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Muslim Women in the United Kingdom and Beyond: Experiences and Images ed. by Haifaa Jawad and Tansin Benn

Book Review| November 01 2005 Muslim Women in the United Kingdom and Beyond: Experiences and Images ed. by Haifaa Jawad and Tansin Benn Muslim Women in the United Kingdom and Beyond: Experiences and Images, Jawad, Haifaa; Benn, Tansin, eds., 2003. Leiden, Boston: Brill. Pp.xxvi + 180. $96.00/cloth. Christine Fergus Christine Fergus Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 130–132. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2005-4011 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Christine Fergus; Muslim Women in the United Kingdom and Beyond: Experiences and Images ed. by Haifaa Jawad and Tansin Benn. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1 November 2005; 1 (3): 130–132. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-2005-4011 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsJournal of Middle East Women's Studies Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2005 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies2005 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

La fabrica de las ilusiones: Los Jesuitas y la difusion de la perspectiva lineal en China, (1698-1766) (review)

Reviewed by: La fábrica de las illusiones: Los Jesuitas y la difusión de la perspectiva lineal en China, (1698-1766) John W. Witek S.J. (bio) Elisabettta Corsi . La fábrica de las illusiones: Los Jesuitas y la difusión de la perspectiva lineal en China, (1698-1766). Centro de Estudios de Asia y África. México City: El Colegio de México, 2004. 242 p. Paperback, ISBN 968-12-1125-1. In the past few decades, studies on the cultural contacts between China and Europe during the late Ming and early Qing period have opened new perspectives. International symposia in honor of Jesuits such as Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), Giulio Aleni (1582-1649), Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1592-1666), and Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-1688) resulted in publications that highlighted new aspects of their lives and especially how they adapted Western works on mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, and other topics for their Chinese audience.1 Yet little attention was given to the role of art as a means of developing the missionary enterprise. Elisabetta Corsi, a sinologist at the Center for Asian and African Studies, has reversed that trend with her fascinating study on the Jesuits and the diffusion of lineal perspective in early eighteenth-century China. This monograph portrays the history of a book, Shixue (Science of vision), whose origins developed from the friendship of Jesuit Brother Giuseppe Castiglione (1688-1766) and Nian Xiyao (1671-1738). In the brief introduction Corsi outlines lineal perspective in China before the arrival of Castiglione at the Beijing court in 1715 and credits Ricci with the first examples through four illustrations of his that he sent to Cheng Dayue (1541-1616?), who published them in his Chengshi moyuan.2 Scattered references to perspective appeared in some later Chinese works but it was Giovanni Gherardini (1655-ca. 1723), a layman in service to the Beijing court as a painter from 1699 to 1704, who taught the technique of perspective to the artists of the court. Gherardini was a disciple in the grand tradition of the Jesuit Brother Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709), the author of Perspectiva Pictorum et Architectorum (Rome, 1693) and the architect of St. Ignatius Church in Rome. It was Pozzo's study that became the focus of Nian's Shixue. In the first chapter Corsi presents a brief biography of Nian, who was acquainted with several Jesuits in Beijing. Nian, the older brother of the military leader Nian Gengyao (1679-1725), was a fine painter and an author of mathematical works, especially on logarithms and trigonometry. A member of the Chinese Bordered Yellow Banner, Nian Xiyao did not participate in the state examinations (p. 47), but in the first year of the reign of the Yongzheng emperor (1723-1735) he was appointed governor (xunfu) of Guangdong and concurrently vice-minister (tongzhi) of the prefecture of Jingdong in Yunnan. In 1725 he was promoted to the Ministry of Public Works and a year later became inspector of customs at Huai'an and superintendent of the imperial porcelain factory at Jingdezhen. Under his [End Page 398] supervision until 1736 new techniques and new designs were introduced, including the famille rose. Nian was eventually removed from that office on charges of corruption and died two years later. To explain further the connection of Nian to the Jesuits, Corsi describes his relationship with the Jesuit Jean-François Foucquet (1665-1741), who from 1711 to 1716 (not 1710, as Corsi states, incorrectly following Joseph Needham) became involved in a protracted disagreement with his confreres over the use of newer Western data supporting Copernicanism for astronomical observations in Beijing. Neither the fragments of a biography of Nian before 1720 in Chinese sources nor the Western biography of Foucquet published in 1982 portray Nian as a participant in the translations of the data on the new astronomy.3 Corsi offers the hypothesis that Nian had such a role, though she presents no supporting documentary evidence. Yet she correctly portrays Nian's views on Chinese chronology as they affected Foucquet a few years later. In the next chapter, "The Work: Shixue or the "Science of Vision," Corsi indicates that its author, Nian Xiyao, mentions in the preface...

Correction to Vol. 26, No. 2, Supplement 2

“Proceedings of the International Workshop on Articulating the Impact of Nutritional De. ciencies on the Education for All Agenda,” Osman M. Galal, Charlotte G. Neumann, and Judie Hulett, guest editors The following acknowledgments were omitted from the above-referenced supplement due to a production error in the Food and Nutrition Bulletin Bulletin's editorial's office. The editors regret this oversight. Acknowledgments The guest editors of this supplement express gratigratitude for the unique opportunity to coordinate this tude workshop and our sincere appreciation of the encouragement and interest from the people who made this agement effort possible. Geoffrey Garrett UCLA International Institute Educating Global Citizens Allen Roberts US Department of Education Grant to the James S. Coleman African Studies Center, UCLA Edmond Keller Globalization Research Center – Africa, UCLA Mark Wahlqvist International Union of Nutritional Sciences (IUNS) Zoë Boutilier The Micronutrient Initiative Linda Rosenstock Dean UCLA School of Public Health Montague W. Demment Global Livestock CRSP, University of California, Davis (USAID) We are also indebted to our colleagues who made our visiting scholars feel at home and provided invaluable service to the workshop through their assistance and very hard work. Susan Silah Mary Vardazarian Ritesh Mistry Parisa Mirzadehgan

‘An incomprehensible miracle’ – Central African clerical intellectualism versus African historic religion: A close reading of Valentin Mudimbe's Tales of Faith*

This piece seeks to address Mudimbe as one of the great creative cosmopolitan minds of our times. The abundance of autobiographical detail in his oeuvre allows me to situate him in a particular social and intellectual context. I read his oeuvre as a sustained attempt at autobiographical self-definition. I concentrate on Mudimbe's Tales of Faith (1997), and show this book to be an intellectual and spiritual autobiography disguised as a detached history of ideas of Central African intellectuals and their work and aftermath in the twentieth century. I look at Mudimbe from two different perspectives: the historical and anthropological study of Central African religion as an established academic sub-discipline (which he virtually ignores), and African historic religion (which does not play a role either in his personal self-construction). I will be very critical, mainly because the fundamental issues of Africa and of African studies today manifest themselves around Mudimbe as a central and emblematic figure. After identifying and discussing Mudimbe's discursive methods as essentially poetical (under the guise of modern philosophy) I shall try to pinpoint what Tales of Faith is about (i.e. the adventure of clerical intellectualism in Central Africa during the twentieth century), what meta-contents it contains (i.e. homelessness as Mudimbe's central predicament), and what all this means for the practice and the study of African historic religion, the uninvited guest of Tales of Faith and of Mudimbe's work in general. This will allow me to critique Mudimbe's quest for universalism which, in my opinion, seduces him to court the very European hegemonism he of all people has so clearly exposed, and to ignore such a way out of his predicament as the cultivation of an African identity and of African historic religion might have offered him. Finally, I will compare Mudimbe's itinerary with my own; our two paths will turn out to have been amazingly parallel even if they appear to have ended in opposite destinations. * An earlier version of this paper was read at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, 1st February, 2001, as the opening lecture in a series of four, entitled ‘Reading Mudimbe’, organised by Louis Brenner and Kai Kresse. I am grateful to the organisers for creating a stimulating framework in which I could articulate and refine my thoughts about Mudimbe's work; to the African Studies Centre, Leiden, and to SOAS for financing my trip to London, and to Patricia Saegerman, Louis Brenner, Kai Kresse, Richard Fardon, Graham Furniss, and other participants in the seminar for stimulating comments on an earlier draft.

European Travellers and Administrators in Sudan before and after the Mahdiyya

Answering the question: ‘Why do people travel and what is the effect of travel on the traveller?’, Professor M.E.Yapp quotes Lawrence Sterne, who categorized travellers by their reason for travel a...

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The Union Trade Company and Its Recordings: An Unintentional Documentation of West African Popular Music, 1931–1957

This paper introduces a unique collection of roughly 700 historical recordings of African popular music generated by a Swiss trading company, which today is located at the archives of mission 21 (formerly Basel Missioin) in Basel. The music was recorded and distributed by the Union Trade Company of Basel (UTC) during the 1930s and 1950s in the Gold Coast and Nigeria. The collection represents a rich resource for the study of African history and cultures and caters for the growing interest shown by social historians of Africa in everyday life and accordingly in leisure activities and consumption.As music and dance undoubtedly play an important role in African social and religious life, they have received much attention and there is a longstanding tradition of ethnomusicological research that has led to a great number of sound collections. The historian interested in the “modern” and “postmodern” or in popular culture, however, tends in many cases to be frustrated by the material contained in these archives. The ethnographic collectors often showed a blind eye to the modernizing forces within the African musical cultures they researched and concentrated on documenting what they perceived as the “original” or “traditional.” Furthermore the collection and documentation of the popular music of the day was rarely on the agenda of national research institutions and archives in postcolonial Africa. In the case of Ghana at least three initiatives have resulted in important collections of music that go beyond a narrow ethnographic documentation. The first, by Prof. Kwabena Nketia at the Centre of African Studies at the University of Ghana, features a mixture of field recordings and a few commercial records. The others focus specifically on the commercial and popular. These are the Gramophone Records Museum in Cape Coast, discussed below by its founder Kwame Sarpong and the Bokoor African Popular Music Archives Foundation (BAPMAF) of John Collins in Accra.

The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources (review)

Reviewed by: The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information Sources David Westley The African Studies Companion: A Guide to Information SourcesEd. Hans M. Zell 3rd rev. and expanded ed.Glais Bheinn, UK: Hans Zell P, 2003. xxiii + 545 pp. ISBN 0-9541029-1-6 cloth. This is another of Hans Zell's guides to literature on Africa. This third edition is the first to be accompanied by an online version that is included with the price of the print version. The reader will be disappointed if he or she expects to find instant and direct routes to African literature. There are no references to any African writing or criticism, yet the book is useful for anyone involved in African studies. While it is limited to general, multidisciplinary sources, in this review I will attempt to point out particular references that are of use to students of African literature, in the hope that they will then see the usefulness of the book as a whole. Numbers in parentheses represent entry numbers, not page numbers. In chapter 1, "General Online Resources on Africa and African Studies and the Best Starting Points on the Web," Zell provides a feast of online sources. Columbia University Libraries—African Studies Internet Sources(56), http://www.columbia.edu/cu//lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl, has sections on literature, films, and video. There are other such locations, but this is the premier site. Under chapter 2, "The Major General Reference Tools," I note Alfred Kagan and Yvette Scheven's Reference Guide to Africa: A Bibliography of Sources(Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998) not only for its general excellence but because it contains chapters on folklore, literature, and music. Chapter 3 presents "Current Bibliographies, Indexing and Abstracting Sources and Review Media (Print and Online)." It is hard to find literary works under these categories. If the user is interested in books coming out of Africa, e.g., novels by Patrick Chakaipa, he or she will find it in African Books in Print5 thed. (London: Bowker-Saur, 2000), a unique source. Not every library will carry it, however, since it costs 820 euros. Chapter 4, "Major Biographical Resources (Print, Microfiche and Online)" includes a small number of online biographical sources for African writers, but these come under a general postcolonial site and a French site. The best bibliography for English writers is the print only African Biographical Dictionaryby Norbert Brockman (320) (Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 1994). It lists "Entries by Field of Significance," including "Novelists and Writers" (29), "Poets" (13), "Playwrights and Filmmakers" (8), and "Musicians" (15). Profiles are generally of good quality. Chapter 5 is "Guides to African Language Resources (Print and Online)." The best resource here is "African Language Collection. Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington" (346), http://www.indiana.edu/%7Elibrcsd/afrlg. The emphasis is on recent texts. If you want to find Mazisi Kunene's most recent Zulu-language poetry, you can find it here. Chapter 8, "Guides to Film and Video Resources (Print and Online)," is a wide-open door for literary scholars. It is hard to pick the best, but I'll hazard "California Newsreel: Library of African Cinema" (405), [End Page 191] Under chapter 9, "Journals and Magazines (Print and Online)," the best is "African Studies Centre, Leiden University, List of Free Online Journals" (419), http://asc.leidenuniv.nl/library/freeonlineperiodicals.htm. It lists a number of journals relevant to African literature, including Research in African Literatures.One more resource deserves mention. This is Karen Fung's "Africa South of the Sahara," http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guide.html. It appears in various guises throughout Zell and is especially good for its coverage of literature and cinema. This pretty much exhausts the African literature sections of the book, but again, it has many more resources useful to any Africanist. Its online aspects are particularly useful, not the least of which is that the author has updated the work by a full year, publishing it first in early 2003 and updating it already to 9 January 2004. David Westley Boston University Copyright © 2004 The Indiana University Press

PALESTINIAN WOMEN: THE QUEST FOR A VOICE IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE THROUGH “ISLAMIKAZE MARTYRDOM”1

When Frantz Fanon described the Algerian struggle for independence (1954–62), he predicted that women would emancipate themselves by participating in the violence.2 The Algerian experience remains ...

The end of the post-colonial state in Africa? Reflections on changing African political dynamics

Examination of the political trajectory of African states since the terminal colonial period suggests that, by the 1990s, the 'post-colonial' label still widely employed was losing its pertinence. The term acquired widespread currency not long after independence in acknowledgment of the importation into new states of the practices, routines and mentalities of the colonial state. These served as a platform for a more ambitious form of political monopoly, whose legitimating discourse was developmentalism. The colonial state legacy decanted into a patrimonial autocracy which decayed into crisis by the 1980s, bringing external and internal pressures for economic and political state reconfiguration. But the serious erosion of the stateness of many African polities by the 1990s limited the scope for effective reform and opened the door for a complex web of novel civil conflicts; there was also a renewed saliency of informal politics, as local societies adapted to diminished state presence and service provision. Perhaps the post-colonial moment has passed. AT THE MOMENT OF THE GRAND ENTRY OF AFRICAN STATES into the world consort of nations in 1960 (17 out of 53 achieved sovereignty that year), the primary discursive referent for the new polities was 'post-independent'. From an African nationalist perspective, widely shared in the academic community, the achievement of independence was a defining historical moment, the culmination of an epic struggle. Incorporating visions of liberation, transformation and uplift, the independent African state was a newborn polity. As 'new states', African polities appeared to shed the colonial chrysalis. By subtle metamorphosis, over time the routine descriptor for African states became 'post-colonial'. This semantic shift was not innocent of meaning. Formal sovereignty and anti-colonial struggle gradually became less salient as defining attributes than the colonial origins of the African state; more crucially the wholesale importation of the routines, practices, Crawford Young is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of WisconsinMadison. An early version of this paper served as a keynote address for a conference on 'Beyond the Post-Colonial State in Central Africa?' organized by the Centre of African Studies of the University of Copenhagen in December 2001.

Recordings of African Popular Music: A Valuable Source for Historians of Africa

In December 2002 the Swiss Society for Ethnomusicology (CH-EM), in cooperation with the Centre for African Studies of the University of Basel and with mission 21 (formerly Basel Mission), organized a symposium on the theme “Popular Music from Ghana: Historical Records as a Contribution to the Study of African History and Culture.” The conference concluded a week of lectures, workshops, and concerts with Ghanaian “palmwine” and Highlife music, a program which was realized in cooperation with the Basel Academy of Music and the two associations, Ghana Popular Music 1931-1957 and Scientific African e.V. The papers read at the symposium are, in our opinion, of interest to the readers of History in Africa, as they discuss a specific kind of source and the methodological issues pertaining to it, as well as offer insights into possible themes of research, giving some idea of the potential of the recordings as a source. We present the contributions here in a slightly revised form, and, in order to round off the discussion, we have invited the curators of two further sound collections of interest to scholars working on African history, to describe their archives.

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Explorations in Animist Materialism: Notes on Reading/Writing African Literature, Culture, and Society

Harry Garuba teaches at the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town. His recent publications include “Negotiating the(Post)Colonial Impasse: Wole Soyinka's The Lion and the Jewel and Derek Walcott's Ti-Jean and His Brothers” (English Academy Review, December 1999), “The Island Writes Back: Discourse/Power and Marginality in Wole Soyinka's The Swamp Dwellers, Derek Walcott'sThe Sea at Dauphin, and Athol Fugard's The Island”(Research in African Literatures, winter 2001), and “Mapping the Land/Body/Subject: Colo- nial and Postcolonial Geographies in African Narrative” (Alternation, 2002).

Copula variability in Gullah

Many researchers have investigated the copula for possible links between African American Vernacular English (aave) and Atlantic Creoles, a connection that has served as the foundation of the Creolist Hypothesis in the on-going debate over the origins of aave. One variety that has been of particular interest in this debate is Gullah, which has been hypothetically linked to aave since some of the earliest statements of the Creolist Hypothesis. To date, however, very little research has been done on copula variability in Gullah itself. This study, therefore, provides an analysis of copula variability in present affirmative contexts in Gullah. Variation is found among full, contracted, and zero forms in 1st person singular, plural/2nd person singular, and 3rd person singular environments. The analysis also reveals some parallels between Gullah and aave that offer support for the theory of an aave/creole connection.I would like to acknowledge the Department of Linguistics and the Center for African Studies at Ohio State University for covering the cost of some of the fieldwork for this study. I would also like to acknowledge the McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina for providing several hours of recordings used for the study. My sincerest thanks to research assistants Jason Sellers and Cherlon Ussery for help with transcriptions and data tabulation and to the following friends and colleagues for their help and support during various stages of this project: Emily Bender, Eugenia Deas, Vennie Deas-Moore, Brian Joseph, Michele Nichols, Terence Odlin, John Paolillo, Donald Winford, and Walt Wolfram. And, finally, my thanks to James Walker and an anonymous LVC reviewer for their helpful suggestions on an earlier draft of this article. I accept full responsibility for any remaining errors.

The African Songbird

Anthropology NewsVolume 43, Issue 9 p. 60-60 The African Songbird Eugene L Mendonsa, U of Colorado Eugene L Mendonsa is the author of numerous journal articles, books and fiction, as well as an ethnographic filmmaker. Mendonsa has won awards for his fiction, and his murder mystery Fishing for Clues has received acclaim. His most recent academic book is West Africa: An Introduction to its History, Civilization and Contemporary Situation. Mendonsa teaches at the U of Colorado and is a visiting research professor at the Centre for African Studies at Cambridge U (2002–03).Search for more papers by this author Eugene L Mendonsa, U of Colorado Eugene L Mendonsa is the author of numerous journal articles, books and fiction, as well as an ethnographic filmmaker. Mendonsa has won awards for his fiction, and his murder mystery Fishing for Clues has received acclaim. His most recent academic book is West Africa: An Introduction to its History, Civilization and Contemporary Situation. Mendonsa teaches at the U of Colorado and is a visiting research professor at the Centre for African Studies at Cambridge U (2002–03).Search for more papers by this author First published: 07 July 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/an.2002.43.9.60 AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume43, Issue9December 2002Pages 60-60 RelatedInformation

The Great Migration

The Great Migration Get access Joe William Trotter, Jr. Joe William Trotter, Jr. Joe William Trotter Jr. is Department Head and Mellon Professor of History Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently President of the Labor and Working Class History Association and directs Carnegie Melon's Center for African American Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE). As well as several scholarly essays, books, and edited volumes on African American urban and Labor history, he is also the author of the college textbook, The African American Experience (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001). Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar OAH Magazine of History, Volume 17, Issue 1, October 2002, Pages 31–33, https://doi.org/10.1093/maghis/17.1.31 Published: 01 October 2002

MARTIN KRAMER (ed.): The Jewish discovery of Islam: studies in honor of Bernard Lewis. viii, 311 pp. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press (for The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University), 1999. $24.95.

MARTIN KRAMER (ed.): The Jewish discovery of Islam: studies in honor of Bernard Lewis. viii, 311 pp. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press (for The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University), 1999. $24.95. - Volume 65 Issue 2

Islam and salvation in Palestine: the Islamic Jihad movement

PALESTINE AND PALESTINIANS Islam and Salvation in Palestine: The Islamic Jihad Movement, by Meir Hating. The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies: Tel Aviv, 2001. 138 pages. Notes to p.168. Bibl. to p. 174. Index to p. 180. $14.95. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad was established in Gaza in 1981 and while generally eclipsed by its larger partner in the Islamicised Palestinian opposition to Israel, Hamas, throughout the 1980s and 1990s it played an important role in setting the agenda of resistance to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and the Oslo Accords (1993). Its emphasis on the jihad rather than da`wa end of the spectrum of religious activity ensured that it would attract a high political profile and become the focus of intense efforts of both cooptation and coercion by the Palestinian Authority and suppression by the Israeli government. This close study by Hatina draws a useful and intelligent portrait of the operational evolution and political discourse of Islamic Jihad and partially explains why its influence far exceeds the relative small membership. The introduction and first chapter set the context for the creation of Islamic Jihad. Tracing its growth from the student-based activities in Gaza and Cairo to a regional organization with wide connections in the Arab and Islamic world, the structure and organization are described in some detail. Chapter 2 looks at ideological developments within Islamic Jihad and discusses how, despite being more radical in its military operations than its rivals, it tried to position itself ideologically between the exclusivity of Hamas and the secularism of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Chapters 3 and 4 discuss Islamic Jihad's relations with Hamas and with the PLO especially regarding the Oslo Accords - a subject that is accessible to non-specialists. While still pursuing an ideologically principled and militant agenda, the pragmatism of Islamic Jihad allowed it to keep open channels of communication with the leadership of both camps. This was despite being accused of opportunism by the former and being subject to attempts at suppression by the latter. The next two chapters are very brief, which is regrettable, as they discuss issues of great interest. Chapter 5 looks at Islamic Jihad's relations with Iran and Hizbollah. Here, Hatina has many useful insights. He describes how its chief ideologue and founder, Fathi al-Shiqaqi, tried to embrace the Iranian revolution's pan-Islamic vision but had to distance Islamic Jihad from the anti-Sunni sentiments expressed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Chapter 6, which focuses on images and symbols (i.e., on the discourse and publicity of Islamic Jihad), is too brief to do the subject justice and while comprising some interesting observations, the material and the examples do not add up to a convincing analysis. …

The Documentation Centre for African Studies: an overview of the scope of research themes in the archival accessions in the Unisa Library

The Documentation Centre for African Studies: an overview of the scope of research themes in the archival accessions in the Unisa Library

University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center

University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center