abdullah schleifer (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair; Ex-Library Copy. Stated First Printing. HC/DJ mylar typical library stickers, stamps, pocket gone inside endpaper. Pages clean , tight, sunned. Corners sharp. Narritive of Middle-East and struggle over Palestine. Based on observations and research of author.

Hardcover. Condizione: G. Condizione sovraccoperta: G. Review copy with a review slip. Blue cloth boards have light fading, light edge wear. The author, a convert from Judaism to Islam, points out the differences between the Arabs and the Jews in Israel.

Second printing (as stated upon copyright page). xxii, 393 pages. Hardcover: H 26cm x L 18.5cm. Dust jacket rubbed; bumping/creasing at rear panel's upper left. Black cloth. Slight foxing to text block's top edge. Interior leaves are clean. Binding retains some crispness. Features twenty-one chapters within eight parts with collectively titled as follows: PART I - THE ISLAMIC CITY. "Islamic Identity and the Metropolis: Continuity and Conflict" by Ervin Y. Galantay; "The Islamic City and the Western City: A Comparative Analysis" by Cyrus Mechkat. PART II - THE MIDDLE EASTERN CITY. "Population Movement and Urbanization in the Arab World" by Osman M. Osman; "Ideological Constants and Urban Living" by Fuad I. Khuri. PART III - THE MODERNIZATION OF AN ISLAMIC CITY: THE CASE OF SANA'A. "Old Sana'a as an Existing Model for the Islamic City" by Ali Oshaish; "Sanaʼa Al-Qadeema: The Challenges of Modernization" by Fritz Piepenberg; "Sana'a: A Profile of a Changing City" by Abdulaziz Y. Saqqaf. PART IV - JERUSALEM. "The Repercussions of Israel's Occupation of Jerusalem" by Henry Cattan; "Islamic Jerusalem as Archetype of a Harmonious Urban Environment" by Abdullah Schleifer; "Zion and the Two Jerusalems" by Yitzhak Khayutman. PART V - PROBLEMS OF OVER-URBANIZATION: THE CASE OF CAIRO. "A Sociological Profile" by Saad Eddin Ibrahim; "The Big Urban Bias" by Hoda M. Sobhi; "Integrated Village Development and the Housing Problem of Urban Egypt" by Abdel K. El-Ahwal. PART VI - RECONSTRUCTING BEIRUT. "An Historical Perspective of the City" by John Munro; "Reconstruction: Theory and Practice" by Friedrich Ragette; "A Pictorial Essay of the Reconstruction Process" by Hana Abu Khadra. PART VII - ISSUES IN TURKISH URBANIZATION. "Urbanization Trends in Turkey" by Sabahaddin Zaim; "Environmental Problems of Urbanization" by Erdogan Alkin; "Urbanization and Political Behavior" by Esat Cam. PART VIII - THE FUTURE MIDDLE EASTERN CITY. "Communication in the Middle East City of the 1990s" by Joseph Ben-Dak; "The Provision of Essential Services in the Future City" by Kenneth Mellanby. Proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Middle East Chapter of the Professors World Peace Academy - PWPA. ISBN 0943852323.

247pp. 8vo Frontis line map. Blue cloth. First Printing so stated. Ex-library, spine lightly sunned, last page undertrimmed w/ small tears: VG/no dj.

Condizione: acceptable. This book is in Acceptable condition. All pages are intact, but may have lots of notes, water damage or other issues and be ex library.