New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

Tulpen, Kaftane und Levnî
Höfische Mode und Kostümalben der Osmanen
aus dem Topkapi Palast Istanbul
edited by Deniz Erduman-Calis
This exhibition catalog illustrates – through many figures and accompanying essays – the
styles and style changes of the Ottoman court, the glamour and beauty of which were
hardly seen publicly. It also demonstrates the influence of western fashion currents, which
in the Turkish fashion metropolis of Istanbul were combined with traditional Ottoman
styles. German text.
304p, 90 col pls, 23 col illus, paperback, 9783777460451, $59.00(s), Hirmer Verlag,
December 2008.
Die Grenzen der Welt
Arabica et Iranica
ad honorem Heinz Gaube
edited by Lorenz Korn,
Eva Orthmann
and Florian Schwarz
Applying different methods to a broad range of
sources, this volume attempts to transcend the
limits between disciplines of Oriental Studies in
twenty articles dedicated to the scholar Heinz
Gaube. Focusing on cultural connections between
the Arab and the Iranian world, its geographical scope ranges from the Nile to the Syr-
Darya. Covering a chronological span from pre-Islamic times to the present, the articles
deal with different aspects of cultural history in the Islamic East. German text.
324p, 45 illus, 28 maps, 2 drawings, hardback, 9783895006753, $115.00(s), Reichert Verlag,
June 2009.
Die Geburt
des Propheten Muhammad
Drei Dichtungen aus Mittelasien
by Sigrid Kleinmichel
This volume focuses on the veneration of the prophet
Muhammad in Central Asia towards the end of
the 19th century. It presents three texts that praise
the birth of the prophet: the Mawludu ‘n-nabi by
Hilwati (1858–1921), a work by the poet Halis,
and the Na’t by Tïnïslïq-oghlï (1903). German text.
356p, hardback, 9783895006760, $168.00(s),
Reichert Verlag, July 2009, Iran - Turan 10.
middle eastern studies
Voices and Veils
Feminism and Islam
in French Women’s Writing and Activism
by Anna Kemp
In recent years, the figure of the Muslim Woman has loomed large over
mainstream feminist debate in France. Cast alternately as a Frenchwomanin-the-making
or a veiled threat, the Muslim Woman has become emblematic
of France’s relationship to those identified as its cultural others. But
throughout these debates, and in spite of their scale and passion, one view
has been glaringly absent: the view of French Muslim women themselves.
Drawing on sociological, polemical and literary writings, this thoughtful
and wide-ranging study examines the unacknowledged colonial roots of
French feminist discourses on Islam and femininity, before bringing to light
examples of French Muslim women’s writing and activism that suggest alternative
ways of being both French and a feminist.
160p, hardback, 9781906540265, $75.00, Maney Publishing,
October 2009, Legenda Research Monographs in French Studies 29.
Le Répertoire narratif arabe médiéval
Transmission et ouverture
edited by Frédéric Bauden, Aboubakr Chraïbi
and Antonella Ghersetti
This volume of proceedings offers a bright overview of the great diversity in
forms of Arabic narrative, stressing the importance of this narrative tradition
and its transmission to the West and documenting the connections between
motives, plots and genres. The book is a necessary reading for specialists of
narratology, Medieval Arabic and Western literatures and comparative literature.
French text.
384p, 3 pls, paperback, 9782870192955, $46.00(s), Librairie Droz,
December 2008, Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de
l’Université de Liège 295.
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