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Migration and Islamic ethics: issues of residence, naturalization and citizen…
Migration and Islamic Ethics, Issues of Residence, Naturalization and Citizenship contains various cases of migration movements in the Muslim world from ethical and legal perspectives to argue that Muslim migration experiences can offer a new paradigm of how the religious and the moral can play a significant role in addressing forced migration and displacement Readership: All interested in migr…
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- 9789004417342
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- 1 online resource
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- Studies in Islamic ethics, vol. 2
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- 297.7 JUR m
From scrolls to scrolling : sacred texts, materiality, and dynamic media cult…
Throughout history, the study of sacred texts has focused almost exclusively on the content and meaning of these writings. Such a focus obscures the fact that sacred texts are always embodied in particular material forms—from ancient scrolls to contemporary electronic devices. Using the digital turn as a starting point, this volume highlights material dimensions of the sacred texts of Judaism…
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- 9783110634440
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- XVII, 307 p.
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- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation, 12
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- 297 SCR s
Women judges in the muslim world : a comparative study of discourse and practice
Women Judges in the Muslim World: A Comparative Study of Discourse and Practice offers a socio-legal account of public debates and judicial practices surrounding the performance of women as judges in eight Muslim-majority countries. Readership: Scholars, students, and practitioners interested in Law, Middle East Studies, Southeast Asia Studies, Gender, and Religious Studies will find this an in…
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- 9789004342200
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- XXII, 334 p.
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- Women and Gender: The Middle East and the Islamic World, 15
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- 340.5901 WOM w
Applying Shari'a in the West : facts, fears and the future of Islamic rules o…
This volume provides new insights in the concept of shari’a in the West, and sets out a framework of how shari’a in the West can be studied. The premise of this volume is that one needs to focus on the question ‘What do Muslims do in terms of shari’a?’ rather than ‘What is shari’a?’. This perspective shows that the practice of Sharia is restricted to a limited set of rules that …
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- 9789087281700
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- 291p. : ill.
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- 340.115 APP a
Understanding contemporary Islamic crises in the Middle East : the issues ben…
Over the past decade the Middle East has undergone huge geopolitical shifts, including widespread war and violence, the collapse of numerous regimes, a changing American role, a restored Russian presence, and the emergence of ISIS. In this book Graham Fuller addresses the character of these shifts and how they will shape the future of this tumultuous region as well as the role of major outside …
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- 9789087282677
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- 65p. : ill.
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- 340.09 FUL u
Women from traditional Islamic educational institutions in Indonesia : negoti…
Until currently there have been no specific publications, particularly in English, on women in traditional Islamic educational institutions in Indonesia, known as pesantren, which played a significant role in shaping the gender issues in the Indonesian Muslim community. This informative and insightful book contributes to two booming fields in Indonesian studies: the study of Islam and the study…
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- 9789089644213
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- 184p. : ill.
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- 297.77082 SR w
Islamic studies in the twenty-first century : transformations and continuities
In recent decades, traditional methods of philology and intellectual history, applied to the study of Islam and Muslim societies, have been met with considerable criticism from rising generations of scholars who have turned to the social sciences, most notably anthropology and social history, for guidance. This change has been accompanied by the rise of new fields, studying, for example, Islam …
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- 9789048528189
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- 284p. : ill.
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- 306.697 ISL i
Language between God and the poets : ma'ná in the eleventh century
How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major scholars and asks how the conceptual vocabulary they shared enabled them to create theory in lexicography, theology, logic, and poetics. Their ideas engaged God and poetry at t…
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- 9780520298019
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- xvi, 280p. : ill.
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- 181.92 KEY l
Islamic area studies with geographical information systems
In this volume the contributors use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to reassess both historic and contemporary Asian countries and traditionally Islamic areas. This highly illustrated and comprehensive work highlights how GIS can be applied to the social sciences. With its description of how to process, construct and manage geographical data the book is ideal for the non-specialist looki…
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- 9780203401422
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- xxvi, 283p. : ill.
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- 910.91767 ISL i
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