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Class Struggle in the Era of Identity Politics: The Revolutionary Modernism of Doron Tzabari
(Wayne State University Press, 2019-09-01)From the beginning of its history, the Zionist workers’ society in the Land of Israel was plagued with fundamental identity problems. Chief among them was the tension between the socialist vision of Zionist ideologues and ... -
19th-century mercantile correspondence in the Rylands Genizah Collections
The John Rylands Genizah Collections share one particular feature with other Genizah collections, such as the Alliance Israélite Universelle Collections (AIU) and the Mosseri Collection currently housed in Cambridge, that ... -
Timurid Manuscript Production: The Scholarship and Aesthetics of Prince Bāysunghur’s Royal Atelier (1420-1435)
(2018-07-20)Considered one of the pinnacles of the arts of the book in the entire history of Persian art, the life of the Timurid prince, Bāysunghur (1397-1433) and his royal library-atelier have been studied for more than a century. ... -
Authorship, Ownership and Rewriting. Va'iz Kashifi and Abu'l-Fazl B. Mubarak within the Hereditary Line of Kalila wa-Dimna Authors.
In Tīmūrid Herāt, during the last decade of the fifteenth century, the elderly and renowned Vāʿiz Kāshifī (d. 910 AH/ 1504-05 CE) was at the zenith of a full career as judge and preacher, involved in Ṣūfism and celebrated ...
