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A historical investigation of the exclusion of Africa and Asia from modern histories of philosophy.

Relates Black Freedom Movements to literacy education.

Argues that South Africa's apartheid system of racial segregation relied on an unexamined but interrelated system of sexed oppression that was at once both rigid and flexible.

This volume covers the years 700-715 A.D., a period that witnessed the last five years of the caliphate of the Umayyad 'Abd al-Malik ibn Marw¿n and the whole of the caliphate of his son al-Wal¿d. In retrospect, this period can be seen to have marked the apogee of Marw¿nid Umayyad power. It began with the dangerous revolt of the Iraqi tribal leader Ibn al-Ash'ath, which seriously imperilled Marw¿nid control of Iraq and was countered with considerable difficulty; but this proved to be the last of the obstacles faced by 'Abd al-Malik in the wake of the Second Civil War of 685-693. Thereafter he was able to preside over a strong and dynamic Arab kingdom, with al-¿ajj¿j ibn Y¿suf as his powerful governor of Iraq and the East.When 'Abd al-Malik died in 705, the caliphate passed to his son al-Wal¿d, during whose decade of office al-¿ajj¿j remained at his post and further Arab expansion took place in Central Asia, in Sind, and in the Iberian Peninsula. To many of their contemporaries, the Arabs of that time must have looked like potential world conquerors.The volume ends shortly after the deaths of al-¿ajj¿j and al-Wal¿d and just two years before the dispatch in 717 of the ill-fated Arab expedition to Constantinople.

The years 738-745/121-127, which this volume covers, saw the outbreak in Syria of savage internecine struggles between prominent members of the Umayyad family, which had ruled the Islamic world since 661/41. After the death of the caliph Hish¿m in 743-/125, the process of decay at the center of the Umayyad power--the ruling family itself--was swift and devastating. Three Umayyad caliphs (al-Wal¿d II, Yaz¿d III, and Ibrahim) followed Hish¿m within little more than a year, and the subsequent intervention of their distant cousin Marw¿n b. Muhammad (the future Marw¿n II) could not arrest the forces of opposition that were shortly to culminate in the ¿Abb¿sid Revolution of 750/132.In this volume al-¿abar¿ deals extensively with the end of Hish¿m's reign, providing a rich store of anecdotes on this most able of Umayyad caliphs. He also covers in depth the notorious lifestyle of al-Wal¿d II, the libertine prince and poet, whose career has attracted much scholarly attention in recent years. Moreover, al-¿abar¿ chronicles at great length the events of the rebellion and death of the Shi'ite pretender, Zayd ibn ¿Al¿, at al-K¿fah, as well as recording in detail the activities farther to the east, where När ibn Sayy¿r was serving as the last Umayyad governor of Transoxiana and Khurasan, the very area from which the ¿Abb¿sid Revolution was to spring. The text also contains several official letters which shed much light on Umayyad propaganda and on early Islamic epistolary style.The hindsight conferred by subsequent centuries highlights the full significance of these half-dozen years or so. Al-¿abar¿ documents the incubation of the ¿Abb¿sid Revolution, an event of great importance in world history, and traces the failure of the principal Shi'ite revolt of the eighth century, a debacle which was also to have serious repercussions, for it generated the foundation of Zaydi principalities in Iran and the Yemen. Yet even these major themes are secondary to the epic tale that al-¿abar¿ unfolds of the tragic downfall of the first dynasty in Islam.

Comprehensive overview of key theoretical approaches and issues in the field.

An expanded edition of a classic work of film criticism, with a provocative and eloquent new chapter on Marnie, Hitchcock's most heartfelt--and most controversial--film.