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The Hajj : The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places
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ISBN: 0691225141 Year: 1994 Publisher: Chichester : Princeton University Press,

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Among the duties God imposes upon every Muslim capable of doing so is a pilgrimage to the holy places in and around Mecca in Arabia. Not only is it a religious ritual filled with blessings for the millions who make the journey annually, but it is also a social, political, and commercial experience that for centuries has set in motion a flood of travelers across the world's continents. Whatever its outcome--spiritual enrichment, cultural exchange, financial gain or ruin--the road to Mecca has long been an exhilarating human adventure. By collecting the firsthand accounts of these travelers and shaping their experiences into a richly detailed narrative, F. E. Peters here provides an unparalleled literary history of the central ritual of Islam from its remote pre-Islamic origins to the end of the Hashimite Kingdom of the Hijaz in 1926.


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Home and homeland : the dialogics of tribal and national identities in Jordan
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ISBN: 0691194785 1282751751 9786612751752 1400820987 1400812488 9781400812486 9780691094786 0691094780 1400816939 Year: 1994 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : :Princeton University Press,

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In this provocative examination of collective identity in Jordan, Linda Layne challenges long-held Western assumptions that Arabs belong to easily recognizable corporate social groups. Who is a "true" Jordanian? Who is a "true" Bedouin? These questions, according to Layne, are examples of a kind of pigeonholing that has distorted the reality of Jordanian national politics. In developing an alternate approach, she shows that the fluid social identities of Jordan emerge from an ongoing dialogue among tribespeople, members of the intelligentsia, Hashemite rulers, and Western social scientists. Many commentators on social identity in the Middle East limit their studies to the village level, but Layne's goal is to discover how the identity-building processes of the locality and of the nation condition each other. She finds that the tribes create their own cultural "homes" through a dialogue with official nationalist rhetoric and Jordanian urbanites, while King Hussein, in turn, maintains the idea of the "homeland" in ways that are powerfully influenced by the tribespeople. The identities so formed resemble the shifting, irregular shapes of postmodernist land-scapes--but Hussein and the Jordanian people are also beginning to use a classically modernist linear narrative to describe themselves. Layne maintains, however, that even with this change Jordanian identities will remain resistant to all-or-nothing descriptions.

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Bedouins --- Beduins --- Arabs --- Ethnology --- Nomads --- North Africans --- Ethnic identity. --- Jordan --- Giordania --- Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan --- Hashimite Kingdom of the Jordan --- Jordania --- Jordanien --- Mamlaka al-Urduniya al-Hashemiyah --- Mamlakah al-Urdunīyah al-Hāshimīyah --- Urdun --- Urdunn --- Yarden --- Transjordan --- Social life and customs. --- 1948 Arab–Israeli War. --- A Girl Like Her. --- Adoption. --- Adultery. --- Al-Aqsa Mosque. --- Algerian Civil War. --- American Enterprise Institute. --- Amman. --- Arab Cooperation Council. --- Arab Revolt. --- Arab nationalism. --- Arabs. --- Ariel Sharon. --- Bahá'í Faith. --- Ballot box. --- Barracks. --- Basseri. --- Bedouin. --- Capitalism. --- Circassians. --- Citizens (Spanish political party). --- Civil service. --- Clifford Geertz. --- Cultural Revolution. --- Dichotomy. --- Eastern world. --- Family honor. --- Fawaz. --- Feudalism. --- French Colonial. --- Green Revolution. --- Hashemites. --- Holism. --- Household. --- Human migration. --- Intelligentsia. --- John Bagot Glubb. --- Jordan Valley (Middle East). --- Jordan. --- Julian Jaynes. --- King of Syria. --- Kuwait. --- Legal practice. --- Majlis. --- Marshall Sahlins. --- Mattress. --- Middle East. --- Model village. --- Modernity. --- Mrs. --- Muslim world. --- National security. --- New Laws. --- Nuclear family. --- Of Education. --- One Unit. --- Palestinian refugee camps. --- Palestinian refugees. --- Palestinians. --- Political Man. --- Political alliance. --- Postmodernism. --- Prayer rug. --- Rashid Khalidi. --- Reasonable person. --- Refugee. --- Regency Council (Poland). --- Residence. --- Ritualization. --- Sally Falk Moore. --- Saudi Arabia. --- Sedentism. --- Segmentary lineage. --- Six-Day War. --- Slavery. --- Social anthropology. --- Social transformation. --- Sodomy. --- Sovereignty. --- Special Relationship. --- State formation. --- Suffrage. --- Surname. --- T. E. Lawrence. --- The Other Hand. --- Traditional society. --- Tribal Leadership. --- Tribal sovereignty in the United States. --- Tribalism. --- Tribe. --- United Arab Emirates. --- United States. --- V. --- Vegetable. --- Vernacular architecture. --- Voting age. --- Voting. --- Wadi Rum. --- Widad Kawar. --- Zionism.


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Palestine and the Great Powers, 1945-1948
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ISBN: 069161069X 1400853575 Year: 1982 Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press,

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Cohen examines the struggle leading to the creation of the state of Israel, placing British evacuation of Palestine in the context of Britain's postwar weakness. The author describes the policies and character of each of the major actors in his story--Bevin. Truman. Ben-Gurion, and the Mufti of Jerusalem.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Palestine --- History --- 1948 Palestine war. --- Abba Eban. --- Abdullah I of Jordan. --- Allied-occupied Germany. --- American Council for Judaism. --- American Jewish Committee. --- American Zionist Movement. --- Aneurin Bevan. --- Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. --- Arab League. --- Arab Legion. --- Arab Revolt. --- Arab citizens of Israel. --- Arabs. --- Arab–Israeli conflict. --- Arthur Balfour. --- Balfour Declaration. --- Bartley Crum. --- Beersheba. --- British Mandate for Palestine (legal instrument). --- Camille Chamoun. --- Chaim Weizmann. --- Colonial Office. --- David Ben-Gurion. --- Demobilization. --- Dov Gruner. --- Duff Cooper. --- Eliezer Kaplan. --- Emirate of Transjordan. --- General Zionists. --- Georges Bidault. --- Haganah. --- Harold Beeley. --- Harold Laski. --- Harry S. Truman. --- Hashomer Hatzair. --- Herbert Morrison. --- Homeland for the Jewish people. --- Ibn Saud. --- Imperialism. --- International recognition of Israel. --- Irgun. --- Israel. --- Israeli Declaration of Independence. --- Israeli–Palestinian conflict. --- Itzhak Ben-Zvi. --- J. C. Hurewitz. --- Jewish Agency for Israel. --- Jewish Brigade. --- Jewish Resistance Movement. --- Jewish leadership. --- Jewish lobby. --- Jewish refugees. --- Jewish religious terrorism. --- Jewish right. --- Jews. --- Jordan Valley (Middle East). --- Judea. --- Kfar Etzion. --- Kohn. --- Lehi (group). --- Mandatory Palestine. --- Marshall Plan. --- Middle East Journal. --- Middle East. --- Moscow Conference (1945). --- Mossad. --- Nablus. --- National Movement (Poland). --- Oil embargo. --- Operation Nachshon. --- Palestinian Jews. --- Palestinian government. --- Palestinian territories. --- Palestinians. --- Palmach. --- Prime Minister of Israel. --- Provisional government. --- Ramallah. --- Special rights. --- State of Palestine. --- Succession of states. --- Surrender of Japan. --- Tel Aviv. --- Treaty of Alliance (1778). --- United Arab Emirates. --- United Jewish Appeal. --- United Kingdom–United States relations. --- United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine. --- United Nations Trusteeship Council. --- United States Department of State. --- Weizmann. --- West Berlin. --- White Paper of 1939. --- World War II. --- Yishuv. --- Yom Kippur. --- Zionism. --- Zionist Organization of America.

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