Search Results - "Fashion"

Christian figural reading and the fashioning of identity by Dawson, David, 1957-

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China's last imperial frontier late Qing expansion in Sichuan's Tibetan borderlands / by Wang, Xiuyu, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Qing Discourse and Capability in Eastern Tibet -- Frontier Society and Power -- Lu Chuanlin's "Great Game" in Nyarong -- Frontier Incident and War Making -- State Violence and Local Resistance : the Kham War -- "Regularization" Reconsidered : Variants of Gaitu Guiliu in Northern Kham -- Fashioning an "Inner Region beyond the Pass" -- Developing the West : Opening Kham Lands, Mines and Young Minds -- Character List.…”
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Contested conversions to Islam narratives of religious change in the early modern Ottoman Empire / by Krstić, Tijana

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : turning "Rumi" : conversion to Islam, fashioning of the Ottoman imperial ideology, and interconfessional relations in the early modern Mediterranean context -- Muslims through narratives : textual repertoires of fifteenth-century Ottoman Islam and formation of the Ottoman interpretative communities -- Toward an Ottoman Rumi identity : the polemical arena of syncretism and the debate on the place of converts in fifteenth-century Ottoman polity -- In expectation of the Messiah : interimperial rivalry, apocalypse, and conversion in sixteenth-century Muslim polemical narratives -- Illuminated by the light of Islam and the glory of the Ottoman Sultanate : self-narratives of conversion to Islam in the age of confessionalization -- Between the turban and the papal tiara : Orthodox Christian neomartyrs and their impresarios in the age of confessionalization -- Everyday communal politics of coexistence and Orthodox Christian martyrdom : a dialogue of sources and gender regimes in the age of confessionalization -- Conclusion : conversion and confessionalization in the Ottoman Empire: considerations for future research.…”
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Judah and the Judeans in the neo-Babylonian period

Table of Contents: “…Knoppers -- Epoch and genre / Yairah Amit -- Gibeon and the Gibeonites revisited / Diana Edelman -- The fasts in the book of Zechariah and the fashioning of national remembrance / Yair Hoffman -- Nebuchadnezzar II and the Old Testament / Ronald H. …”
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