James Baldwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612945 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Baldwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Baldwin |
| SIGNATURE | BALDWIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Holloway University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1895 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ottoman Historical Documents: The Institutions of an Empire By V. L. Ménage , edited by Colin Imber
V. L. Ménage, who died in 2015, was Lecturer and then Professor at the University of London’s School of Oriental & African Studies from 1955 until 1983, and one of the pioneers of Ottoman history in the United Kingdom. When he began teaching it, the subject, at least in the UK, was just beginning to emerge from being an afterthought in Oriental Studies departments that focused on the so-called golden age of Islamic civilization in the medieval pe…
The Ottoman World: A Cultural History Reader, 1450–1700 Edited by Hakan T. Karateke and Helga Anetshofer
Journal Article The Ottoman World: A Cultural History Reader, 1450–1700 Edited by Hakan T. Karateke and Helga Anetshofer Get access The Ottoman World: A Cultural History Reader, 1450–1700 Edited by Hakan T. Karateke and Helga Anetshofer (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2021), xxii + 379 pp. Price PB £34.00. EAN 978–0520303454. James E Baldwin James E Baldwin Royal Holloway, University of London E-mail: [email protected] Search…
The Habsburg Empire under Siege: Ottoman Expansion and Hungarian Revolt in the Age of Grand Vizier Ahmed Köprülü (1661–76), by Georg B. Michels
Journal Article The Habsburg Empire under Siege: Ottoman Expansion and Hungarian Revolt in the Age of Grand Vizier Ahmed Köprülü (1661–76), by Georg B. Michels Get access The Habsburg Empire under Siege: Ottoman Expansion and Hungarian Revolt in the Age of Grand Vizier Ahmed Köprülü (1661–76), by Georg B. Michels (Montreal, QC & Kingston, ON: McGill–Queen’s University Press, 2021; pp. xxiv + 603. $85). James E Baldwin James E Baldwin Royal Hollow…
Law, Empire, and the Sultan: Ottoman Imperial Authority and Late Ḥanafī Jurisprudence. By Samy A. Ayoub
Two central ideas have proved remarkably resilient in modern scholarship on Islamic legal history. The first is the classification of Islamic law as a jurists’ law, produced by a class of scholars whose authority was independent of rulers, even if many received their patronage. The second, connected idea is the periodization that sees the nineteenth-century legal reforms that took place across most of the Muslim world as a fundamental break in Is…
Nothing Personal
Baldwin's critique of American society at the height of the civil rights movement brings his prescient thoughts on social isolation, race, and police brutality to a new generation of readers
Everybody's Protest Novel
James Baldwin on Empty Hearts and Great Crimes
Islamic Law and Empire in Ottoman Cairo
A study of Islamic law and political power in the Ottoman Empire’s richest provincial city What did Islamic law mean in the early modern period, a world of great Muslim empires? Often portrayed as the quintessential jurists’ law, to a large extent it was developed by scholars outside the purview of the state. However, for the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, justice was the ultimate duty of the monarch, and Islamic law was a tool of legitimation an…
I Am Not Your Negro: A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck
En 1987, l'écrivain James Baldwin disparaît avant d'avoir achevé son projet : écrire un livre sur les vies et les assassinats de ses amis Martin Luther King Jr, Medgar Evers, membre de la National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) et Malcolm X. Il laisse un manuscrit de trente pages, "Remember this House", que son exécuteur testamentaire confie plus tard à Raoul Peck ("L'Ecole du pouvoir", "Lumumba"). Avec pour seule voix …
Turkey: The insane and the melancholy
Ece Temelkuran's career illustrates the political convulsions Turkey has undergone in the past few years, as its government has taken a rapid turn towards authoritarianism. She was fired by the newspaper Habertürk in 2012 after criticizing the government's response to a massacre by the military of smugglers crossing the Iraqi border, who were mistaken for Kurdish militants. A novelist and public intellectual as well as a journalist, Temelkuran ha…
“Faulkner and Desegregation”
This chapter discusses William Faulkner's stand on desegregation in the South. It begins by noting how Faulkner concedes the madness and moral wrongness of the South but at the same time raises it to the level of a mystique which makes it somehow unjust to discuss Southern society in the same terms in which one would discuss any other society. According to Faulkner, “Our position is wrong and untenable, but it is not wise to keep an emotional peo…
Defterdar Ahmed Paşa'nın Azli ve XVII. Yüzyılda Mısır'da Hukuk Devleti
Defterdar Ahmed Paşa'nın Azli ve XVII. Yüzyılda Mısır'da Hukuk Devleti hakkında araştırma yapılmıştır
Briefs
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The Whispers of Cities: Information Flows in Istanbul, London and Paris in the Age of William Trumbull, by John-Paul Ghobrial
John-Paul Ghobrial’s fascinating book is a study of how information travelled across the early modern Mediterranean, explored through the embassy of William Trumbull to the Ottoman capital from 1687 to 1692. Ghobrial’s main source is Trumbull’s personal archive, acquired by the British Library in the 1990s and never previously studied in depth. This is a large and varied collection, which includes Trumbull’s diary, correspondence, newsletters, of…
November 14, 1980, Letter
Prostitution, Islamic Law and Ottoman Societies
This article examines the treatment of prostitution in several genres of Ottoman legal writing—manuals and commentaries of Islamic jurisprudence, fatwās (legal opinions) and ḳānūnnāmes (Sultanic legislation)—and looks at how prostitution was dealt with in practice by the empire’s sharīʿa courts and by its provincial executive authorities. The article uses prostitution as a case study to investigate the relationships between the different genres o…
Petitioning the Sultan in Ottoman Egypt
This article examines the role of petitions to the Sultan concerning private disputes in the legal system of Ottoman Egypt during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Previous studies have seen petitioning as a means for subjects to complain about abuses carried out by Ottoman officials: few scholars have engaged with the many petitions involving private disputes between subjects. Based on both original petitions and Ottoman burea…
Forging Urban Solidarities: Ottoman Aleppo 1640-1700
The effects of communicative interactions on meaning construction in group situations
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of communicative interaction on meaning construction in three focus group interviews. Design/methodology/approach Within the framework of cultural‐historical activity theory, Bakhtin's perspectives of communicative interaction was applied to three interview cases on commercial aerospace supply chains. Findings These interactions are found to self‐organise without the control of any singl…
Everybody’s Protest Novel
In uncle tom’s cabin, that cornerstone of American social protest fiction, St. Clare, the kindly master, remarks to his coldly disapproving Yankee cousin, Miss Ophelia, that, so far as he is able to tell, the blacks have been turned over to the devil for the benefit of the whites in this world—however, he adds thoughtfully, it may turn out in the next. Miss Ophelia’s reaction is, at least, vehemently right-minded: “This is perfectly horrible!” sh…
Beyond oil the view from Hubbert's peak
To Hear Another Language
On December 15, 1978, four longtime friends, Romare Bearden, Alvin Ailey, Albert Murray, and James Baldwin, gathered at the home of the art publisher, Hugh McKay. From the filmmaker's point-of-view, the location was ideal: a beautiful apartment with a wood burning fireplace; high ceilings; a balcony overlooking the living room (for high angle shots); a magnificent collection of original works by the likes of Chagall, Picasso, Miro, and Vassarely;…
Payin' One's Dues: Expatriation as Personal Experience and Paradigm in the Works of James Baldwin
James Baldwin, Robert Tomlinson, "Payin' One's Dues": Expatriation as Personal Experience and Paradigm in the Works of James Baldwin, African American Review, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring, 1999), pp. 135-148
If Black English isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is
(1997). If Black English isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? The Black Scholar: Vol. 27, Ebonics, pp. 5-6
Everybody’s Protest Novel (1955)
Perspectives: Angles on African Art
Interviews
Petitioning the Sultan in Ottoman Egypt
This article examines the role of petitions to the Sultan concerning private disputes in the legal system of Ottoman Egypt during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Previous studies have seen petitioning as a means for subjects to complain about abuses carried out by Ottoman officials: few scholars have engaged with the many petitions involving private disputes between subjects. Based on both original petitions and Ottoman burea…
If Black English isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is
(1997). If Black English isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? The Black Scholar: Vol. 27, Ebonics, pp. 5-6
Prostitution, Islamic Law and Ottoman Societies
This article examines the treatment of prostitution in several genres of Ottoman legal writing—manuals and commentaries of Islamic jurisprudence, fatwās (legal opinions) and ḳānūnnāmes (Sultanic legislation)—and looks at how prostitution was dealt with in practice by the empire’s sharīʿa courts and by its provincial executive authorities. The article uses prostitution as a case study to investigate the relationships between the different genres o…
Blacks and Jews”
[NOTE: The first twenty seconds or so of the lecture were not recorded]
Step-Children of the Dream
Turkey: The insane and the melancholy
Ece Temelkuran's career illustrates the political convulsions Turkey has undergone in the past few years, as its government has taken a rapid turn towards authoritarianism. She was fired by the newspaper Habertürk in 2012 after criticizing the government's response to a massacre by the military of smugglers crossing the Iraqi border, who were mistaken for Kurdish militants. A novelist and public intellectual as well as a journalist, Temelkuran ha…
Mental Development in the Child and the Race. Methods and Process
The Social and the Extra-Social
Baldwin in Paperback
More Notes of a Native Son
Step-Children of the Dream
Interviews
Just above My Head
James Baldwin first wrote about homosexuality in his famous early novel, Giovanni's Room. Here, he brings homosexuality and race together in the story of the great gospel singer Arthur Montana. Arthur was found dead in the basement of a London pub at the age of thirty-nine, yet he lies on in this memoir. Written by Hall, his brother and manager, it is in part a subtle and moving study of the treacherous ebb and flow of memory. Set against a vivid…
Perspectives: Angles on African Art
Blacks and Jews”
[NOTE: The first twenty seconds or so of the lecture were not recorded]
Everybody’s Protest Novel (1955)
Everybody’s Protest Novel: (1955)
If Black English isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is
(1997). If Black English isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? The Black Scholar: Vol. 27, Ebonics, pp. 5-6
Payin' One's Dues: Expatriation as Personal Experience and Paradigm in the Works of James Baldwin
James Baldwin, Robert Tomlinson, "Payin' One's Dues": Expatriation as Personal Experience and Paradigm in the Works of James Baldwin, African American Review, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Spring, 1999), pp. 135-148
To Hear Another Language
On December 15, 1978, four longtime friends, Romare Bearden, Alvin Ailey, Albert Murray, and James Baldwin, gathered at the home of the art publisher, Hugh McKay. From the filmmaker's point-of-view, the location was ideal: a beautiful apartment with a wood burning fireplace; high ceilings; a balcony overlooking the living room (for high angle shots); a magnificent collection of original works by the likes of Chagall, Picasso, Miro, and Vassarely;…
Beyond oil the view from Hubbert's peak
Everybody’s Protest Novel
In uncle tom’s cabin, that cornerstone of American social protest fiction, St. Clare, the kindly master, remarks to his coldly disapproving Yankee cousin, Miss Ophelia, that, so far as he is able to tell, the blacks have been turned over to the devil for the benefit of the whites in this world—however, he adds thoughtfully, it may turn out in the next. Miss Ophelia’s reaction is, at least, vehemently right-minded: “This is perfectly horrible!” sh…
The effects of communicative interactions on meaning construction in group situations
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of communicative interaction on meaning construction in three focus group interviews. Design/methodology/approach Within the framework of cultural‐historical activity theory, Bakhtin's perspectives of communicative interaction was applied to three interview cases on commercial aerospace supply chains. Findings These interactions are found to self‐organise without the control of any singl…
Forging Urban Solidarities: Ottoman Aleppo 1640-1700
Prostitution, Islamic Law and Ottoman Societies
This article examines the treatment of prostitution in several genres of Ottoman legal writing—manuals and commentaries of Islamic jurisprudence, fatwās (legal opinions) and ḳānūnnāmes (Sultanic legislation)—and looks at how prostitution was dealt with in practice by the empire’s sharīʿa courts and by its provincial executive authorities. The article uses prostitution as a case study to investigate the relationships between the different genres o…
Petitioning the Sultan in Ottoman Egypt
This article examines the role of petitions to the Sultan concerning private disputes in the legal system of Ottoman Egypt during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Previous studies have seen petitioning as a means for subjects to complain about abuses carried out by Ottoman officials: few scholars have engaged with the many petitions involving private disputes between subjects. Based on both original petitions and Ottoman burea…
November 14, 1980, Letter
Defterdar Ahmed Paşa'nın Azli ve XVII. Yüzyılda Mısır'da Hukuk Devleti
Defterdar Ahmed Paşa'nın Azli ve XVII. Yüzyılda Mısır'da Hukuk Devleti hakkında araştırma yapılmıştır
Briefs
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Whispers of Cities: Information Flows in Istanbul, London and Paris in the Age of William Trumbull, by John-Paul Ghobrial
John-Paul Ghobrial’s fascinating book is a study of how information travelled across the early modern Mediterranean, explored through the embassy of William Trumbull to the Ottoman capital from 1687 to 1692. Ghobrial’s main source is Trumbull’s personal archive, acquired by the British Library in the 1990s and never previously studied in depth. This is a large and varied collection, which includes Trumbull’s diary, correspondence, newsletters, of…
“Faulkner and Desegregation”
This chapter discusses William Faulkner's stand on desegregation in the South. It begins by noting how Faulkner concedes the madness and moral wrongness of the South but at the same time raises it to the level of a mystique which makes it somehow unjust to discuss Southern society in the same terms in which one would discuss any other society. According to Faulkner, “Our position is wrong and untenable, but it is not wise to keep an emotional peo…
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