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This book presents the work and ideas of the Syrian writer Muhammad Shahrur to the English-speaking world. Shahrur is at the moment the most innovative intellectual thinker in the Arab Middle East. Often described as the ‘Martin Luther of Islam,’ he offers a liberal, progressive reading of Islam that aims to counter the influences of religious fundamentalism and radical politics. Shahrur’s innovative interpretation of the Qur’an offers groundbreaking new ideas, based on his conviction that centuries of historical Islam, including scholarship in the traditional Islamic religious sciences, have obscured or even obliterated the Qur’an’s progressive and revolutionary message. That message is one that has endured through each period of human history in which Islam has existed, encouraging Muslims to apply the most contemporary perspective available to interpret the Qur’an’s meaning.
Frau. --- Islam. --- Recht. --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Šaḥrūr, Muḥammad. --- Shaḥrūr, Muḥammad --- Shahrour, Mohamad --- Shuḥrūr, Muḥammad --- شحرور، محمد --- Šaḥrūr, Muḥammad --- Syahrur, Muhammad --- Shahrour, Muhammad --- Koran. --- Islam --- Muslim scholars --- Islamic scholars --- Scholars, Muslim --- Scholars --- Islam - 20th century --- Muslim scholars - Interviews --- Shaḥrūr, Muḥammad - Interviews --- Savants musulmans --- Interviews --- Histoire --- Entretiens --- Interviews. --- Chahrour, Mohamed --- Chahrour, Mohammed --- Shaḥrūr, Muḥammad --- Shahrur, Muhammad
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In 1976, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in search of her imagined America. She sought an escape from the suffocation she felt under the cultural rules of her country and the future her family had envisioned for her. While she settled uneasily into American life, the political unrest in Iran intensified and in February of 1979, Farideh’s family was forced to flee Iran on the last El-Al flights to Tel Aviv. They arrived in Israel as refugees, having left everything behind including the only home Farideh’s father had ever known.Baba, as Farideh called her father, was a well-respected son of the chief rabbi and dayan of the Jews of Shiraz. During his last visit to the United States in 2006, he handed Farideh his memoir that chronicled the years of his life after exile: the confiscation of his passport while he attempted to return to Iran for his belongings, the resulting years of loneliness as he struggled against a hostile bureaucracy to return to his wife and family in Israel, and the eventual loss of the poultry farm that had supported his family. Farideh translated her father’s memoir along with other documents she found in a briefcase after his death. Leaving Iran knits together her father’s story of dislocation and loss with her own experience as an Iranian Jew in a newly adopted home. As an intimate portrait of displacement and the construction of identity, as a story of family loyalty and cultural memory, Leaving Iran is an important addition to a growing body of Iranian–American narratives.
Jews, Iranian --- Iranian American women --- Iranians --- Refugees --- Goldin, Farideh, --- Family. --- Iranis --- Persians --- Ethnology --- Indo-Iranians --- Iranian Jews --- 1979 Islamic revolution --- dislocation --- Shirazi Jews --- immigration --- diaspora --- Iranian --- Shah --- Jewish
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"In the linked essays that make up her debut collection, This Is One Way to Dance, Sejal Shah explores culture, language, family, and place. Throughout the collection, Shah reflects on what it means to make oneself visible and legible through writing in a country that struggles with race and maps her identity as an American, South Asian American, writer of color, and feminist. This Is One Way to Dance draws on Shah's ongoing interests in ethnicity and place: the geographic and cultural distances between people, both real and imagined. Her memoir in essays emerges as Shah wrestles with her experiences growing up and living in western New York, an area of stark racial and economic segregation, as the daughter of Gujarati immigrants from India and Kenya. These essays also trace her movement over twenty years from student to teacher and meditate on her travels and life in New England, New York City, and the Midwest, as she considers what it means to be of a place or from a place, to be foreign or familiar. Shah invites us to consider writing as a somatic practice, a composition of digressions, repetitions-movement as transformation, incantation. Her essays-some narrative, others lyrical and poetic-explore how we are all marked by culture, gender, and race; by the limits of our bodies, by our losses and regrets, by who and what we love, by our ambivalences, and by trauma and silence. Language fractures in its attempt to be spoken. Shah asks and attempts to answer the question: How do you move in such a way that loss does not limit you? This Is One Way to Dance introduces a vital new voice to the conversation about race and belonging in America"--
Gujarati Americans --- Children of immigrants --- East Indian American women --- Racially mixed people --- East Indian Americans --- Ethnic identity. --- Shah, Sejal, --- Multiracial people
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"Examines Europe's discovery of ancient Iran, first in philology and then in art history, and explores the Persian Revival movement in light of imperial strategies of power, selfhood, and statehood in British India and Zand-Qajar-Pahlavi Iran"--
Architecture --- Imperialism and architecture --- History --- Iran. --- Aryan. --- British India. --- Gothic Revival. --- Indo-European. --- Iranian architecture. --- Naser al-Din Shah. --- Orient-or-Rome debate. --- Pahlavi. --- Parsi architecture. --- Parsi. --- Persia. --- Persian Revival. --- Qajar. --- Reza Shah. --- Strzygowski. --- Zand. --- colonialism. --- copy. --- fire temple. --- imperialism. --- nationalism. --- revivalism. --- style. --- travelogues to Iran. --- architecture [discipline] --- architectural history --- anno 1800-1999 --- Iran
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''A completely fresh interpretation of the 1921-1941 Pahlavi period. . . . Majd has come upon a gold mine of information on this controversial period of Persian history. . . . The details and freshness of the figures are explosive. . . . Even more explosive are the land acquisitions materials and the information on the work of the Shah's secret police.
Reza Shah Pahlavi. --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- Middle East --- Reza Shah Pahlavi, --- Iran --- Great Britain --- Relations --- History --- Reza Shah, --- Reza-shakh Pekhlevi, --- Riz̤ā Shāh Pahlavī, --- Reza Schah, --- Riḍā Shāh, --- رضا شاه بهلوي، --- رضا شاه پهلوى --- رضا شاه پهلوى، شاه ايران، --- رضا شاه پهلوى، --- رضا شاه پهلوي، --- رضاشاه پهلوي، --- República Islâmica do Irã --- Irã --- Persia --- Northern Tier --- Islamic Republic of Iran --- Jumhūrī-i Islāmī-i Īrān --- I-lang --- Paras-Iran --- Paras --- Persia-Iran --- I.R.A. --- Islamische Republik Iran --- Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Iran --- I.R.I. --- IRI --- ايران --- جمهورى اسلامى ايران --- Êran --- Komarî Îslamî Êran
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Richard Tapper's 1997 book, which is based on three decades of ethnographic fieldwork and extensive documentary research, traces the political and social history of the Shahsevan, one of the major nomadic peoples of Iran. The story is a dramatic one, recounting the mythical origins of the tribes, their unification as a confederacy, and their decline under the Pahlavi Shahs. The book is intended as a contribution to three different debates. The first concerns the riddle of Shahsevan origins, while another considers how far changes in tribal social and political formations are a function of relations with states. The third discusses how different constructions of the identity of a particular people determine their view of the past. In this way, the book promises not only to make a major contribution to the history and anthropology of the Middle East and Central Asia, but also to theoretical debates in both disciplines.
Shahsevan (Iranian people) --- Iran --- History --- 20th century --- Qajar dynasty, 1779-1925 --- Iran - History - Qajar dynasty, 1794-1925. --- Shah Savan (Iranian people) --- Shahsavans (Iranian people) --- Ethnology --- Arts and Humanities --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology
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Mysticism --- Sufis --- History --- Biography --- Khvājah Mīr, --- ʻAbd al-Laṭīf, --- Religion --- 297*2 --- -Sufis --- -297*2 Soefisme --- Soefisme --- Sufism --- Dark night of the soul --- Mystical theology --- Theology, Mystical --- Spiritual life --- Negative theology --- -Biography --- Khvajah Mir --- -'Abd al-Latif Shah --- -Religion --- Khvājah Mār, --- Religion. --- 297*2 Soefisme --- Abdul Latif Bhitai, --- Abdul Latif, --- Abdula Latīfa Bhiṭāī, --- Bhaṭāʼī, ʻAbdul Lat̤īf, --- Bhiṭāi, Ābadula Latipha, --- Bhiṭāʼī, Shāhu ʻAbdullat̤īfu, --- Bhittai, Shah Abdul Latif, --- Laṭīf, ʻAbd, --- Latif, --- Latīfa Bhiṭāī, --- Latīfa, --- Shāh ʻAbd al-Laṭīf, --- Shāh ʻAbdul Lat̤īf Bhaṭāī, --- Shāhu ʻAbdul Lat̤īf Bhaṭāī, --- ،شاه عبداللطيف --- Dard, K̲h̲vājah Mīr, --- Dard, --- Dard, Khwaja Meer, --- Dard, Mīr, --- K̲h̲vājah Mīr Dard, --- Mīr Dard, --- Mīr Dard, K̲h̲vājah, --- خواجه مير درد --- درد، خواجه مير، --- Mysticism - India - History - 18th century --- Sufis - India - Biography --- Khvājah Mīr, - 1719?-1785? - Religion --- ʻAbd al-Laṭīf, - Shah, - approximately 1689-approximately 1752 - Religion --- Khvājah Mīr, - 1719?-1785? --- ʻAbd al-Laṭīf, - Shah, - approximately 1689-approximately 1752
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An overwhelmingly Arab-centric perspective dominates the West's understanding of Islam and leads to a view of this religion as exclusively Middle Eastern and monolithic. Teena Purohit presses for a reorientation that would conceptualize Islam instead as a heterogeneous religion that has found a variety of expressions in local contexts throughout history. The story she tells of an Ismaili community in colonial India illustrates how much more complex Muslim identity is, and always has been, than the media would have us believe. The Aga Khan Case focuses on a nineteenth-century court case in Bombay that influenced how religious identity was defined in India and subsequently the British Empire. The case arose when a group of Indians known as the Khojas refused to pay tithes to the Aga Khan, a Persian nobleman and hereditary spiritual leader of the Ismailis. The Khojas abided by both Hindu and Muslim customs and did not identify with a single religion prior to the court's ruling in 1866, when the judge declared them to be converts to Ismaili Islam beholden to the Aga Khan. In her analysis of the ginans, the religious texts of the Khojas that formed the basis of the judge's decision, Purohit reveals that the religious practices they describe are not derivations of a Middle Eastern Islam but manifestations of a local vernacular one. Purohit suggests that only when we understand Islam as inseparable from the specific cultural milieus in which it flourishes do we fully grasp the meaning of this global religion.
Ismailites --- Khojahs --- Religion and state --- Tithes (Islamic law) --- Islamic law --- State and religion --- State, The --- Nizārīs --- Ismailians --- Ismailis --- Assassins (Ismailites) --- Shīʻah --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- History --- Religious aspects --- Aga Khan --- Hasan Ali Shah, --- Aga Khan I, --- Trials, litigation, etc.
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This epic biography, a gripping insider's account, is a long-overdue chronicle of the life and times of Mohammad Reza Shah, who ruled from 1941 to 1979 as the last Iranian monarch. Gholam Reza Afkhami uses his unparalleled access to a large number of individuals-including high-ranking figures in the shah's regime, members of his family, and members of the opposition-to depict the unfolding of the shah's life against the forces and events that shaped the development of modern Iran. The first major biography of the Shah in twenty-five years, this richly detailed account provides a radically new perspective on key events in Iranian history, including the 1979 revolution, U.S.-Iran relations, and Iran's nuclear program. It also sheds new light on what now drives political and cultural currents in a country at the heart of today's most perplexing geopolitical dilemmas.
Rois et souverains --- HISTORY / Middle East / General. --- Biographies --- Iran. --- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, --- Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, --- Moḥammad Rezā Shāh, --- Muhammed Reza Pahlavi, --- Mokhammed Reza Pakhlevi, --- Muḥammad Riz̤ā Shāh, --- Riz̤ā Shāh, Muḥammad, --- Pahlavi, Mohammed Reza, --- محمد رضا پهلوى --- Muḥammad Riz̤ā Pahlavī, --- محمد رضا پهلوى، --- Iran --- History --- Miḧemedreza Pehlewî, --- Miḧemed Reza Pehlewî, --- Pehlewî, Miḧemedreza, --- 1979. --- biographical. --- biography. --- discussion books. --- dramatic. --- engaging. --- geopolitical issues. --- global relationships. --- government and governing. --- history. --- insider perspective. --- intense emotion. --- interviews. --- iran. --- iranian culture. --- iranian history. --- iranian revolution. --- lifetime. --- modern history. --- modern iran. --- mohammad reza shah. --- monarchy. --- nonfiction. --- nuclear program. --- political insights. --- revolution. --- royalty. --- shah. --- shahs regime. --- true story. --- us iran relations. --- world history.
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