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Grounded Identities: Territory and Belonging in the Medieval and Early Modern Middle East and Mediterranean is a collection of essays on attachment to specific lands including Kurdistan, Andalusia and the Maghrib, and geographical Syria in the pre-modern Islamicate world. Together these essays put a premium on the affective and cultural dimensions of such attachments, fluctuations in the meaning and significance of lands in the face of historical transformations and, at the same time, the real and persistent qualities of lands and human attachments to them over long periods of time. These essays demonstrate that grounded identities are persistent and never static. Contributors are: Zayde Antrim, Alexander Elinson, Mary Hoyt Halavais, Boris James, Steve Tamari.

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[...] This is a timely and welcome contribution to the field as issues regarding territory and belonging globally, but especially in the Middle East, dominate the news cycle. R. W. Zens, Le Moyne College, in Choice, February 2020

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Steve Tamari, Ph.D (1998), Georgetown University, is Professor of Middle East and Islamic History at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, USA.

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