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March/April 2016

Articles from the March/April 2016 edition, Vol. 67, No. 2

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March/April 2017

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A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar ibn Said

In 1831, Omar ibn Said wrote his life story on 15 small pieces of paper—a simple accounting that seemed to placate his Christian overseers, who wanted to believe that the North Carolina slave had renounced Islam for America’s dominant faith. The manuscript was written in Arabi...

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Saudi Film Days

As sunset gilded Los Angeles on November 3, actor Giancarlo Esposito, most recently of Breaking Bad fame, joined a small flock of fellow Hollywood celebrities at Paramount Studios to walk a red carpet in front of an unprecedented backdrop: the logo for Saudi Film Days, the tw...

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A Is For Arab

In the summer of 1974, Jack and Bernice Shaheen granted their kids a few hours on Saturday mornings for what was then an American children’s ritual: watching television cartoons, like Popeye the Sailor and Bugs Bunny, and staged, cartoonish battles among the charact...

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Contributors

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September/October 2020

September/October 2020 Front Cover : Depicted here on tiles in Seville, Spain, Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes’ road-trip duo of Sancho Panza and Don Quixote learned from each other despite—or because of—their different temperaments and backgrounds. Photo by Tom ...

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FirstLook: The Sphinx Imagined

Two summers ago I was browsing several hundred vintage postcards contained in narrow boxes all piled up in a Stillwater, Minnesota, antiques store. I was searching for images of Middle Eastern architectural motifs and styles found in the American-built environment, and I...

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Performing al-Andalus: Music and Nostalgia across the Mediterranean

When the Arabs ruled al-Andalus (southern Spain) from the early eighth to the late 15th century, their artists created a new type of poem, the muwashshah, and set songs to it. While no authenticated songs remain from the period, 500 years later this musical legacy of al-Anda...

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The Fatimid Empire

For nearly three centuries from 910–1171 CE, Fatimid power stretched from the Atlantic coast of North Africa to the shores of India, with governors and client kings ruling various cities and fortified provinces. This comprehensive volume, part of The Edinburgh History of the I...

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May/June 2021

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New Feast: Modern Middle Eastern Vegetarian

A vegetarian Middle Eastern cookbook is almost a tautology as so much of the region’s classic fare is vegetarian (think hummus , falafil , etc.). Few but the Maloufs, however, could add “modern” twists to traditional cuisine with such flair. Diced into somewhat finer section...

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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World; and The Silk Road: Central Asia Afghanistan and Iran: A

Frankopan provides in 500 fast-moving pages nothing less than the entirety of East-West contact from the earliest ages until the 21st century, with asides on how goods, religion, technology and even political ideologies bounced back and forth along pan-Asian networks—“roads,” ...

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African Titanics

Migration is nothing new; humans have been on the move for uncountable centuries. What makes the 20th and 21st centuries different are the huge numbers of people involved. The reasons are the same: to escape from war, economic hardship and even starvation toward what is percei...

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The United States through Arab Eyes: An Anthology of Writings (1876–1914)

This book suggests that Americans (and perhaps others) might want to take a closer look at their migratory roots. Migration is not easy: It involves uprooting families, searching for new homes and jobs, and adjusting to a new way of life. This collection is the first English t...

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Mr Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World’s Richest Man

When Armenian Turkish businessman Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955, Life magazine described him as the world’s richest man. His secretive global business machinations were the stuff of legends and he was a key figure in the development of oil in the Middle East. Today, the a...

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Hassan Fathy: An Architectural Life

Esteemed Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy (1900–1989) regarded himself “as not simply a builder but a ‘scientist’”—a spiritual successor to ancient Egypt’s most-renowned architects, such as Imhotep and Amenhotep, who, in his words, “had a profound understanding of the widest im...

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The Map of Knowledge: A Thousand-Year History of How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found

Moller traces three of antiquity’s greatest works—Euclid’s Elements (mathematics); Ptolemy’s Amalgest (astronomy); and Galen’s writings (medicine)—on their circuitous journeys via translation centers of the Middle East and southern Europe, to the printing presses of Renaissa...

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Architecture of the Islamic West: North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1800

Books about the arts of al-Andalus and the Maghrib typically focus on a country, an era, city or single building. Bloom, however, looks at architecture from southern Spain through Northwest Africa as “a distinct tradition in its own right.” Each chapter offers a map, ample ill...

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Around the World in 80 Trees

This engrossing title tells the botanical backstories of six dozen or so trees (out of the world’s 60,000 known species) that have had “surprising human ramifications.” Many are from the Muslim world. The “primary ancestor of all the apples we eat” came from the “central Asian...

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Muslim Roots, U.S. Blues

Thirty percent: That’s how many of the 10 million West Africans brought to the Americas as slaves may have been Muslims, according to a growing body of research. The intonations, cadences, song themes and instruments of their musical traditions—and their daily prayers and reci...

https://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/200604/muslim.roots.u.s.blues.htm 1/17/2022 6:37:50 PM

The Life of Omar ibn Said

About one in five African slaves brought to the New World between 1500 and the mid-19th century was Muslim. Of them, only Omar ibn Said is known to have written a brief autobiography in Arabic. Remarkable for their humble eloquence and generosity of spirit, Said’s handwritten ...

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Indexes : Contributors

The magazine of cultures and connections Current Issue Go Contributors ABBAS, HAMRA History’s Hinge: ‘Ain Jalut , JA 07: 24-33, illustrator ABBOTT, KERRY Lebanon: A Heritage to Restore , MA 94: 32...

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Indexes : Contributors

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