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Depuis la période médiévale, le monde musulman de Méditerranée compte de nombreuses villes, d’importance variable en fonction des périodes et des lieux. Les travaux qui ont ces villes pour cadre sont abondants. L’ urbain dans le monde musulman de Méditerranée a pour origine la réaction d’un groupe de chercheurs à la multiplication des recherches qualifiées d’urbaines et une volonté de contribuer à en renouveler le point de vue dominant. Aussi bien en ce qui concerne les terrains que les disciplines, la plus grande part des recherches affectées au domaine des études urbaines dans le monde musulman de Méditerranée considère la ville comme une toile de fond uniforme et sans qualification, comme un simple lieu privilégié d’observation à la faveur de la masse de population qu’elle regroupe. Pour évaluer les limites de cette posture et des approches monographiques qui s’en suivent, il a été proposé à plusieurs spécialistes des villes et aussi à ceux qui la croisent dans leurs travaux ressortissant à divers domaines, périodes ou approches, de réfléchir à la manière dont l’urbain se manifeste, comment et où ils le rencontrent et, éventuellement, suivant quelle modalité.

Sociology, Urban --- Sociologie urbaine --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Communities - Urban Groups --- Urban sociology --- Mediterranean muslim world --- urbanisme --- ville --- culture --- identité --- Maghreb

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In recent decades, traditional methods of philology and intellectual history, applied to the study of Islam and Muslim societies, have met with considerable criticism from rising generations of scholars who have turned to the social sciences, most notably anthropology and social history, for guidance. This change has been accompanied by the rise of new fields, studying, for example, Islam in Europe and Africa, and new topics, such as the role of gender. This collection surveys these transformations and others, taking stock of the field and showing new paths forward.

Islamic sociology. --- Islam --- Islamic studies --- Muslim sociology --- Sociology, Islamic --- Sociology --- Study and teaching. --- Theology & Religion --- Middle East --- Muslim world --- Muslims --- Sharia

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Outlines the complex significance of bodies in the late Medieval central Arab Islamic lands. Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights' by Medieval Arabs, as were cross eyes, lameness and deafness? What assumptions about bodies influenced this particular vision of physical difference? How did blighted people view their own bodies? Through close analyses of anecdotes, personal letters, biographies and autobiographies, erotic poetry, non-binding legal opinions, diaristic chronicles and theological tracts, Kristina Richardson brings the cultural views and experiences of disability and difference in the medieval Islamic world to life. This title investigates the place of physically different, disabled and ill individuals in medieval Islam. It is organised around the lives and works of 6 Muslim men, each highlighting a different aspect of bodily difference. It addresses broad cultural questions relating to social class, religious orthodoxy, moral reputation, drug use, male homoeroticism and self-representation in the public sphere. It moves towards a coherent theory of medieval disability and bodily aesthetics in Islamic cultural traditions.

Disabilities --- Sociology of disability --- Social aspects --- History --- Sociology of disablement --- Sociology of impairment --- People with disabilities --- Disability --- Disabling conditions --- Handicaps --- Impairment --- Physical disabilities --- Physical handicaps --- Diseases --- Wounds and injuries --- Animals with disabilities --- Sociological aspects --- islamic --- Arab --- disability --- friendship --- bodies --- masculinity --- Mamluk --- Ottoman --- Cairo --- Damasvus --- Mecca --- classical Arabic --- Damascus --- Hadith --- Muslim world --- Islam --- History of human medicine --- History of civilization

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For many people, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia evokes images of deserts, camels, and oil, along with rich sheikh in white robes, oppressed women in black veils, and terrorists. But when Loring Danforth traveled through the country in 2012, he found a world much more complex and inspiring than he could have ever imagined. With vivid descriptions and moving personal narratives, Danforth takes us across the Kingdom, from the headquarters of Saudi Aramco, the country's national oil company on the Persian Gulf, to the centuries-old city of Jeddah on the Red Sea coast with its population of undocumented immigrants from all over the Muslim world. He presents detailed portraits of a young woman jailed for protesting the ban on women driving, a Sufi scholar encouraging Muslims and Christians to struggle together with love to know God, and an artist citing the Quran and using metal gears and chains to celebrate the diversity of the pilgrims who come to Mecca.Crossing the Kingdom paints a lucid portrait of contemporary Saudi culture and the lives of individuals, who like us all grapple with modernity at the dawn of the twenty-first century.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Saudi Arabia --- Description and travel. --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- ancient cities. --- ancient ruins. --- camel. --- contemporary. --- current affairs. --- desert. --- foreign country. --- immigrants. --- immigration. --- jeddah. --- kingdom. --- law and order. --- middle east. --- middle eastern culture. --- modern world. --- muslim world. --- muslim. --- natural resources. --- natural world. --- oil. --- oppressed women. --- persian gulf. --- personal narrative. --- prisons. --- protest. --- red sea. --- saudi arabia. --- saudi culture. --- social science. --- sufi. --- travel memoir. --- travel. --- traveler. --- true story. --- womens rights.

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Tomaz Mastnak's provocative analysis of the roots of peacemaking in the Western world elucidates struggles for peace that took place in the high and late Middle Ages. Mastnak traces the ways that eleventh-century peace movements, seeking to end violence among Christians, shaped not only power structures within Christendom but also the relationship of the Western Christian world to the world outside. The unification of Christian society under the banner of "holy peace" precipitated a fundamental division between the Christian and non-Christian worlds, and the postulated peace among Christians led to holy war against non-Christians.

Crusades. --- Peace --- Just war doctrine --- Monarchy --- Kingdom (Monarchy) --- Executive power --- Political science --- Royalists --- Jus ad bellum --- War --- War (Philosophy) --- Coexistence, Peaceful --- Peaceful coexistence --- International relations --- Disarmament --- Peace-building --- Security, International --- Church history --- Middle Ages --- Chivalry --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- History of doctrines --- History --- Islam. --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Europe --- bernard of clairvaux. --- bishops. --- blanquerna. --- boniface. --- cardini. --- carolingian. --- christendom. --- christian sects. --- christianity. --- church doctrine. --- church history. --- crusades. --- diplomacy. --- empire. --- europe. --- holy crusade. --- holy peace. --- holy war. --- imperialism. --- islam. --- just war. --- medieval. --- middle ages. --- middle east. --- monarchy. --- monks. --- muslim world. --- pagans. --- papal monarchy. --- peace. --- peacemaking. --- peter the venerable. --- philip iv. --- religion. --- religious violence. --- religious war. --- roger bacon. --- spirituality. --- st francis of assisi. --- thomas aquinas. --- war. --- warrior monks. --- will of god.