"Luftmensch," literally meaning "air person," is the Yiddish way of describing someone who is a bit of a dreamer. Did You Know? The word "infant" comes from the Latin word "infans" which literally means "unable to speak; speechless." ...
By conferring new meaning on insurgency, colonial violence enabled transgressive sanctity to emerge and circulate (88-90), while colonial rule strengthened the authority of Islamic law in Daghestan (109). Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Shaykh: Border Crossers in the Historiography of the Modern Caucasus ...