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Explores a growing number of films and filmmakers that challenge the strict boundaries between belief and unbelief.

Reassesses didacticism in seventeenth-century Chinese vernacular fiction and challenges the view that the late Ming was a notoriously immoral time.

Explores the rich potential of Confucianism in American and Chinese classrooms of the twenty-first century.

Highlights the continuing social unrest and public protest occurring in South Africa's poorest districts.

Explores how violence structures language and the writing of literature and philosophy.

The first book-length study of Bersani's work, tracing the unfolding of his onto-ethics/aesthetics amidst numerous literary, artistic, and philosophical influences.

Reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800 to recover echoes of a queer messianic that still resonate today.

Provides in-depth analyses of key moments in Brazilian utopianism, including theologico-political, matriarchal, environmental, and work-free utopias.

Examines the relationship of Derrida's writings on architecture to his methodology of deconstruction and to deconstrutivism in architecture.

This volume brings social and cultural anthropologists into dialogue with historical sociology and illustrates the continued potential of the concept of civilization for all participants.

The first major study of the idea of repentance, or tawba, in Islam.

Contrasts the experiences of German Jewish refugees from the Holocaust who fled to London and New York City.

Challenges prevailing conceptions of what religious ritual does and how it achieves its ends.

An analysis of Derrida's early work engaging Plato, Hegel, and the life sciences.

Schelling's 1806 polemic against Fichte, and his last major work on the philosophy of nature.

Examines how NATO has adapted and endured after the end of the Cold War, transforming itself to deal with a host of new security challenges.

Argues that multiculturalism and hybridity are key components of the nation's poetry and its culture.

The concluding pages of al-¿abar¿'s History cover the caliphates of al-Mu¿täid and al-Muktaf¿ and the beginning of the reign of al-Muqtadir--altogether a period of 23 turbulent years in world history. Although al-¿abar¿ has woven skillful narratives and quoted important documents verbatim, much of the information consists of brief notes jotted down by an observant and well-placed contemporary who witnessed the events as they occurred. The reporting is thus both vivid and, within limits, historically reliable. Happenings at court, military activities on the northern and eastern frontiers of the empire, and the difficulties caused by the Qarmatian movement are all brought to life in this volume.

Explores how race and gender matter on campus and how Black males navigate college for academic and personal success.

Art as yoga and meditation for artists, contemplative practitioners, art educators, and art therapists.

A new translation and commentary of the Analects for contemporary audiences.

Looks at southern Chinese martial arts traditions and how they have become important to local identity and narratives of resistance.

A poetic, philosophical, and political account of Nietzsche's importance to Bataille, and of Bataille's experience in Nazi-occupied France.

Argues for the necessity of a new ethos for middle-class white anti-racism.

Volume X of al-¿abar¿'s massive chronicle is devoted to two main subjects. The first is the selection of Ab¿ Bakr as the first caliph or successor to the Prophet Muh'ammad following the Prophet's death in 632 C.E. This section of the History reveals some of the inner divisions that existed within the early Muslim community, and sheds light on the interests and motivations of various parties in the debates that led up to Ab¿ Bakr's acclamation as caliph.The second main subject of Volume X is the riddah or "apostasy"--actually a series of rebellions against Muslim domination by various tribes in Arabia that wished to break their ties with Medina following the Prophet's death. The History offers one of the more extensive collections of accounts about this early sequence of events to be found in the Arabic historical literature. It provides richly detailed information on the rebellions themselves and on the efforts made by Ab¿ Bakr and his Muslim supporters to quell them. It also tells us much about relationships among the tribes of Arabia, local topography, military practice, and the key personnel, organization, and structure of the early Islamic state.The successful suppression of the riddah marked the transformation of the Muslim state from a small faith community of importance only in West Arabia to a much more powerful political entity, embracing all of the Arabian peninsula and poised to unleash a wave of conquests that would shortly engulf the entire Near East and North Africa. The riddah era is, thus, crucial to understanding the eventual appearance of Islam as a major actor on the stage of world history.

Expanded new edition of the landmark book demonstrating the practice of phenomenology through visual illusions and ambiguous drawings

A searing personal record of spiritual and communal crisis, wherein the death of god announces the beginning of friendship.

Demonstrates how ingrained ideas of race created and sustain the achievement gap in U.S. schools.

This volume covers the vital early years of the second Muslim civil war, when the Umayyad caliphate seemed on the point of extinction. That it survived had much to do with the vigor of the Umayyad Marw¿n ibn al-Hakam whose initial restoration of Umayyad authority is described here in some detail by al-¿abar¿'s sources. In the chaos and confusion of the civil war, however, developments took place that were to prove significant for the future of the Umayyad calphate, indeed for the early history of Islam in general. Among them, the first manifestations of large-scale tribal divisions among the Arabs, together with the development of support for the descendants of the Prophet as the only legitimate rulers, were particularly important and receive special attention. For this period, al-Tabari's History is a fundamental source.The material collected by al-¿abar¿ frequently makes lively and colorful reading, and the annotations that accompany this translation attempt to clarify and make more explicit the sometimes allusive and compressed information provided by al-¿abar¿ and his sources. Since the standard edition of the text was made, at the end of the nineteenth century, a significant number of other sources have been published, which often make possible a more exact reading of al-¿abar¿'s text. For these reasons, it is hoped that this translation will appeal to those interested in the period but who have little or no Arabic and will also prove useful to students and scholars who are capable of reading the Arabic but will appreciate the suggested textual amendments and improvements and the elucidatory comments.