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Author: Ariel Salzmann
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9789004108875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on archival research, this work examines the Ottoman ancien regime. The author argues that the success of the regime was due to the articulation of a complex financial network revolving around central state elite investments and an Istanbul-based and supervised banking system.
Author: Gerhard Endress
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780748605118
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Author: Ian F. Hancock
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781902806198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author, himself a Romani, speaks directly to the gadze (non-Gypsy) reader about his people, their history since leaving India one thousand years ago and their rejection and exclusion from society in the countries where they settled, their health, food, culture and society.
Author: Elena Marushiakova
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9781902806020
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Roma presence in the European part of the Ottoman Empire - the Balkans - is centuries old and it is not by accident that this regions has often been called the second motherland of the Gypsies. From this region Gypsies moved westwards taking with them inherited Balkan cultural models and traditions. This book explores the history, ethnography, social structure and culture of the Gypsies in the Ottoman Empire. It is based on archival sources, mainly detailed tax registers, special laws, guild registers and court documents. Notes on Gypsies in books by foreign travellers are also included.
Author: Fred Halliday
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781850439592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author examines the widely accepted image of confrontation between "Islam" and "the West", created largely by the rise of Islamic militancy in the Middle East and the perceived influence of Islam on politics and society. Considering the sources of Islamic militancy and the rhetoric of Islamic and anti-Muslim leaders, he argues that the Middle East is a set of variant societies, facing the economic and political problems of the Third World.
Author: Robert Auty
Publisher: MHRA
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780900547720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Starkey
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2014-03-11
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0748696539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to Modern Arabic Literature, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present
Author: Siobhan Dowd
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780900458903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an international anthology of English translations of Roma poetry and prose. The writings in this text reflect the 30 contributors shared experiences of prejudice, discrimination and persecution, as well as joy in nature and life. The lives of the contributors are told in brief biographical notes reflecting the many roads followed by the Roma in coming to terms with modern society.
Author: Heinz Halm
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-12-06
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9004492658
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 9th century, a secret sect of the Ismā‘īlīs -- known in the Middle Ages under the name of Fatimids -- arose to play a prominent role in the history of the Near East. Their supreme head today is the Agha Khan. In this mesmerising book, Heinz Halm describes the early history of the Fatimids, from the founding and spread of the secret society to the rise of the caliphal dynasty to power in North Africa and the founding of Cairo, their capital.
Author: William Charles Brice
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9789004061163
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