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The Letters of Khwāja ʾUbayd Allāh Aḥrār and his Associates
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ISBN: 9789004492424 9789004126039 Year: 2002 Publisher: Leiden; Boston : BRILL

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This English edition of the correspondence of Khwāja 'Ubayd Allāh Aḥrār, the fifteenth-century Central Asian Naqshbandī Sufi shaykh, and his associates provides surprising new insights into the sociopolitical and economic history of premodern Central Asia and the influential roles of Sufi leaders of the time. It contains the extraordinary collection of autograph letters from the Majmū'a-yi murāsalāt , a unique manuscript housed at the Institute of Oriental Studies in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, with petitions to the Timurid court at Herat. The letters cover such topics as internecine conflict, peacemaking, taxation, property and endowments, trade, migration, Islamic piety and law, material support of shaykhs and students, and relief from oppression. Three introductory chapters discuss the Central Asian Naqshbandīya, Khwāja 'Ubayd Allāh Aḥrār, the social, historical, economic and political significance of the letters, and the manuscript and its authors. With the Persian transcription and a complete facsimile of the manuscript letters reproduced at the end of the work.

The strike that changed New York : blacks, whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis
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ISBN: 1281730823 9786611730826 0300130708 9780300130706 0300081227 9780300081220 Year: 2002 Publisher: New Haven, Connecticut : Yale University Press,

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On May 9, 1968, junior high school teacher Fred Nauman received a letter that would change the history of New York City. It informed him that he had been fired from his job. Eighteen other educators in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville area of Brooklyn received similar letters that day. The dismissed educators were white. The local school board that fired them was predominantly African-American. The crisis that the firings provoked became the most racially divisive moment in the city in more than a century, sparking three teachers' strikes and increasingly angry confrontations between black and white New Yorkers at bargaining tables, on picket lines, and in the streets. This superb book revisits the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis-a watershed in modern New York City race relations. Jerald E. Podair connects the conflict with the sociocultural history of the city and explores its legacy. The book is a powerful, sobering tale of racial misunderstanding and fear, a New York story with national implications.

Race, citizenship, and law in American literature
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ISBN: 1107124344 1280162260 051111981X 0511041853 0511156626 0511325495 0511485476 0511044348 9780511041853 0521806844 9780521806848 0521010934 9780521010931 9780511119811 9780511485473 9780511044342 9780511156625 9786610162260 6610162263 9781107124349 9781280162268 9780511325496 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In this broad ranging and powerful study, Gregg Crane examines the interaction between civic identity, race and justice in American law and literature. Crane recounts the efforts of literary and legal figures to bring the nation's law into line with the moral consensus that slavery and racial oppression were evil. By documenting an actual historical interaction central both to American literature and American constitutional law, Crane reveals the influence of literature on the constitutional discourse of citizenship. Covering such writers as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Frederick Douglass, and a whole range of novelists, poets, philosophers, politicians, lawyers and judges, this is a remarkable book, that will revise the relationship between race and nationalism in American literature.

Race, citizenship, and law in American literature
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ISBN: 0521010934 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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