Max Weiß
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5443263 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Max Weiß |
| PRENOMES | Max |
| SOBRENOME | Weiß |
| ASSINATURA | WEISS M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey USA |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 7 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1913 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story
Revolutions Aesthetic
The November 1970 coup that brought Hafiz al-Asad to power fundamentally transformed cultural production in Syria. A comprehensive intellectual, ideological, and political project—a Ba'thist cultural revolution—sought to align artistic endeavors with the ideological interests of the regime. The ensuing agonistic struggle pitted official aesthetics of power against alternative modes of creative expression that could evade or ignore the effects of …
Political frames of public health crises
Dancing in Damascus
miriam cooke, Dancing in Damascus: Creativity, Resilience, and the Syrian Revolution. New York: Routledge, 2016. 154 pages. Paperback $40.95.If the world was caught unawares by the uprisings and revolutionary movements that exploded in 2010-2011 in Tunisia and Egypt and then spread to Bahrain, Yemen, Syria and beyond, the efflorescence of seemingly unprecedented cultural production in the midst of those events also attracted attention from journa…
Formations of Belief
Formations of Belief
For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization. Yet religion is undergoing an unprecedented resurgence in modern life—and secularization no longer appears so inevitable. This book brings together many of today's leading historians to shed critical light on secularism's origins, its present crisis, and whether it is as antithetical to religion as it is so often made out to b…
Formations of Belief
Formations of Belief
Left Out
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Mosaic, Melting Pot, Pressure Cooker
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Arabic Thought Against the Authoritarian Age
Sight, Sound, and Surveillance in Baʿthist Syria
Contemporary Syrian literature bears unmistakable traces of more than four decades of authoritarian rule. This article identifies connections among aesthetics, politics, and affect in two Syrian novels, Rūzā Yāsīn Ḥasan’s Brūfā (Rough Draft) (2011) and Samar Yazbik’s Lahā marāyā (In Her Mirrors) (2010). Through literary representations of state security (the mukhābarāt), surveillance—including the structure and function of mirrors and screens, ea…
Arabic Thought beyond the Liberal Age
What is the relationship between thought and practice in the domains of language, literature and politics? Is thought the only standard by which to measure intellectual history? How did Arab intellectuals change and affect political, social, cultural and economic developments from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries? This volume offers a fundamental overhaul and revival of modern Arab intellectual history. Using Hourani's Arabic Thought in …
Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab. The Shiʻites of Lebanon
In this book Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab provide a chronological narrative account of the Shiʻite community in South Lebanon (Jabal ʻAmil), in the Biqaʻ Valley, and throughout the Lebanese polity from the mid-nineteenth century until the recent past. The book “stresses the importance of communal and revolutionary ideology to the reshaping of the political sphere in Lebanon,” with a particular emphasis on “sectarianism, the Lebanese state…
Syria in the Abyss
A new book by journalist Reese Erlich offers a tour of the hell that Syria has become, and an explanation of how it got there. To bring peace, he argues, foreign intervention must end
Facing Fear
Fear is ubiquitous but slippery. It has been defined as a purely biological reality, derided as an excuse for cowardice, attacked as a force for social control, and even denigrated as an unnatural condition that has no place in the disenchanted world of enlightened modernity. In these times of institutionalized insecurity and global terror, this book sheds light on the meaning, diversity, and dynamism of fear in multiple world-historical contexts…
A Woman in the Crossfire
A Woman in the Crossfire
Facing Fear
"Enrique is a U.S. citizen-but the rest of his family isn't. When he hears a rumor of a police raid, Enrique must face the possibility of being separated from his parents and sister"
In the Shadow of Sectarianism
In the Shadow of Sectarianism
Using Arabic-language sources that have never before been studied or analyzed, Max Weiss paints a nuanced picture of sectarianism in Lebanon under the French Mandate. He demonstrates that sectarianism evolved long before the phenomenon known as "political Shi'ism." This groundbreaking and deeply researched book is not merely narrative history; it also incorporates some of the latest critical theory about religious modernity and colonialism. Weiss…
Institutionalizing Sectarianism
The French Mandate authorities in Greater Lebanon formally recognized the Ja'fari madhhab in January 1926. As a result, state-led shari'a courts in Beirut, South Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, the Lebanese Ja'fari court, were authorized to adjudicate matters of personal status—marriage, divorce, nafaqa, inheritance and property. As the first Lebanese Shi'i institution to enjoy communal autonomy granted by the state, the records from the Ja'fari co…
Don't Throw Yourself Away to the Dark Continent’
The Shi'i Lebanese diaspora in West Africa has played a key role in the construction of Lebanese Shi'i sectarian identity in the Twentieth century. This article provides some perspective and insight on the relationships among race, sect and colonialism in Africa and the Middle East through the lens of transnational Shi'i networks. Travel narratives written by Lebanese Shi'is who visited French West Africa during the 1930s indicate certain cultura…
The Cultural Politics of Shiءi Modernism
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Photographic Surveying
Political frames of public health crises
The Cultural Politics of Shiءi Modernism
Please open the PDF to view the article
Don't Throw Yourself Away to the Dark Continent’
The Shi'i Lebanese diaspora in West Africa has played a key role in the construction of Lebanese Shi'i sectarian identity in the Twentieth century. This article provides some perspective and insight on the relationships among race, sect and colonialism in Africa and the Middle East through the lens of transnational Shi'i networks. Travel narratives written by Lebanese Shi'is who visited French West Africa during the 1930s indicate certain cultura…
Photographic Surveying
Don't Throw Yourself Away to the Dark Continent’
The Shi'i Lebanese diaspora in West Africa has played a key role in the construction of Lebanese Shi'i sectarian identity in the Twentieth century. This article provides some perspective and insight on the relationships among race, sect and colonialism in Africa and the Middle East through the lens of transnational Shi'i networks. Travel narratives written by Lebanese Shi'is who visited French West Africa during the 1930s indicate certain cultura…
The Cultural Politics of Shiءi Modernism
Please open the PDF to view the article
Institutionalizing Sectarianism
The French Mandate authorities in Greater Lebanon formally recognized the Ja'fari madhhab in January 1926. As a result, state-led shari'a courts in Beirut, South Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, the Lebanese Ja'fari court, were authorized to adjudicate matters of personal status—marriage, divorce, nafaqa, inheritance and property. As the first Lebanese Shi'i institution to enjoy communal autonomy granted by the state, the records from the Ja'fari co…
In the Shadow of Sectarianism
In the Shadow of Sectarianism
Using Arabic-language sources that have never before been studied or analyzed, Max Weiss paints a nuanced picture of sectarianism in Lebanon under the French Mandate. He demonstrates that sectarianism evolved long before the phenomenon known as "political Shi'ism." This groundbreaking and deeply researched book is not merely narrative history; it also incorporates some of the latest critical theory about religious modernity and colonialism. Weiss…
Facing Fear
Fear is ubiquitous but slippery. It has been defined as a purely biological reality, derided as an excuse for cowardice, attacked as a force for social control, and even denigrated as an unnatural condition that has no place in the disenchanted world of enlightened modernity. In these times of institutionalized insecurity and global terror, this book sheds light on the meaning, diversity, and dynamism of fear in multiple world-historical contexts…
A Woman in the Crossfire
A Woman in the Crossfire
Facing Fear
"Enrique is a U.S. citizen-but the rest of his family isn't. When he hears a rumor of a police raid, Enrique must face the possibility of being separated from his parents and sister"
Syria in the Abyss
A new book by journalist Reese Erlich offers a tour of the hell that Syria has become, and an explanation of how it got there. To bring peace, he argues, foreign intervention must end
Arabic Thought beyond the Liberal Age
What is the relationship between thought and practice in the domains of language, literature and politics? Is thought the only standard by which to measure intellectual history? How did Arab intellectuals change and affect political, social, cultural and economic developments from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries? This volume offers a fundamental overhaul and revival of modern Arab intellectual history. Using Hourani's Arabic Thought in …
Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab. The Shiʻites of Lebanon
In this book Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab provide a chronological narrative account of the Shiʻite community in South Lebanon (Jabal ʻAmil), in the Biqaʻ Valley, and throughout the Lebanese polity from the mid-nineteenth century until the recent past. The book “stresses the importance of communal and revolutionary ideology to the reshaping of the political sphere in Lebanon,” with a particular emphasis on “sectarianism, the Lebanese state…
Sight, Sound, and Surveillance in Baʿthist Syria
Contemporary Syrian literature bears unmistakable traces of more than four decades of authoritarian rule. This article identifies connections among aesthetics, politics, and affect in two Syrian novels, Rūzā Yāsīn Ḥasan’s Brūfā (Rough Draft) (2011) and Samar Yazbik’s Lahā marāyā (In Her Mirrors) (2010). Through literary representations of state security (the mukhābarāt), surveillance—including the structure and function of mirrors and screens, ea…
Mosaic, Melting Pot, Pressure Cooker
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Arabic Thought Against the Authoritarian Age
Formations of Belief
Formations of Belief
For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization. Yet religion is undergoing an unprecedented resurgence in modern life—and secularization no longer appears so inevitable. This book brings together many of today's leading historians to shed critical light on secularism's origins, its present crisis, and whether it is as antithetical to religion as it is so often made out to b…
Formations of Belief
Formations of Belief
Left Out
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Dancing in Damascus
miriam cooke, Dancing in Damascus: Creativity, Resilience, and the Syrian Revolution. New York: Routledge, 2016. 154 pages. Paperback $40.95.If the world was caught unawares by the uprisings and revolutionary movements that exploded in 2010-2011 in Tunisia and Egypt and then spread to Bahrain, Yemen, Syria and beyond, the efflorescence of seemingly unprecedented cultural production in the midst of those events also attracted attention from journa…
Political frames of public health crises
Revolutions Aesthetic
The November 1970 coup that brought Hafiz al-Asad to power fundamentally transformed cultural production in Syria. A comprehensive intellectual, ideological, and political project—a Ba'thist cultural revolution—sought to align artistic endeavors with the ideological interests of the regime. The ensuing agonistic struggle pitted official aesthetics of power against alternative modes of creative expression that could evade or ignore the effects of …
Zakariyya Tamir and the Politics of the Syrian Short Story
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