Embracing the Divine - Gender, Passion and Politics in Christian Middle East, 1720-1798

Informationen zum Autor Akram Fouad Khater is professor and director of Middle East studies and of the Khayrallah Program for Lebanese-American Studies at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Inventing Home: Emigration, Gender, and the Middle Class in Lebanon, 1870-1920 and Sources in the History of the Middle East. Klappentext Compelling in its cinematic scope-resplendent with the requisite villains and mysterious events infused with sinister and sexual tensions, tragedy, and pathos- Hindiyya's story holds within its folds a larger tale about the construction of a new Christianity in the Levant.Compelling in its cinematic scope-resplendent with the requisite villains and mysterious events infused with sinister and sexual tensions, tragedy, and pathos- Hindiyya's story holds within its folds a larger tale about the construction of a new Christianity in the Levant.

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• Authors: Akram Khater, Akram Fouad Khater, Akram Found Khater
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2011
• EAN: 9780815632610
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3261-0
• No. of pages: 311
• Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics; Gender, Culture, and Politics; Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works