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Subject: Religion
Once Jews: Stories of Caribbean Sephardim
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Goldish, Josette Capriles
Subject: Caribbean, Religion,Jeiwsh Studies
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Honorable Mention, Latin American Jewish Studies Association (LAJSA) Book Award Committee
The phrase “I am Catholic, but I am Jewish” may seem contradictory to some, but in the Caribbean islands and the countries of the Caribbean periphery, there …
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Parricide on the Pampa: A New Study and Translation of Los Gauchos Judíos
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Gerchunoff, Alberto (edited by Edna Aizenberg)
Subject: Religion, South America
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This book presents a radical rereading of Alberto Gerchunoff’s classic Argentinian immigrant saga, Los gauchos judíos (The Jewish Gauchos; 1910). This collection of stories about early 20th-century agricultural colonies founded by persecuted Eastern Europeans Jews on the pampa has been …
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Pilgrimage to Mecca: The Indian Experience, 1500–1800
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Pearson, Michael N.
Subject: Asia, Middle East, Religion
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For over a thousand years, tens and hundreds of thousands of Muslim Indians have been making the pilgrimage to Mecca, the annual Hajj. In the early modern period, they followed a route over the Indian Ocean, producing an entanglement of …
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Political Words and Ideas in Islam
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Lewis, Bernard
Subject: Religion
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This book brings together 11 essays on Islamic political thought by Bernard Lewis, the acknowledged doyen of Middle Eastern studies. Few historians have garnered such a broad audience as Lewis, whose works are widely read by scholars, politicians, journalists, and …
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Short History of the Ismailis
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Daftary, Farhad
Subject: Middle East, Religion
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A major Shi’i Muslim community with a long and eventful history, the Ismailis were until recently studied primarily on the basis of the accounts of their enemies, including the Sunni polemicists and the Crusader chroniclers. As a result, a host …
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Slavery in the Islamic Middle East
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Marmon, Shaun E., editor
Subject: Middle East, Religion
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Slavery, recognized and regulated by Islamic law, was an integral part of Muslim societies in the Middle East well into modern times. Recruited from the “Abode of War” by means of trade or warfare, slaves began their lives in the …
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Slavery on the Frontiers of Islam
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Lovejoy, Paul E., editor
Subject: Africa, Middle East, Religion,History of Slavery,Latin America
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This collection of essays offers a new paradigm, in which the trans-Saharan and trans-Atlantic worlds of slavery are brought into focus under the same lens. While slave studies have considered either trans-Atlantic or Islamic slavery, rarely has any study combined …
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Sufism and Politics
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Heck, Paul L., editor
Subject: Middle East, Religion
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Sufism is often overlooked when it comes to scholarly consideration of the politics of the Muslim world. This is partly due to the difficulty of defining Sufism, which is both spiritual outlook and social institution. Both aspects, however, have been …
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Sufism and Religious Brotherhoods in Senegal
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Mbacké, Khadim (edited by John Hunwick; translated by Eric Ross)
Subject: Africa, Religion
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This book is a study of the state of Islam in Senegal and of the religious factors that influence it. Islam in Senegal is characterized by the strong intrenchment of a certain number of Sufi brotherhoods. In effect, the majority …
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