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Through an examination of archaeologically recovered texts from China's northwestern border regions, argues for widespread interaction with texts in the Han period.

Offers philosophical and psychological reflections on cruelty and tenderness.

Bridges Western and non-Western political thought to address the problem of democracy and political decadance in contemporary Iran and, by implication, similar Islamic societies.

Examines why many governments, rebels, and terrorist organizations are using children as soldiers.

Explores the current and future trajectories of the paradigm of postsocialism.

Examines how recent Argentine horror films engage with the legacies of dictatorship and neoliberalism.

Essays address the major themes of Pareyson's hermeneutic philosophy in the context of his existentialist approach to personhood.

Blends academic and activist perspectives to explore recent emancipatory struggles to win and transform state power.

Focuses on Black women's experiences and expertise in order to advance educational philosophy and provide practical tools for social justice pedagogy.

Tells the story of the nation's largest higher education union from its earliest years to its role today as a powerful organization promoting the interests of faculty, staff, and the entire SUNY community.

Examines why some democratic innovations succeed while others fail, using Venezuela, Ecuador, and Chile as case studies.

Examines the egalitarian, creative, and inclusive practice of radical democracy in contemporary Venezuela.

Demonstrates how film adaptations intersect with feminist discourse in neoliberal Mexico.

Proposes an innovative rethinking of Aristotle's work as a system that integrates his theology with his doctrine of reproduction and life.

The period covered in this volume is one of the most tumultuous periods of Islamic history. In it, al-¿abar¿ details with great success the intricate events that shaped real political power in S¿marr¿ and Baghdad during the middle of the ninth century, laying bare the dynamics through which the army generals--who were mainly of Central Asian Turkish extraction--consolidated their grip on the caliphate. The political maneuvering that enabled them to pass the reins of real power to their descendants, creating a dynasty parallel to the "legitimate" caliphal dynasty, is also clearly revealed.A discounted price is available when purchasing the entire 39-volume History of al-¿abar¿ set. Contact SUNY Press for more information.

By 735 an Arab empire stretched from Arles and Avignon in southern France to the Indus River and Central Asia, and a vital young civilization fostered by a new world religion was taking root. Yet the Muslim conquerors were divided by tribal quarrels, tensions among new converts, and religious revolts. In 745 a vigorous new successor to the Prophet took control in Damascus and began to restore the waning power of the Umayyad dynasty. Marw¿n II's attempts were thwarted, however, by revolts on every hand, even among his own relatives. The main body of dissidents was a well-trained group of revolutionaries in Khurasan, led by the remarkable Abu Muslim. By 748 they had seized control of the province and drive the governor, När ibn Sayy¿r al-L¿ythi, to his death and were advancing westward. This volume tells of the end of the Umayyad caliphate, the ¿Abb¿sid Revolution, and the establishment of the new dynasty.

Before the caliphate of the ¿Uthm¿n ibn ¿Aff¿n, the Muslim community had grown from strength to strength in spite of a series of major crises--the Hirah, the death of the Prophet, the Riddah wars, the assassination of 'Umar by a Persian slave. But ¿Uthm¿n's reign ended in catastrophe. His inability to manage the social and political conflicts that were now emerging among various factions within the community led to his death at the hands of Muslim rebels. The consequences of this tragic event were bitter: not only a century of civil war, but also political and religious schisms of such depth that they have not been entirely healed even now. Most medieval Muslim historians told this story in an overtly partisan manner, but al-¿abar¿ demands more of his readers. First of all, they must decide for themselves, on the basis of highly ambigous evidence, whether ¿Uthm¿n's death was tyrannicide or murder. But, more than that, they must ask how such a thing could have happened at all; what had the Muslims done to bring about the near-destruction of their community?Al-¿abar¿ presents this challenge within a broad framework. For, even while the internal crisis that issued in ¿Uthm¿n's death was coming to a head, the wars against Byzantium and Persia continued. The first expeditions into North Africa, the conquest of Cyprus, the momentary destruction of the Byzantine fleet at the Battle of the Masts, the bloody campaigns in Armenia, the Caucasus, and Khurasan are all here, in narratives that shift constantly between hard reporting and pious legend. Muslim forces retain the offensive, but there are no more easy victories; henceforth, suffering and endurance will be the hallmarks of the hero. Most evocative in the light of ¿Uthm¿n's fate is the moving account of the murder of the last S¿s¿nian king, Yazdagird III--a man betrayed by his nobles and subjects, but most of all by his own character.

An interdisciplinary analysis of gender, race, empire, and colonialism in fin-de-siècle Spanish literature and culture across the global Hispanic world.

An intellectual biography of the American philosopher C. I. Lewis.

Examines the life of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg through the lens of both Blackness and latinidad.

Examines the ways in which the inclusion of African diasporic religious practices serves as a transgressive tool in narrative discourses in the Americas.

A historical investigation of the exclusion of Africa and Asia from modern histories of philosophy.

This volume covers the years 700-715 A.D., a period that witnessed the last five years of the caliphate of the Umayyad 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marw¿n and the whole of the caliphate of his son al-Wal¿d. In retrospect, this period can be seen to have marked the apogee of Marw¿nid Umayyad power. It began with the dangerous revolt of the Iraqi tribal leader Ibn al-Ash'ath, which seriously imperilled Marw¿nid control of Iraq and was countered with considerable difficulty; but this proved to be the last of the obstacles faced by 'Abd al-Malik in the wake of the Second Civil War of 685-693. Thereafter he was able to preside over a strong and dynamic Arab kingdom, with al-¿ajj¿j ibn Y¿suf as his powerful governor of Iraq and the East.When 'Abd al-Malik died in 705, the caliphate passed to his son al-Wal¿d, during whose decade of office al-¿ajj¿j remained at his post and further Arab expansion took place in Central Asia, in Sind, and in the Iberian Peninsula. To many of their contemporaries, the Arabs of that time must have looked like potential world conquerors.The volume ends shortly after the deaths of al-¿ajj¿j and al-Wal¿d and just two years before the dispatch in 717 of the ill-fated Arab expedition to Constantinople.

The years 738-745/121-127, which this volume covers, saw the outbreak in Syria of savage internecine struggles between prominent members of the Umayyad family, which had ruled the Islamic world since 661/41. After the death of the caliph Hish¿m in 743-/125, the process of decay at the center of the Umayyad power--the ruling family itself--was swift and devastating. Three Umayyad caliphs (al-Wal¿d II, Yaz¿d III, and Ibrahim) followed Hish¿m within little more than a year, and the subsequent intervention of their distant cousin Marw¿n b. Muhammad (the future Marw¿n II) could not arrest the forces of opposition that were shortly to culminate in the ¿Abb¿sid Revolution of 750/132.In this volume al-¿abar¿ deals extensively with the end of Hish¿m's reign, providing a rich store of anecdotes on this most able of Umayyad caliphs. He also covers in depth the notorious lifestyle of al-Wal¿d II, the libertine prince and poet, whose career has attracted much scholarly attention in recent years. Moreover, al-¿abar¿ chronicles at great length the events of the rebellion and death of the Shi'ite pretender, Zayd ibn ¿Al¿, at al-K¿fah, as well as recording in detail the activities farther to the east, where När ibn Sayy¿r was serving as the last Umayyad governor of Transoxiana and Khurasan, the very area from which the ¿Abb¿sid Revolution was to spring. The text also contains several official letters which shed much light on Umayyad propaganda and on early Islamic epistolary style.The hindsight conferred by subsequent centuries highlights the full significance of these half-dozen years or so. Al-¿abar¿ documents the incubation of the ¿Abb¿sid Revolution, an event of great importance in world history, and traces the failure of the principal Shi'ite revolt of the eighth century, a debacle which was also to have serious repercussions, for it generated the foundation of Zaydi principalities in Iran and the Yemen. Yet even these major themes are secondary to the epic tale that al-¿abar¿ unfolds of the tragic downfall of the first dynasty in Islam.