Speaking in God's Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women, Paperback - Khaled Abou El Fadl

Reducere. Drawing on both religious and secular sources, this challenging book argues that divinely ordained law is frequently misinterpreted by Muslim autho...

From laws against the implementation of Shari'ah in the United States to anger about the role of Shari'ah in Egypt's new constitution, many people ...

Reducere. Despite President George W. Bush's assurances that Islam is a peaceful religion and that all good Muslims hunger for democracy, confusion persists ...

Attitudes toward homosexuality in the premodern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic. This title argues that this apparent par...

Denounced by the Vatican as 'fanciful and absurd', this classic investigative reporting is now available in a new, revised edition. It has already ...

In Quest of Justice provides the first full account of the establishment and workings of a new kind of state in Egypt in the modern period. Drawing...

DescriptionSince around 2000, a growing number of women in Dakar, Senegal have come to act openly as spiritual leaders for both men and women. As u...

Reducere. Multicultural, Nonsectarian, NondenominationalEndorsed by Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish Religious LeadersFinalist, Children's Books of Distincti...

Reducere. DescriptionMulticultural, Nonsectarian, NondenominationalEndorsed by Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish Religious LeadersFinalist, Children's Books o...

Smith - "Before God could bring me to an amazing place of His Authority and Power He has broken me a thousand times. I have wept, I have groaned, I...

This book examines the legal conundrum of reconciling international human rights law in a Muslim majority country and identifies a trajectory for n...

Reducere. DescriptionGod decides to close up shop on Earth -- unless two idealistic angels can make a miracle happen Welcome to Heaven, Inc., the grossly mis...

Despite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since t...

Dehm analyzes how the REDD+ scheme operates to reorganise social relations and establish new forms of global authority over forests in the Global S...

Reducere. DescriptionCatalogers hold very specific types of power when they describe people, families, and corporate bodies. When creating a personal name au...

Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa examines Islamic legal responses to Muslims living under Christian rule in ...

This volume focuses on the four most influential Islamic authority structures with a visible following among Muslims around the globe: Al-Azhar (Eg...

Challenges a number of assumptions about Shakespeare and women, including the women in his family, the women who worked in the London theatre indus...

This collection of case studies, covering the period from classical Islam to the present, and taken from across the Islamic world, compares the rol...

In this pioneering research, Hassan S. Khalilieh sheds light on the often ignored Islamic law of the sea, and customary practices that were influen...

Publisher: The Islamic Texts SocietyAuthor(s): Mohammad Hashim KamaliNumber of pages: 196Collection: Fundamental Rights and Liberties in Islam Seri...

Reducere. An anthropologist's groundbreaking account of how Islamic religious authority is assembled through the unceasing labor of community building on the...

Reducere. GOD'S WISDOM from BIBICAL WOMEN to AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN is a religious book discussing women of all ages, cultures, nationalities, and generation...

Al-Ghazali is arguably one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Islam, and his writings have received greater scholarly attention in ...

Reducere. Missiology -A robust and practical theology that integrates worship and mission into a seamless whole.-Anglican & Episcopal History -A very useful ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 159 x 275 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): ...

Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts explores the administration of justice during Islam's founding period, 632-1250 CE. Inspired by the ...

Written by tutors at the Prince's School of Traditional Arts, a vital reference and practical resource for craftspeople, artists and students .Illu...

This book examines the phenomenon of 'grand corruption' in Kuwait and the pattern in the wider region. It will be a valuable resource for academics...

Reducere. Kalaam Kull Yoom 1: Situational Egyptian Arabic is designed to help elementary and intermediate learners succeed at critical moments during everyda...

In discussing private rulemaking, public policy, corporate sustainability, and EU policymaking, Renckens targets students and scholars in political...

In over 170 duotone images, this title exposes an inside view of a world seen by very few people in the West. Focusing on the resurgence of Islam e...