Family History in the Middle East

Family History in the Middle East
Title Family History in the Middle East PDF eBook
Author Beshara Doumani
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 354
Release 2012-02-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0791487075

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Despite the constant refrain that family is the most important social institution in Middle Eastern societies, only recently has it become the focus for rethinking the modern history of the Middle East. This book introduces exciting new findings by historians, anthropologists, and historical demographers that challenge pervasive assumptions about family made in the past. Using specific case studies based on original archival research and fieldwork, the contributors focus on the interplay between micro and macro processes of change and bridge the gap between materialist and discursive frameworks of analysis. They reveal the flexibility and dynamism of family life and show the complex juxtaposition of different rhythms of time (individual time, family time, historical time). These findings interface directly with and demonstrate the need for a critical reassessment of current debates on gender, modernity, and Islam.

Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean

Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean
Title Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean PDF eBook
Author Beshara Doumani
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 373
Release 2017-06-08
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 0521766605

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Beshara B. Doumani uses a variety of local sources to examine everyday family life throughout the Ottoman Empire.

House of Stone

House of Stone
Title House of Stone PDF eBook
Author Anthony Shadid
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 337
Release 2012
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0547134665

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Culture and institutions.

When We Were Arabs

When We Were Arabs
Title When We Were Arabs PDF eBook
Author Massoud Hayoun
Publisher The New Press
Pages 178
Release 2019-06-25
Genre History
ISBN 1620974584

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WINNER OF THE ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR The stunning debut of a brilliant nonfiction writer whose vivid account of his grandparents' lives in Egypt, Tunisia, Palestine, and Los Angeles reclaims his family's Jewish Arab identity There was a time when being an "Arab" didn't mean you were necessarily Muslim. It was a time when Oscar Hayoun, a Jewish Arab, strode along the Nile in a fashionable suit, long before he and his father arrived at the port of Haifa to join the Zionist state only to find themselves hosed down with DDT and then left unemployed on the margins of society. In that time, Arabness was a mark of cosmopolitanism, of intellectualism. Today, in the age of the Likud and ISIS, Oscar's son, the Jewish Arab journalist Massoud Hayoun whom Oscar raised in Los Angeles, finds his voice by telling his family's story. To reclaim a worldly, nuanced Arab identity is, for Hayoun, part of the larger project to recall a time before ethnic identity was mangled for political ends. It is also a journey deep into a lost age of sophisticated innocence in the Arab world; an age that is now nearly lost. When We Were Arabs showcases the gorgeous prose of the Eppy Award–winning writer Massoud Hayoun, bringing the worlds of his grandparents alive, vividly shattering our contemporary understanding of what makes an Arab, what makes a Jew, and how we draw the lines over which we do battle.

Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies

Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies
Title Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies PDF eBook
Author Sarah Bowen Savant
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 192
Release 2014-04-08
Genre Reference
ISBN 0748644989

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These case studies link genealogical knowledge to particular circumstances in which it was created, circulated and promoted. They stress the malleability of kinship and memory, and the interests this malleability serves. From the Prophet's family tree to the present, ideas about kinship and descent have shaped communal and national identities in Muslim societies. So an understanding of genealogy is vital to our understanding of Muslim societies, particularly with regard to the generation, preservation and manipulation of genealogical knowledge.

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle Eastern and North African History

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle Eastern and North African History
Title The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle Eastern and North African History PDF eBook
Author Jens Hanssen
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 672
Release 2020-11-30
Genre History
ISBN 0191652792

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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History critically examines the defining processes and structures of historical developments in North Africa and the Middle East over the past two centuries. The Handbook pays particular attention to countries that have leapt out of the political shadows of dominant and better-studied neighbours in the course of the unfolding uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa. These dramatic and interconnected developments have exposed the dearth of informative analysis available in surveys and textbooks, particularly on Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria.

Women and the Family in the Middle East

Women and the Family in the Middle East
Title Women and the Family in the Middle East PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
Publisher Austin : University of Texas Press
Pages 400
Release 1985
Genre Social Science
ISBN

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An old culture investigated from a new perspective of Feminism in relation to the traditional values of Islam. -- Amazon.com.