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Paperback. The values of traditionalist Islam are often portrayed as inherently hostile to those of a modern, pluralistic society. This book shatters many of these stereotypes. Jonah Blank provides a first-hand account of the Daudi Bohra to show how a premodern clerical elite has embraced modernity. Num Pages: 408 pages, 9 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HRH; JFC; JFS; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 578.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226056777
- ISBN
- 9780226056777
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.82
€ 40.99
€ 31.82
hardcover. Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia that has been under the leadership of President Nursultan Nazarbayev since independence in 1991, has proven that a mostly Muslim nation can be active on the international scene. Num Pages: 228 pages, 6 b 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FCZ; HRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 162 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Potomac Books Inc United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597977319
- ISBN
- 9781597977319
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Condition: New
€ 37.65
€ 37.65
hardcover. Editor(s): Hefner, Robert W. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRH; JHMC; LAFS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 572.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253022479
- ISBN
- 9780253022479
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.36
€ 92.36
paperback. Twice in this century popular revolts against colonial rule have occured in the Banten district of West Java. This title details the complicated history of the Bantenese revolts in the twentieth century and probes the ideological riddle of Islamic Communism. Series: Ohio RIS Southeast Asia Series. Num Pages: 390 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 213 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 558.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 390
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780896801554
- ISBN
- 9780896801554
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.36
€ 37.99
€ 34.36
Paperback. Deepening the discussion of the relationship between Islamic law and human rights, this volume gathers leading experts in both fields to examine how each system protects and limits fundamental freedoms. From gender equality to freedom of religion the book explores the main flashpoints in the debate, examining the operation of the law in context. Editor(s): Emon, Anver M.; Ellis, Mark S. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRH; JPVH; LAFS; LBBR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 618.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199641451
- ISBN
- 9780199641451
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Condition: New
€ 63.67
€ 63.67
hardcover. Traces the emergence and flourishing of madrasas and the myriad ways in which they impact upon local Muslim communities, especially in West Bengal. This book also addresses identity, 'secular' education and gender in this context, while exploring the myths that surround these institutions. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRH; JNLR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415544597
- ISBN
- 9780415544597
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Condition: New
€ 175.17
€ 175.17
hardcover. This book illuminates the remarkable resilience of South Asian Sufi saints and their cults in the face of radical economic and political dislocations. It breaks new ground in current research. Editor(s): Werbner, Pnina; Basu, Helene (University of Munster). Num Pages: 256 pages, 1 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKB; HRH; HRLB; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780415150996
- ISBN
- 9780415150996
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Condition: New
€ 175.17
€ 175.17
Paperback. Editor(s): Cleary, Thomas. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HRH; HRLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 201.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- HarperSanFrancisco
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062501981
- ISBN
- 9780062501981
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.79
€ 24.99
€ 21.79
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
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Condition: New
€ 52.93€ 46.28
€ 52.93
€ 46.28
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
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Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
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
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Condition: New
€ 66.76
€ 66.76
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
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Condition: New
€ 127.42
€ 127.42
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
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Condition: New
€ 127.54
€ 127.54
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. 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
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Condition: New
€ 127.82
€ 127.82
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. 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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.28
€ 127.28
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.51
€ 67.51
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
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
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.13
€ 66.13
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
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. 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