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Examines the continuing ethnic diversification of black America and its impact on black political empowerment.

Analyzes long-term interest group/party alliances, with a focus on the part played by federal advisory committees.

This book questions the postmodern credo that the autonomy of reason and action is a delusion, concealing our entrapment in historical convention and masking a logocentric domination. The author shows how this dogma not only assails a false vision of self-determination, but also how it ignores the way in which a critique of rational autonomy can provide no epistemology or ethics, nor any critique of modernity, without embracing the very independence of thought and conduct that it spurns. Freedom and Modernity offers a positive alternative revealing how self-determination is the very substance of legitimacy for both knowledge and conduct.

Volume XXI of the History of al-¿abar¿ (from the second part of 66/685 to 73/693) covers the resolution of "the Second Civil War." This conflict, which has broken out in 64/683 after the death of the Umayyad caliph Yaz¿d I, involved the rival claims of the Umayyads (centered in Syria) and the Zubayrids (centered in the Hijaz), each of whom claimed the caliphal title, Commander of the Faithful. Both parties contented for control of Iraq, which was also the setting for al-Mukht¿r's Sh¿¿ite uprising in al-K¿fah during 66/685 and 67/686. Kh¿rijite groups were active in south-western Iran and central Arabia, even threatening the heavily settled lands of Iraq. By the end of 73/692, the Umayyad regime in Damascus, led by Abd-al-Malik, had extinguished the rival caliphate of Ibn al-Zubayr and had reestablished a single, more or less universally acknowledged political authority for the Islamic community.Al-¿abar¿'s account of these years is drawn from such earlier historians as Abu Mikhnaf, al-Mad¿¿in¿ , and al-Waqidi and includes eyewitness accounts, quotations from poems, and texts of sermons. Notable episodes include al-Mukht¿r's slaying of those who had been involved in the death of al-Husayn at Karbala, the death of al-Mukht¿r at the hands of Mü¿ab ibn al-Zubayr, the revolt of Amr ibn Sä¿d in Damascus, the death of Mü¿ab at the Battle of Dayr al-Jathaliq, and al-Hajjaj's siege and conquest of Mecca on behalf of Abd-al-Malik. There are excursuses on the chair that al-Mukht¿r venerated as a relic of Ali, the biography of the colorful brigand ¿Ubayd All¿h b. al-¿urr, and the development of the secretarial office in Islam.The translation has been fully annotated. Parallels in the works of Ibn Sa'd, al-Baladhuri, and the Kitabal-Aghani have been indicated in the notes where these accounts supplement or diverge from that of al-¿abar¿.

Some of the world's foremost thought leaders consider the role of leadership, love, and power in the midst of political and social upheaval.

Outlines a mystical theology and experience of the sacred founded on the absence of god.

This fully revised and updated edition includes twelve new chapters on contemporary topics such as ecological democracy, Native studies, inquiry teaching, and Islamophobia.

Provides the foundations of a genuine unified field theory.

In this volume, which covers the caliphates of Sulaym¿n, ¿Umar II, and Yaz¿d II, al-¿abar¿ provides vivid and detailed accounts of the events spanning the period from 97-105/715-724. We listen to the stirring speeches of Qutaybah ibn Muslim, in which he urges his followers to renounce their allegiance to Sulaym¿n; are present at the disastrous third and final attempt to take Constantinople; watch from behind the scenes as Rajä ibn ¿aywah skillfully engineers the accession of 'Umar II; and follow the remarkable career of Yaz¿d b. al-Muhallab, first as governor and conqueror, then as prisoner, and finally as rebel.Throughout this volume we observe the struggle of the Umayyad regime to maintain control over a rapidly expanding but increasingly dissatisfied subject population. Governors are appointed and dismissed with dizzying rapidity, administrative boundaries are drawn and redrawn, Arab tribesmen express dissatisfaction with the diminishing rewards of military conquest, non-Arab converts chafe at the differential treatment they receive, and religious opponents revolt in the name of "the Book and the Sunnah." Important in their own right, the events of this period provide an essential key to a proper understanding of the 'Abbasid revolution that lay just over the horizon.A discounted price is available when purchasing the entire 39-volume History of al-¿abar¿ set. Contact SUNY Press for more information.

An accessible discussion of the thought of key figures of the Kyoto School of Japanese philosophy.

Assesses how America's film industry remembered World War I during the interwar period.

Examines the relationship between time and sexual difference in the work of French feminists Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray.

A rare look at the history of Himalayan peasant society and the relationship between culture and environment in the Himalayas.

Illustrates how the notion of an ecological society remains a decisively political question.

Examines the ways in which austerity policies are transforming US cities.

Expanded new edition of a classic examination of the psychological roots of our ecological crisis.

Shows how Israeli Communists developed a distinctive national identity outside the boundaries of Zionism.