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The Imagined Embrace: Gender, Identity and Iranian Ethnicity in Jahangiri Paintings
(Salt Lake City: Utah University Press, 2003)
Benjamin Disraeli and the myth of Sephardi superiority
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Haifa University Press ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-09)
Anti-Semitism and apostasy in Nineteenth-Century France: A response to Jonathan Helfand
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Haifa University Press ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1991-09)
الأصول الإجتماعية والثقافية لحركة عرابي في مصر الإستعمار والثورة في الشرق الأوسط
(المجلس لالثقافة الأعلى, 1993)
Differentiating a Republican Citizenry: Talents, Human Science, and Enlightenment Theories of Governance
(2002)
This essay explores how the Enlightenment preoccupation with nature and reason, and
the concomitant desire to restructure civil and political society according to these principles, served simultaneously to write certain ...
Division of the Dowry on the Death of the Daughter: An Instance in the Negotiation of Laws and Jewish Customs in Early Modern Tuscany
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2002-01)
Tuscan notarial acts permit the exploration of the often elusive relationship of Jewish practice, Jewish law and the corresponding laws of the state. One issue in early modern Italian Jewish marriage negotiations was the ...
DONALD and JOAN GEAR, Earth to Heaven: The Royal Animal-Shaped Weights of the Burmese Empires. Harrow, England: Twinstar, 1992. pp. xvii + 298.
(Brill Academic Publishers; E.J. Brill, Leiden ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-01)
Infidel or Paganus? The Polysemy of kafara in the Quran
(2020-09)
This article explores the meaning of the root k-f-r in the Quran, questioning the practice of translating the noun kāfir as “infidel.” It argues for a distinction between the idiomatic phrasal verb kafara bi-, which does ...
Printing and Urban Islam in the Mediterannean World, 1890-1920
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2002)