Author: Michael Moser
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 3838264975
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
Declared the country's official language in 1996, Ukrainian has weathered constant challenges by post-Soviet political forces promoting Russian. Michael Moser provides the definitive account of the policies and ethno-political dynamics underlying this unique cultural struggle.
Language Policy and Discourse on Languages in Ukraine Under President Viktor Yanukovych
Author: Michael Moser
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 3838264975
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
Declared the country's official language in 1996, Ukrainian has weathered constant challenges by post-Soviet political forces promoting Russian. Michael Moser provides the definitive account of the policies and ethno-political dynamics underlying this unique cultural struggle.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 3838264975
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 507
Book Description
Declared the country's official language in 1996, Ukrainian has weathered constant challenges by post-Soviet political forces promoting Russian. Michael Moser provides the definitive account of the policies and ethno-political dynamics underlying this unique cultural struggle.
What is “Islamic” Art?
Author: Wendy M. K. Shaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108474659
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
An alternate approach to Islamic art emphasizing literary over historical contexts and reception over production in visual arts and music.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108474659
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
An alternate approach to Islamic art emphasizing literary over historical contexts and reception over production in visual arts and music.
UNBIS Thesaurus
Author: Dag Hammarskjöld Library
Publisher: New York : United Nations
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Publisher: New York : United Nations
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
A Culture of Ambiguity
Author: Thomas Bauer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231553323
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In the Western imagination, Islamic cultures are dominated by dogmatic religious norms that permit no nuance. Those fighting such stereotypes have countered with a portrait of Islam’s medieval “Golden Age,” marked by rationality, tolerance, and even proto-secularism. How can we understand Islamic history, culture, and thought beyond this dichotomy? In this magisterial cultural and intellectual history, Thomas Bauer reconsiders classical and modern Islam by tracing differing attitudes toward ambiguity. Over a span of many centuries, he explores the tension between one strand that aspires to annihilate all uncertainties and establish absolute, uncontestable truths and another, competing tendency that looks for ways to live with ambiguity and accept complexity. Bauer ranges across cultural and linguistic ambiguities, considering premodern Islamic textual and cultural forms from law to Quranic exegesis to literary genres alongside attitudes toward religious minorities and foreigners. He emphasizes the relative absence of conflict between religious and secular discourses in classical Islamic culture, which stands in striking contrast to both present-day fundamentalism and much of European history. Bauer shows how Islam’s encounter with the modern West and its demand for certainty helped bring about both Islamicist and secular liberal ideologies that in their own ways rejected ambiguity—and therefore also their own cultural traditions. Awarded the prestigious Leibniz Prize, A Culture of Ambiguity not only reframes a vast range of Islamic history but also offers an interdisciplinary model for investigating the tolerance of ambiguity across cultures and eras.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231553323
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In the Western imagination, Islamic cultures are dominated by dogmatic religious norms that permit no nuance. Those fighting such stereotypes have countered with a portrait of Islam’s medieval “Golden Age,” marked by rationality, tolerance, and even proto-secularism. How can we understand Islamic history, culture, and thought beyond this dichotomy? In this magisterial cultural and intellectual history, Thomas Bauer reconsiders classical and modern Islam by tracing differing attitudes toward ambiguity. Over a span of many centuries, he explores the tension between one strand that aspires to annihilate all uncertainties and establish absolute, uncontestable truths and another, competing tendency that looks for ways to live with ambiguity and accept complexity. Bauer ranges across cultural and linguistic ambiguities, considering premodern Islamic textual and cultural forms from law to Quranic exegesis to literary genres alongside attitudes toward religious minorities and foreigners. He emphasizes the relative absence of conflict between religious and secular discourses in classical Islamic culture, which stands in striking contrast to both present-day fundamentalism and much of European history. Bauer shows how Islam’s encounter with the modern West and its demand for certainty helped bring about both Islamicist and secular liberal ideologies that in their own ways rejected ambiguity—and therefore also their own cultural traditions. Awarded the prestigious Leibniz Prize, A Culture of Ambiguity not only reframes a vast range of Islamic history but also offers an interdisciplinary model for investigating the tolerance of ambiguity across cultures and eras.
Bulletin MLSA
Author: University of Michigan. College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher: UM Libraries
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Islamic Art and the Museum
Author: Benoît Junod
Publisher: Saqi Books - Saqi Books
ISBN: 9780863564130
Category : Islamic art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A unique, multi-authored volume on the issues and politics of curating Islamic art in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Saqi Books - Saqi Books
ISBN: 9780863564130
Category : Islamic art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A unique, multi-authored volume on the issues and politics of curating Islamic art in the twenty-first century.
Art of the Islamic World
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394824
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Family guide, Dazzling details in folded front cover.
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 1588394824
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Family guide, Dazzling details in folded front cover.
Islamic Geometric Design
Author: Eric Broug
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500516959
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Combines wide-ranging research with the author's artistic skills to reveal the techniques used to create the patterns adorning buildings in the Islamic world
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780500516959
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Combines wide-ranging research with the author's artistic skills to reveal the techniques used to create the patterns adorning buildings in the Islamic world
Ukrainian Dissidents: An Anthology of Texts
Author: Oleksii Stus, Dmytro Finberg, Leonid Sinchenko
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3838215516
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This anthology of seminal texts documents the development of the post-war anti-Soviet Ukrainian dissident movement. The collection is designed to introduce, via some crucial primary sources, Western and other non-Ukrainian readers to various forms of Ukrainian opposition to the communist regime. Stories of ideas and personal undertakings are unfolding before the reader in a vivid pulsation of texts that testify for themselves. The anthology gathers contributions from different genres. They range from poetry, public speeches, and samvydav—uncensored, self-published—texts to court speeches. They come from dissidents who were held in jails, special psychiatric hospitals (for not accepting the official ideology), and prison camps. Finally, they include self-reflections by dissidents on their personal experience of opposing the totalitarian system. This variety of contributions creates a multidimensional picture of the Ukrainian dissident movement—a generation of prominent Ukrainian public and cultural figures who, in one way or another, insisted on their freedom of speech and made history by daring to challenge the official ideology and culture. This remarkable book about the struggle for freedom has been compiled by Oleksii Sinchenko, Dmytro Stus, and Leonid Finberg. Scholarly reviewed by Myroslav Marynovych.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3838215516
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
This anthology of seminal texts documents the development of the post-war anti-Soviet Ukrainian dissident movement. The collection is designed to introduce, via some crucial primary sources, Western and other non-Ukrainian readers to various forms of Ukrainian opposition to the communist regime. Stories of ideas and personal undertakings are unfolding before the reader in a vivid pulsation of texts that testify for themselves. The anthology gathers contributions from different genres. They range from poetry, public speeches, and samvydav—uncensored, self-published—texts to court speeches. They come from dissidents who were held in jails, special psychiatric hospitals (for not accepting the official ideology), and prison camps. Finally, they include self-reflections by dissidents on their personal experience of opposing the totalitarian system. This variety of contributions creates a multidimensional picture of the Ukrainian dissident movement—a generation of prominent Ukrainian public and cultural figures who, in one way or another, insisted on their freedom of speech and made history by daring to challenge the official ideology and culture. This remarkable book about the struggle for freedom has been compiled by Oleksii Sinchenko, Dmytro Stus, and Leonid Finberg. Scholarly reviewed by Myroslav Marynovych.
VTAC eGuide 2016
Author: VTAC
Publisher: VTAC
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
The VTAC eGuide is the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre’s annual guide to application for tertiary study, scholarships and special consideration in Victoria, Australia. The eGuide contains course listings and selection criteria for over 1,700 courses at 62 institutions including universities, TAFE institutes and independent tertiary colleges.
Publisher: VTAC
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
The VTAC eGuide is the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre’s annual guide to application for tertiary study, scholarships and special consideration in Victoria, Australia. The eGuide contains course listings and selection criteria for over 1,700 courses at 62 institutions including universities, TAFE institutes and independent tertiary colleges.