1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451006703321

Autore

Lahoud Nelly <1972-, >

Titolo

Political thought in Islam : a study in intellectual boundaries / / Nelly Lahoud

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

0-203-68574-1

1-134-29607-X

1-280-15063-7

0-203-47928-9

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies

Disciplina

320.5/57

Soggetti

Islam and politics

Political science

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Political Thought in Islam: A Study in Intellectual Boundaries; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on translation and transliteration; Introduction; 1 The Islamists and the Apologists; 2 The Intellectuals and the tradition; 3 Are Islamic politics Islamic or Islamist?; 4 Allegory and orthodoxies; 5 Fārābī: on religion and philosophy; 6 On Ibn Rushd's liberalism; Conclusion; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a study of political thought in Islam from the viewpoint of the history of ideas and the relevance of these ideas to contemporary Arabic political discourse. The author examines the use of the classical Islamic tradition (turath) and its religious and philosophical components by the three dominant Arabic political discourses: the Islamists, apologists and intellectuals. The book analyzes the different assumptions advanced by these discourses and the way they propose to apply or restore the turath in the present. Exploring connections between the medieval Islamic



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455853003321

Titolo

Ethnicity, politics, and public policy : case studies in Canadian diversity / / edited by Harold Troper and Morton Weinfeld

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1999

©1999

ISBN

1-281-99542-8

9786611995423

1-4426-7467-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TroperHarold Martin <1942->

WeinfeldM (Morton)

Disciplina

305.8/00971

Soggetti

Ethnicity - Canada

Ethnic attitudes - Canada

Multiculturalism - Canada

Cultural pluralism - Canada

Electronic books.

Canada Ethnic relations Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. Diversity in Canada -- 2. Female Genital Operations: Canadian Realities, Concerns, and Policy Recommendations -- 3. Break North: Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture in Canada -- 4. 'You Show Up, You're Blue7: The Challenges Facing Visible Minority Police Officers -- 5. The Challenge of Ethnic Match: Minority Origin Professionals in Health and Social Services -- 6. The Role of Minority Educators: Haitian Teachers in Quebec Schools -- 7. Wife Abuse and Ideological Competition in the Muslim Community of Toronto -- 8. Black Insiders, the Black Polity, and the Ontario NDP Government, 1990-1995 -- 9. The Canadian Jewish Polity and the Limits of Political Action: The Campaigns on Behalf of Soviet and Syrian Jews -- 10. Immigration and the Canadian Federal Election of 1993: The Press as a Political Educator -- Epilogue:



Expanding the Research Agenda -- Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Canada has become a nation in which ethnic pluralism must be balanced with national unity. Focusing on information derived from case studies - documents, interviews, and participant observation - the ten essays in this collection introduce the reader to specific problems that arise in an ethnically diverse society.The various essay address a wide range of issues. Original research into visible minority police, Haitian teachers in Quebec schools, and the matching of worker and patient/client ethnicities within health and social services sheds light on the complex situations faced in an increasingly pluralistic society. The intersection (or absence) of ethnic polities and ethnic political representation is also examined. An essay presenting the heterogeneous nature of the Canadian Hip-Hop scene counters reductive stereotypes, while studies of female genital operations and wife abuse in Muslim culture suggest ways of understanding traditions that radically break with the social norms of a liberal-democratic society in order to create and implement policy.This richly textured volume offers a comprehensive illustration of the problems and prospects of pluralism, effectively mirroring the diversity of the issues that arise when theories and goals of cultural sensitivity confront current Canadian realities.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798332603321

Titolo

Weben und Gewebe in der Antike : Materialität, Repräsentation, Episteme, Metapoetik = Texts and textiles in the ancient world : materiality, representation, episteme, metapoetics / / edited by Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxbow Books, , 2016

ISBN

1-78570-063-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 pages) : color illustrations

Disciplina

677.009

Soggetti

Textile fabrics, Ancient

Textile fabrics, Ancient - Research

Textile industry - History - To 1500

Weaving - History - To 1500

Textile fabrics, Ancient - Social aspects

Manuscripts - History - To 1500

Writing - History - To 1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

I. Materialität -- Byssus und Muschelseide : ein sprachliches Problem und seine Folgen / Felicitas Maeder -- Le tissage dans les lettres privées de l'Égypte Byzantine : travail domestique ou activité lucrative? / Sophie Gällnö -- II. Repräsentation -- "Canusiner Gewand, das trübem honigwein sehr gleicht ... " : Wollqualitäten und Luxusdiskurs in der Antike / Beate Wagner-Hasel -- Das Gewand des Honorius in der Dichtung Claudians / Berit Hildebrandt -- III. Episteme -- Denkmuster in der antiken Weberei : eine Spurensuche / Ellen Harlizius-Klück -- The loom and the ship in ancient Greece : shared knowledge, shared terminology, cross-crafts, or cognitive maritime-textile archaeology? / Marie-Louise Nosch -- Weben und Wahrheit : die Hermeneutik von Geweben in Euripides' Ion / Gunther Martin -- Over the rainbow : Arachne und Araneola : Figuren der Transgression / Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer -- IV. Metapoetik -- Einige Pendenzen : Weben und Text in der antiken Literatur / Cédric Scheidegger Lämmle -- Entgrenzungen



von Proserpinas Kosmos / Julia Klebs -- Das Lied von der webenden Aphrodite : eine metapoetische Interpretation von Nonn. Dion. 24, 242-326 / Simon Zuenelli -- Reading textual patchwork / Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed -- Abstracts -- Über die Autoren/About the authors -- Index Nominum -- Index Rerum.

Sommario/riassunto

"11 papers which focus on the process of textile manufacture, the weaving process itself, and the materiality of fabric. Contributions address the problematic issues of cognitive archaeology, consumer research, literary theory and themes addressing both philosophical history and the history of reception of ideas and practice. The contributions seek both to close the critical gaps with respect to weaving, a broad and complex field in the area of ancient cultural techniques, and to identify new themes. Accordingly, the submissions expand our focus into late antiquity, to integrate texts such as letters written on Papyrus detailing the everyday correspondence of an Egyptian family or to spotlight the meaning of textile terms and the history of misunderstandings associated therein. Frequently overused analogies between writing and weaving are also examined in terms of their legitimacy as well as their limits. The papers presented here result from an international and interdisciplinary conference under the same title held in Castelen, near Basel in 2012"--Provided by publisher.