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Religion, Education, Science and Technology towards a More Inclusive and Sustainable Future addresses topics relating to religion, education, science, and technology, and explore their role in developing a more inclusive and sustainable future.
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"In early 2014, the Islamic State clinched its control of Raqqa in Syria. Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, urged Muslims around the world to come join the caliphate. Witnessing the brutal oppression of the Assad regime in Syria, and moved to fight for justice, thousands of men and women heeded his call. At the heart of this story is a cast of unforgettable young women who responded. Emma, from Germany; Sharmeena from Bethnal Green, London; Nour from Tunis: these were women--some still in high school--from urban families, some with university degrees and bookshelves filled with novels by Jane Austen and Dan Brown; many with cosmopolitan dreams of travel and adventure. But instead of finding a land of justice and piety, they found themselves trapped within the most brutal terrorist regime of the twenty-first century, a world of chaos and upheaval and violence. What is the line between victim and collaborator? How do we judge these women who both suffered and inflicted intense pain? What role is there for Muslim women in the West? In what is bound to be a modern classic of narrative nonfiction, Moaveni takes us into the school hallways of London, kitchen tables in Germany, the coffee shops in Tunis, the caliphate's OB/GYN and its "Guest House for Young Widows"--where wives of the fallen waited to be remarried--to demonstrate that the problem called terrorism is a far more complex, political, and deeply relatable one than we generally admit"--
Widows --- Islamic fundamentalism --- Islamic fundamentalism.
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Islamic Commercial Law: Contemporariness, Normativeness and Competence offers new perspectives on why for centuries Islamic commercial law has been perceived as arbitrary and unpredictable, and on its evolution to a contemporary, consistent, reliable and credible body of law. The book also examines why Western positivists have viewed Islamic commercial law in a simplistic or archaic religious framework and counters those arguments with an examination of its normative legal qualities. The work analyses the competencies of Fiqh (jurisprudence) for structuring new financial instruments, and restructuring conventional financial products more equitability.
Commercial law (Islamic law) --- Finance (Islamic law) --- Islamic law
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Islamic sociology. --- Muslim sociology --- Sociology, Islamic --- Sociology
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Islamic sociology. --- Muslim sociology --- Sociology, Islamic --- Sociology
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Islamic sociology. --- Muslim sociology --- Sociology, Islamic --- Sociology
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The essays in Islam and the West: Critical Perspectives on Modernity approach the interactions of Islam, the West, and modernity through overlapping social, historical, economic, cultural, and philosophical layers. Viewed through this complex prism of analysis, the full dimensions of the relationship become clear and the result is a deeper understanding of the nature of modernity and how other societies can relate to each other.
Islam -- 21st century. --- Islamic modernism. --- Islamic renewal.
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Intellectual life. --- Islamic civilization. --- Islamic countries.
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"No imaginário ocidental o harém primeiro fascina pelo mistério. Com efeito, a compreensão lendária das culturas do Médio Oriente incorpora uma visão de mulheres isoladas e restritas, à disposição da lascívia de seu senhor. E ainda que, em tempos mais recentes, estudos, relatos e ações tenham adentrado as questões postas pela condição feminina em países de cultura islâmica, contudo a imagem de sedução e dominação associada ao harém perdura com resiliência perturbadora. A historiadora Marina Soares procede a uma inovadora arqueologia desses conceitos, imagens e permanências. Ela percorre narrativas de viagens de europeus ao Império Otomano, Pérsia e Norte da África, publicadas em língua inglesa e francesa, remontando ao final do século XVI e prosseguindo até o final do século XVIII. Nesse cenário textual é possível seguir os rastros das representações do harém que ensejaram o imaginário de luxúria a compor a figuração das sociedades islâmicas. Dentre essas fontes cuidadosamente reunidas e analisadas, o último relato, publicado em 1791, destaca a experiência médica de um viajante inglês em dois haréns do Reino de Marrocos. Trata-se de documento privilegiado que permite recuperar nessa questão pontual o confronto das culturas: os pressupostos médicos europeus encontram as práticas médicas mouras – um encontro de perplexidades e trocas que a argúcia da investigadora traz à luz com fina maestria. O tema é muito pouco explorado pela pesquisa acadêmica sobre o Oriente, em geral mais voltada para estudos que, de alguma forma, possam instruir as questões políticas do presente. E, contudo, é na longa duração que a economia dos costumes enreda pacientemente o tecido da cultura – urdidura que dá sentido aos acontecimentos que convocam a atenção para as relações entre os povos. Este livro propicia o delicado desenlace dos atados mais profundos de nossa simbologia sobre o harém, um mistério desvelado como uma ficção instigante que nos convida a mirar em espelho nossas próprias quimeras."
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