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Islamic Law and Culture, 1600-1840

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Islamic Law and Culture, 1600-1840

By: Haim Gerber

This study of Islamic law in the final phase of its pre-modern period of existence is based mainly on the fatwa collections of two prominent Arab jurists and one Turkish jurist from this period. The book re-examines the basic methodological structure of Islamic law (including its complex relations with the state) and poses the question as to whether Islamic law became increasingly closed and rigid. It was found that no such closure ever took place. The book will be of importance to those interested in Islamic law, as well as to those interested in Islamic thought in general and the relations between society and the state. Readership: All those interested in Islamic law, the Middle East under the Ottomans, Islam and civil society, Islam and the state.

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9004113193

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Oppression and Salvation

Annotated Legal Documents from the Ottoman Book of Complaints of 1675

By: Haim Gerber

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Oppression and Salvation

Annotated Legal Documents from the Ottoman Book of Complaints of 1675

By: Haim Gerber

Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker was founded in 1980 by the Hungarian Turkologist György Hazai. The series deals with all aspects of Turkic language, culture and history, and has a broad temporal and regional scope. It welcomes manuscripts on Central, Northern, Western and Eastern Asia as well as parts of Europe, and allows for a wide time span from the first mention in the 6th century to modernity and present.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3112209400

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Islamic Law and Culture, 1600-1840

By: Haim Gerber

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Islamic Law and Culture, 1600-1840

By: Haim Gerber

In the final phase of its pre-modern period of existence, Islamic Law is based mainly on the fatwa collections of two prominent Arab jurists and one Turkish jurist from this period. The book re-examines the basic methodological structure of Islamic law (including its complex relations with the state) and poses the question as to whether Islamic law became increasingly closed and rigid. It was found that no such closure ever took place. Flexibility and openness remained vital, via terms such as istihsan, ijtihad and 'urf. Unheralded innovation was also common. The book will be of importance to those interested in Islamic law, as well as to those interested in Islamic thought in general and the relations between society and the state.

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9004660135

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State, Society, and Law in Islam

Ottoman Law in Comparative Perspective

By: Haim Gerber

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State, Society, and Law in Islam

Ottoman Law in Comparative Perspective

By: Haim Gerber

This book explores the legal structure of the Ottoman Empire between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries and examines its association with the Empire's sociopolitical structure. The author's main focus is on the relationship between formal Islamic law and the law as it was actually administered in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Istanbul and its environs. Using court records, other primary archival documents, and little-used Islamic literature, Gerber establishes for the first time that large bodies of the law were indeed practiced and enforced as law. This refutes the ethnocentric Western view, propagated by Max Weber, that Islamic law was dispensed arbitrarily because of a widening gap between ossified Muslim law and a changing Muslim society. Gerber furthermore integrates his empirical research into a wider theoretical framework adapted from legal and historical-legal anthropology and uses this material as the basis for comparisons between the Ottoman Empire's legal system and other legal systems, most notably that of Morocco. This book shows that although Islamic law as practiced did have to contend with an inviolable sacred core, historical development nevertheless took place that can shed new light on the civilization of Islam.

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State University of New York Press

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1438403941

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State and Society in the Ottoman Empire

By: Haim Gerber

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State and Society in the Ottoman Empire

By: Haim Gerber

This book has three main themes: the socio-economic history of Turkish society in the 17th-18th centuries; the outcome of the Tanzimat (Reforms) in the province of Jerusalem, as an example of the whole phenomenon; and the historical origins of Turkish and Arab identities leading to the modern phenomenon of nationalism. Many of the studies are based on archival research, and the documents give a new picture of the issues involved. Thus, women were much more involved in the public arena and in economic life of the city that formerly thought; the urban family at this time was much smaller and nuclear-like, on the whole much more modern looking than anticipated. In the same way, Turkish society was far from being despotically oppressed by the Ottoman centre, with several institutions existing in it that gave substance to the term civil society. In the context of the 19th century it was found that, judging by the case of the province of Jerusalem, the final phase of the Tanzimat really tipped the balance in favour of the success of this whole movement of Reform: Ottoman society and Ottoman state became much more orderly and at ease with themselves than before, or at least than the stormy decades of the early 19th century. The final studies show that the Ottoman period and the structure of the Ottoman state, more properly, exerted much influence on the forms of nationalism that developed in the Middle East after the Ottoman downfall.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040244653

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Advanced Aerospace Materials

Aluminum-Based and Composite Structures

By: Haim Abramovich

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Advanced Aerospace Materials

Aluminum-Based and Composite Structures

By: Haim Abramovich

Advanced Aerospace Materials is intended for engineers and students of aerospace, materials, and mechanical engineering. It covers the transition from aluminum to composite materials for aerospace structures and will include essential and advanced analyses used in today’s aerospace industries. Various aspects of design, failure and monitoring of structural components will be derived and presented accompanied by relevant formulas and analyses.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110537575

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9783110537574

Dwelling Poetically

Educational Challenges in Heidegger’s Thinking of Poetry

By: Haim Gordon

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Dwelling Poetically

Educational Challenges in Heidegger’s Thinking of Poetry

By: Haim Gordon

This book philosophically discusses the educational challenges of dwelling poetically, which, according to Martin Heidegger, means learning from great poems how to live a worthy life and relate authentically to beings and to Being. The gifts of great poetry are carefully described and concrete approaches are presented that the educator can adopt.

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9004459049

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State, Society, and Law in Islam

Ottoman Law in Comparative Perspective

By: Haim Gerber

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Ottoman Law in Comparative Perspective

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Science Literacy in Primary Schools and Pre-Schools

By: Haim Eshach

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Science Literacy in Primary Schools and Pre-Schools

By: Haim Eshach

This well-written and thought-provoking book presents the state-of-the-art in science education for kindergarten and primary schools. It begins with a thorough theoretical discussion on why it is incumbent on the science educator to teach science at first stages of childhood. It goes on to analyze and synthesize a broad range of educational approaches and themes. The book also presents novel strategies to science teaching.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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140204674X

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Land Law and Policy in Israel

A Prism of Identity

By: Haim Sandberg

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Land Law and Policy in Israel

A Prism of Identity

By: Haim Sandberg

As one of the smallest and most densely populated countries in the world, the State of Israel faces serious land policy challenges and has a national identity laced with enormous internal contradictions. In Land Law and Policy in Israel,Haim Sandberg contends that if you really want to know the identity of a state, learn its land law and land policies. Sandberg argues that Israel's identity can best be understood by deciphering the code that lies in the Hebrew secret of Israeli dry land law. According to Sandberg, by examining the complex facets of property law and land policy, one finds a unique prism for comprehending Israel's most pronounced identity problems. Land Law and Policy in Israel explores how Israel's modern land system tries to bridge the gaps between past heritage and present needs, nationalization and privatization, bureaucracy and innovation, Jewish majority and non-Jewish minority, legislative creativity and judicial activism. The regulation of property and the determination of land usage have been the consequences of explicit choices made in the context of competing and evolving concepts of national identity. Land Law and Policy in Israel will prove to be a must-read not only for anyone interested in Israel but also for anyone who wants to understand the importance of land law in a nation's life.

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Indiana University Press

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025306046X

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Jacob & Esau

Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire

By: Malachi Haim Hacohen

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Jacob & Esau

Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire

By: Malachi Haim Hacohen

Jacob and Esau is a profound new account of two millennia of Jewish European history that, for the first time, integrates the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with that of traditional Jews and Jewish culture. Malachi Haim Hacohen uses the biblical story of the rival twins, Jacob and Esau, and its subsequent retelling by Christians and Jews throughout the ages as a lens through which to illuminate changing Jewish-Christian relations and the opening and closing of opportunities for Jewish life in Europe. Jacob and Esau tells a new history of a people accustomed for over two-and-a-half millennia to forming relationships, real and imagined, with successive empires but eagerly adapting, in modernity, to the nation-state, and experimenting with both assimilation and Jewish nationalism. In rewriting this history via Jacob and Esau, the book charts two divergent but intersecting Jewish histories that together represent the plurality of Jewish European cultures.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108245498

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Sophistry and Twentieth-Century Art

By: Haim Gordon,Rivca Gordon

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Sophistry and Twentieth-Century Art

By: Haim Gordon,Rivca Gordon

This book deals with a rejection of the widespread fakeries that have emerged in twentieth-century art, which we call by their Platonic name, sophistry. The book also presents brief descriptions of some of the ideas of Martin Heidegger and Nicolas Berdyaev as to what constitutes a beautiful work of art, and how an authentic relation to the beauty in a work of art enhances human existence.

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9004496084

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A Social History Database of East European Jewish Deserted Wives, 1851-1900

By: Dr Haim Sperber

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A Social History Database of East European Jewish Deserted Wives, 1851-1900

By: Dr Haim Sperber

The Database is a companion volume to The Plight of Jewish Deserted Wives, 18511900 (978-1-78976-168-9). It comprises circa 5000 entries, providing name, date and circumstance, with extensive cross-reference to aid future researchers. Agunot (Agunah, sing., meaning anchored in Hebrew) is a Jewish term describing women who cannot remarry because their husband has disappeared. According to Jewish law (Halacha) a woman can get out of the marriage only if the husband releases her by granting a divorce writ (Get), if he dies, or if his whereabouts is not known. Women whose husbands cannot be located, and who have not been granted a Get, are considered Agunot. The Agunah phenomenon was of major concern in East European Jewry and much referred to in Hebrew and Yiddish media and fiction. Most nineteenth-century Agunot cases came from Eastern Europe, where most Jews resided (twentieth-century Agunot were primarily in North America, and will be the subject of a forthcoming book). Seven variations of Agunot have been identified: Deserted wives; women who refused to receive, or were not granted, a Get; widowed women whose brothers-in-law refused to grant them permission to marry someone else (Halitza); women whose husbands remains were not found; improperly or incorrectly written Gets; women whose husbands became mentally ill and were not competent to grant a Get; women refused a Get by husbands who had converted to Christianity or Islam.

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Liverpool University Press

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1782846980

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9781782846987

Introduction to Investments

By: Haim Levy

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Introduction to Investments

By: Haim Levy

Written for a higher level undergraduate or MBA-level investments course, this text presents introductory investment topics from the viewpoint of an experienced portfolio manager. This approach covers the fundamentals of portfolio management (financial, securities markets, and investment management techniques, including financial engineering), and application of these techniques by professional investors. It is unsurpassed in its ability to bridge theory and application by using articles from the financial media as well as real-world mini-cases to illustrate concepts. A strong problem-solving approach is supported through solved sample problems and practice boxes throughout the text, and end-of-chapter problems and cases which use real world information and data.

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Thomson South-Western

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0538877375

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State and Society in the Ottoman Empire

By: Haim Gerber

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Book's by Haim Gerber

Islamic Law and Culture, 1600-1840

Islamic Law and Culture, 1600-1840

Oppression and Salvation

Oppression and Salvation

Islamic Law and Culture, 1600-1840

Islamic Law and Culture, 1600-1840

State, Society, and Law in Islam

State, Society, and Law in Islam

State and Society in the Ottoman Empire

State and Society in the Ottoman Empire

Advanced Aerospace Materials

Advanced Aerospace Materials

Dwelling Poetically

Dwelling Poetically

State, Society, and Law in Islam

State, Society, and Law in Islam

Science Literacy in Primary Schools and Pre-Schools

Science Literacy in Primary Schools and Pre-Schools

Land Law and Policy in Israel

Land Law and Policy in Israel

Jacob & Esau

Jacob & Esau

Sophistry and Twentieth-Century Art

Sophistry and Twentieth-Century Art

A Social History Database of East European Jewish Deserted Wives, 1851-1900

A Social History Database of East European Jewish Deserted Wives, 1851-1900

Introduction to Investments

Introduction to Investments

State and Society in the Ottoman Empire

State and Society in the Ottoman Empire

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