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The Libyan landscape is one of the most diverse and breathtaking, replete with barren deserts, vast ocean coasts, and a stunning display of earth's elements. Al-Koni, an award-winning and critically acclaimed Arabic writer, reflects on this fragile environment and the increasing threats to its existence in A Sleepless Eye, a collection of the poet's desert wisdom. He highlights the relationships between humans and Libya's natural features, grouping them by theme: nature, desert, water, sea, wind, rock, trees, and fire. Each theme contains a set of aphorisms that deliver thoughtful perspectives on what it means to coexist with an evolving planet. This volume is the result of the author's collaboration with the celebrated French nature photographer, Alain Sebe, and English translator Allen. The product is a body of work that calls upon readers to question their relationship with the earth through meditative ideas and photos, familiarizing English readers with the fundamental philosophies of environmental stewardship that transcend all boundaries.
Aphorisms and apothegms. --- Desert people --- Desert peoples --- Ethnology --- Ana --- Apothegms --- Gnomes (Maxims) --- Sayings --- Epigrams --- Maxims --- Proverbs --- Quotations --- Sahara --- Sahara Desert --- Africa, North
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This study is the first of its kind to examine the history and organization of trans-Saharan trade in western Africa using original source material. It documents the internal dynamics of a trade network system based on a case study of 'Berber' traders from the Wād Nūn region, who specialized in outfitting camel caravans in the nineteenth century. Through an examination of contracts, correspondence, fatwas and interviews with retired caravaners, Professor Lydon shows how traders used their literacy skills in Arabic and how they had recourse to experts of Islamic law to regulate their long-distance transactions. The book also examines the strategies devised by women to participate in caravan trade. By embracing a continental approach, this study bridges the divide between West African and North African studies. The work will be of interest to historians of Africa, the Middle East, and the world and to scholars of long-distance trade, Muslim societies and Islamic law.
West Africa --- Trade routes --- Sahara --- Routes commerciales --- Islam --- History --- Histoire --- Histoire. --- Africa, West --- Afrique occidentale --- Pays musulmans --- Commerce --- Relations --- History of Africa --- anno 1800-1899 --- Commercial routes --- Foreign trade routes --- Ocean routes --- Routes of trade --- Sea lines of communication --- Sea routes --- Sahara Desert --- Africa, North --- Africa, Western --- Western Africa --- History. --- Islamic countries --- Muslim countries --- Arts and Humanities
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The Sahara has long been portrayed as a barrier that divides the Mediterranean world from Africa proper and isolates the countries of the Maghrib from their southern and eastern neighbors. Rather than viewing the desert as an isolating barrier, this volume takes up historian Fernand Braudel's description of the Sahara as ""the second face of the Mediterranean."" The essays recast the history of the region with the Sahara at its center, uncovering a story of densely interdependent networks that span the desert's vast expanse. They explore the relationship between the desert's ""islands"" and
Trade routes --- Africans --- Commercial routes --- Foreign trade routes --- Ocean routes --- Routes of trade --- Sea lines of communication --- Sea routes --- Commerce --- Ethnology --- Migrations. --- Africa, West --- Africa, North --- Sahara --- Africa, Western --- West Africa --- Western Africa --- Barbary States --- Maghreb --- Maghrib --- North Africa --- Sahara Desert --- Relations --- Ethnic relations. --- Emigration and immigration. --- #SBIB:314H252 --- #SBIB:39A6 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Migrations --- Internationale migratie --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Etnografie: Afrika
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The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the perspective of communities on the northern coast, who became, to some extent, beneficiaries of colonialism. But to the south, in the Sahara, Jews faced a harsher colonial treatment. In Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria, Sarah Abrevaya Stein asks why the Jews of Algeria's south were marginalized by French authorities, how they negotiated the sometimes brutal results, and what the reverberations have been in the postcolonial era. Drawing on materials from thirty archives across six countries, Stein tells the story of colonial imposition on a desert community that had lived and traveled in the Sahara for centuries. She paints an intriguing historical picture-of an ancient community, trans-Saharan commerce, desert labor camps during World War II, anthropologist spies, battles over oil, and the struggle for Algerian sovereignty. Writing colonialism and decolonization into Jewish history and Jews into the French Saharan one, Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria is a fascinating exploration not of Jewish exceptionalism but of colonial power and its religious and cultural differentiations, which have indelibly shaped the modern world.
Jews --- History. --- Mzab (Algeria) --- France --- History. --- Colonies --- north africa, judaism, french algeria, colonialism, sahara desert, marginalized people, authorities, postcolonial era, archival research, trans-saharan commerce, ancient community, labor camps, world war ii, anthropologist spies, oil, algerian sovereignty, jews, decolonization, jewish exceptionalism, history, colonial power, harsh treatment, cultural differentiations, religion, mizrahim, identity, indigenous legal status, cremieux decree of 1870, ethnographic study.
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Almost every day of the year a film festival takes place somewhere in the world--from sub-Saharan Africa to the Land of the Midnight Sun. Sundance to Sarajevo is a tour of the world's film festivals by an insider whose familiarity with the personalities, places, and culture surrounding the cinema makes him uniquely suited to his role. Kenneth Turan, film critic for the Los Angeles Times, writes about the most unusual as well as the most important film festivals, and the cities in which they occur, with an eye toward the larger picture. His lively narrative emphasizes the cultural, political, and sociological aspects of each event as well as the human stories that influence the various and telling ways the film world and the real world intersect. Of the festivals profiled in detail, Cannes and Sundance are obvious choices as the biggest, brashest, and most influential of the bunch. The others were selected for their ability to open a window onto a wider, more diverse world and cinema's place in it. Sometimes, as with Sarajevo and Havana, film is a vehicle for understanding the international political community's most vexing dilemmas. Sometimes, as with Burkina Faso's FESPACO and Pordenone's Giornate del Cinema Muto, it's a chance to examine the very nature of the cinematic experience. But always the stories in this book show us that film means more and touches deeper chords than anyone might have expected. No other book explores so many different festivals in such detail or provides a context beyond the merely cinematic.
Film festivals. --- Performing arts festivals. --- Performing arts --- Art festivals --- Film and video festivals --- Motion picture festivals --- Moving-picture festivals --- Video and film festivals --- Performing arts festivals --- Festivals --- academic. --- actors. --- award winning films. --- cannes. --- cinema studies. --- cinematic. --- cultural studies. --- culture. --- directors. --- film critic. --- film criticism. --- film festival. --- film history. --- film studies. --- history of film. --- influential. --- international. --- land of the midnight sun. --- political. --- sahara desert. --- sarajevo. --- scholarly. --- social studies. --- sociology. --- sub saharan africa. --- sundance.
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La présence d'oasis dans le Sahara peut sembler une aberration écologique. Les palmeraies et les jardins qu'elles abritent sont en fait le fruit d'une conquête millénaire qui se poursuit encore aujourd'hui. Ces paysages artificiels, terroirs soigneusement façonnés et entretenus, sont l'archétype des systèmes naturels anthropisés. Cet ouvrage a été réalisé à partir d'enquêtes de terrain menées dans le Jérid tunisien, mais aussi dans le Tassili n'Ajjer (Djanet, Algérie) et l'oued Draa (Zagora, Maroc). Si cette perspective comparative révèle la diversité des pratiques et savoirs oasiens et des relations à l'environnement, elle met aussi en valeur les dynamiques locales qui se déploient au-delà de l'habituel dualisme entre tradition et modernité. Par ailleurs, plusieurs échelles d'étude, de la planche de cultures au jardin et du parcellaire à la palmeraie, permettent de souligner la variété des articulations entre facteurs écologiques, économiques et sociaux. Le Sahara cultivé n'offre pas une mais des natures oasiennes en constante évolution, construites à partir de cette richesse anthropologique.
Jardin --- gardens --- Arecaceae --- Plante alimentaire --- Food crops --- Communauté végétale --- Plant communities --- Irrigation --- Pratique culturale --- Cultivation --- Environnement socioéconomique --- socioeconomic environment --- Environnement socioculturel --- sociocultural environment --- Oasis --- Oases --- Désert du Sahara --- Sahara Desert --- Oases. --- Arid regions agriculture --- Jarīd, Shaṭṭ al- (Tunisia) --- Economic conditions. --- Social life and customs. --- Dryland agriculture --- Dryland farming --- Agriculture --- Crop zones --- Desert reclamation --- Chott Djerid (Tunisia) --- Chott el Djerid (Tunisia) --- Chott el Jerid (Tunisia) --- Djerid, Chott (Tunisia) --- Jerid, Chott el (Tunisia) --- Shaṭṭ al-Jarīd (Tunisia) --- système agraire --- Djérid --- oasis --- Tunisie --- désert --- exploitation agricole --- environnement --- Sahara
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"Examines the works of two Sufi Muslim scholars, Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son Sīdi Muḥammad (d. 1826), focusing on their cosmology and metaphysics of the realm of the unseen, in relation to the history of magical discourses within the Hellenistic and Arabo-Islamic worlds"--
Sufism. --- Islamic magic. --- Sufism --- Islamic magic --- Magic, Islamic --- Muslim magic --- Magic --- Sofism --- Mysticism --- History. --- Islam --- Kuntī, al-Mukhtār ibn Aḥmad, --- Kuntī, Muḥammad bin al-Mukhtār, --- Sahara. --- Sahara Desert --- Africa, North --- El Kounti, Mohamed, --- Kounti, Mohamed, --- Kuntī, Muḥammad, --- Muḥammad bin al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī, --- Muḥammad bin al-Mukhtār bin Aḥmad bin Abī Bakr al-Kuntī al-Wāfī, --- كنتي، محمد بن المختار --- كنتي، محمد بن المختار، --- Mukhtār ibn Aḥmad al-Kuntī, --- Shinqīṭī, al-Mukhtār ibn Aḥmad, --- الشنقيطي، المختار أحمد محمود --- كونتي، المختار بن احمد --- كنتي، المختار بن أحمد --- كنتي، المختار بن احمد،
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À quels critères et à quelles exigences répond la « fabrication » des élites du monde nomade ? Quelles sont les métamorphoses qui les travaillent dans un environnement politique, économique, social et cultures en pleine mutation ? Ce volume à plusieurs plumes appréhende la question à travers deux exemples : les Touaregs et les Maures. Il s’interroge sur la hiérarchie des savoirs mobilisés et valorisés dans chacune de ces sociétés, sur les pratiques et les pouvoirs d’action auxquels ils conduisent, sur les conditions nécessaires à leur perpétuation ou au contraire à leur invalidation. La notion d’élite est explorée ici dans une acception large, comme la représentation en vigueur dans une société donnée des « personnes les meilleures, les plus remarquables d’un groupe » (Littré, Le Robert). Elle est étudiée dans une perspective diachronique qui met en avant l’évolution des modalités de transmission des connaissances et de leur contenu. Les correspondances apparaissent multiples entre les divers types de savoirs et de pouvoirs. La transformation de l’ordre du politique, en particulier, a des répercussions évidentes sur l’ensemble des autres domaines, qu’ils concernent les modes d’interprétation et de gestion du social du culturel, de l’économique, du sacré…
History & Archaeology --- Regions & Countries - Africa --- Mauritania --- Sahara --- Social life and customs. --- Sahara Desert --- Africa, North --- Mauretania --- Mauritanie --- Mavritanii︠a︡ --- Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Mavritanii︠a︡ --- Territoire de la Mauritanie --- Islamic Republic of Mauritania --- République islamique de Mauritanie --- Jumhūrīyah al-Islāmīyah al-Mūrītānīyah --- R.I. Mauritanie --- RI Mauritanie --- Mūrītāniyā --- République islamique arabe et africaine de Mauritanie --- Mūrītāniyyah --- Al-Ğumhūriyyah al-Islāmiyyah al-Mūrītāniyyah --- Ğumhūriyyah al-Islāmiyyah al-Mūrītāniyyah --- Muritaniyah --- موريتانيا --- Mūrītānyā --- Gànnaar --- Murutaane --- Moritani --- الجمهورية الإسلامية الموريتانية --- al-Jumhūrīyah al-Islāmīyah al-Mūrītānīyah --- جمهورية الإسلامية الموريتانية --- モーリタニア --- Mōritania --- Mauretanien --- élite --- Maures --- Touaregs
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As the manuscript treasures in the libraries of Timbuktu and throughout the northwestern quarter of Africa become known, many questions are raised. How did a manuscript culture flourish in the Sahara and in Muslim Africa more generally? Under what conditions did African intellectuals thrive, and how did they acquire scholarly works and the writing paper necessary to contribute to knowledge? By exploring the history of the trans-Saharan book and paper trades, the scholarly production and teaching curricula of African Muslims and the formation, preservation and codicology of library collections, the authors of this original volume provide a variety of answers. The select number of invited contributions represents current research in the material, technological, economic, and cultural dimensions of manuscript production, circulation, and preservation, and the development of specific scholarly and intellectual traditions in Saharan and Sudanic Africa.
091 <6> --- 091 =927 --- 091 =927 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Arabisch --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Arabisch --- 091 <6> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Afrika --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Afrika --- Arabic literature --- Northern Africa --- West Africa --- Manuscripts, Arabic --- Islamic learning and scholarship --- Manuscrits arabes --- Codicologie --- Collectionneurs et collections --- Sahara --- Book industries and trade -- Africa, Northwest -- History. --- Codicology -- Africa, Northwest. --- Islamic learning and scholarship -- Africa, Northwest -- History. --- Manuscripts -- Collectors and collecting -- Africa, Northwest. --- Manuscripts, Arabic -- Africa, Northwest. --- Sahara -- Commerce -- History. --- Reference & resource series. --- REFERENCE. --- Handschriften. --- Moslims. --- Noordwest-Afrika. --- North Africa --- Book industries and trade --- Codicology --- Manuscripts --- Boekhandel. --- Commerce --- History. --- Collectors and collecting --- Learning and scholarship --- Muslim learning and scholarship --- Muslims --- Manuscriptology --- Bibliography --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- Codices --- Books --- Nonbook materials --- Archival materials --- Charters --- Diplomatics --- Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Paleography --- Transmission of texts --- Arabic manuscripts --- History --- Commerce&delete& --- Intellectual life --- Book history --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- Manuscrits --- Livres --- Musulmans --- Industrie --- Savoir et érudition --- Histoire --- Sahara Desert --- Africa, North
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Nomads --- Social life and customs. --- Sedentarization --- Mauritania --- Sahel --- Sahara --- Social life and customs --- Nomadic peoples --- Nomadism --- Pastoral peoples --- Vagabonds --- Wanderers --- Persons --- Herders --- Sahara Desert --- Africa, North --- Mauretania --- Mauritanie --- Mavritanii︠a︡ --- Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Mavritanii︠a︡ --- Territoire de la Mauritanie --- Islamic Republic of Mauritania --- République islamique de Mauritanie --- Jumhūrīyah al-Islāmīyah al-Mūrītānīyah --- R.I. Mauritanie --- RI Mauritanie --- Mūrītāniyā --- République islamique arabe et africaine de Mauritanie --- Mūrītāniyyah --- Al-Ğumhūriyyah al-Islāmiyyah al-Mūrītāniyyah --- Ğumhūriyyah al-Islāmiyyah al-Mūrītāniyyah --- Muritaniyah --- موريتانيا --- Mūrītānyā --- Gànnaar --- Murutaane --- Moritani --- الجمهورية الإسلامية الموريتانية --- al-Jumhūrīyah al-Islāmīyah al-Mūrītānīyah --- جمهورية الإسلامية الموريتانية --- モーリタニア --- Mōritania --- Mauretanien
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