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Fatwa and the Making and Renewal of Islamic Law: From the Classical Period to the Present
American Journal of Islam and SocietyIslamic law, its classical origins and modern resurgence, has been the subject of increasing attention in academia. Whereas previous literature in the area of Islamic law often carried orientalist leanings, modern research attempts to re-evaluate the ...
Nazish Mithaiwala
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Yemeni Immigrants in Western New York [PDF]
, 2015 The country of Yemen came into being in May of 1990 when North Yemen merged with South Yemen. Sanaa, the former capital of the North, became the political capital, and Aden, the former capital of the South, became the economic center. Because of the less-
Partnership for the Public Good
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Honouring the Past, Embracing the Future
The Ecumenical Review, EarlyView.Abstract The United Church of Canada, founded in 1925, represents an ambitious experiment in church union that blends Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist traditions. Over the past century, the church has played a pivotal role in shaping Canadian society by advocating for social justice, Indigenous reconciliation, interreligious dialogue ...
Hyuk Cho
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Islamic Thought in the South Asian Subcontinent
American Journal of Islam and Society, 1995 The International Institute of Islamic Thought-Islamabad, the Islamic Research Institute, and the International Islamic University, Islamabad, are conducting ongoing seminars on the history of Islamic thought in eighteenth-century South Asia.
Zafar I. Ansari
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What All Americans Should Know about Women in the Muslim World: An Introduction [PDF]
, 2016 This brief introduction to the “What All Americans Should Know About Women in the Muslim World” series provides information about women in the Muslim world, why they are important for Americans to understand, some challenges that arise in the study of ...
Evrard, Amy Y.
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The critique of religion as political critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda's pre-Islamic xenology [PDF]
, 2016 (Awarded the International Society for Intellectual History’s Charles Schmitt Prize) Mīrzā Fatḥ 'Alī Ākhūndzāda’s Letters from Prince Kamāl al-Dawla to the Prince Jalāl al-Dawla (1865) is often read as a Persian attempt to introduce European ...
Gould, Rebecca
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The Capital–Labour–State Dynamics of Herbicide Adoption in Rainfed India
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper engages debates around the capital–labour–state dynamics of agrarian transitions to address the oft‐studied but still little‐understood question of why farmers adopt herbicides when they do. Over the last several years, smallholder farmers in India have begun using the herbicide bispyribac sodium at breakneck speeds, particularly in
Carly Nichols, Nidhi Kumari
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TIM MARSHALL: PRISONERS OF GEOGRAPHY STUDY GUIDE, 2017 [PDF]
, 2017 Study ...
Samson, Steven A
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how and to what extent violence has become a pivotal tool for conducting business in places integrated into the global value chain. It also explores the roles stakeholders play in silencing workers' resistance within these places.
Shoaib Ahmed
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Pathology and Harms of Debate from the Quranic and Narrative Perspectives [PDF]
پژوهش نامه معارف قرآنی, 2016 Throughout the history, one of the widely used methods by Imams or their students for the religious teachings when they were faced by Islam’s opponents was debate.
Mahboubeh Gholami +2 more
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