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Contributi alla storiografia arabo-islamica in Italia tra Otto e Novecento.
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ISBN: 9788863720549 Year: 2008 Publisher: Roma Ed. di storia e letteratura

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Contemporary Arab affairs
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ISSN: 17550912 17550920 Year: 2008 Publisher: London


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Les Cahiers d'EMAM
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ISSN: 21026416 1969248X Year: 2008 Publisher: Tours Equipe Monde arabe Méditerranée

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Les Cahiers d'EMAM sont une revue interdisciplinaire qui se propose de contribuer à la restitution des savoirs sur le Monde arabe et la Méditerranée, dans leurs interférences avec le reste du monde, autour des questions urbaines et des processus de constructions / reconfigurations territoriales dans leurs dimensions sociales, économiques et politiques en encourageant les idées nouvelles et les démarches comparatives.


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Europe Through Arab Eyes, 1578-1727
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ISBN: 9780231141949 0231141947 9780231512084 0231512082 9786613628121 1280598298 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York, NY

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Traveling to archives in Tunisia, Morocco, France, and England, with visits to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Spain, Nabil Matar assembles a rare history of Europe's rise to power as seen through the eyes of those who were later subjugated by it. Many historians of the Middle East believe Arabs and Muslims had no interest in Europe during this period of Western discovery and empire, but in fact these groups were very much engaged with the naval and industrial development, politics, and trade of European Christendom. Beginning in 1578 with a major Moroccan victory over a Portuguese invading army, Matar surveys this early modern period, in which Europeans and Arabs often shared common political, commercial, and military goals. Matar concentrates on how Muslim captives, ransomers, traders, envoys, travelers, and rulers pursued those goals while transmitting to the nonprint cultures of North Africa their knowledge of the peoples and societies of Spain, France, Britain, Holland, Italy, and Malta. From the first non-European description of Queen Elizabeth I to early accounts of Florence and Pisa in Arabic, from Tunisian descriptions of the Morisco expulsion in 1609 to the letters of a Moroccan Armenian ambassador in London, the translations of the book's second half draw on the popular and elite sources that were available to Arabs in the early modern period. Letters from male and female captives in Europe, chronicles of European naval attacks and the taqayid (newspaper) reports on Muslim resistance, and descriptions of opera and quinine appear here in English for the first time. Matar notes that the Arabs of the Maghrib and the Mashriq were eager to engage Christendom, despite wars and rivalries, and hoped to establish routes of trade and alliances through treaties and royal marriages. However, the rise of an intolerant and exclusionary Christianity and the explosion of European military technology brought these advances to an end. In conclusion, Matar details the decline of Arab-Islamic power and the rise of Britain and France.

Santa Claus in Baghdad and other stories about teens in the Arab world
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ISBN: 1281810843 9786611810849 0253000327 9780253000323 0253220041 9780253220042 9781281810847 Year: 2008 Publisher: Bloomington IN : Indiana University Press,

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What is it like to be a young person in the Arab world today? This lively collection of eight short stories about Arab teenagers living in Iraq, Tunisia, Egypt, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and a Palestinian refugee camp engagingly depicts young people's experiences growing up in the Middle East. The characters, drawn from urban and rural settings and from different classes as well as a mix of countries, confront situations involving friends, family, teachers, and society at large. Along with some specifically Middle Eastern issues, such as strife in Iraq, the hardships of life in

Biographical encyclopedia of the modern Middle East and North Africa
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ISBN: 9781414418896 9781414418902 9781414418919 Year: 2008

The church in the shadow of the mosque : Christians and Muslims in the world of Islam
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ISBN: 9780691146287 9780691130156 0691130159 Year: 2008 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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