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Paperback. Becoming Muslim is an ethnographic study based on in-depth interviews with Swedish and American women who have converted to Islam. Proceeding from the women's life-stories, McGinty explores the appeal of Islam to some Western women and the personal meaning assigned to the religion. Series: Culture, Mind and Society. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230616684
- ISBN
- 9780230616684
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. This book offers a better insight into the comparison of Western and Islamic cultures, with studies that address the issues of Islam and modernity, violence in Islamic law and history, and respect for individuals' privacy in Islamic cultures. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 166 x 16. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230609846
- ISBN
- 9780230609846
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. A fascinating demonstration of how U.S. representations of veils, harems, and belly dancers have operated as nostalgic and exotic symbols to help rationalize dominant U.S. narratives about power and progress. Num Pages: 249 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSJ1. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230604728
- ISBN
- 9780230604728
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.79
€ 116.79
Hardcover. The Fatigue of the Shari'a places on a continuum two kinds of debates: debates in the Islamic tradition about the end of access to divine guidance and debates in modern scholarship in Islamic legal studies about the end of the Shari'a. The resulting continuum covers what access to divine guidance means and how it relates to Shari'a. Series: Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History. Num Pages: 221 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM2; HRHT; LAFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 221 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230340367
- ISBN
- 9780230340367
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book analyzes public discourses on secularism in France to consider how Islam becomes subsumed under the fetishized headscarf, how women's bodies come to represent collective identities, and how the activism and engagement of suburban Muslim women with secular politics is ignored. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 247 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HRAC; HRH; HRLM7; HRQA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230121010
- ISBN
- 9780230121010
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.90
€ 66.90
Paperback. This book presents a compelling and innovative new theory and framework for examining the variation in Islamist mobilization strategies in Muslim Asia and the Middle East. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM2; HRH; JFSR2; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 235
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120709
- ISBN
- 9780230120709
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Condition: New
€ 66.13
€ 66.13
Hardcover. In this comprehensive study, Adis Duderija examines how Neo Traditional Salafi thought (NTS) and progressive Muslims interpret the normative concepts of 'Believer' and 'Muslim Woman' in contemporary Islam Series: Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law, and History. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120570
- ISBN
- 9780230120570
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Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. This book cuts across important debates in cultural studies, literary criticism, politics, sociology, and anthropology. Meyda Yegenoglu brings together different theoretical strands in the debates regarding immigration, from Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic understanding of the subject formation, to Zygmunt Bauman's notion of the stranger. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRHP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 12. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230120433
- ISBN
- 9780230120433
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.85
€ 127.85
Disability in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Sacred Texts, Historic...
Schumm, Darla, Stoltzfus, Michael
Hardcover. This edited collection of essays examines how religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and chronic illness. Contributors employ a variety of methodological approaches including ethnography, historical, cultural, or textual analysis, personal narrative, and theological/philosophical investigation. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRC; HRH; HRJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230119727
- ISBN
- 9780230119727
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Condition: New
€ 67.51
€ 67.51
Paperback. In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, trade and consumption, but part of an expanding globalised market. This book explores modern forms of halal understanding and practice in the halal consumption of middle-class Malays in the diaspora. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 202 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HRHP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114180
- ISBN
- 9780230114180
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Condition: New
€ 127.78
€ 127.78
Hardcover. In The Halal Frontier Johan Fischer shows that halal (literally lawful or permitted) is no longer an expression of esoteric forms of production, trade and consumption, but part of an expanding globalised market. This book explores modern forms of halal understanding and practice in the halal consumption of middle-class Malays in the diaspora. Series: Contemporary Anthropology of Religion. Num Pages: 201 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRHP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 166 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230114173
- ISBN
- 9780230114173
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Condition: New
€ 127.28
€ 127.28
Hardcover. This book tells the story of how Shari'ati developed a language of political Islam, speaking in an idiom intelligible to the Iranian public and subverting the Shah's regime and its claim to legitimacy. Series: Middle East Today. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; HRH; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230113336
- ISBN
- 9780230113336
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 47.41
€ 52.93
€ 47.41
Hardcover. Focusing substantially on the relation between the concept of constitutionalism and Islamic Law in general and how such relation is specifically reflected in the Shiite jurisprudence, this volume explores the juristic origins of constitutionalism, especially in the context of 1905 Constitutional Revolution in Iran. Series: Palgrave Series in Islamic Theology, Law. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FBN; 3JJ; HRAX; HRH; LAFS; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110731
- ISBN
- 9780230110731
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.82
€ 127.82
Hardcover. This book explores educational and cultural experiences of 'part-time' unveilers during their undergraduate degree programs in public institutions in Turkey. The term 'part-time unveiler' refers to undergraduate female students who cover their hair in their private lives but who remove the headscarf while at a Turkish university. Series: Middle East Today. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVT; HRHC; JFC; JNF; JNMN; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110373
- ISBN
- 9780230110373
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.73
€ 66.73
Hardcover. Zaidi assesses the dialogue between Muslim and Western social thought on the search for transcendence in the human sciences; achieved by a comparative reading of current Muslim debate on secular knowledge and Western debate on the demise of metaphysics, drawing upon Hans Georg Gadamer and insights of inter-religious dialogue. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRH; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392. 234 pages, 0. Zaidi assesses the dialogue between Muslim and Western social thought on the search for transcendence in the human sciences; achieved by a comparative reading of current Muslim debate on secular knowledge and Western debate on the demise of metaphysics, drawing upon Hans Georg Gadamer and insights of inter-religious dialogue. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HRH; JHBA. Dimension: 223 x 139 x 19. Weight: 392.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230110359
- ISBN
- 9780230110359
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.54
€ 127.54
Hardcover. Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at. Hermes shows that there was no shortage of medieval Muslims who cast curious eyes towards the European Other and that more than a handful of them were interested in Europe. Series: New Middle Ages. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DSBB; DSC; HRAX; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230109407
- ISBN
- 9780230109407
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.85
€ 138.85
Hardcover. This study of the sub-Saharan African novel interprets representations of Islam as a central organising presence that generates new conceptual questions and demands new critical frameworks with which to approach categories like nationhood, race, diaspora, immigration, and Africa's multiple colonial pasts. Series: Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World. Num Pages: 221 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFG; 2AB; DSK; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 150 x 23. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230108431
- ISBN
- 9780230108431
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.42
€ 127.42
Hardcover. Nyla Ali Khan, the granddaughter of the first Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, gives an insider's analysis on the political and social turmoil that has eroded the ethos and fabric of Kasmiri culture. She monitors the effects of nationalist, militant, and religious discourses and praxes on a gender-based hierarchy. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. Num Pages: 234 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKP; HBJF; HRH; JFSJ1; JFSR2. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366. Between India and Pakistan. Series: Comparative Feminist Studies. 234 pages, Illustrations. Nyla Ali Khan, the granddaughter of the first Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, gives an insider's analysis on the political and social turmoil that has eroded the ethos and fabric of Kasmiri culture. She monitors the effects of nationalist, militant, and religious discourses and praxes on a gender-based hierarchy. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKP; HBJF; HRH; JFSJ1; JFSR2. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 17. Weight: 366.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230107649
- ISBN
- 9780230107649
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
Hardcover. This book briefly surveys the evolution of the Western concept of development, recognizing the wider dimensions of human and economic development and the role of institutions and rules, which has moved toward the vision and the path of development envisaged in Islam. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103887
- ISBN
- 9780230103887
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Paperback. Merry elaborates an ideal type of Islamic philosophy of education in order to examine the specific challenges that Islamic schools face, comparing the different educational realities facing Muslim populations in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United States. Num Pages: 246 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRH; JNLR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 217 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 246
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103535
- ISBN
- 9780230103535
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 46.28
€ 52.93
€ 46.28