and pilgrimages all featured distinctive sounds and music that shaped and reflected an emerging Catholic identity. Although officials imposed a severe regime of religious surveillance, the Catholic state's dominance of the soundscape was hardly assured. Fisher traces archival sources that show the resilience of Protestant vernacular song in Bavaria, the dissemination and performance of forbidden, anti-Catholic songs, the presence of Lutheran chorales in nominally Catholic church services into the late 16th century, and the persistence of popular "noise" more generally. Music, Piety, and Propaganda thus reveals historical, theological, and cultural issues of the period through the piercing dimension of its sounds, bringing into focus the import of sound as a strategic cultural tool with significant impact on the flow of history.

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Oxford University Press

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0199764646

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9780199764648

Byzantium and the Emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, Ca. 1040-1130

By: Alexander Daniel Beihammer

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Byzantium and the Emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, Ca. 1040-1130

By: Alexander Daniel Beihammer

This book proposes a new interpretation of the transformation from Byzantine to Muslim-Turkish Anatolia. With the waning influence of Constantinople and Cairo, in Anatolia and the Muslim heartlands, local elites and regional powers came to the fore as holders of political authority and rivals in endless power struggles. Turkish warrior groups quickly assumed a leading role in this process because of their intrusion into pre-existing social networks and their successful exploitation of administrative tools and local resources. There was no Byzantine decline nor Turkish triumph but, rather, the driving force of change was the successful interaction between these two spheres.

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458

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Taylor & Francis

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1351983865

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9781351983860

Through the Wheat

The U.S. Marines in World War I

By: Edwin Howard Simmons,Estate of Joseph H Alexander

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Through the Wheat

The U.S. Marines in World War I

By: Edwin Howard Simmons,Estate of Joseph H Alexander

U.S. Marine participation in World War I is known as a defining moment in the Marine Corps' great history. It is a story of exceptional heroism and significant operational achievements, along with lessons learned the hard way. The Marines entered World War I as a small force of seagoing light infantry that had rarely faced a well-armed enemy. On a single June day, in their initial assault "through the wheat" on Belleau Wood against German machine-guns and poison gas shells, the Marines suffered more casualties than they had experienced in all their previous 142 years. Yet at Belleau Wood, Soissons, BlancMont, St. Mihiel, and the Meuse-Argonne the Marines proved themselves to be hard-nosed diehards with an affinity for close combat. Nearly a century later Belleau Wood still resonates as a touchstone battle of the Corps. Two retired Marines, well known for their achievements both in uniform and with the pen, have recorded this rich history in a way that only insiders can. Brig. Gen. Edwin H. Simmons and Col. Joseph H. Alexander recount events and colorful personalities in telling detail, capturing the spirit that earned the 4th Marine Brigade three awards of the French Croix de Guerre and launched the first pioneering detachments of "Flying Leathernecks." Here, hand-to-hand combat seen through the lenses of a gas mask is accompanied by thought-provoking assessments of the war's impact on the Marine Corps.

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Naval Institute Press

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1612518834

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9781612518831

Editor for Justice

The Life of Louis I. Jaffé

By: Alexander S. Leidholdt

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Editor for Justice

The Life of Louis I. Jaffé

By: Alexander S. Leidholdt

From his assumption of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot's editorial helm in 1919 until his death in 1950, Louis Isaac Jaffé served as one of the South's leading and most respected liberal journalists. Prejudice he faced as a Jew created in him an abiding empathy with the downtrodden, and his World War I military service and subsequent Red Cross work deepened his sensitivity to injustice. Alexander Leidholdt's new biography maps the battlefield of intolerance and civil rights violations on which Jaffé fired his journalistic salvos and explores the complexities of a man who was poised to become a national spokesman for a better South. Jaffé worked ceaselessly to advance racial understanding, successfully lobbying locally for black parks and beaches, black police, and a black college. A high point of Leidholdt's book is the account of Jaffé's attacks on mob justice, a stirring record of one writer's response to what he saw as inexcusable moral sluggishness in civil authorities. For his campaign urging Virginia lawmakers to adopt stiff antilynching legislation, he earned the 1929 Pulitzer Prize for distinguished editorial writing. Achieving a poignant balance between Jaffé's significant professional accomplishments and the private pains he bore—including anti-Semitism, a mentally unstable wife, and an estranged son—this superb study demonstrates how Jaffé's difficulties limited him as an active liberal reformer but also fueled his prescient and impassioned warnings against Hitler's rise to power in the early thirties. Drawing extensively from primary source material, much of it previously unexamined, Editor for Justice makes an important contribution to journalism and to southern, Jewish, and black history. Readers will treasure the depiction of an extraordinary champion of human rights.

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LSU Press

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0807127515

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9780807127513

Cosmic Strings and Other Topological Defects

By: A. Vilenkin,Alexander Vilenkin,E. P. S. Shellard

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Cosmic Strings and Other Topological Defects

By: A. Vilenkin,Alexander Vilenkin,E. P. S. Shellard

Comprehensive introduction to the role of cosmic strings and other topological defects in the universe.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521654769

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9780521654760

Origins of Yiddish Dialects

By: Alexander Beider

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Origins of Yiddish Dialects

By: Alexander Beider

This book traces the origins of modern varieties of Yiddish and presents evidence for the claim that, contrary to most accounts, Yiddish only developed into a separate language in the 15th century. Through a careful analysis of Yiddish phonology, morphology, orthography, and the Yiddish lexicon in all its varieties, Alexander Beider shows how what are commonly referred to as Eastern Yiddish and Western Yiddish have different ancestors. Specifically, he argues that the western branch is based on German dialects spoken in western Germany with some Old French influence, while the eastern branch has its origins in German dialects spoken in the modern-day Czech Republic with some Old Czech influence. The similarities between the two branches today are mainly a result of the close links between the underlying German dialects, and of the close contact between speakers. Following an introduction to the definition and classification of Yiddish and its dialects, chapters in the book investigate the German, Hebrew, Romance, and Slavic components of Yiddish, as well as the sound changes that have occurred in the various dialects. The book will be of interest to all those working in the areas of Yiddish and Jewish Studies in particular, and historical linguistics and history more generally.

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646

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Oxford University Press

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0191059811

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9780191059810

Genetic Control of Environmental Pollutants

By: Gilbert S. Omenn,Alexander Hollaender,Claire M. Wilson

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Genetic Control of Environmental Pollutants

By: Gilbert S. Omenn,Alexander Hollaender,Claire M. Wilson

Gilbert S. Omenn Dean, Public Health and Community Medicine University of Washington Seattle, Washington 98195 On behalf of the University of Washington, the City of Seattle, the sponsors and donors, and my co-organizers, I am delighted to welcome all of you to this Conference on Genetic Control of Environ mental Pollutants. My only regret is that Dr. Alexander Hollaender, who has inspired so many of us as young scientists and stimulated so many trail-blazing conferences in environmental sciences and in gen etic engineering, is ill and was unable to make the trip to Seattle. He sends his warm good wishes for an outstanding meeting and a fine volume. The purpose of this Conference is to identify and assess strat egies for more effectively and safely managing wastes and toxic sub stances in the environment, in part through use of genetically engi neered microorganisms. There is a sense of desperation in our soci ety that modern technologies have introduced a bewildering array of potential hazards to human health and to our environment. There is an accompanying sense of frustration that our prodigious basic re search capabilities and our technological ingenuity have not yielded practical ways to control many pollutants and waste streams, or- better still--to convert them to useful products.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1468447157

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9781468447156

History of the War of the Independence of the United States of America

Vol. 2

By: Carlo Botta,George Alexander Otis

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History of the War of the Independence of the United States of America

Vol. 2

By: Carlo Botta,George Alexander Otis

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368736329

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9783368736323

A Compendium of the History of the United States

By: Alexander H. Stephens

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A Compendium of the History of the United States

By: Alexander H. Stephens

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382811979

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9783382811976

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Muslim Law

Muslim Law

Music, Piety, and Propaganda

Music, Piety, and Propaganda

Byzantium and the Emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, Ca. 1040-1130

Byzantium and the Emergence of Muslim-Turkish Anatolia, Ca. 1040-1130

Through the Wheat

Through the Wheat

Editor for Justice

Editor for Justice

Cosmic Strings and Other Topological Defects

Cosmic Strings and Other Topological Defects

Origins of Yiddish Dialects

Origins of Yiddish Dialects

Genetic Control of Environmental Pollutants

Genetic Control of Environmental Pollutants

History of the War of the Independence of the United States of America

History of the War of the Independence of the United States of America

A Compendium of the History of the United States

A Compendium of the History of the United States

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