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Breaking The Khaldunian Cycle? The Rise Of Sharifianism As The Basis For Political Legitimacy In Early Modern Morocco, Stephen Cory Sep 2008

Breaking The Khaldunian Cycle? The Rise Of Sharifianism As The Basis For Political Legitimacy In Early Modern Morocco, Stephen Cory

History Faculty Publications

This paper argues that the sharifian Sa'di and 'Alawi dynasties ended the Khaldunian Cycle within Morocco through their development of a political creed based upon sharifianism (the idea that Islamic leadership should be held by descendants of the Prophet Muhammad). Within the context of a growing European threat, the Sa'dis created a doctrine that was both new and distinctly Moroccan while alleging it held a universal application deriving from the time of the Prophet. Thus they institutionalised a sense of 'asabiyah in a way that preceding dynasties could not, which later enabled the 'Alawis to exceed Ibn Khaldun's predicted dynastic …


Review Of The Gypsies Of Early Modern Spain, 1425-1783, By R.J. Pym, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt Jun 2008

Review Of The Gypsies Of Early Modern Spain, 1425-1783, By R.J. Pym, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Suburban Swamp: The Rise And Fall Of Planned New-Town Communities In New Orleans East, J. Souther Apr 2008

Suburban Swamp: The Rise And Fall Of Planned New-Town Communities In New Orleans East, J. Souther

History Faculty Publications

This paper examines the emergence, development and abandonment of ‘new town’ communities in eastern New Orleans in the half century after 1957. Containing about two-thirds of the land area in the New Orleans city limits, much of it wrested from swamps using emerging drainage technologies, eastern New Orleans promised municipal leaders, planners and citizens an alternative to crowded city and sprawling suburb. This paper also considers how planners and many local citizens viewed planned communities in the eastern stretches of the city as an antidote to population exodus from New Orleans. It explores the influences, design characteristics, social planning aspirations …


Open Adoption And The Politics Of Transnational Feminist Human Rights, Karen Sotiropoulos Jan 2008

Open Adoption And The Politics Of Transnational Feminist Human Rights, Karen Sotiropoulos

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


The Irish In The Civil War: Three Leading Irish-American Heroes, W Dennis Keating Jan 2008

The Irish In The Civil War: Three Leading Irish-American Heroes, W Dennis Keating

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

The article recounts the lives of two Irish-American military leaders of the Civil War – Thomas Francis Meagher of the Irish Brigade and “Little” Phil Sheridan. Both of these men fought for the Union.


The Irish In The Civil War, W Dennis Keating Jan 2008

The Irish In The Civil War, W Dennis Keating

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

In this article, I will discuss the role of the Irish in the Civil War focusing on some famous units, primarily on the Northern side but also some in the South. I will profile the three leading Irish-American military leaders of the war – Thomas Francis Meagher of the Irish Brigade, “Little” Phil Sheridan of the Union, and Patrick Cleburne of the Confederacy. While “Stonewall” Jackson was of Ulster Scots-Irish stock, I am not including him. Seven Union and six Confederate generals were Irish-born. And I will discuss the conflict between the Irish immigrants and the Negroes, which erupted in …