Author: Sara Brill File Type: pdf By focusing on the immortal character of the soul in key Platonic dialogues, Sara Brill shows how Plato thought of the soul as remarkably flexible, complex, and indicative of the inner workings of political life and institutions. As she explores the character of the soul, Brill reveals the corrective function that law and myth serve. If the soul is limitless, she claims, then the city must serve a regulatory or prosthetic function and prop up good political institutions against the threat of the souls excess. Brills sensitivity to dramatic elements and discursive strategies in Platos dialogues illuminates the intimate connection between city and soul. By focusing on the immortal character of the soul in key Platonic dialogues, Sara Brill shows how Plato thought of the soul as remarkably flexible, complex, and indicative of the inner workings of political life and institutions. As she explores the character of the soul, Brill reveals the corrective function that law and myth serve. If the soul is limitless, she claims, then the city must serve a regulatory or prosthetic function and prop up good political institutions against the threat of the souls excess. Brills sensitivity to dramatic elements and discursive strategies in Platos dialogues illuminates the intimate connection between city and soul.**

Author: Gülru Necipoğlu File Type: pdf font face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 12pxThe Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture Thirtieth Anniversary Special Volumespanfontfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 12pxMuqarnas is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. In Muqarnas articles are being published on all aspects of Islamic visual culture, historical and contemporary, as well as articles dealing with unpublished textual primary sources.spanfontspan 12pxCONTENTSspanspan 12pxIn Tribute to Oleg Grabarspanspan 12pxPatricia Crone, Barefoot and Naked What Did the Bedouin of the Arab Conquests Look Like?spanfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 12pxMichael Cook, The Namesake Taboospanfontfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 12pxGulru Neci.poAlu, The Dome of the Rock as Palimpsest {Abd al-Maliks Grand Narrativespanfontspan 12pxand Sultan Suleymans Glossesspanfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 12pxEva R. Hoffman, Between East and West The Wall Paintings of Samarra and the Construction ofspanfontspan 12pxAbbasid Princely Culturespanfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 12pxYasser Tabbaa, Andalusian Roots and Abbasid Homage in the Qubbat al-Barudiyyin in Marrakechspanfontfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 12pxNasser Rabbat, Design without Representation in Medieval Egyptspanfontfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 12pxSheila S. Blair, A Brief Biography of Abu Zaydspanfontfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 12pxScott Redford, A Newly Read Inscription on the Walls of Antalya, Turkeyspanfontfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 12pxCynthia Robinson, Marginal Ornament Poetics, Mimesis, and Devotion in the Palace of the Lionsspanfontfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 12pxHowayda Al-Harithy, Weaving Historical Narratives Beiruts Last Mamluk Monumentspanfontfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 12pxJonathan M. Bloom, The ?Fatimid? Doors of the Fakahani Mosque in Cairospanfontfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 12pxLisa Golombek, From Timur to Tivoli Reflections on il giardino allitalianaspanfontfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 12pxAnthony Welch, The Emperors Grief Two Mughal Tombsspanfontfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 12pxDavid J. Roxburgh, The Eye Is Favored for Seeing the Writings Form On the Sensual and thespanfontspan 12pxSensuous in Islamic Calligraphyspanfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 12pxTulay Artan, A Book of Kings Produced and Presented as a Treatise on Huntingspanfontfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 12pxMika Natif, The SOAS Anvr-i Suhayl The Journey of a ReincarnatedManuscriptspanfontfont face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 12pxMarianna Shreve Simpson, Mostly Modern Miniatures Classical Persian Painting in the Earlyspanfontspan 12pxTwentieth Centuryspan

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Author: Tareq Y. Ismael File Type: pdf Much has been written about the events surrounding the 2003 Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and its aftermath, especially about the intentions, principles, plans and course of action of US policy, but much less attention has been given to the consequences of US policy on Iraqi political and social development. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of US policy on the social and political development of Iraq in the twenty-first century. It shows how not just the institutions of the state were destroyed in 2003, leaving the way open for sectarianism, but also the countrys cultural integrity, political coherence, and national-oriented economy. It outlines how Iraq has been economically impoverished, assessing the appalling situation which ordinary people, including women and children, have endured, not just as a result of the 2003 war, but also as a consequence of the 1991 war and the sanctions imposed in the following years. The book argues that the social, political, and cultural ruin that accompanied the Iraq war was an absolute catastrophe that the policies which had such adverse effects were the foreseeable consequences of deliberate policy choices and that those responsible continue to evade being made accountable.