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Relations Between The Fatimid Caliphate And The Tribal Peoples Of Egypt And North Africa, Amar Salem Baadj Jun 2006

Relations Between The Fatimid Caliphate And The Tribal Peoples Of Egypt And North Africa, Amar Salem Baadj

Archived Theses and Dissertations

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Cataloging Authority: The Development And Function Of The Fihrist Genre, Garrett Davidson Jun 2006

Cataloging Authority: The Development And Function Of The Fihrist Genre, Garrett Davidson

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Dip Your Bread In The Gravy: A Culinary History Of Class Difference In Mamluk And Ottoman Egypt, Siko Deine Bouterse Jun 2006

Dip Your Bread In The Gravy: A Culinary History Of Class Difference In Mamluk And Ottoman Egypt, Siko Deine Bouterse

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Pre-Islamic Influences On Fatimid And Seljuk Jewelry, Badriya Yasmeen Dowe Jun 2006

Pre-Islamic Influences On Fatimid And Seljuk Jewelry, Badriya Yasmeen Dowe

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Emphatic Sounds In Educated Cairene Arabic: What To Teach To Afl Students?, Jean N. Druel Jun 2006

Emphatic Sounds In Educated Cairene Arabic: What To Teach To Afl Students?, Jean N. Druel

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The Mosque Of Britain: How British Muslims Express Their Identity?, Mamdouh Sakr Jun 2006

The Mosque Of Britain: How British Muslims Express Their Identity?, Mamdouh Sakr

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Why A Guide To Family Wealth In The Arab Region?, Barbara Ibrahim, Heba Abou Shnief Jan 2006

Why A Guide To Family Wealth In The Arab Region?, Barbara Ibrahim, Heba Abou Shnief

Faculty Book Chapters

Families everywhere are feeling the pressures of life in a rapidly changing world. Perhaps no other place has experienced more rapid economic and social development than the Arab region. Over the last 40 years, family expectations for where adult children will live, whom they will marry, or the occupations they will follow have shifted dramatically


Orientalisms In The Interpretation Of Islamic Philosophy, Muhammad Ali Khalidi Jan 2006

Orientalisms In The Interpretation Of Islamic Philosophy, Muhammad Ali Khalidi

Publications and Research

The recent death of Edward Said has reignited the debate as to whether his landmark work Orientalism still has something to teach us about the study of Arab-Islamic civilization. In this article, I will argue that Saidʼs central thesis in Orientalism has a direct explanatory role to play in our understanding of the work produced in at least one area of scholarship about the Arab and Islamic worlds, namely Arab-Islamic philosophy from the classical or medieval period. Moreover, I will claim that it continues to play this role not only for scholarship produced in the West by Western scholars but …