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Untangling the Middle East

A Guide to the Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Chaotic Region

By: Ori Z. Soltes

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Untangling the Middle East

A Guide to the Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Chaotic Region

By: Ori Z. Soltes

A lucid and engaging breakdown of the history, culture, and politics that define today’s Middle East. Untangling the Middle East is a layman’s guide to the history—political, religious, and cultural—that led us to the current challenges plaguing the Middle East. It covers the major interests and actors in the region, and helps to spin a narrative of the evolution of violence and conflict in this age-old hotbed of unrest. There are no easy answers or simple explanations to be found here, only a clear-eyed and engaging recounting of the many factors that have brought this region to where it is today. Whether he is discussing the history of the Semitic peoples or the birth of Islam in the region, Soltes brings insight and much needed context to the people, places, and things that make up the inheritance of today’s Middle East. He possesses the historian’s appreciation for detail and the teacher’s knack for fashioning coherence out of complex material. This book should be a go-to resource for a solid foundation in understanding the Middle East and a bulwark against the disinformation regarding this region that is often found on cable television or in speeches on the campaign trail. The Middle East may be a mess but it need not be a mystery, with the help of this indispensable guide.

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Skyhorse

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1510717811

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9781510717817

Mysticism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Searching for Oneness

By: Ori Z. Soltes

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Mysticism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Searching for Oneness

By: Ori Z. Soltes

Mysticism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam traces the sweep of mysticism--the search for oneness with God--throughout the three Abrahamic traditions. Beginning with a definition of mysticism and a discussion of its place within religion as a whole, Ori Z. Soltes explores the history of mysticism from the Biblical times through the present day.

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356

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742562778

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9780742562776

Embracing the World

Fethullah Gulen's Thought and Its Relationship with Jelaluddin Rumi and Others

By: Ori Z. Soltes

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Embracing the World

Fethullah Gulen's Thought and Its Relationship with Jelaluddin Rumi and Others

By: Ori Z. Soltes

This book is not a comprehensive study of Rumi and Gülen, but it seeks to explore the places where the thought of the one is echoed in the thinking of the other, either overtly or indirectly—and to note ways in which the opposite is true: that Gülen diverges from Rumi. The book is also seeking to suggest some of the larger contexts in which the thinking of both resides. Given the wide-ranging aspects of their respective writings, it should not be surprising if, minimally, we can find important foundation stones in both philosophy and theology in the edifices that they each construct.

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Tughra Books

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1597846821

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Untangling the Middle East

A Guide to the Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Chaotic Region

By: Ori Z. Soltes

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A Guide to the Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Chaotic Region

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Between Thought and Action

An Intellectual Biography of Fethullah Gülen

By: Ori Z Soltes

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Between Thought and Action

An Intellectual Biography of Fethullah Gülen

By: Ori Z Soltes

This volume has two goals. One is to explore the life and the thought of Fethullah Gülen and the important educational and peace-inducing activities in which he and those inspired by him have been engaged for several decades. The outcome of those efforts—of creating schools and providing diverse social and cultural services that bring people together people from diverse backgrounds—has been to provide the face of civic and civil Islam as an antidote to the uglier side of political Islam. The second goal has been to make clear how the accusations against Mr. Gülen by the minions of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan could hardly be more false: that what Gülen and the hizmet (service) movement that he has inspired are ultimately about is improving the world and saving it form its uglier inclinations. A brief discussion of his life and thought has been supplemented by the voices of more than 70 interviews conducted over several years, with individuals intimate and more distant but all inspired to be part of the process of serving humanity.

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241

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Blue Dome Press

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1682065367

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9781682065365

Fixing the World

Jewish American Painters in the Twentieth Century

By: Ori Z. Soltes

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Fixing the World

Jewish American Painters in the Twentieth Century

By: Ori Z. Soltes

The first full-color book to examine Jewish American painters and their works.

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UPNE

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1584650494

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9781584650492

Modern Jewish Art

Definitions, Problems, and Opportunities

By: Ori Soltes

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Modern Jewish Art

Definitions, Problems, and Opportunities

By: Ori Soltes

In Modern Jewish Art: Definitions, Problems, and Opportunities, Ori Z. Soltes considers both the emerging and evolving discussion on, and the expanding array of practitioners of ‘Jewish art’ in the past two hundred years. He notes the developing problem of how to define ‘Judaism’ in the 19th century—as a religion, a culture, a race, a nation, a people—and thus the complications for placing ‘Jewish art’ under the extended umbrella of ‘religion and the arts.’ The fluidity with which one must engage the subject is reflected in the broadening conceptual and visual vocabulary, the extended range of subject foci and media, and the increasingly rich analytical approaches to the subject that have surfaced particularly in the past fifty years. Well-known and little-known artists are included in a far-ranging discussion of painting, sculpture, photography, video, installations, ceremonial objects, and works that blur the boundaries between categories.

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BRILL

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9004393242

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9789004393240

God and the Goalposts

A Brief History of Sports, Religion, Politics, War and Art

By: Ori Z. Soltes

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God and the Goalposts

A Brief History of Sports, Religion, Politics, War and Art

By: Ori Z. Soltes

Professor Ori Soltes exploration of how sports, war, art and religion all come together to give us a greater understanding of human history.

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0935437584

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9780935437584

Between Thought and Action

An Intellectual Biography of Fethullah Gülen

By: Ori Z. Soltes

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Between Thought and Action

An Intellectual Biography of Fethullah Gülen

By: Ori Z. Soltes

This volume has three related intentions. First, to offer a brief discussion of Fethullah Gülen, based in part on interviews with people who have known him and/or worked with him in the course of his life. Second, to explore Gülen's thought, based on three sources: his voluminous writings; his actions as they have reflected his writings over the years; further interviews with many individuals who have been influenced by and/or inspired by him to think and/or to act in particular ways. Third, to engage the bases for the attacks that have been directed at Fethullah Gülen over the years from different directions, but in particular those that have been organized and directed by the Turkish government since 2013"--

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1682060314

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9781682060315

Our Sacred Signs

How Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source

By: Ori Soltes

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Our Sacred Signs

How Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Art Draw from the Same Source

By: Ori Soltes

The art of the three Abrahamic religions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—has a tangled, interwoven history. Symbols cross back and forth among the three faiths, adapted to reflect that faith's specific spiritual needs. And much of this symbolic language predates any of the Abrahamic faiths entirely.In Our Sacred Signs, Ori Soltes traces the interconnectedness of religious symbols such as the Star of David, which isn't, it turns out, exclusive to Judaism at all. He shows that the various ways that Jesus is portrayed on the cross recall an artistic tradition that is in no way unique to Christianity. And he shows that religious architectural conventions as simple as the dome represent early “pagan” traditions.The narrative—essentially a series of overlapping stories—moves through the halls of museums and off to the holy sites of the three religions, tracing the millennia-long artistic trail that has endured even as the West moved toward secularization in the last three hundred years.Soltes shows us how art has long been used as an instrument to take us where words cannot follow. Our Sacred Signs is a breathtaking and revelatory journey through human history, its gods, and its art.

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288

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Basic Books

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081334297X

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9780813342979

Immortality, Memory, Creativity, and Survival

The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana, Ronnie Cahana, and Kitra Cahana in Context

By: Ori Z. Soltes

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Immortality, Memory, Creativity, and Survival

The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana, Ronnie Cahana, and Kitra Cahana in Context

By: Ori Z. Soltes

The idea of survival is a recurrent theme in discussions both of family and of art. Whether understood in physical, mental, or spiritual terms, it is inextricable from the most basic questions of human existence, encompassing the ways in which individual experience can persist after death. Questions of survival and immortality are thus central for understanding the artistically expansive family at the center of this volume: Alice Lok Cahana, a Holocaust survivor and painter; her son Rabbi Ronnie Cahana, a writer and stroke survivor; and his daughter Kitra Cahana, a photographer who embeds herself in communities in order to tell their stories. Complemented with fascinating essays that provide powerful insights into memory and trauma, this beautifully illustrated book interweaves powerful accounts of these three artists with a complex story of human experience, legacy, and meaning.

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Berghahn Books

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1800730950

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9781800730953

Embracing the World

Fethullah Gulen's Thought and Its Relationship with Jelaluddin Rumi and Others

By: Ori Z. Soltes

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Fethullah Gulen's Thought and Its Relationship with Jelaluddin Rumi and Others

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Tughra Books

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Mysticism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Searching for Oneness

By: Ori Z. Soltes

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Searching for Oneness

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Untangling the Middle East

Untangling the Middle East

Mysticism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Mysticism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Embracing the World

Embracing the World

Untangling the Middle East

Untangling the Middle East

Between Thought and Action

Between Thought and Action

Fixing the World

Fixing the World

Modern Jewish Art

Modern Jewish Art

God and the Goalposts

God and the Goalposts

Between Thought and Action

Between Thought and Action

Our Sacred Signs

Our Sacred Signs

Immortality, Memory, Creativity, and Survival

Immortality, Memory, Creativity, and Survival

Embracing the World

Embracing the World

Mysticism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Mysticism in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

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