Search results for “[Subject: middle-eastern]”

• Author(s): Marcel Kurpershoek • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Middle EasternVoices from the Desert is the fifth and concluding volume of Marcel Kurpershoek's Corpus Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia. The fi...

• Author(s): Augustus R. Norton • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralLaunched in 1992, the Civil Society in the Middle East program has brought together dozens of leading scholars to analyze political ...

• Author(s): Marcel Kurpershoek • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Middle EasternThe Story of a Desert Knight is the second volume of a trilogy entitled Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia. It is devoted to the narr...

• Author(s): Kirill Dmitriev • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Asia - GeneralInsatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond explores the cultural ramifications of food and foodways in the Medite...

• Author(s): Mercedes Volait • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Asia - GeneralThis book examines the commodification of Middle Eastern antiques during the Tanzimat period through the social life of typical objects, the agencie...

• Author(s): Mehdi Amineh • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis anthology unites in one volume two studies of the Greater Middle East in global politics - each conceptual and empirical. First, it is a hist...

• Author(s): Baldick | Kadkani | Morrison • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: GeneralNo detailed description available for "Iranian Studies".

• Author(s): Mark Muhannad Ayyash • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Children's StudiesThis collection problematizes the relationship between protests and generations. It examines how the production of generations relates to m...

• Author(s): Gudrun Krämer | Sabine Schmidtke • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Islamic StudiesWho speaks for Islam? To whom do Muslims turn when they look for guidance? To what extent do individual scholars and preachers exe...

• Author(s): Roel Meijer | Nils Butenschøn • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: World - Middle EasternThe Crisis of Citizenship in the Arab World argues that the present crisis of the Arab world has its origins in the historical...

• Author(s): Omid Azadibougar • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Middle EasternMany of the world's greatest novels have been translated into Persian. Though Iranian novelists are almost completely unknown in the outside world....

• Author(s): Pratik Chougule • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: GeneralUsing prominent American-style universities as case studies, American Universities in the Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy explores how these institutio...

• Author(s): Deanna Ferree Womack • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Christian Theology - GeneralWho are the Christians of the Middle East? How have churches and Christian organizations responded to violent conflicts, politica...

• Author(s): Clive Holes • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: GeneralDialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia is a three-volume study of the Arabic dialects spoken in Bahrain by its older generation in the mid-1970s, and ...

• Author(s): Clive Holes • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: GeneralDialect, Culture, and Society in Eastern Arabia, Volume I, Glossary is a comprehensive vocabulary of the 'uneducated' Bahraini Arabic dialects, drawn from a da...

• Author(s): Augustus R. Norton • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Interior Design - GeneralCivil Society in the Middle East provides, in two volumes, an unusually detailed and rich assessment of contemporary politics within t...

• Author(s): Faith Pennick Morgan • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis book examines the dress and personal appearance of members of the middle and lower classes in the eastern Mediterranean region during t...

• Author(s): Gülru Necipoglu • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Middle EasternMuqarnas is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridg...

• Author(s): Cynthia R. Chapman • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralRecognizing gendered metaphors as literary and ideological tools that biblical and Assyrian authors used in the representation of warfare and ...

• Author(s): Gülru Necipoğlu • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Middle EasternThis collective study focuses on a unique undated anonymous primary source on ornamental geometry featuring geometrical constructions and textual in...

• Author(s): Najib George Awad • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Christian Ministry - MissionsAfter-Mission touches on on three questions.The first question is about self-perception and identity-formation strategies, and the ...

• Author(s): Tone Roald • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryIn The Subject of Aesthetics Tone Roald develops a psychology of art based on people's descriptions of their own engagement with visual art