Views from the edge : essays in honor of Richard W. Bulliet / Neguin Yavari, Lawrence G. Potter, Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bulliet, Richard W.

Yavari, Neguin.

Potter, Lawrence G.

Oppenheim, Jean-Marc Ran.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

Islamic countries--Civilization.

Islamic countries.

Civilization.

Islamic countries--History.

History.

Islamic countries--Historiography.

Physical Description:

xxxviii, 346 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press for the Middle East Institute, Columbia University, [2004]

Summary:

These essays were written by colleagues and former students of Richard Bulliet, the preeminent Middle East scholar whose "most important contribution remains his extraordinary imagination in the service of history." The hallmark of the book, then, is innovative scholarship in all periods of Islamic history. Its authors share a commitment to asking original historiographical questions, with an overall orientation toward issues in social history.

Contents:

Doing It: Richard W. Bulliet and Islamic Studies / Fred Donner ix

Richard W. Bulliet: Personal Observations / Leila Fawaz xix

Richard W. Bulliet: Bibliography xxi

Essays

Trading Diaspora, State Building and the Idea of National Interest / Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe 3

Palestinian and Jordanian Views of the Balfour Declaration / Alexander Bligh 19

Standards of Living in East and West: England and Egypt Before and After the Black Death / Stuart J. Borsch 27

Ancient Iranian Ideas in a Modern Context: Aspects of Royal Legitimacy Under Muhammad Riza Shah Pahlavi / Jamsheed K. Choksy 45

A Note on Biblical Narrative and `Abbasid History / Tayeb El-Hibri 63

Historical Patterns of Higher Education for Women in Morocco Since Independence / Patricia C. Gloster-Coates 70

`Arib al-Ma'muniya: A Third/Ninth Century `Abbasid Courtesan / Matthew S. Gordon 86

The Ideas of Amir Shakib Arslan Before and After the Collapse of the Ottoman Empire / Mahmoud Haddad 101

City Administration in Hafez's Shiraz / John Limbert 116

From Artistic Endeavor to Economic Enterprise; Horsemanship from the 18th to the 20th Centuries / Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim 141

Capturing Imagination: The Buja and Medieval Islamic mappa mundi / Karen C. Pinto 154

Herat Under the Karts: Social and Political Forces / Lawrence G. Potter 184

Khurasan and the Crises of Legitimacy: A Comparative Historiographical Perspective / Parvaneh Pourshariati 208

Women in the Sectarian Politics of Lebanon / Sofia Saada 230

Islam, Italy's Internal Frontier / Ariel Salzmann 240

The Rise of the Ottoman Empire: The Black Death in Medieval Anatolia and its Impact on Turkish Civilization / Uli Schamiloglu 255

"The Tomb of the Twelfth Imam" and Other Tales of Crime / Reeva Spector Simon 280

Islam on the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Voltaire's Mahomet Crosses the Atlantic / Denise A. Spellberg 291

The Gendered Edge of Islam / Elizabeth Thompson 304

Polysemous Texts and Reductionist Readings: Women and Heresy in the Siyar al-Muluk / Neguin Yavari 322.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

023113472X

OCLC:

55665637