Leila Hudson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 91660 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Leila Hudson |
| NOMBRES | Leila |
| APELLIDO | Hudson |
| FIRMA | HUDSON L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Arizona |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
They Gave Us Cheese Sandwiches
As part of a larger ethnography of one family’s experience of the Syrian war and displacement, this paper considers the question of food and foodways. Based on extensive interviews and participant observation, this paper chronicles displacement through changing foodways. Following several families, the paper investigates how scarcity and price inflation punctuated the urgency of the conflict for a cluster of Damascus households. It illuminates cr…
Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Lila Abu‐Lughod. Cambridge, MA
Transsexuality as a Window on and a Metaphor for Contemporary Iran
Under guise of an ethnography of transsexuality in contemporary Iran, Afsaneh Najmabadi has written a nuanced ethnography of the transition of the Iranian state and public sphere from one type (jins) to another. Building on Joan Scott's (1986) observation that gender is a useful category for historical analysis, Najmabadi goes beyond showing that sex and sexuality are also useful categories for historical analysis to suggest that somatic-constitu…
Liquidating Syria, Fracking Europe
Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring
Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring brings together some of the most celebrated and respected names in Arab media research to reflect on the communication conditions that preceded and made t
D rone W arfare in Y emen
Drone Warfare
Transforming Damascus
In 1860, Damascus was a sleepy provincial capital of the weakening Ottoman Empire, a city defined in terms of its relationship to the holy places of Islam in the Arabian Hijaz and its legacy of Islamic knowledge. Yet by 1918 Damascus had become a seat of Arab nationalism and a would-be modern state capital. How can this metamorphosis be explained? Here Leila Hudson describes the transformation of Damascus. Within a couple of generations the city …
Late Ottoman Damascus
In the half century from 1860 to the First World War, the city of Damascus was transformed physically and conceptually from an Ottoman provincial center defined by its Islamic heritage to an arena
Investing by Women or Investing in Women? Merchandise, Money, and Marriage and the Formation of a Prenational Bourgeoisie in Damascus
Research Article| May 01 2006 Investing by Women or Investing in Women? Merchandise, Money, and Marriage and the Formation of a Prenational Bourgeoisie in Damascus Leila Hudson Leila Hudson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (1): 105–120. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2005-013 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation …
T he N ew I vory T owers
Lessons from Wal‐Mart and the Wehrmacht
Reading Al-Sha'rani
This article uses information on book ownership from probate inventories of the qassam court of Damascus in the last decades of the Ottoman Empire to highlight the prominence of Sufi literature, particularly the works of the 16th century Sufi shaykh Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani, at the end of the 19th century. Al-Sha'rani’s theme of transcending the mentality of rivalry between madhhabs or schools of Islamic legal thought provides a lense through wh…
Beyond Culture
Research Article| May 01 2003 Beyond Culture: Teaching Histories of Islam Leila Hudson Leila Hudson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (86): 175–182. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2003-86-175 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Leila Hudson; Beyond Culture: Teaching Histories of Islam. Radical History Review 1 May 2003; 2003 (86): 175–182. doi: http…
Historical Research and Resources in Damascus
Damascus has a long and distinguished history as a center for scholars and scholarship. The Umayyad Mosque has been a hub for Muslim scholars since the first Islamic century. Under the Ayyubids and Mamluks, a flurry of madrasa -building brought professional scholars to Damascus from all corners of the Muslim world. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Damascus, many scattered manuscript collections were consolidated into the National …
Drone Warfare
D rone W arfare in Y emen
Investing by Women or Investing in Women? Merchandise, Money, and Marriage and the Formation of a Prenational Bourgeoisie in Damascus
Research Article| May 01 2006 Investing by Women or Investing in Women? Merchandise, Money, and Marriage and the Formation of a Prenational Bourgeoisie in Damascus Leila Hudson Leila Hudson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (1): 105–120. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2005-013 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation …
T he N ew I vory T owers
Reading Al-Sha'rani
This article uses information on book ownership from probate inventories of the qassam court of Damascus in the last decades of the Ottoman Empire to highlight the prominence of Sufi literature, particularly the works of the 16th century Sufi shaykh Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani, at the end of the 19th century. Al-Sha'rani’s theme of transcending the mentality of rivalry between madhhabs or schools of Islamic legal thought provides a lense through wh…
Historical Research and Resources in Damascus
Damascus has a long and distinguished history as a center for scholars and scholarship. The Umayyad Mosque has been a hub for Muslim scholars since the first Islamic century. Under the Ayyubids and Mamluks, a flurry of madrasa -building brought professional scholars to Damascus from all corners of the Muslim world. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Damascus, many scattered manuscript collections were consolidated into the National …
Beyond Culture
Research Article| May 01 2003 Beyond Culture: Teaching Histories of Islam Leila Hudson Leila Hudson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (86): 175–182. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2003-86-175 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Leila Hudson; Beyond Culture: Teaching Histories of Islam. Radical History Review 1 May 2003; 2003 (86): 175–182. doi: http…
Lessons from Wal‐Mart and the Wehrmacht
Reading Al-Sha'rani
This article uses information on book ownership from probate inventories of the qassam court of Damascus in the last decades of the Ottoman Empire to highlight the prominence of Sufi literature, particularly the works of the 16th century Sufi shaykh Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani, at the end of the 19th century. Al-Sha'rani’s theme of transcending the mentality of rivalry between madhhabs or schools of Islamic legal thought provides a lense through wh…
T he N ew I vory T owers
Late Ottoman Damascus
In the half century from 1860 to the First World War, the city of Damascus was transformed physically and conceptually from an Ottoman provincial center defined by its Islamic heritage to an arena
Investing by Women or Investing in Women? Merchandise, Money, and Marriage and the Formation of a Prenational Bourgeoisie in Damascus
Research Article| May 01 2006 Investing by Women or Investing in Women? Merchandise, Money, and Marriage and the Formation of a Prenational Bourgeoisie in Damascus Leila Hudson Leila Hudson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (1): 105–120. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2005-013 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation …
Transforming Damascus
In 1860, Damascus was a sleepy provincial capital of the weakening Ottoman Empire, a city defined in terms of its relationship to the holy places of Islam in the Arabian Hijaz and its legacy of Islamic knowledge. Yet by 1918 Damascus had become a seat of Arab nationalism and a would-be modern state capital. How can this metamorphosis be explained? Here Leila Hudson describes the transformation of Damascus. Within a couple of generations the city …
Drone Warfare
D rone W arfare in Y emen
Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring
Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring brings together some of the most celebrated and respected names in Arab media research to reflect on the communication conditions that preceded and made t
Transsexuality as a Window on and a Metaphor for Contemporary Iran
Under guise of an ethnography of transsexuality in contemporary Iran, Afsaneh Najmabadi has written a nuanced ethnography of the transition of the Iranian state and public sphere from one type (jins) to another. Building on Joan Scott's (1986) observation that gender is a useful category for historical analysis, Najmabadi goes beyond showing that sex and sexuality are also useful categories for historical analysis to suggest that somatic-constitu…
Liquidating Syria, Fracking Europe
Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Lila Abu‐Lughod. Cambridge, MA
They Gave Us Cheese Sandwiches
As part of a larger ethnography of one family’s experience of the Syrian war and displacement, this paper considers the question of food and foodways. Based on extensive interviews and participant observation, this paper chronicles displacement through changing foodways. Following several families, the paper investigates how scarcity and price inflation punctuated the urgency of the conflict for a cluster of Damascus households. It illuminates cr…
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