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Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety

Sufis and the Dissemination of Islam in Medieval Palestine

By: Daphna Ephrat

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Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety

Sufis and the Dissemination of Islam in Medieval Palestine

By: Daphna Ephrat

This book represents the first continuous history of Sufism in Palestine. Covering the period between the rise of Islam and the spread of Ottoman rule and drawing on vast biographical material and complementary evidence, the book describes the social trajectory that Sufism followed. The narrative centers on the process by which ascetics, mystics, and holy figures living in medieval Palestine and collectively labeled "Sufis," disseminated their traditions, formed communities, and helped shape an Islamic society and space. The work makes an original contribution to the study of the diffusion of Islam's religious traditions and the formation of communities of believers in medieval Palestine, as well as the Islamization of Palestinian landscape and the spread of popular religiosity in this area. The study of the area-specific is placed within the broader context of the history of Sufism, and the book is laced with observations about the historical social dimensions of Islamic mysticism in general. Central to its subject matters are the diffusion of Sufi traditions, the extension of the social horizons of Sufism, and the emergence of institutions and public spaces around the Sufi friend of God. As such, the book is of interest to historians in the fields of Sufism, Islam, and the Near East.

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Harvard CMES

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0674032012

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9780674032019

A Learned Society in a Period of Transition

The Sunni _ulama_ of Eleventh Century Baghdad

By: Daphna Ephrat

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A Learned Society in a Period of Transition

The Sunni _ulama_ of Eleventh Century Baghdad

By: Daphna Ephrat

Addresses the social significance of orthodox Islam during the medieval period in Baghdad.

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SUNY Press

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079144645X

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Breaking the Binaries in Security Studies

A Gendered Analysis of Women in Combat

By: Ayelet Harel-Shalev,Shir Daphna-Tekoah

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Breaking the Binaries in Security Studies

A Gendered Analysis of Women in Combat

By: Ayelet Harel-Shalev,Shir Daphna-Tekoah

Several months after a 2014 operation in the Gaza Strip, fifty-three Israeli Defense Forces combatants and combat-support soldiers were awarded military decorations for exhibiting extraordinary bravery. From a gendered perspective, the most noteworthy aspect of these awards was not the fact that only 4 of the 53 recipients were women, but rather the fact that the men were uniformly praised for being "brave," being "heroes," "actively performing acts of bravery," "protecting," and "preventing terror attacks," while the women were repeatedly commended for "not panicking." This pattern is not unique to the Israeli case, but rather reflects the patriarchal norms that still prevail in military institutions worldwide. One might expect that, now that women serve on the battlefield as combatants, some of the gendered norms informing militaries would have long disappeared. As it stands, women in the military still face a double battle--against the patriarchal institution, as well as against the military's purported enemies. Drawing on interviews with 100 women military veterans about their experiences in combat, this book asks what insights are gained when we take women's experiences in war as our starting point instead of treating them as "add-ons" to more fundamental or mainstream levels of analysis, and what importance these experiences hold for an analysis of violence and for security studies. Importantly, the authors introduce a theoretical framework in critical security studies for understanding (vis-à-vis binary deconstructions of the terms used in these fields) the integration of women soldiers into combat and combat-support roles, as well as the challenges they face. While the book focuses on women in the Israeli Defence Forces, the book provides different perspectives about why it is important to explore women in combat, what their experiences teach us, and how to consider soldiers and veterans both as citizens and as violent state actors--an issue with which scholars are often reluctant to engage. Breaking the Binaries in Security Studies raises methodological considerations about ways of evaluating power relations in conflict situations and patriarchal structures.

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Oxford University Press

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0190072601

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9780190072605

A Learned Society in a Period of Transition

The Sunni _ulama_ of Eleventh Century Baghdad

By: Daphna Ephrat

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The Sunni _ulama_ of Eleventh Century Baghdad

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Addresses the social significance of orthodox Islam during the medieval period in Baghdad.

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Book's by Daphna Ephrat

Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety

Spiritual Wayfarers, Leaders in Piety

A Learned Society in a Period of Transition

A Learned Society in a Period of Transition

Breaking the Binaries in Security Studies

Breaking the Binaries in Security Studies

A Learned Society in a Period of Transition

A Learned Society in a Period of Transition

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