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A History of the Muslim World to 1405 The Making of a Civilization

A History of the Muslim World to 1405 The Making of a Civilization

Muslims first appeared in the early seventh century as members of a persecuted religious movement in a sun-baked town in Arabia. Within a century their descendants were ruling a vast territory that extended from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indus River valley in modern Pakistan. This region became the arena for a new cultural experiment in which Muslim scholars and creative artists synthesized and reworked the legacy of Rome Greece Iran and India into a new civilization. A History of the Muslim World to 1405 traces the development of this civilization from the career of the Prophet Muhammad to the death of the Mongol emperor Timur Lang. Coverage includes the unification of the Dar a1-Islam (the territory ruled by Muslims) the fragmentation into various religious and political groups including the Shi'ite and Sunni and the series of catastrophes in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries that threatened to destroy the civilization. Features: Balanced coverage of the Muslim world encompassing the region from the Iberian Peninsula to South Asia. Detailed accounts of all cultures including major Shi'ite groups and the Sunni community. Primary sources. Numerous maps and photographs featuring a special four-color art insert. Glossary charts and timelines. | A History of the Muslim World to 1405 The Making of a Civilization

GBP 175.00
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Historical Performance and New Music Aesthetics and Practices

Historical Performance and New Music Aesthetics and Practices

The worlds of new music and historically informed performance might seem quite distant from one another. Yet upon closer consideration clear points of convergence emerge. Not only do many contemporary performers move easily between these two worlds but they often do so using a shared ethos of flexibility improvisation curiosity and collaboration—collaboration with composers past and present with other performers and with audiences. Bringing together expert scholars and performers considering a wide range of issues and case studies Historical Performance and New Music—the first book of its kind—addresses the synergies in aesthetics and practices in historical performance and new music. The essays treat matters including technologies and media such as laptops printing presses and graphic notation; new music written for period instruments from natural horns to the clavichord; personalities such as the pioneering singer Cathy Berberian; the musically “omnivorous” ensembles A Far Cry and Roomful of Teeth; and composers Luciano Berio David Lang Molly Herron Caroline Shaw and many others. Historical Performance and New Music presents pathbreaking ideas in an accessible style that speaks to performers composers scholars and music lovers alike. Richly documented and diverse in its methods and subject matter this book will open new conversations about contemporary musical life. | Historical Performance and New Music Aesthetics and Practices

GBP 130.00
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Building Temples in China Memories Tourism and Identities

Building Temples in China Memories Tourism and Identities

Much has been written on how temples are constructed or reconstructed for reviving local religious and communal life or for recycling tradition after the market reforms in China. The dynamics between the state and society that lie behind the revival of temples and religious practices initiated by the locals have been well-analysed. However there is a gap in the literature when it comes to understanding religious revivals that were instead led by local governments. This book examines the revival of worship of the Chinese Deity Huang Daxian and the building of many new temples to the god in mainland China over the last 20 years. It analyses the role of local governments in initiating temple construction projects in China and how development-oriented temple-building activities in Mainland China reveal the forces of transnational ties capital markets and identities as temples were built with the hope of developing tourism boosting the local economy and enhancing Chinese identities for Hong Kong worshippers and Taiwanese in response to the reunification of Hong Kong to China. Including chapters on local religious memory awakening pilgrimage as a form of tourism women temple managers entrepreneurialism and the religious economy and based on extensive fieldwork Chan and Lang have produced a truly interdisciplinary follow up to The Rise of a Refugee God which will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese religion Chinese culture Asian anthropology cultural heritage and Daoism alike. | Building Temples in China Memories Tourism and Identities

GBP 46.99
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