1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454551703321

Autore

Ibn al-Qūṭīyah Muḥammad ibn ʻUmar -977

Titolo

Early Islamic Spain : the history of Ibn al-Qutiya / / David James [editor]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2009

ISBN

1-134-02530-0

1-134-02531-9

1-282-01677-6

9786612016776

0-203-88267-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Culture and civilization in the Middle East ; ; 15

Altri autori (Persone)

JamesDavid Lewis

Disciplina

946/.02

Soggetti

Muslims - Spain - History

Electronic books.

Spain History 711-1516

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of:  Tārīkh iftitāḥ al-Andalus.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-163) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Maps and illustrations; Explanatory Note; Introduction: The History of the History; Translation: The History of Ibn al-Qutiya; 1 Tariq ibn Ziyad invades al-Andalus; 2 Al-Andalus under the Governors of the Damascus Caliphate (92-136/711-756); 3 The Arrival of Abd al-Rahman ibn Muawiya and his Reign as Emir (138-172/756-778); 4 The Reign of the Emir Hisham (172-180/788-796); 5 The Reign of the Emir al-Hakam (180-206/796-822); 6 The Reign of the Emir Abd al-Rahman II (206-238/822-852); 7 The Reign of the Emir Muhammad (238-273/852-886)

8 The Reign of the Emir al-Mundhir (273-275/886-888)9 The Reign of the Emir Abdallah (275-300/888-912); 10 The Reign of the Emir Abd al-Rahman III (300-350/912-961); Appendices; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the first published English-language translation of the significant History of Islamic Spain by Ibn al-Qutiya (d. Cordova 367 / 977). Including extensive notes and comments, a genealogical table and relevant maps, the text is preceded by a study of the author and his work, and is the only serious examination of the unique manuscript



since Pascual de Gayangos' edition in 1868.Ibn al-Qutiya's work is one of the significant and earliest histories of Muslim Spain and an important source for scholars. Although like most Muslims of al-Andalus in this period, Ibn al-Qu

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777700903321

Titolo

Borders of socialism [[electronic resource] ] : private spheres of Soviet Russia / / edited by Lewis H. Siegelbaum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

ISBN

1-4039-8454-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 291 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SiegelbaumLewis H

Disciplina

306/.0947

Soggetti

Privacy - Soviet Union

Soviet Union Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-277) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : Mapping private spheres in the Soviet context / Lewis H. Siegelbaum -- Claiming property : the Soviet-era private plots as "women's turf" / Esther Kingston-Mann -- The art market and the construction of Soviet Russian culture / Andrew Jenks -- Separate yet governed : the representation of Soviet property relations in civil law and public discourse / Charles Hachten -- Cars, cars, and more cars : the Faustian bargain of the Brezhnev era / Lewis H. Siegelbaum -- Domestic life and the activist wife in the 1930s Soviet Union / Rebecca Balmas Neary -- A hearth for a dog : the paradoxes of Soviet pet keeping / Amy Nelson -- The meaning of home : "the only bit of the world you can have to yourself" / Susan E. Reid -- "I know all the secrets of my neighbors" : the quest for privacy in the era of the separate apartment / Steven E. Harris -- Private matters or public crimes : the emergence of domestic hooliganism in the Soviet Union, 1939-1966 / Brian LaPierre -- A symbiosis of errors : the personal, professional, and political in the Kirov region, 1931-1941 / Larry E. Holmes -- Friends in private, friends in public : the phenomenon of the



Kompaniia among Soviet youth in the 1950s and 1960s / Juliane Fürst -- The 1959 Liriki-Fiziki debate : going public with the private? / Susan Costanzo.

Sommario/riassunto

This fascinating book argues that in Russia the relations between culture and nation, art and life, commodity and trash, often diverged from familiar Western European or American versions of modernity. The essays show how public and private overlapped and shaped each other, creating new perspectives on individuals and society in the Soviet Union.