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Opium, Henbane and Hashish: What do the pre-modern Arabic-Islamic sources say about them? This book examines all aspects of use and abuse: Use in classical Arabic medicine, use as poisons, the juridical discourse on their use and their abuse as intoxicants. Furthermore, the monographs on narcotics that were written from the 13th century onwards are examined and the question of a premodern understanding of addiction is pursued. The period from 1100 to 1800 reveals trends in drug consumption, numerous, changing legal positions can be placed side by side and a multifaceted picture of drug users in their living environments emerges.
Opium, Henbane and Hashish: What do the pre-modern Arabic-Islamic sources say about them? This book examines all aspects of use and abuse: Use in classical Arabic medicine, use as poisons, the juridical discourse on their use and their abuse as intoxicants. Furthermore, the monographs on narcotics that were written from the 13th century onwards are examined and the question of a premodern understanding of addiction is pursued. The period from 1100 to 1800 reveals trends in drug consumption, numerous, changing legal positions can be placed side by side and a multifaceted picture of drug users in their living environments emerges.
In Filhos da Terra, António Manuel Hespanha sets the stage to analyse a process of creolization that followed the Portuguese maritime expansion and consequent colonial buildup after 1415 and until 1800. This translated edition of his work opens up the possibility for future critical scholarly and public comparative discussions about diversity, identities, and identifications in the context of European empire building.
Contributors are: Cátia Antunes, Zoltan Biedermann, Tamar Herzog, Noelle Richardson, Sophie Rose, and Ângela Barreto Xavier.
In Filhos da Terra, António Manuel Hespanha sets the stage to analyse a process of creolization that followed the Portuguese maritime expansion and consequent colonial buildup after 1415 and until 1800. This translated edition of his work opens up the possibility for future critical scholarly and public comparative discussions about diversity, identities, and identifications in the context of European empire building.
Contributors are: Cátia Antunes, Zoltan Biedermann, Tamar Herzog, Noelle Richardson, Sophie Rose, and Ângela Barreto Xavier.
Contributors are: Vincent Baptist, Robert Bartłomiejski, Tianchen Dai, Carola Hein, Sławomir Iwasiów, Karolina Izdebska, Maciej Kowalewski, Urszula Kozłowska, Paul van de Laar, Beatrice Moretti, Nick Osbaldiston, Manuel Pacheco Coelho, Ewa Rewers, Dirk Schubert, Christoph Strupp, and Enrico Tommarchi.
Contributors are: Vincent Baptist, Robert Bartłomiejski, Tianchen Dai, Carola Hein, Sławomir Iwasiów, Karolina Izdebska, Maciej Kowalewski, Urszula Kozłowska, Paul van de Laar, Beatrice Moretti, Nick Osbaldiston, Manuel Pacheco Coelho, Ewa Rewers, Dirk Schubert, Christoph Strupp, and Enrico Tommarchi.
Do such lands even exist? How many types of terrae incognitae are there? What does it mean, and what has it meant, to mark a land as unknown? Why do so many maps of the last five centuries insist on reserving a place for unknown geographies?
This book navigates the cartographic unknown, exploring its contribution to the history of knowledge and geographical culture.
Do such lands even exist? How many types of terrae incognitae are there? What does it mean, and what has it meant, to mark a land as unknown? Why do so many maps of the last five centuries insist on reserving a place for unknown geographies?
This book navigates the cartographic unknown, exploring its contribution to the history of knowledge and geographical culture.
Saladin lived at a time when the Islamic world was going through profound changes. Since the later 11th century, the Turkish ruling elites had dominated most of the Islamic Middle East. In military terms Arabs and Persians were being pushed aside, though they continued to dominate the religious, cultural and commercial elites. Meanwhile Kurds had only limited and localized importance, which makes the rise of a man of Kurdish origins like Saladin unusual.
Saladin lived at a time when the Islamic world was going through profound changes. Since the later 11th century, the Turkish ruling elites had dominated most of the Islamic Middle East. In military terms Arabs and Persians were being pushed aside, though they continued to dominate the religious, cultural and commercial elites. Meanwhile Kurds had only limited and localized importance, which makes the rise of a man of Kurdish origins like Saladin unusual.
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Calendar Systems
Transliteration
About the cover
Introduction—Fakes: In It From the Outset
1 Carlo Ginzburg’s Photo Finish
2 Robert-Henri Bautier’s Passion
3 What Two Out-And-Out Usurpers Look Like
4 State Art and Statecraft
Part1 Apprehensions and Reprehensions: Looking for Imprints
Introduction to Part1
1 Symbolic Deaths, or Proscription
1 El-ḥâc Ṣâliḥ from Bûrdur
2 Ḥaḳḳı Efendi—Deactivating a Pasha
3 An Inventory as an Example
2 Sharp Sight, or the Reserves of Perspicacity
1 From Afar, or the Fleeting Glimpse of Meḥmed Fû’âd Efendi
2 Seen from Closer Up—the Attentive Gaze
3 Collocation Effects
4 In Which Excellence Frequents Mediocrity
5 Matter for Discernment
6 Distinctive Characteristics
3 Conditioning What Cannot Be Discerned
1 Clipped and Gilded
2 Meḥmed the Kurd, or the Mutism of Scratching
3 Sándor Radnóti, or the Power of Wear(ing)
4 Süleymân Efendi, or Interpolation in the Hollows
5 The Report from Bîġâ, or How to Falsify Without Altering
6 Falsification despite the Indiscernible
7 Vanishing Fakes
8 The Garden of San Stefano
4 Extracts from the Realm of Particles
A Short Theory of Mixtures and Amalgamations
1 Medicines, Fats, and Assimilated Products
2 Trieste Rums, Leucadian Wines
3 Water, Lemonade, and Carbonic Acid
4 Rearranged and Recomposed
5 Léon the Austrian and Co.
6 Aniline and Its Admixtures
7 The Color of Science: The Artifice of Chromatopsia
8 Tea in the Laboratory
9 All Sorts of Avania
10 The Apothecary Dressed Up as a Chemist
Coda: The Power of Suspicion
1 Gone AWOL
Part2 Characterization and Classification: The Morphology of Reports and Relationships
Introduction to Part2
1 One Beginning, Two Trials
5 Forgers and Co.
Incrimination by the Gang
1 Lads from the Docks (1)
2 The Steamer from Trebizond
3 Traces of Companionship
4 Lads from the Docks (2)
5 Vâsîlâkî, Sûrepa, Mıġırdîc, and the Gang
6 Confecting Is Conceiving
Conviction by Instruments
1 The Idle-Handed
2 Forever Tinkering, Forever Trying
7 The Work of Interrogation
1 The Question
2 Pressure
3 To Summarize
Afterword: Making the Most of Fakes
Appendix 1: Facsimiles and Transliterations
Appendix 2: Analytical Table
Bibliography
Index of Operations
Index of Terms & Phrases
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Calendar Systems
Transliteration
About the cover
Introduction—Fakes: In It From the Outset
1 Carlo Ginzburg’s Photo Finish
2 Robert-Henri Bautier’s Passion
3 What Two Out-And-Out Usurpers Look Like
4 State Art and Statecraft
Part1 Apprehensions and Reprehensions: Looking for Imprints
Introduction to Part1
1 Symbolic Deaths, or Proscription
1 El-ḥâc Ṣâliḥ from Bûrdur
2 Ḥaḳḳı Efendi—Deactivating a Pasha
3 An Inventory as an Example
2 Sharp Sight, or the Reserves of Perspicacity
1 From Afar, or the Fleeting Glimpse of Meḥmed Fû’âd Efendi
2 Seen from Closer Up—the Attentive Gaze
3 Collocation Effects
4 In Which Excellence Frequents Mediocrity
5 Matter for Discernment
6 Distinctive Characteristics
3 Conditioning What Cannot Be Discerned
1 Clipped and Gilded
2 Meḥmed the Kurd, or the Mutism of Scratching
3 Sándor Radnóti, or the Power of Wear(ing)
4 Süleymân Efendi, or Interpolation in the Hollows
5 The Report from Bîġâ, or How to Falsify Without Altering
6 Falsification despite the Indiscernible
7 Vanishing Fakes
8 The Garden of San Stefano
4 Extracts from the Realm of Particles
A Short Theory of Mixtures and Amalgamations
1 Medicines, Fats, and Assimilated Products
2 Trieste Rums, Leucadian Wines
3 Water, Lemonade, and Carbonic Acid
4 Rearranged and Recomposed
5 Léon the Austrian and Co.
6 Aniline and Its Admixtures
7 The Color of Science: The Artifice of Chromatopsia
8 Tea in the Laboratory
9 All Sorts of Avania
10 The Apothecary Dressed Up as a Chemist
Coda: The Power of Suspicion
1 Gone AWOL
Part2 Characterization and Classification: The Morphology of Reports and Relationships
Introduction to Part2
1 One Beginning, Two Trials
5 Forgers and Co.
Incrimination by the Gang
1 Lads from the Docks (1)
2 The Steamer from Trebizond
3 Traces of Companionship
4 Lads from the Docks (2)
5 Vâsîlâkî, Sûrepa, Mıġırdîc, and the Gang
6 Confecting Is Conceiving
Conviction by Instruments
1 The Idle-Handed
2 Forever Tinkering, Forever Trying
7 The Work of Interrogation
1 The Question
2 Pressure
3 To Summarize
Afterword: Making the Most of Fakes
Appendix 1: Facsimiles and Transliterations
Appendix 2: Analytical Table
Bibliography
Index of Operations
Index of Terms & Phrases
The Longest Night tells the story of Chinese Trotskyism in its later years, including after Mao Zedong's capture of Beijing in 1949. It treats the three ages of Chinese Trotskyism: the founding generation around Chen Duxiu, Zheng Chaolin, Wang Fanxi, and Peng Shuzhi, who joined the Opposition after their expulsion from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP); the first generation of those who (after 1931) did not first pass through the ranks of the CCP before becoming Trotskyists; and those who became Trotskyists after 1949, mainly in Hong Kong and the diaspora.
The Longest Night tells the story of Chinese Trotskyism in its later years, including after Mao Zedong's capture of Beijing in 1949. It treats the three ages of Chinese Trotskyism: the founding generation around Chen Duxiu, Zheng Chaolin, Wang Fanxi, and Peng Shuzhi, who joined the Opposition after their expulsion from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP); the first generation of those who (after 1931) did not first pass through the ranks of the CCP before becoming Trotskyists; and those who became Trotskyists after 1949, mainly in Hong Kong and the diaspora.