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The Formative Influence of French Colonialism on the Life and Thought of Malek Bennabi (Malik bn Nabi) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Malek Bennabi (1905–73) fut un intellectuel algérien de premier rang. Cet article étudie l’effet du colonialisme sur sa vie et ses idées. L’étude considère ses livres et offre une comparaison entre Bennabi et Frantz Fanon.
Naylor, Phillip Chiviges
core   +1 more source

Pan-Africanism: a contorted delirium or a pseudonationalist paradigm? Revivalist critique [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This essaic-article goes against established conventions that there is anything ethno-cultural (and hence national) about the so-called African tribes.
Albert C.   +19 more
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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
wiley   +1 more source

KEBANGKITAN PERADABAN ISLAM PADA ABAD KLASIK

open access: yesSosial Budaya, 2016
This article reviewing the history of islamic civilization has experienced a resurrection in the classical century, especially in the three daulah, namely Daulay Abbasiyah in Baghdad, Daulay Umayyah in Cordova and Daulay Fatimiyah in Mesir.
A Syamruddin Nasution
doaj   +1 more source

Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

Democracy in Islamic political thought [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper surveys the growth and various phases of and influences on the concept of democracy in the Islamic political thought of the last two centuries. Among the thinkers covered in the survey are Rifa'a Tahtawi (1801-73), Khairuddin at-Tunis (1810-99)
Tamimi, Azzam S.
core  

M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
wiley   +1 more source

Economy, Technology and the Environment: The Islamic Middle Way [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Dr. Ahmad considers some specifics of the ways in which the Qur\'an, the Prophetic traditions and Islamic law lead toward a path of moderation between extremes, in terms of both belief and behavior: in favor of free markets, but with property rights ...
Ahmad, Imad-ad-Dean
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Ambiguities of modernist nationalism: architectural culture and nation-building in early Republican Turkey [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Reviews the book "Modernism and Nation Building: Turkish Architectural Culture in the Early Republic," by Sibel ...
Akman, Ayhan
core   +1 more source

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