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Leon Uris retums to the land of his acclaimed best-seller Exodus for an epic story of hate and love, vengeance and forgiveness and forgiveness. The Middle East is the powerful setting for this sweeping tale of a land where revenge is sacred and hatred noble. Where an Arab ruler tries to save his people from destruction but cannot save them from themselves. When violence spreads like a plague across the lands of Palestine--this is the time of The Haj.
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Time to read The Haj.......2007-04-14
Leon Uris is among my favorite authors. With my interests in both WW II and in Ireland, I read most of his good books decades ago. But I'd never gotten around to reading this one because I was rather less interested in Arab culture at that time.
Now here we are with the war in Iraq, Syrian interference in Lebanon, and much more going on in the Middle East. I was ready. I picked up The Haj and was glad I did. I found it just as engaging as anything I've read by this author; featuring rich settings populated with fascinating characters, and well grounded in careful research. And on top of that, the book is remarkably relevant in terms of current events.
GET A GRIP FOLKS!.......2007-03-05
THIS IS HISTORICAL FICTION.. A NOVEL!!! Not unlike Herman Wolks "Winds of War" or War and Rememberance.
enlightening.......2007-02-07
I haven't yet finished this book. It does verify what I experienced living in an Arab country for two years. Some Arabs are taught to hate other cultures since an early age. I had a member of a royal family in a class I taught. She hated Hindi's. I asked why, she only said, "Because." I know she heard it from her family and friends that Indians and Hindis are the servants and do work unfit for an Arab.
This book won't solve problems, but will help to gain some insight into the mind of an Arab (since when would God send a prostitute for use to a believer to show him something???)
timely book.......2007-01-30
Leon Uris has captured the mind of the people we are fighting and those we are trying to help. Thouigh it is a novel, it lends a great deal of insight into why the Arab nations are where they are today.
Mazel Tov, Leon Uris, Mazel tov!.......2006-12-24
I think that what was so remarkable in Mr. Uris novel was his ability to re-create an era and characters that existed and lived in a not-so distant past. I do not think that Uris wanted to disgrace anybody. He was just describing a part of a world as he saw it
Imagine if we were to write a novel about the United States in the 1940's-50'surely we would see some marked differences between now and then. Uris transports us back in time in the company of realistic characters, but above all, this is a work of fiction, not a documentary.
Uris bring passion to his stories. I couldn't take sides while reading this book. I felt sorry for Nada, who suffered a traumatic mutilation of her female parts in the name of family honor. It sure backfired in ways the Haj never thought possible.
Reading this book I felt rage, pity, remorse and even felt guilty that the whole tragedy ever happened at all. Uris opens a window to the world of Islam and the Arabs, the British and the Israelis, everyone of them contending for a place to call "home" in the Middle East.
5 stars, well deserved
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Elusive Justice: Wrestling with Difference and Educational Equity in Everyday Practice (Teaching/Learning Social Justice)
Thea Renda Abu El-Haj
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Elusive Justice addresses how educators think about and act upon differences in schools--be they based on race, gender, class, or disability--and how discourse and practice about such differences are intimately bound up with educational justice. Rather than skip over contentious or uncomfortable dialogues about difference, Thea Abu El-Haj tackles them head on. Through rich and detailed ethnographic portraits of two schools with a commitment to social justice, she analyzes the ways discourses about difference provide a key site for both producing and resisting inequalities, and examines the dilemmas that emerge from either focusing on or ignoring them. In interrogating fundamental assumptions about difference and equity, Abu El-Haj deftly blends critique with a search for hope and possibility to ultimately argue for ways educators might translate ideals about justice into effective practice.
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Al-Hadith (A set of 4 vols)
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This book is a complete set of 4 vols and each has 738 pages and it is an English Translation and commentary of Mishkat ul Masabih.
The Book AL Hadis is very popular among the Muslims. It contains the Holy Prophets saying relation to the events before and after the doomsday, the graphic description of the day of Resurrection, the accountability of our actions in the next world and the rewards in paradise and punishments in hell. There are leading articles on the life of the holy Prophet showing him and excellent ideal in all aspects of human life and on the inner meanings of the life and after death, and of its gifts and chastisements.
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This is the remarkable story of Haj Amin al-Husseini, who in many ways was as big a Nazi villain as Hitler, and to understand his influence on the Middle East is to understand the ongoing genocidal program against the Jews of Israel. Al-Husseini was a bridge figure in terms of transporting the Nazi genocide in Europe into the post-war Middle East.
As the leader of Arab Palestine during the British Mandate period, al-Husseini introduced violence against moderate Arabs as well as against Jews. Al-Husseini met with Adolf Eichmann in Palestine in 1937 and subsequently went on the Nazi payroll as a Nazi agent.
Al-Husseini played a pivotal behind-the-scenes role in instigating a pro-Nazi coup in Iraq in 1941, in urging Nazi's and pro-Nazi governments in Europe to transport Jews to death camps, in training pro-Nazi Bosnian brigades, and in funneling Nazi loot into post-war Arab countries.
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a key to the source of a conflict.......2007-06-10
This is an important book for many reasons, especially for providing one especially significant and important aspect concerning the origin of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The author's thesis is that Al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, successfully merged his Islamic fundamentalism with the theology of Hitler's National Socialism. He supported the final solution in Europe, rallied Muslim troops to support and perpetuate the final solution, planned to import the Holocaust to the Middle East, and influenced future Arab generations. As a historian, the author pulls together many esoteric events (such as the Weizmann-Faisal peace agreement)that may surprise those who thought they knew the history pretty well. Morse illustrates how one individual can spread enmity and hate for thousands across generations. Recommended for those who want to gain more insight.
Very relevant today. Amazing information........2007-01-23
A very informative and revealing book on the role that Al-Husseini played in bringing about the dangerous situation in which we, in all the world, are living today. It leaves many questions unanswered, though, like: how or why the British, and later the French, favored this psycho so unashamedly. The crimes of this devilish man being left unpunished -even covered-up- claim for an explanation that is not offered here.
About 130 pages of fast and furious read. Very relevant to understand today's crisis between the suicidal West and the paranoid Muslim world. It has some very good analyses of the Palestinian conflict. It covers many issues related to the terrorism suffered by Israel thru the personal observation of relevant figures, not only Al-Husseini.
A book covering the whole 20th century, and practically the whole world geographically.
The Holocaust denial that is emerging in some parts of the West is a clear sign (as referred to in page 100) of more trouble on the horizon.
Do you still not know that God will bless those who bless Israel, for truly it is His people? So, also, he will crunch those who mistreat her.
Things pass slowly but surely. This short book gives a tremendous global view of what really matters in the world today. Capture the vision.
From Hitler to Hamas.......2006-01-16
Haj Amin al-Husseini represented the opposite of the noble Emir Faisal Ibn Husein, the enlightened Arab King of Hejaz who had cordial relations with Chaim Weizmann and wanted to achieve a peaceful Middle East with co-operation between Jew and Arab.
Unfortunately Al-Husseini's ideology of hatred won out. As Grand Mufti of Jerusalem he spearheaded the imperialistic or utopian strain of Islam that has turned into a modern hydra. In 1920 he organised the murder of Jews who were praying at the Wailing Wall, and he never looked back. Throughout the rest of his time in Palestine he furthered his murderous designs because of the British policy of appeasement, with further campaigns in 1929 and from 1936.
In the 1930s Al-Husseini became a proponent of Hitler, eventually settling in Berlin where he encouraged the annihilation of European Jews and planned to become the leader of the Arab world in expectation of an Axis victory. He unceasingly promoted the Holocaust and Nazism amongst the Arabs. This strain of Nazism was a blend of National Socialism and fundamentalist Islam that would make deep inroads into the Arab world.
After the war Al-Husseini fled to Cairo where was instrumental in accommodating fleeing Nazis and organising for the destruction of Israel. The hatred of Israel now took on a Leftist flavour as the Soviet Union became the champion of the Arab cause. Arab leaders like Gamal Abdel Nasser, Saddam Hussein and Yasser Arafat were all influenced by his hateful ideas.
Al-Husseini did not only target Jews, but also moderate Arabs and the free West in general. Nazism was the spiritual and physical bridge by which Islamic extremism became prominent in the Arab world. He introduced the demented belief that utopia could be achieved on earth by the destruction of Israel and the annihilation of the Jews.
This malevolent Islamo-Fascism is the cause of much of the misery in the Arab world today and at the root of the hatred of non-Muslims, particularly the United States and Israel. In this, the extremists are assisted by international leftists. The Western democracies are now tasting the fruit of a decades long policy of appeasement towards this odious movement and its demonic founder.
But there is still a chance that the legacy of Emir Faisal might prevail, although recent developments in France and Europe as a whole do not look promising. Al-Husseini was without doubt one of the most evil personalities of the 20th century as meticulously documented in this revealing book.
Plenty of black and white photographs enhance the text, illustrating Al-Husseini's meetings with Nazi and Arab leaders, and of Bosnian Muslim brigades in World War II.
There are nine indices with documentary evidence of the historical narrative. Appendix A is the Balfour Declaration of 1917, B provides excerpts of the correspondence of King Faisal, C is the Weizmann-Faisal Agreement of 1919, D provides a dialogue between Lord Peel and Husseini from the Palestine Royal Commission Report.
Appendix E gives the minutes of a meeting between Hitler and Al-Husseini, F is an excerpt from the diary of Al-Husseini on his meeting with Hitler, G is a letter in which he asks the Hungarian government to send 1000 Jews to their death in Poland instead of allowing them to escape to Israel, H is his address to Arab-Americans and I is the Palestine National Covenant that denies the right of Israel to exist.
The text concludes with a moving prayer for the state of Israel by the Chief Rabbinate. It is a prayer that all true Christians would do well to heed and incorporate into their worship in these trying times. The book concludes with notes, an index and biographical information on the author.
I also recommend The Other War: Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for Media Supremacy by Stephanie Gutmann, Our Hands Are Stained with Blood by Michael l Brown, Dream Palace Of The Arabs by Fouad Ajami, Israel: Life in the Shadow of Terror by Nechemia Coopersmith, Myths And Facts by Mitchell G Bard and Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And The American Left by David Horowitz.
Exploring the Nazi Roots of Palestinianism.......2005-11-28
For those , like myself , who are sick and tired of the hate-filled international campaign to destroy Israel , and anihilate her people , this informative and fascinating book provides an exploration of the roots of Palestinianism and anti-Israel hatred.
It outlines how the ongoing genocide against the Jews of Israel is in fact a continuation of the Nazi holocaust against the Jews of Europe.
Chuck Morse traces the story of Haj amin al-Husseini , the founder of the Palestinian
Movement , and ally and friend of Adolf Hitler , and a key player in the holocaust Against the Jews
Al-Husseini , the Mufti of Jerusalem , was a vicious enemy of the
Jewish people , in the tradition of Amalek , Haman , Torquemada , Chmielniki , and of course Hitler. His legacy continues today in the PLO , Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades ,
PFLP , Hamas , Islamic Jihad , Hezbollah , Al Qaida , and the regimes of Syria , Libya
And Iran , as well as the supporters of the genocidal hate campaign against Israel on the International Left , and some on the Far Right (like Pat Buchanan and David Duke).
60 years after the Nazi holocaust , anti-Jewish hatred reached another climax at the hideous anti-Israel hate fest , the United Nations Conference on Racism , in Durban , South Africa , where the Left demonstrated their common cause with Radical Islam ,
By embracing hateful anti-Zionist propaganda , and feverishly supporting the genocidal Program against Israel.
This evil festival of terror and hate in Durban 2001 , was the lowest point in human history , since the Nazi holocaust , and may a stain of shame always stay by the names of those who organized and facilitated this event.
Haj Amin al-Husseini was born in Jerusalem , in 1895 , and fought in the Ottoman Trurkish Army , against the British , during the First World War. In 1919 , he established a secret Moslem Youth Group , al-Nadi al-Arabi , which organized violence against the British , the Jews of Palestine , and moderate Moslems.
In March , 1920 , al-Husseini instigated attacks against innocent Jews praying at the Western Wall , in Jerusalem , followed by anti-Jewish pogroms by armed Arab gangs in Jaffa , Rehovot , Petach Tikva , and other Jewish towns
In 1922 , al-Husseini was appointed Grand Mufti of Jerusalem by the British. He organized a reign of terror against moderate Moslems who showed any sign of accepting the Jews , and in 1929 organized further pogroms agianst Jews in Jerusalem , Motza , Hebron , Safed , Haifa , Tel Aviv and Jaffa , as well as Jews living in the countryside. The ancient Jewish community of Hebron was destroyed.
After the massacre of the Hebron Jews , al-Husseini disseminated photos of the slaughtered Jewish corpses with the claim that the dead where actaully Arabs killed by Jews!
This type of blood-libel is today frequently used against Israel by the Palestinian Authority together with the Axis of the Islamists and the International Left , and is widely dissmeninated in the media and universities worldwide. As Morse points out : " The preposterous and quite bizzare proposition prsented today is that the State of Israel and it's armed forces are deliberately and knowingly killing innocent Palestinian Arabs. Such propaganda ,serves the same purpose today as it did in the time ofal-Husseini, not to mention mediaeval times , namely as a means of fanning the flames and hatred , and stoking the fires of genocide against the Jews.
After Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 , Al-Husseini proceeded to set up a Palestinian Arab Youth Group , known as the Nazi Scouts. In addition , Arab organizations modelled on the Nazi Party where set up in Egypt , Algeria, Tunisia , Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.
In August , 1995 a graduating class of Palestinian Authority cadets , who would later engage in the mass slaughter of Jewish men , women and children , marked the occasion with a Nazi style straight Sieg Heil salute. Fawzi Salim al-Mahdi , a commander of Fatah's Force 17 , Arafat's elite Praetorian Guard , which would play a key role in suicide bombings , was known as Abu Hitler , because he named his two sons Eichmann and Hitler.
In 1936 , al-Husseini made contact with the German Nazis , and with their backing launched the Arab revolt , in which thousands of Jews where butchered to the chlling cry of `Itbach al Yahud' - `Kill the Jews'. In 1937 , al Husseini met with Adolf Eichmann , in a cordial meeting , that would cement the al-Husseini-Hitler Alliance. Eichmann reported glowingly of the `national and racial conscience' among the Arabs of Palestine who hung swastikas and portaraits of Hitler in their homes.
That year the mufti fled from the British to Lebanon , and thence to Iraq. After organizing a failed pro-Nazi coup in Iraq , al-Husseini fled to Nazi Germany , where he was installed as a guest of honour , who frequently met with Hitler , and was present at the 1942 Wannsee conference where the `Final Solution' to the Jewish question was adopted. Al-Husseini organized SS Brigades of Moslems from the Caucuses , the Middle East and Bosnia , including the infamous Hansar Brigades of Bosnian Moslems , which killed thousands of Serbs , Roma and Jews. He is reported to have visited Auschwitz and urged the SS guards there to be more dilligent in their work of extermination. In 1943 , he interceded with the Hungarian authorities to prevent to prevent 900 Jewish children from being shipped to Palestine. The children where instead sent to Auschwitz , where they perished.
After World War II , al-Husseini escaped to Egypt , and organized the Arab war effort to destroy the tiny fledgling State of Israel. He formed a band of Arab terrorists , called the Jihad Muqqadas , who launched attacks on Jewish civillians. Until his death in 1974 , after which his shoes where filled by his nephew Yasser Arafat , al-Husseini continued to devote his life to the destruction of Israel. The evil of al-Husseini and Hitler lives on , in the terror and propaganda war against Israel. Perhaps the idea of Jews living as a free and prosperous people in their own land is what fuels the rage of those who hate Israel.
May God bless and protect Israel , and scatter and destroy all those who hate Israel.
An important investigation into an evil ideology........2005-07-17
This well written book scrutinizes the story of Haj Amin al-Husseini and how his influence has allegedly resulted in Islamo-fascism and Jihad terrorism becoming the dominant political philosophies in the Arab world. The reader being shown how Nazism took root in the Islamic world through the untiring efforts of al-Hussein, the former Mufti of Jerusalem.
Initial coverage of al-Husseini's life demonstrates his involvement in instigating the first large-scale pogrom against the Jews in Palestine during 1920, illustrated by the writer as the first wholesale slaughter of Jews in the Arab world for hundreds of years. Al-Husseini is also cited as being culpable for the instigation of further violence against the Jews in Palestine, whilst simultaneously being responsible for what is called the brutal purging and assassination of any Arab who dared to oppose him.
Subsequently being appointed by the British as the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al-Husseini, is shown to have been the mentor to a more modern personage, who also shared his family name and who, it is described, is believed to have been his nephew. The individual concerned was born in Cairo in 1929 and named Muhammad Abdel Rahman Abdel Rauf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini - better known as Yasser Arafat.
The Mufti's sympathy and embracing of the philosophy and goals of the Third Reich is covered with reference to the meetings between al-Husseini and Nazi leaders such as Hitler himself, Adolf Eichman and von Ribbontrop.
Living in Berlin throughout the Second World War, the book reveals how al-Husseini was allowed to live in the luxurious surroundings of a mansion confiscated from a wealthy Jew and how he was set by the Nazis as a virtual head of a Nazi-Muslim government in exile. Access being granted to him to the "sonderfund" which constituted property and money confiscated from European Jews en-route to the concentration camps.
Also documented is the role al-Husseini allegedly played in the recruiting/training of Muslim divisions in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia, together with his cited radio transmissions to the Arab world which included some of the most "blood curdling anti-Jewish statements and propaganda in history".
The study shows how Hitler allegedly promised al-Husseini, in explicit terms, that following the final solution of the Jews in Europe, the Nazi regime would assist al-Husseini in implementing a final solution against the Jews of Palestine and eventually the entire Arab world itself.
As a result of Hitler's subsequent defeat, and faced with promises that would henceforth fail to materialise, the book shows how al-Husseini fled to Cairo where he remained as a guest of King Farouk and General Abdel Gamal Nasser. Remaining in Cairo for the remainder of his "career", al-Husseini is cited as helping with the settlement of Nazi war criminals in the Arab world and devoting his energies towards the "destruction of the state of Israel".
The author detailing how in post war Cairo, al-Husseini established himself as a key player in transferring Hitler's program of genocide against the Jews into the Middle East itself, with a platform being provided within the ensuing Arab-Israeli conflict.
The contention within this book is that al-Husseini always insisted that Palestine should be rendered virtually "Judenrein" (free of Jews) and adamantly refused to recognise any national rights for the Jews following the re-birth of Israel in 1948.
The study elaborating that al-Husseini's cited intransigent position remains within the Arab world to this day, as a mainstay and driving force amongst radical Arab/Islamic elements which is described as possibly being a "seamless continuation and an extension of the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews of Europe".
The Mufti's activities in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe are depicted as having set the stage for today's Islamic terrorism, where the cited mind-set and world-view are described as having many similarities with totalitarian fascism.
Many will disagree with such observations but the evidence provided reveals a disturbing case to answer.
Numerous photographs are provided along with detailed references which even include the minutes of the meeting of al-Husseini with Adolf Hitler himself during 1941, together with extracts from al-Husseini's diary pertaining to this meeting.
The book culminates with the personal thoughts of the writer in relation to the present day peace process in the Middle East, where he describes that, after studying the issues presented within this work, his hopes and prayers for "peace" are mixed with more than a "healthy dose of skepticism".
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Education, Empowerment, and Control: The Case of the Arabs in Israel (S U N Y Series in Israeli Studies)
Majid Al Haj
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Education, Empowerment, and Control is about the education of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel from the establishment of the state of Israel to the present. Using a comparative approach, the study throughout juxtaposes Arab and Hebrew educational systems in terms of administration, resources, curricula contents, and returns. Developments in education are analyzed in conjunction with wide demographic, economic, and sociopolitical changes.
Al-Haj explores the expectations of the Palestinian community on the one hand and dominant groups on the other, showing that whereas Palestinians have seen education as a source of empowerment, government groups have seen it as a mechanism of social control. The book also sheds light on the wider issue of education and social change among developing minorities in the postcolonial era. Al-Haj examines modernization, underdevelopment, and control in order to delineate the role education plays among a national minority that is marginalized at the group level and denied access to the national opportunity structure.
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With extensive new material, this classic book - now in a second edition - challenges the current paradigm of the societal decline as inadequate for understanding the Ottoman society and state during this period.
Rifa'at 'Ali Abou-El-Haj reevaluates the established historical view of the Ottoman Empire as an eastern despotic nation-state in decline and instead analyzes it as a modern state comparable to contemporary states in Europe and Asia.
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A scholarly re-examination, highly recommended for students of world history.......2006-04-03
Now in an updated second edition with extensive new material, Formation Of The Modern State: The Ottoman Empire, Sixteenth To Eighteenth Centuries is a history classic by Rifa'at 'Ali Abou-El-Haj, professor of modern Near East and European history. Based strongly on primary sources and written with a conscious slant toward theorizing, Formation Of The Modern State challenges readers to rethink their most common assumptions about the Ottoman Empire and its lasting contribution to world history. In particular, Formation Of The Modern State questions long-held status quo beliefs of the Ottoman Empire as a society in decay, pointing to evidence of modernity and vitality in the Empire and contrasting such evidence with corresponding European and Asian governments of the day. A scholarly re-examination, highly recommended for students of world history.
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Archaeology in Israel is truly a national obsession, a practice through which national identity—and national rights—have long been asserted. But how and why did archaeology emerge as such a pervasive force there? How can the practices of archaeology help answer those questions? In this stirring book, Nadia Abu El-Haj addresses these questions and specifies for the first time the relationship between national ideology, colonial settlement, and the production of historical knowledge. She analyzes particular instances of history, artifacts, and landscapes in the making to show how archaeology helped not only to legitimize cultural and political visions but, far more powerfully, to reshape them. Moreover, she places Israeli archaeology in the context of the broader discipline to determine what unites the field across its disparate local traditions and locations.
Boldly uncovering an Israel in which science and politics are mutually constituted, this book shows the ongoing role that archaeology plays in defining the past, present, and future of Palestine and Israel.
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Archaeology IS Political!.......2007-09-12
The politicization of archaeology--like every other discipline--is not new and El-Haj makes a thoroughly professional and expert comment on the political uses and abuses of Israeli archaeology. Highly recommended!
Facts from a comfy armchair.......2007-09-11
Politically driven drivel by non-tenured semi-amateur Palestinian.
"Facts on the ground" from someone who NEVER bothered to visit Israel or Palestine? How naive...
And the most unforgiving sin: tedious to an extreme, as most theses are. At least the editor took removed the APA format.
Provocative and thoughtful.......2007-09-04
As an avid amateur archeologist, I read this book to gain insight into the current situation of unearthing the past in Palestine. The author presented several intriguing ideas, such as the desire of immigrants who never had any contact with this "new-old land" to establish a legitimacy entitling them to be part of the region. Such insights as the naming of Tel Aviv (from Arabic words for "mound" and "spring") and the excavations of the Temple site shed light on the process of the creation of the myth of a new nation. Indeed, the immigrants, mainly from Central and Eastern Europe, had been schooled in the process of using the past to justify their nationhood. I highly recommend this text for anyone interested in a new and daring view of the material. There are some critics who have launched a campaign to discredit the author because of her temerity in analyzing most objectively the politics of mythification via archeology. No one should be discouraged from reading "Facts on the Ground" by such obvious would-be-silencers of what they consider to be a taboo topic.
Nadia Abu el Haj and Yael Zerubavel.......2007-08-16
Recovered Roots: Collective Memory and the Making of Israeli National Tradition by Yael Zerubavel discusses the construction of memory and the invention of traditions in Mandatory Palestine and in the State of Israel. The book describes some unusual Israeli or Zionist practices associated with Masada and Bar Kochba archeological excavations.
Rather like Nadia Abu el Haj in Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society, Zerubavel describes the use of archeology and other scholarship to construct Zionist national identity.
Other scholars have investigated the political use of archeology in various contexts. Not only Max Weinreich and Eric Hobsbawm provide similar analysis in their published works, but Constructing "Korean" Origins: A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography, and Racial Myth in Korean State Formation Theories by Hyung Il Pai addresses precisely that same issues with regard to the development of Korean national consciousness.
Even though Abu el Haj focuses more narrowly on professional archeologists whereas Zerubavel looks at Israeli society as a whole, both authors make similar points in their books, and Zerubavel provides support for some of the claims for which Nadia Abu el Haj has been most criticized.
Zerubavel received the 1996 Salo Baron Prize of the American Academy for Jewish Research for her work while Nadia Abu el Haj is the target of an international campaign to drive her out of Columbia/Barnard. The difference in the responses evoked by the two authors merits a scholarly study in itself.
Pseudo-Scholarship.......2007-08-15
This book is simply propaganda, dressed up as scholarship. It is about as far from academic honesty as you can get.
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An Iranian in Nineteenth Century Europe: The Travel Diaries of Haj Sayyah 1859-1877
Muhammad Ali Sayyah
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HAJ SAYYAH (1836-1924) catches wanderlust and decides to travel. He sets off west and returns eighteen years later. His wanderings take him throughout all of Europe, America. he is the first Iranian to become an American citizen and the Orient. Later he becomes a major player in the Constitutional Revolution. These diaries recount his European adventures.
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A story a day provides you with hints of wisedom & adventure.......2000-05-18
A fascinating character and his admirable journey throughout Central Asia and Europe. But more important, a tale of modesty, wisedom and courage for he who for the sake of adventure and knowledge renounced to comfort and wealth. Sayah's description of late 19th Century Europa is highly objective and sober.
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For God, Mammon, and Country: A Nineteenth-Century Persian Merchant, Haj Muhammad Hassan Amin al-Zarb (1834-1898)
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Haj Muhammad Hassan Amin al-Zarb (1835-1898) rose from humble beginnings to become one of Iran's wealthiest and most prominent merchants, eventually achieving the post of Master of the Mint in the Shah's government. Shireen Mahdavi's For God, Mammon, and Country is the first major account of Amin al-Zarb's life and times. Mahdavi's portrait of Amin al-Zarb provides important insights into the economic, social, and political role played by merchants in Iran, and elsewhere in the Middle East, during the nineteenth century. Drawing on hitherto unpublished family archives, Mahdavi has written not only a biography of a fascinating individual, but also a social history of nineteenth century Iran, illuminating the customs and lifestyle of the period in a manner which brings the era to life. This book is the first major account of the life and times of a merchant in nineteenth-century Iran or in the Middle East. Haj Muhammad Amin al-Zarb (1834-1898) rose from humble beginnings to become one of Iran's wealthiest and most prominent merchants. He built up his wealth as a money changer, a trader in textiles, precious stones, opium, carpets, agricultural products, and staple foodstuffs amongst other goods, and judicious transactions in land. Adept at cultivating powerful connections, he became the principal supplier of luxury goods to the Shah, his court, and members of the ruling elite; served as private banker to the Shah, his prime minister, and influential bureaucrats; and became Master of the Mint. He had agents in all the main towns of Persia and Europe with correspondents in Asia and America. Amin al-Zarb was also an entrepreneur, industrialist, and innovator. Determined to bring to Iran the advances he had witnessed in Europe, he invested in mining, established factories with imported machinery (such as glass, china, and silk reeling), built a railway line, and urged the Shah to establish a national bank. He also became an advocate of reform and curbs on arbitrary rule. He befriended the famous Islamic reformer, Jamal al-Din Afghani. An innovator in business, Amin al-Zarb led a very traditional life at home. Gifted at making money, he was nevertheless a pious man who contributed generously to religious and charitable causes. Shireen Mahdavi draws on hitherto unpublished family archives to write not only a biography of a fascinating nineteenth-century merchant but also a social history of the period. Her portrait of Amin al-Zarb also provides important insights into the economic, social, and political role played by merchants in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East in the nineteenth century.
"The importance of the role of the merchant in the Iranian constitutional revolution of 1906 has been frequently remarked but the merchants themselves have been little studied. Now at last we can welcome a scholarly biography of the leading merchant, Amin al-Zarb." -Malcolm Yapp, Emeritus Professor of the Modern History of Western Asia, University of London
"Shireen Mahdavi has written a fascinating book, based on original archives, about the most important Iranian merchant of the late nineteenth century, Amin al-Zarb. She effectively recounts both his rags-to riches life and his role in the changing economy and politics of late Qajar Iran." -Nikki Keddie, University of California, Los Angeles
"Shireen Mahdavi investigates the economic, financial, commercial and industrial activities of Haj Muhammad Hassan Amin al-Zarb, perhaps the greatest Persian entrepreneur of his time. Dr. Mahdavi's book fills in a major lacuna in late nineteenth century Persian history." -Michel Mazzaoui, Professor of Persian History, University of Utah
"Shireen Mahdavi has written a fine scholarly biography which makes an important contribution to the social and economic history of the Middle East and is an essential work for anyone interested in the area. The author has done painstaking first hand research of private and public archives. To my knowledge there is no comparable study for Iran or the Middle East." -Farhad Kazemi, New York University
"This is a richly-crafted portrait of Amin al-Zarb, Iran's leading merchant in the second half of the nineteenth century. The book considerably deepens our knowledge of the role of the merchant in politics and the economy in the Qajar period, the sources of their wealth, their complex relationship, both cooperative and adversial, with the Shah and the powerful men of the state, and their role as transmitters of new ideas and the new technology. Students of both Iran and the Arab Middle East will find it fascinating." -Shaul Bakhash, George Mason University
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