One Off Journal Issues: Progressive Librarian Issue #48, Spring 2021: Palestinian Libraries

 One Off Journal Issues: Progressive Librarian Issue #48, Spring 2021: Palestinian Libraries

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EDITORIAL

Libraries, Archives, and Palestine: The Struggle Continues, page 3 [.pdf file]

ARTICLES

History of Palestinian Libraries and Archives Under Israeli Occupation
by Anan Hamad, page 7 [.pdf file]

The International Board on Books for Young People In Palestine
by Mary Fasheh, page 31 [.pdf file]

Libraries in Gaza: Between Despair and Hope
by Mosab Abu Toha, page 53 [.pdf file]

Interview with Mosab Abu Toha, Founder of the Edward Said Public Library, page 67 [.pdf file]

Private Libraries in Nablus Have a Bright Past and an Uncertain Future
by Lara Kanaan, page 75 [.pdf file]

DOCUMENTS

MELA Statement on Collection Development, Access, and Equity in the Time of COVID-19, page 81 [.pdf file]

Resolution in Defense of the Free Speech of Supporters of the Movement for Palestinian Rights, page 84 [.pdf file]

Communications of the SRRT Action Council and ALA Resolution Review Task Force, page 86 [.pdf file]

Progressive Librarians Guild Resources on Black Lives Matter, page 106 [.pdf file]

REPORT

Union Library Workers Blog: The Years 2019-2020 in Review
by Craig M. Guild, page 110 [.pdf file]

 

 

Open Access E-Book: The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi Sufism through the Eyes of ʿImād al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī (d. 711/1311)

The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi. Sufism through the Eyes of ʿImād al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī (d. 711/1311)

Author: Arjan Post

"The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi explores the life and teachings of ʿImād al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī (d. 711/1311), a little-known Ḥanbalī Sufi master from the circle of Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328). The first part of this book follows al-Wāsiṭī’s physical journey in search of spiritual guidance through a critical study of his autobiographical writings. This provides unique insights into the Rifāʿiyya, the Shādhiliyya, and the school of Ibn ʿArabī, several manifestations of Sufism that he encountered as he travelled from Wāsiṭ to Baghdad, Alexandria, and Cairo. Part I closes with his final destination, Damascus, where his membership of Ibn Taymiyya’s circle and his role as a Sufi teacher is closely examined. The second part focuses on al-Wāsiṭī’s spiritual journey through a study of his Sufi writings, which convey the distinct type of traditionalist Sufism that he taught in early eighth/fourteenth-century Damascus. Besides providing an overview of the spiritual path unto God from beginning to end as he formulated it, this reveals an exceptional interplay between Sufi theory and traditionalist theology."

DOI:10.1163/9789004377554

ISBN:9789004431294

Publisher: Brill, 2020

Open Access E-Book: Conquered Populations in Early Islam Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of Slave Mothers

 Conquered Populations in Early Islam Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of Slave Mothers

    Author: Elizabeth Urban
    ISBN: 9781474423229
    Edinburgh University Press
    Publication year:2020

This book traces the journey of new Muslims as they joined the early Islamic community and articulated their identities within it. It focuses on Muslims of slave origins, who belonged to the society in which they lived but whose slave background rendered them somehow alien. How did these Muslims at the crossroads of insider and outsider find their place in early Islamic society? How did Islamic society itself change to accommodate these new members? By analysing how these liminal Muslims resolved the tension between belonging and otherness, Conquered Populations in Early Islam reveals the shifting boundaries of the early Islamic community and celebrates the dynamism of Islamic history.