One of the most important Irish novelists of the twentieth century, Kate O’Brien (1897–1974) was also a pioneer of women’s writing. In a career that spanned almost fifty years, nine novels, nine plays
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"What! Still Alive?!" offers a powerful and deeply affecting examination of the complex memories of Jewish survivors returning to their homes in Poland after the Holocaust. These survivors le
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In Pragmatism in Islamic Law, Ibrahim presents a detailed history of Sunni legal pluralism and the ways in which it was employed to accommodate the changing needs of society. Since the formative perio
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For years, Iranian academics, writers, and scholars have equated national development and progress with the reform of men’s sexual behavior. Modern intellectuals repudiated native sexuality in Iran, j
Michael Levi Rodkinson (1845–1904) was a journalist, author, and publisher whose literary projects spanned numerous countries and continents. Hero to some and scoundrel to others, Rodkinson was a pole
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Noting that scholars have tended to overlook the internal political climate of civil society groups and to focus primarily on their external behaviors within the national polity, this study is the fir
Based on the author's PhD thesis, this book examines representations of female illness and disability in modern Arabic literature since 1950. It considers short stories and novels by male and female w
Pages presents readers with an examination of an extremist sect, the Shi’ite Nizary Isma’ilis, the Assassins, providing a case study in the application of Western ideas of the exotic Muslim “other” to
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Kelsey presents students, academics, and researchers with an investigation of the ways in which Eastern Woodlands tribe’s strings and belts of small white and purple shells, traditionally used to depi
