The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa, Paperback - Rudolph T. Ware

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Representing a significant re-examination of the Tarikh al-fattash, proved to be one the most important nineteenth-century sources for the history ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury AcademicAuthor(s): Seyed Hadi (University of Tehran, Iran) BorhaniNumber of pages: 264Collection: Unsettling Colonialism in o...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe history of the Islamic faith on the continent of Africa spans fourteen centuries. For the first time in a single volume, The History...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book concerns the ways in which a prominent West African Muslim community drew on a long legacy of Islamic knowledge transmission t...

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The Second World War is one of the most significant conflicts in history, but for seven decades our understanding of the war has remained mostly fi...

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Reducere. WHAT EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT THE QUR'AN - A HISTORY OF ISLAM & THE UNITED STATES You will be fascinated by this fast-paced, objective hi...

DescriptionThe Qur'an is God's word. It was revealed to Prophet Muhammad through the Angel Gabriel 1, 400 years ago and has been preserved in its o...

DescriptionExamining at least one verse from every chapter of the Qur'an, and citing more than one-fifth of the entire text, this study analyzes wh...

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The body is the main forum for learning about how to do, think and believe and it is a starting point for the granting and forming of many forms of...

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Publisher: The Islamic Texts SocietyTranslator: Khalid WilliamsNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 235 x 161 x 14Cover type: Pape...

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Women in Islam is an attractive book of simple compilation of quotations from the Qur'an and Hadith collections that refer to or address women spec...

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The widely held belief that a deep historical and ideological gulf exists between Islam and the West is turned on its head in this thought-provokin...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Professor Michelle KarnesNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 20C...

Publisher: Jeppestown PressAuthor(s): Muriel R. TewIllustration(s): 15 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2007Dimensions: 232 x...

A paradigm-shifting book, arguing that, far from supporting male privilege, the Qur'an actually encourages the full equality of women and men.

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Reducere. DescriptionDoes Islam call for the oppression of women? Non-Muslims point to the subjugation of women that occurs in many Muslim countries, especia...