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Views from the edge : essays in honor of Richard W. Bulliet
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Views from the edge : essays in honor of Richard W. Bulliet

Author: Richard W Bulliet; Neguin Yavari; Lawrence G Potter; Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press for the Middle East Institute, Columbia University, 2004.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard W Bulliet; Neguin Yavari; Lawrence G Potter; Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim
ISBN: 023113472X 9780231134729
OCLC Number: 55665637
Description: xxxviii, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Doing it: Richard W. Bulliet and Islamic Studies / Fred Donner -- Richard W. Bulliet: personal observations / Leila Fawaz -- Richard W. Bulliet: bibliography -- Trading diasporas, state building, and the idea of national interest / Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe -- Palestinian and Jordanian views of the Balfour declaration / Alexander Bligh -- Standards of living in East and West: England and Egypt before and after the Black Death / Stuart J. Borsch -- Ancient Iranian ideas in a modern context: aspects of royal legitimacy under Muhammad Riza Shah Pahlavi / Jamsheed K. Choksy -- A note on Biblical narrative and ʻAbbasid history / Tayeb El-Hibri -- Historical patterns of higher education for women in Morocco since independence / Patricia C. Gloster-Coates -- ʻArib al-Maʼmuniya: a Third/Ninth century ʻAbbasid courtesan / Matthew S. Gordon -- The ideas of Amir Shakib Arslan before and after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire / Mahmoud Haddad -- City administration in Hafez's Shiraz / John Limbert -- From artistic endeavor to economic enterprise: horsemanship from the 18th to the 20th centuries / Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim -- Capturing imagination: the Buja and medieval Islamic mappa mundi / Karen C. Pinto -- Herat under the Karts: social and political forces / Lawrence G. Potter -- Khurasan and the crises of legitimacy: a comparative historiographical perspective / Parvaneh Pourshariati -- Women in the sectarian politics of Lebanon / Sofia Saada -- Islam, Italy's internal frontier / Ariel Salzmann -- The rise of the Ottoman Empire: the Black Death in Medieval Anatolia and its impact on Turkish civilization / Uli Schamiloglu -- "The tomb of the twelfth Imam" and other tales of crime / Reeva Spector Simon -- Islam on the eighteenth-century stage: Voltaire's Mahomet crosses the Atlantic / Denise A. Spellberg -- The gendered edge of Islam / Elizabeth Thompson -- Polysemous texts and reductionist readings: women and heresy in the Siyar al-Muluk / Neguin Yavari.
Responsibility: Neguin Yavari, Lawrence G. Potter, Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim, editors.

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