"We have been reminded time and again by anthropologists of the ideas and ideals of the Enlightenment in which the intellectual inspiration of anthropology is supposed to lie. But anthropology is also rooted in an unequal power encounter between the West and the Third World, which goes back to the emergence of bourgeois Europe, an encounter in which colonialism is merely one historical moment. It is this encounter that gives the West access to cultural and historical information about the societies it has progressively dominated, and thus not only generates a certain kind of universal understanding, but also reenforces the inequalities in capacity between the European and the non-European worlds (and derivatively, between the Europeanized elites and the 'tradtional' masses in the Third World) . . ." – from the IntroductionThe papers in this book analyze and document ways in which anthropological thinking and practice have been affected by British colonialism. They approach this topic from different points of view and at different levels. Each stands as an original contribution to an argument which is only just beginning.

Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter

Talal Asad

Ithaca Press

Introduction to Shi'i Law: A Bibliographical Study

Reference

Hossein M. Tabataba'i

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

This book examines the political and intellectual history of Yemen in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The Yemen in the 18th and 19th Centuries: A Political and Intellectual History (Durham Middle East Monographs)

History

Al-Amri, Husayn B. Abdullah

Middle East

A detailed scholarly account of early Yemeni history.

The Yemen in Early Islam (Durham Middle East Monographs S)

Abd, Abd Al Muhsin Mad'aj Al

The state of Palestine (Jerusalem studies series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Davis, Uri

Politics & Government

<p>A Study of Muhannad Al-Muwylili's Hadith Isa Ibn Hisham.</p>

A Period of Time (St Antony's Middle East Monographs)

Allen, Roger

Literature & Fiction

<p>This text examines the evolving fate of Europe's Muslims; comparing the status, role and perceptions of these communities across Europe and Western Europe following the demise of communist authoritarianism.</p>

Muslim Communities in the New Europe

Nonneman, Gerd

Social Sciences

Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives

In an age when Western feminism is continuously undergoing redefinition, the struggles of women in Muslim countries are often overlooked. This volume illustrates how women in Islamic societies have become more actively involved not only in learning their rights under the sharia (Islamic law) but in rereading this law to improve their status and gain increased equality and freedom. Surveying Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt and Arab societies in general, the essays in feminism and Islam focus on such subjects as crimes of honor and the construction of gender in Arab societies; law and the desire for social control; women ad entrepreneurship; family legislation; and the political strategies of feminists in the Islam world.

Yamani, Mai

These memoirs, dictated by Abbas II, provide a window on the mechanics of the strained relations between sovereign and the power occupying his country. A caring man, with progressive ideas, he was disillusioned by sycophantic Egyptian politicians who rarely supported their monarch.

Last Khedive of Egypt: Memoirs of Abbas Halmi II

Biographies & Memoirs

Hilmi II, Abbas

Historical

The Islamist Challenge in Algeria: A Political History

In recent years, Algeria has been rocked by social upheaval, protest, and spasmodic violence. Like many countries caught between the tides of fundamentalist religion and secular culture, the very fiber of the nation seems to be fraying. Michael Willis here charts the meteoric rise of one of the largest and most powerful Islamist movements in the Muslim world. Tracing its origins to the French colonial domination in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Islamism has always played a defining role in both the national struggle against the French and in the newly independent Algerian state. The primary focus of Willis's book is on Algeria since 1988, when unprecedented social unrest led to political changes that allowed Algeria's Islamists to form political parties and compete in multi- party elections. The largest Islamist party, the Front Islamique du Salut (FIS), after rousing victories in local and national elections in 1990 and 1991, was subsequently crushed by the military regime. Since then, despite the Rome Accord of January 1995, over 50,000 lives have been lost in an increasingly bloody conflict that threatens to spiral out of control. Banned by the army, the FIS splintered, with various factions arming themselves, leading to the current, ominous state of disarray.

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