North Africa

a history from antiquity to the present

North Africa has been a vital crossroads throughout history, serving as a connection between Africa, Asia, and Europe. Paradoxically, however, the region's historical significance has been chronically under- estimated. In a book that may lead scholars to re-imagine the concept of Western civilization, incorporating ...

The Afghanistan wars

Maley offers a valuable insight into Afghanistan's wars and the domestic, regional, and international politics that have exposed the population of what was once one of the most stable states in Asia to enormous damage. Biography: William Maley is Associate Professor of Politics at ...

El Corán y el futuro del Islam

Trad., Gabriel Menéndez Torrellas. El Islam, como otras religiones, se encuentra en un momento de tensión entre la tradición y el mundo moderno. Abu Zayd, teólogo expulsado de Egipto por su interpretación reformista del Corán, presenta una visión muy moderna sobre la Sagrada Escritura del ...

Obras médicas IV

Vol.4: Los aforismos médicos (Libros I-VI)

Los 'aforismos médicos' es la obra de más envergadura escrita por Maimónides en el campo de la medicina y una de las que tuvo mayor repercusión entre sus lectores.

El islam del África Negra

Ed., Ferrán Iniesta. Después de 2001, con el ataque a las Torres Gemelas de Nueva York, el islam se ha cargado en Occidente de toda suerte de negatividades. Para muchosos politólogos ha pasado a ser un mundo aparte, homogéneo, y no modernizable, salvo en las ...

Sharî`a

theory, practice, transformations

In recent years, Islamic law, or Shari'a, has been appropriated as a tool of modernity in the Muslim world and in the West and has become highly politicised in consequence. Wael Hallaq's magisterial overview of Shari'a sets the record straight by examining ...

Africaníssimo

una aproximación multidisciplinar a las culturas negroafricanas

Ed., Olga Barrios. Esta colección multidisciplinar de ensayos -sobre temas tan diversos como historia, filosofía, derechos humanos y conflictos armados, literatura, danza y artes plásticas- pretende contribuir a acercarnos a las múltiples y diversas culturas negroafricanas existentes, y combatir así los cada vez más altos ...

Política y religión en el campo islámico

Traducido por José Miguel Marcén. La polémica sobre las relaciones entre religión y política es una de las más persistentes entre los islamólogos, hasta el punto que llega a todos los interesados en la cuestión. Las respuestas que se han dado en uno u otro ...

The rebirth of the Middle East

The Rebirth of the Middle East, is based on more than 15 years of research and interviews on this proposition. To assist in evolving a regional economic community over time, for 28 nations of the Middle East, with a population nearing ½ billion people, will ...

Islam in South Asia

in practice

Edited by Barbara D. Metcalf. This volume of Princeton Readings in Religions brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies in South Asia to create a rich anthology of primary texts that contributes to a new appreciation of the ...

Pashas

traders and travellers in the Islamic world

Long before they came as occupiers, the British were drawn to the Middle East by the fabled riches of its trade and the enlightened tolerance of its people. The Pashas, merchants and travelers from Europe, discovered an Islamic world that was alluring, dynamic, and diverse ...

Germán de Silesia

interpretatio alcorani litteralis

Contiene: Parte 1: la traducción latina; introducción y edición crítica. Esta obra es un importante resultado del objetivo de edición de las traducciones latinas del Corán. Además la obra ofrece un estudio detallado de cuanto hoy se conoce en el estudio de la vida y ...

Lebanon

liberation, conflict, and crisis

Edited by Barry Rubin. For the first time since the 1980s, Lebanon is now constantly on the front page of the world's media. This book seeks to explain the contemporary situation in Lebanon and how it affects the region and the world.

Mitos y realidades de África Subsahariana

Existen varias Áfricas o una sola? ¿Tienen los africanos capacidad para sobrevivir en la adversidad o el continente está destinado a un naufragio ineluctable? ¿La tutela internacional oxigena su economía y su sistema político o, por el contrario, les está ahogando? Para los autores, África ...

An atlas of Middle Eastern affairs

Cartography by Ian M. Cool. The Middle East is a major focus of world interest. This atlas provides accessible, concisely written entries on the most important current issues in the Middle East, combining maps with their geopolitical background. Providing a clear context for analysis of ...

Princeton readings in islamist thought

texts and contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden

Edited and introduced by Roxanne L. Euben and Muhammad Qasim Zaman. "This book is an excellent primer on the key ideas and prominent thinkers that have shaped Islamism over the past century. Euben and Zaman provide the reader with both text and context by pairing ...

Slavery, Islam and diaspora

Edited by Behnaz A. Mirzai, Ismael Musah Montana and Paul E. Lovejoy. Slavery, Islam and Diaspora explores slavery in the context of the Muslim world through a study of the African Diaspora. The volume identifies the enslaved population as a distinct social stratum in Islamic ...

The Borders of Islam

exploring Huntington´s Faultlines, from Al-Andalus to the virtual Ummah

In his seminal work The Clash of Civilisations, Harvard professor Samuel P. Huntington claimed that conflict between cultural blocs, or civilizations, will dominate the future. More controversially, he predicted that future conflicts will occur on the borders between Western and Islamic civilisations. The statements of ...

Morocco

challenges to tradition and modernity

For many contemporary observers and analysts, Morocco remains a mystery. So close to Europe, Morocco simultaneously represents a similarly open political culture and its complete antithesis: Human rights associations openly challenge authoritarian rule, while an emphasis on Moroccan singularity and authenticity prevents the establishment of ...

Los epistolarios de Julián Ribera Tarragó y Miguel Asín Palacios. Introducción, catálogo e índices

Auts., Manuela Marín...[et al.] Se recogen los epistolarios de dos de los arabistas españoles más importantes, que se conservan en el Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CSIC, procedentes de la antigua Escuela de Estudios Árabes de Madrid y descubiertos en 1999. Se ...