Author: Barbara Daly Metcalf
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: muslim, comparative, studies, societies, europe, america, space, north, making
Number of Pages: 263
Published: 1996-12-18
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520204042
ISBN-13: 9780520204041

Focusing on the private and public use of space, this volume explores the religious life of the new Muslim communities in North America and Europe. Unlike most studies of immigrant groups, these essays concentrate on cultural practices and expressions of everyday life rather than on the political issues that dominate today’s headlines. The authors emphasize the cultural strength and creativity of communities that draw upon Islamic symbols and practices to define "Muslim space" against the background of a non-Muslim environment.The range of perspectives is broad, encompassing middle-class

Authors:Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: india, history, concise
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0521639743
ISBN-13: 9780521639743

In a challenging new history of modern India, the authors explore the imaginative and institutional structures that have changed and sustained the country. While previous histories have been composed as handmaids of British nationalism or as products of emerging nationalist identities, this book challenges the notion that a continuous meaning can be applied to social categories such as "caste," "Hindu," "Muslim," or even "India,". An initial chapter focuses on the period of Muslim dynasties that preceded colonial conquest, while the final chapter analyzes the dramatic recent events of the 1990

Authors:Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: concise, histories, cambridge, modern, history, india
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2006-10-09
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0521863627
ISBN-13: 9780521863629

In a second edition of their successful Concise History of Modern India, Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf explore India’s modern history afresh and update the events of the last decade. These include the takeover of Congress from the seemingly entrenched Hindu nationalist party in 2004, India’s huge advances in technology and the country’s new role as a major player in world affairs. From the days of the Mughals, through the British Empire, and into Independence, the country has been transformed by its institutional structures. It is these institutions which have helped bri

Author: Barbara D. Metcalf
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: india, pakistan, muslims, essays, contestations, islamic
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 2006-10-19
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 019568513X
ISBN-13: 9780195685138

The essays in this volume, written over the course of the last quarter century, are intended to contribute to understanding the role that Islamic symbols and identities have come to play in Northern India and, since 1947, in Pakistan. Above all these essays offer a challenge to current negative stereotypes of the Muslim faith, demonstrating that the religion is not characterised by political militancy nor dominated by static traditionalism.

Author: Barbara D. Metcalf
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: readings, religions, princeton, practice, south, asia, islam
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2009-09-08
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0691044201
ISBN-13: 9780691044200

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 lived religious and cultural experiences of the world’s largest population of Muslims. The thirty-four selections--translated from Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati, Hindavi, Dakhani, and other languages--highlight a wide variety of genres, many rarely found in standard accounts of Islamic practice, from oral narratives to elite guidance manua

Authors:Patricia Daly-Lipe, Patricia Daly-Lipe, Barbara Daws
Publisher: Sunbelt Publications
Keywords: past, celebration, jolla
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-08
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0932653553
ISBN-13: 9780932653550

Authors:Martin W. Daly,  M. W. Daly,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: egypt, modern, volume, cambridge, history
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1999-02-01
List price: $159.99
ISBN-10: 0521472113
ISBN-13: 9780521472111

Volume 2 traces Egypt’s modern history from the Ottoman conquest to the present day. Its conclusions reflect the work of older scholarship and indicate present trends and future directions in the historiography of Egypt. The volume’s integrated coverage will make it an ideal reference tool for students, scholars and general readers.Book DescriptionThe Cambridge History of Egypt offers the first comprehensive English-language treatment of Egyptian history from the Arab conquest through thirteen centuries. The two-volume survey considers its political, socio-economic and cultural his