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The Throne Carrier of God

The Life and Thought of ‘Alā’ al-dawla as-Simnānī

By: Jamal J. Elias

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The Throne Carrier of God

The Life and Thought of ‘Alā’ al-dawla as-Simnānī

By: Jamal J. Elias

This book constitutes a comprehensive investigation of the life and teachings of one of the most famous Sufis of the Iranian world. Simnānī spent his early life as a courtier at the Ilkhanid Mongol court and was a cherished companion of the emperor Arghun. After a mystical experience on the battlefield, he turned his back on a life of luxury and became a Sufi. He advanced rapidly in his spiritual quest and soon became one of the most influential Sufi masters in Iran. Working primarily from the most Arabic and Persian manuscripts of Simnānī’s writings, the author has analyzed Simnānī's thinking to show the overall coherence of his world-view and to demonstrate the importance of his ideas to the development of Islamic mysticism. Along with this analysis, the author provides a detailed account of Simnānī's life and times, as well as a systematic description of Simnānī's instructions for Sufi practioners of all levels.

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SUNY Press

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0791426114

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9780791426111

Little Mountain

By: Elias Khoury

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Little Mountain

By: Elias Khoury

Written in the opening phases of the Lebanese Civil War (1975--1990), Little Mountain is told from the perspectives of three characters: a Joint Forces fighter; a distressed civil servant; and an amorphous figure, part fighter, part intellectual. Elias Khoury's language is poetic and piercing as he tells the story of Beirut, civil war, and fractured identity.

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Macmillan + ORM

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142991694X

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9781429916943

Egypt

Third Edition

By: Josie Elias,Robert Pateman,Salwa El-Hamamsy

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Egypt

Third Edition

By: Josie Elias,Robert Pateman,Salwa El-Hamamsy

From this book, learn everything about Egypt, including its history, culture, economy, art, people and government. All books of the critically-acclaimed Cultures of the World® series ensure an immersive experience by offering vibrant photographs with descriptive nonfiction narratives, and interactive activities such as creating an authentic traditional dish from an easy-to-follow recipe. Copious maps and detailed timelines present the past and present of the country, while exploration of the art and architecture help your readers to understand why diversity is the spice of Life.

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Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

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0761479929

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9780761479925

Studies in Jewish and Christian History, Volume 2

By: Elias J. Bickerman

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Studies in Jewish and Christian History, Volume 2

By: Elias J. Bickerman

Preliminary Material /Elias Bickerman -- THE DATE OF THE TESTAMENTS OF THE TWELVE PATRIARCHS /Elias Bickerman -- UNE QUESTION D' AUTHENTICITÉ : LES PRIVILÈGES JUIFS /Elias Bickerman -- LA CHARTE SÉLEUCIDE DE JÉRUSALEM /Elias Bickerman -- UNE PROCLAMATION SÉLEUCIDE RELATIVE AU TEMPLE DE JÉRUSALEM /Elias Bickerman -- UN DOCUMENT RELATIF A LA PERSÉCUTION D' ANTIOCH OS IV ÉPIPHANE /Elias Bickerman -- EIN JÜDISCHER FESTBRIEF VOM JAHRE 124 volumes Chr. (II Macc. 1, 1-9) /Elias Bickerman -- HÉLIODORE AU TEMPLE DE JÉRUSALEM /Elias Bickerman -- LES MACCABÉES DE MALALAS /Elias Bickerman -- THE WARNING INSCRIPTIONS OF HEROD'S TEMPLE /Elias Bickerman -- RITUALMORD UND ESELSKULT: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte antiker Publizistik /Elias Bickerman -- LA CHAÎNE DE LA TRADITION PHARISIENNE /Elias Bickerman -- THE MAXIM OF ANTIGONUS OF SOCHO /Elias Bickerman -- THE CIVIC PRAYER FOR JERUSALEM /Elias Bickerman -- BÉNÉDICTION ET PRIÈRE /Elias Bickerman -- THE ALTARS OF GENTILES A NOTE ON THE JEWISH “IUS SACRUM” /Elias Bickerman -- THE JEWISH HISTORIAN DEMETRIOS /Elias Bickerman -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS /Elias Bickerman.

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BRILL

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9004332618

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9789004332614

Economic and Political Change in the Middle East (RLE Economy of Middle East)

By: Elias H. Tuma

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Economic and Political Change in the Middle East (RLE Economy of Middle East)

By: Elias H. Tuma

In the early 1960s the Middle East suffered from political instability, inefficiency of government, widespread poverty and inequality, low productivity, and a mounting population pressure on the region’s resources. With the exception of some of the oil-exporting countries, the entire region still suffers from these same burdens. There have been many studies in the economic development and industrialization of the region in recent years. This study is different, motivated by scepticism and a sense of intellectual frustration and apprehension because of the apparent inadequacy of socioeconomic and political development in the Middle East. First published in 1987.

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Routledge

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1317594657

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9781317594659

Harmonizing Similarities

A History of Distinctions Literature in Islamic Law

By: Elias G. Saba

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Harmonizing Similarities

A History of Distinctions Literature in Islamic Law

By: Elias G. Saba

Harmonizing Similarities" is a study of the legal distinctions (al-furūq al-fiqhiyya) literature and its role in the development of the Islamic legal heritage. This book reconsiders how the public performance of Islamic law helped shape legal literature. It identifies the origins of this tradition in contemporaneous lexicographic and medical literature, both of which demonstrated the productive potential of drawing distinctions. Elias G. Saba demonstrates the implications of the legal furūq and how changes to this genre reflect shifts in the social consumption of Islamic legal knowledge. The interest in legal distinctions grew out of the performance of knowledge in formalized legal disputations. From here, legal distinctions incorporated elements of play through its interactions with the genre of legal riddles. As play, books of legal distinctions were supplements to performance in literary salons, study circles, and court performances; these books also served as mimetic objects, allowing the reader to participate in a session virtually. Saba underscores how social and intellectual practices helped shape the literary development of Islamic law and that literary elaboration became a main driver of dynamism in Islamic law. This monograph has been awarded the annual BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110604396

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9783110604399

Zeals

A Biography of an English Country House

By: Jennie Elias

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Zeals

A Biography of an English Country House

By: Jennie Elias

A fascinating and authoritative history of this famous Wiltshire country house. Written with flair and drawing on original sources, Jennie Elias offers a vivid portrait of this quintessential English country house.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445678225

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9781445678221

Scheherazade's Feasts

Foods of the Medieval Arab World

By: Habeeb Salloum,Muna Salloum,Leila Salloum Elias

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Scheherazade's Feasts

Foods of the Medieval Arab World

By: Habeeb Salloum,Muna Salloum,Leila Salloum Elias

The author of the thirteenth-century Arabic cookbook Kitāb al-Ṭabīkh proposed that food was among the foremost pleasures in life. Scheherazade's Feasts invites adventurous cooks to test this hypothesis. From the seventh to the thirteenth centuries, the influence and power of the medieval Islamic world stretched from the Middle East to the Iberian Peninsula, and this Golden Age gave rise to great innovation in gastronomy no less than in science, philosophy, and literature. The medieval Arab culinary empire was vast and varied: with trade and conquest came riches, abundance, new ingredients, and new ideas. The emergence of a luxurious cuisine in this period inspired an extensive body of literature: poets penned lyrics to the beauty of asparagus or the aroma of crushed almonds; nobles documented the dining customs obliged by etiquette and opulence; manuals prescribed meal plans to deepen the pleasure of eating and curtail digestive distress. Drawn from this wealth of medieval Arabic writing, Scheherazade's Feasts presents more than a hundred recipes for the foods and beverages of a sophisticated and cosmopolitan empire. The recipes are translated from medieval sources and adapted for the modern cook, with replacements suggested for rare ingredients such as the first buds of the date tree or the fat rendered from the tail of a sheep. With the guidance of prolific cookbook writer Habeeb Salloum and his daughters, historians Leila and Muna, these recipes are easy to follow and deliciously appealing. The dishes are framed with verse inspired by them, culinary tips, and tales of the caliphs and kings whose courts demanded their royal preparation. To contextualize these selections, a richly researched introduction details the foodscape of the medieval Islamic world.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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081224477X

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9780812244779

The World in a Book

Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition

By: Elias Muhanna

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The World in a Book

Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition

By: Elias Muhanna

Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)-- Harvard University, 2012.

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Princeton University Press

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069119145X

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9780691191454

Some Arab Souls Dripping

By: Elias Sassoon

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Some Arab Souls Dripping

By: Elias Sassoon

This story is about an Arab man, Issa Aldunyar who lives in America. He is a literate man, a man of letters, a poet, a teacher, a scholar. This is also a story about Issa ́s children, strange and radical children. Radical ... How does one define radical? How does one define a radical man...who just so happens, to be an Arab? How is an Arab perceived in the Western mind? As a terrorist . . . . a maniac. Western prejudice against a whole culture and civilization. Okay there are Arab fanatics, but, what of the Western fanatics, terrorists, and, misguided idealists who commit crimes of the century? Let´s take, as an example, the Irish? What about their bombs, killings, intolerance? It has gone on for decades, centuries. And for what, religion: Protestant against Catholic, Catholic against Protestant. And they call Muslims the crazies? You want more examples, what about the people of the Balkans, Europeans all. What of their genocide, wars of rape, blunder, religious intolerance, and, their various ethnic cleansing attempts at the end of the bayonet? More examples? Look at the violence and brutality committed by people from the Civilized West, Germans, English, Russians, etc. What about Americans, are we better? We ́ve produced fanatics, terrorists, bombers, madmen. Better than them? Take the word "Zealot." This is not an Arab word. It comes from the ancient Hebrew and denotes a group of religious fanatics who helped bring down a moral nation. Killed like madmen for a cause, for their cause. And they often killed unjustly. Madness, everywhere; it breeds, grows, and firmly roots itself in no one particular place. It is the Romans, the Turks, the Americans, the Chinese, the Japanese, Africans, Asians, South Americans; it is the Inquisitors and the Crusaders and the Nazis and the PLO and the IRA and the Communists and the fascists, and the Khmer Rouge: terrorism, fanaticism, lack of respect for life, love of ego??it is here in the present as it has been in our past. It isn ́t the product of one people or race. It is of the human race. And it is a problem for all races. For all peoples. For each individual. For you and for me and for our children who are here now and who will be born tomorrow. That is to be remembered now, when reading this book. The terror is ours, to be acknowledged by all

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465324593

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Sweet Delights from a Thousand and One Nights

The Story of Traditional Arab Sweets

By: Habeeb Salloum,Muna Salloum,Leila Salloum Elias

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Sweet Delights from a Thousand and One Nights

The Story of Traditional Arab Sweets

By: Habeeb Salloum,Muna Salloum,Leila Salloum Elias

Which dessert is named after the heroic third-century Queen Zenobia of Palmyra? Which luscious rice pudding shares its name with the eighth-century Abbasid Caliph al-Ma'mun? How does one make the perfect Baqlawah? Blending cookery with culture and recipes with history, this is the fascinating and delectable story of traditional Arab sweets. The authors here take us on a culinary journey across Iraq, Syria, Egypt and al-Andalus, presenting readers with clear and easy-to-recreate recipes from across the medieval Arab world. Filling the tables of caliphs and noblemen, these sumptuous desserts of saffron and rose water conjure the opulence and grandeur of the medieval Islamic world. Bringing together tenth- to fourteenth-century Arabic texts, the authors retrace the history of these sweet dishes, reviving the original recipes and following their development and influence over the centuries into non-Arabic speaking lands. Honey, dates, figs and pomegranates are just a few ingredients featured in this exquisite selection of mouth-watering desserts which have been modernised for cooks to try at home, all woven together with medieval poems and stories. From delicious pastries, filled with pistachios and fragrant syrups, to luscious puddings, biscuits, and pies, it is the ideal addition to any kitchen. A unique insight into Middle Eastern culinary history, this book is a must-have for anyone with a sweet tooth.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857733419

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9780857733412

Celestial Dining to Entice

An Arab Food Contest in Paradise

By: Leila Salloum Elias

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Celestial Dining to Entice

An Arab Food Contest in Paradise

By: Leila Salloum Elias

In the celestial realm of Paradise, the atmosphere has grown somber. Nightly discussions among Arab scholars, spanning from the classical to the medieval periods and even the present day, have reached an impasse. Conversations aimed at finding solutions for the earthly world below seem increasingly futile, as if history’s lessons have been forgotten or ignored. The vibrant mood once prevalent in Paradise has given way to listlessness and gloom. But what if the key to reigniting joy and inspiration lies in an age-old universal tradition: sharing a meal? That’s right, a food contest! Celestial Dining to Entice: An Arab Food Contest in Paradise aims to shift the narrative from despair to delight. Scholars present their chosen medieval Arab dishes, each accompanied by personal stories that reveal who they are and why they’ve selected their dish. The contest does more than just brighten the atmosphere; it serves as a poignant reminder that history may have its lessons, but food possesses the timeless power to unite and uplift. Experience a celestial gathering where heavenly flavours meet earthly concerns, and discover how even in Paradise, the simple joy of sharing a meal can transform the spirit.

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1035812614

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9781035812615

Alef Is for Allah

Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies

By: Jamal J. Elias

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Alef Is for Allah

Childhood, Emotion, and Visual Culture in Islamic Societies

By: Jamal J. Elias

Alef Is for Allah is the first groundbreaking study of the emotional space occupied by children in modern Islamic societies. Focusing primarily on visual representations of children from modern Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan, the book examines these materials to investigate concepts such as innocence, cuteness, gender, virtue, and devotion, as well as community, nationhood, violence, and sacrifice. In addition to exploring a subject that has never been studied comparatively before, Alef Is for Allah extends the boundaries of scholarship on emotion, religion, and visual culture and provides unique insight into Islam as it is lived and experienced in the modern world.

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Univ of California Press

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0520290070

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9780520290075

The Jews in the Greek Age

By: Elias Joseph Bickerman

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The Jews in the Greek Age

By: Elias Joseph Bickerman

A history of the Jews in the Greek age, charting issues of stability and change in Jewish society during a period that ranges from the conquest of Palestine by Alexander the Great in the fourth century, until approximately 175 B.C.E. and the revolt of the Maccabees.

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Harvard University Press

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0674474902

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9780674474901

Social History of Timbuktu

The Role of Muslim Scholars and Notables 1400-1900

By: Elias N. Saad

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Social History of Timbuktu

The Role of Muslim Scholars and Notables 1400-1900

By: Elias N. Saad

Originally published in 1983, this book deals with the precolonial history of the Islamic West African city of Timbuktu. The book traces the fortunes of this fabled city from its origins in the twelfth century, and more especially from around 1400 onwards, to the French conquest in the late nineteenth century. The study rests upon a comprehensive utilisation of the Timbuktu sources, including the well-known chronicles or tarikhs of Timbuktu. The author focuses on the role of scholars and, in so doing, he provides a fresh study of a learned community in sub-Saharan Africa. Additionally, the study shows that the scholars occupied a position of leadership and authority in the social structure of the city. Hence, in providing fuller understanding of the role of scholars and their status as 'notables', the work makes it possible to understand the enigma which has surrounded this extraordinary city throughout its history. It contributes an important perspective for historians of Africa, the Middle East and Islam.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521246032

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9780521246033

Olympia Provisions

Cured Meats and Tales from an American Charcuterie [A Cookbook]

By: Elias Cairo,Meredith Erickson

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Olympia Provisions

Cured Meats and Tales from an American Charcuterie [A Cookbook]

By: Elias Cairo,Meredith Erickson

A rigorous exploration of what American charcuterie is today from Portland’s top-notch meat company, featuring in-depth techniques for crafting cured meats, recipes from the company’s two restaurants, and essays revealing the history and personalities behind the brand. Portland’s Olympia Provisions began as Oregon’s first USDA-certified salumeria, but it has grown into a mini-empire, with two bustling restaurants and charcuterie shipping out daily to all fifty states. In his debut cookbook, salumist and co-owner Elias Cairo dives deep into his distinctly American charcuterie, offering step-by-step recipes for confits, pâtés, sausages, salami, and more. But that is only the beginning. Writer Meredith Erickson takes you beyond cured meat, exploring how Cairo’s proud Greek-American upbringing, Swiss cooking adventures, and intense love affair with the outdoors have all contributed to Olympia Provisions’ singular—and delicious—point of view. With recipes from the restaurants, as well as extensive wine notes and nineteen frankfurter variations, Olympia Provisions redefines what American charcuterie can be.

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Ten Speed Press

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1607747022

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9781607747024

Twenty-Six Centuries of Agrarian Reform

A Comparative Analysis

By: Elias H. Tuma

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Twenty-Six Centuries of Agrarian Reform

A Comparative Analysis

By: Elias H. Tuma

Have land reform movements ever managed to redistribute wealth, to encourage economic development, to improve standards of living, to ensure political stability? This book answers in the negative. Drawing upon land reform movements over twenty-six centuries of history, Tuma develops a hypothesis about land tenure reform that should enable other scholars to evaluate the success of past reform movements and to see the trends of present and future ones more clearly. In the first part of the study, a general definition of land tenure reform is advanced. Starting with the ordinary meaning of reform as "a redistribution of land to benefit the small farmer or landless agricultural worker," this definition is modified so as to take into account various forms of tenure of title to land, patterns of cultivation, terms of holding, and scale of operation. The middle section of the book presents a comparative study of different types of land reform movements. Eight major "case histories" are considered--the Greek reforms of Solon and Pisistratus in the sixth century B.C.; the Roman reforms of the Gracchi in the second century B.C.; the English tenure changes covering the commutations of the Middle Ages, and the enclosures of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries; the reforms accompanying the French Revolution; the three Russian reforms: the emancipation of 1861, the Stolypin reforms of 1906 - 1911, and the Soviet reform beginning in 1917; the Mexican reform after the 1910 revolution; the Japanese reform after the Second World War; and the Egyptian reform starting in 1952. In sum, the book relates the land reform movements of past centuries to those now in progress in underdeveloped countries. It argues that the land reforms of the last two decades have dealt with symptoms rather than causes, have affected only a small percentage of either the population or the cultivable area, and warns that even if high concentrations of the land-holdings are broken down, reconcentration is likely to recur unless strong preventive measures are taken. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

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Univ of California Press

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0520312120

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9780520312128

Menopausal Musings & Other Stories

By: Elias Sassoon

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Menopausal Musings & Other Stories

By: Elias Sassoon

Menopausal Musings is a collection of small novellas. Each novella follows the inner world of one character's contorted thoughts as they cope with the crisis of middle age. We observe these afflicted people as they exist at different times of day. All are urban characters who live alone in New York City. All are trapped within the walls of their apartments and trapped in their minds and unable to escape. We listen and observe as their minds twirl with hopes, dreams, bitterness, and anger. We cringe as we watch their souls cringe because of isolation from family, friends, and the rest of humanity. They're humans set adrift in a unforgiving world with its billions of unmarked faces. Yet, their pain is our pain; their longing is our longing. And, that is the whole point.

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Lulu.com

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1105592995

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9781105592997

Digital Media

A Problem-solving Approach for Computer Graphics

By: Rimon Elias

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Digital Media

A Problem-solving Approach for Computer Graphics

By: Rimon Elias

Focusing on the computer graphics required to create digital media this book discusses the concepts and provides hundreds of solved examples and unsolved problems for practice. Pseudo codes are included where appropriate but these coding examples do not rely on specific languages. The aim is to get readers to understand the ideas and how concepts and algorithms work, through practicing numeric examples. Topics covered include: 2D Graphics 3D Solid Modelling Mapping Techniques Transformations in 2D and 3D Space Illuminations, Lighting and Shading Ideal as an upper level undergraduate text, Digital Media – A Problem-solving Approach for Computer Graphic, approaches the field at a conceptual level thus no programming experience is required, just a basic knowledge of mathematics and linear algebra.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3319051377

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9783319051376

Aisha’s Cushion

Religious Art, Perception, and Practice in Islam

By: Jamal J. Elias

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Aisha’s Cushion

Religious Art, Perception, and Practice in Islam

By: Jamal J. Elias

Media coverage of the Danish cartoon crisis and the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamiyan left Westerners with a strong impression that Islam does not countenance depiction of religious imagery. Jamal J. Elias corrects this view by revealing the complexity of Islamic attitudes toward representational religious art. Aisha’s Cushion emphasizes Islam’s perceptual and intellectual modes and in so doing offers the reader both insight into Islamic visual culture and a unique way of seeing the world. Aisha’s Cushion evaluates the controversies surrounding blasphemy and iconoclasm by exploring Islamic societies at the time of Muhammad and the birth of Islam; during early contact between Arab Muslims and Byzantine Christians; in medieval Anatolia and India; and in modern times. Elias’s inquiry then goes further, to situate Islamic religious art in a global context. His comparisons with Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, and Hindu attitudes toward religious art show them to be as contradictory as those of Islam. Contemporary theories about art’s place in society inform Elias’s investigation of how religious objects have been understood across time and in different cultures. Elias contends that Islamic perspectives on representation and perception should be sought not only in theological writings or aesthetic treatises but in a range of Islamic works in areas as diverse as optics, alchemy, dreaming, calligraphy, literature, vehicle and home decoration, and Sufi metaphysics. Unearthing shades of meaning in Islamic thought throughout history, Elias offers fresh insight into the relations among religion, art, and perception across a broad range of cultures.

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Harvard University Press

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0674070666

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9780674070660

Arab Industrial Integration (RLE Economy of Middle East)

A Strategy for Development

By: Elias T. Ghantus

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Arab Industrial Integration (RLE Economy of Middle East)

A Strategy for Development

By: Elias T. Ghantus

The Arab countries are increasingly recognising their importance as a regional economic grouping. Given the highly skewed distribution of natural, human and financial resources, the course of economic development in the Arab countries seems to be interrelated. Through pooling their resources and markets these countries will not only be able to optimise investment decisions but also broaden the potential for development. This book argues that economic integration is not merely a question of reducing or eliminating discriminatory measures, as emphasised in previous integration attempts. It calls rather for a positive action based on a regional investment strategy which coordinates production programmes, to reap the benefits of specialisation and scale. The book focuses on past industrialisation efforts in the Arab countries and examines the emerging patterns of industrial growth. A pioneering attempt is made to identify specific industries whose economic viability can be enhanced by conceiving them on a regional basis. The book concludes by framing a strategy for an integrated industrial development in the Arab region. First published in 1982.

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Routledge

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1000155919

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9781000155914

Sassoon's Sketches for a Saturday Afternoon

By: Elias Sassoon

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Sassoon's Sketches for a Saturday Afternoon

By: Elias Sassoon

Constantine Vlacmose was anything, but weird. How could a weird man hold down a responsible job like his, a job that called for the utmost stability, mental clarity, intestinal fortitude, fearlessness, well, you get the idea now. You don't think being a cabby in New York City is easy, do you! You try dealing with the crowded streets, the thousands of cars, buses, and trucks, two million on-rushing pedestrians, blaring noise, accidents, cops, firefighters, and assorted other distractions. Easy, are you joking! From: Are You An Ass, A Fool, Or A You-Know-What? So begins one of Elias Sassoon's short stories in Sassoon's Sketches For A Saturday Afternoon.Sassoon is often humorous, usually thoughtful, and always entertaining in these enchanting tales.

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0557199700

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9780557199709

Key Themes for the Study of Islam

By: Jamal J. Elias

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Key Themes for the Study of Islam

By: Jamal J. Elias

Key Themes for the Study of Islam" examines the central themes and concepts indispensable to an informed understanding of Islamic religion and society. From Gender and History to Prayer and Prophecy, each authoritative chapter focuses on a single aspect of the religion and presents a critical discussion written by a world expert in that field. Exposing as false the idea that Islam and Muslims are incomprehensible to Western culture, this book will become the first choice for students and experts in religion from disparate fields, who wish to know how Islam relates to vital concepts in religion and society today.

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Simon and Schuster

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1780746849

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9781780746845

Gate of the Sun

By: Elias Khoury

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Gate of the Sun

By: Elias Khoury

First published in 1998, this novel has been called the first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga. Drawing on the stories he gathered from refugee camps, Khoury has provided "a touching, powerful glimpse of (PalestiniansU) unique place in world history" ("Los Angeles Times").

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548

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Macmillan

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ISBN 10

0312426704

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9780312426705

Studies in Jewish and Christian History (2 vols)

A New Edition in English including The God of the Maccabees, introduced by Martin Hengel, edited by Amram Tropper

By: Elias J. Bickerman

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Studies in Jewish and Christian History (2 vols)

A New Edition in English including The God of the Maccabees, introduced by Martin Hengel, edited by Amram Tropper

By: Elias J. Bickerman

The publication of this new edition of Elias Bickerman's acclaimed Studies in Jewish and Christian History along with his famous book, The God of the Maccabees, brings Bickerman's central studies on ancient Judaism and early Christianity to a new generation of students and scholars.

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1295

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BRILL

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9047420721

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9789047420729

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