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Item Sexual Violence in Muslim Communities: Towards Awareness and Accountability(2024-12) Choudhury, Samah; Hammer, JulianeA unique collection of scholarly, activist, and personal essays, "Sexual Violence in Muslim Communities: Towards Awareness and Accountability" lays bare the often invisible and thus nefarious ways that sexual violence permeates the societies and communities that Muslims inhabit as minorities amidst a non-Muslim majority. Each contribution illuminates a different dimension of these violences, an issue that is frequently cast as individual, private, and even exaggerated. Readers will find reflections on the intricacies of survivor-oriented advocacy work, case studies of communal successes and failures in holding abusers accountable, analyses of the implications behind interpreting authoritative texts and manners of speaking about sexual violence, and considerations of what focusing on survivors looks like when also mired in anti-Muslim hostility, racism, queerphobia, and benevolent patriarchy. With pieces from the United States, Germany, the UK, South Africa, Ghana, and Nigeria, "Sexual Violence in Muslim Communities" demonstrates the importance of local contexts as well as global connections between advocates, scholars, and service providers. This volume argues that addressing the scourge of sexual violence in Muslim communities requires approaches that are at once transnational and intersectional, unbounded by disciplinary limits, and above all accessible to the communities we seek to protect, uphold, and nourish.Item Tying the knot: a Feminist/Womanist guide to Muslim marriage in AmericaAl-Deen, Aminah Beverly; Ayubi, Zahra; Hammer, Juliane; Haqqani, Shehnaz; Majeed, Debra; Quraishi-Landes, Asifa; Shahar, Zaynab; Yousuf, Shereen; Yousuf-Sadiq, Nousheen; Ali, Kecia; Ali, Kecia"Tying the Knot: A Feminist/Womanist Guide to Muslim Marriage in America" is a follow up to the open-access reader "Half of Faith: American Muslim Marriage and Divorce in the Twenty-First Century" (OpenBU, 2021; https://hdl.handle.net/2144/42505). The all-new work published here is geared toward American Muslims thinking about and planning for getting married and being married, with all the promise and pitfalls that entails. We cover topics including premarital counseling, marriage contracts, finding an officiant, interreligious marriages, mut‘ah, LGBTQ marriage, and wisdom from married women and widows from African American Muslim communities. The contributors to this volume are American Muslim cis women and non-binary scholars from a range of backgrounds and with a range of perspectives. Our ethic is informed and thoughtful engagement with a range of perspectives. We have more questions than answers. Those questions have emerged from our years—in some cases, decades—of engagement with diverse Muslim communities and organizations. In the essays collected here, we draw on both our academic expertise, where relevant, and our practical experiences to help frame and consider issues that arise in what is a complicated and fraught as well as exciting and joyful life transition. We span the gamut from weddings to widowhood, treating the latter as something anyone embarking on marriage should consider.Item Editors' note(Nanzan University, 2021-07-12) Korom, Frank J.; Dorman, BenjaminItem Animal slaughter and religious nationalism in Bhutan(Nanzan University, 2021-07-12) Korom, Frank J.; Miyamoto, Mari; Magnusson, JanItem New Year’s day performances as nationalist discourse in Bangladesh(Nanzan University, 2021-07-12) Korom, Frank J.Item Introduction - South Asian nationalisms(Nanzan University, 2021-07-12) Korom, Frank J.; Magnusson, JanThis article intends to raise questions related to nationalism in South Asia, while also addressing the rationale for this special issue. Is nationalism a monolithic construct based on a European precedent or is it something much larger that is developed pluralistically in a variety of contexts around the world? If the latter is true, which is our position, then how do we go about studying the various versions of global nationalism? We argue that good comparison is based on both similarity and difference. To make a case for multiple versions of nationalism, the articles included herein focus on the Indian Subcontinent. Each article looks at a particular country belonging to the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), the intergovernmental group representing the geopolitical union of states in South Asia, which was founded in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1985. The overall purpose of this collection of articles is to highlight the varieties of nationalism found in the region, with the goal of interrogating the idea of a singular form of nationalism inherited by postcolonial societies from their European colonizers.Item The Middle Maccabees archaeology, history, and the rise of the Hasmonean Kingdom(SBL Press, 2021-03-31) Berlin, Andrea; Kosmin, Paul J.Features up-to-date, generously illustrated essays analyzing the relevant archaeological remains a revised understanding of how local and imperial histories overlapped and intersected new analysis of the book of 1 Maccabees as a tool of ...Item Phoenician cedar oil from Amphoriskoi at Tel Kedesh: implications concerning its production, use, and export during the Hellenistic Age(University of Chicago Press, 2021-05-01) Koh, Andrew J.; Berlin, Andrea; Herbert, Sharon C.Archaeologists and historians have routinely attributed “branded” goods to particular regions and cultural groups, often without rigorous analysis. Phoenician cedar oil is perhaps one of the best-known examples from antiquity. Hellenistic Tel Kedesh in the Upper Galilee region of the Levant is particularly relevant for these discussions by virtue of its strategic role as a border settlement in Phoenicia during one of the most dynamic periods in ancient history. As a concise contribution to these discussions, we present here an interdisciplinary analysis of amphoriskoi found with ca. 2,000 impressed sealings from the archive complex of the Persian-Hellenistic Administrative Building. While the building was constructed under the Achaemenids and occupied in both the Ptolemaic and Seleucid eras, the archive was in use only under the Seleucids in the first half of the of the 2nd century b.c.e. Blending organic residue analysis with archaeological and textual data has allowed us to identify with certainty one of the value-added goods most closely attached to ancient Phoenicia, true cedar oil from Cedrus libani. This discovery not only empirically verifies this well-known association for the first time, but also provides a rich context in which to test our assumptions about culturally-branded goods, the role they played in participant societies, and the mechanisms and systems in place that facilitated their production, use, and export.Item Introducing the Levantine Ceramics Project (LCP; www.levantineceramics.org)(2021-05-22) Berlin, AndreaItem Restoring 'syncretism' in the history of Christianity(2021-04-07) Frankfurter, DavidItem Half of faith: American Muslim marriage and divorce in the twenty-first century(2021) Ali, Kecia; Al-Deen, Aminah Beverly; Ayubi, Zahra; Hammer, Juliane; Quraishi-Landes, AsifaHalf of Faith gathers a selection of resources on, and reflections and analyses of, Muslim marriage and divorce in twenty-first century America. In the United States as elsewhere, marriage is central to ongoing Muslim conversations about belonging, identity, and the good life. The articles collected here, written over the course of two decades, provide a window onto moments in American Muslim life and thought. Though far from comprehensive, topics covered include diversity in Islamic legal thought, marriage contracts, wedding customs, dower norms, divorce practices, and experiences of polygyny. Contributors engage—and disagree—with each other, and sometimes with their past selves. By bringing together and making more widely available existing publications alongside a few purpose-written essays, this reader aims to enrich current conversations and to help document scholarly debates and community activism.Item Symposium: the achievement of David Martin(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-04) Weller, Robert P.; Seligman, Adam B.This brief introduction notes some of the salient aspects of David Martin’s career and thought. It further presents and frames the following eight essays in this symposium devoted to different aspects of David Martin’s work.Item The world according to Ghanaram: a partial translation of his Gitarambha(CrossAsia, 2020) Korom, Frank; Brandt, Carmin; Harder, HansItem Sex, art, and moral panic(Cambridge University Press, 2018-07-01) Petro, AnthonyItem Religious nationalisms compared: the curious cases of India and Serbia(Peter Lang, 2019) Korom, FrankItem A Persian period bulla from Tel Qedesh, Israel and its implications for relations between Tyre and Nippur(American Schools of Oriental Research, 2019-11-01) Berlin, Andrea; Brandl, Baruch; Ouyang, Xiaoli; Herbert, SharonIn the 1999 season of excavation at Tel Qedesh, in northern Israel, a small, perfectly intact stamped bulla dating to the Persian period was found. The bulla originally sealed a papyrus document. Thanks to its excellent preservation, it is possible to identify a series of key aspects of the object: the motif and type of seal used to stamp it, the way the bulla was created, and even the way in which the original document was folded and tied. These details allow us to identify the probable origin and date of the seal and contextualize its associated bulla within the site of Qedesh. This evidence, in conjunction with information from the late 5th century b.c.e. Murašû archive in Nippur, allows us to suggest that the seal’s user may have been a person with Tyrian ties—perhaps a member of the Tyrian diaspora—who acquired his seal in Nippur and traveled to Qedesh where he used it to seal a document.Item Judaism and the west: From Hermann Cohen to Joseph Soloveitchik(2018-01) Zank, MichaelItem At home on board: the Kyrenia ship and the goods of its crew(Phoibos Verlag, Vienna, 2019-11-01) Berlin, AndreaThe Kyrenia Ship, discovered in 1964 largely intact one mile north of the northern Cypriot town of Kyrenia, is still the best preserved small Greek merchant ship ever found. Its cargo included about 400 amphoras, most from Rhodes along with some from the northern Aegean, Knidos, Samos, and Cyprus, 29 sizeable unused millstones, iron billets, nearly 10,000 almonds, a consignment of small oak logs – and 109 whole and fragmentary vessels that comprised the goods of the crew. The cargo was of course the point: it is the currency of the sea. The goods of the crew are more like small change: portable, available, and functional. But those goods allow us a glimpse of life on board for the ship’s crew. In this short article I present the basic details: how many and what types of vessels were found, what they tell us of the place and date of the ship’s final departure, and what they suggest about the character of the ship’s crew.Item A putative (private) life of Hannah Arendt. Bio-portraiture as performance in the work of Miriam Shenitzer(2019-12-02) Zank, MichaelThe paper uses tropes culled from several of Hannah Arendt's works, as well as Rebecca Schneider's performance-theoretical considerations on "reenactment", to analyze the work of artist Miriam Shenitzer, specifically a show of drawings, captions, and objects called "A Putative Life of Hannah Arendt." The essay probes this "putative life" as construed from the artist's own memory fragments (including the memories of others that have become the artist's own), as well as from faux-artifacts that constitute a "collection" (à la Benjamin) without claim to representing an actual past. With access to history denied and a heritage claimed "without testament," the artist opens a space "between past and future," a moment of contemplation on the borders between private and public lives.Item Pottery in the computer age(Biblical Archaeology Society, 2016) Berlin, Andrea