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The Mukhtar Method - Arabic Music Theory I & II

By: Ahmed Mukhtar

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The Mukhtar Method - Arabic Music Theory I & II

By: Ahmed Mukhtar

The Arabic Music Theory I book guides students through the basics of music literacy. Students will have acquired the essential skills needed to read musical scores and use solfege exercises. Topics covered will include basic rhythms, note names, time value, key signatures, and accidental notes. Music Theory II is designed to guide students through learning the basic elements of the maqam system. Students will learn to fine-tune their ear to recognize each of the main maqamaat and understand the ways in which each of them is constructed, transposed, and intertwine with one another. Complex and syncopated rhythms will also be explored"--Publisher marketing.

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0244745536

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The Accidental Public Servant

By: Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai

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The Accidental Public Servant

By: Nasir Ahmed El-Rufai

This is a story of Nigeria, told from the inside. After a successful career in the private sector, Nasir El-Rufai rose to the top ranks of Nigeria's political hierarchy, serving first as the privatization czar at the Bureau for Public Enterprises and then as Minister of the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja under former President Olesegun Obasanjo. In this tell-all memoir, El-Rufai reflects on a life in public service to Nigeria, the enormous challenges faced by the country, and what can be done while calling on a new generation of leaders to take the country back from the brink of destruction. The shocking revelations disclosed by El-Rufai about the formation of the current leadership and the actions of prominent statesmen make this memoir required reading for anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of power politics in Africa's most populous nation.

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African Books Collective

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9788431461

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9789788431466

Authority And Its Impact On The Most Powerful Rulers Of Islamic Empires

By: Ahmed shaaban

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Authority And Its Impact On The Most Powerful Rulers Of Islamic Empires

By: Ahmed shaaban

After the control and constant conflict between the Roman Empire and the Persian Empire that lasted for hundreds of years, new powers rose on the land of the Middle East. This power was able in a very short time to control many lands of the Persian state and also the Roman state to the point that the new power was able to completely eliminate the Persian Empire. Indeed, the new state that the Prophet Muhammad founded from Medina was able to expand and rise to the point that it extended from Spain in the west to the borders of China in the east. The foundations that the Prophet Muhammad laid and the rules on which the state was built, which were initially based on a religious basis, but with time the Muslim caliphs did not adhere to this matter, and as a result of the control of these caliphs over the land that was under the control of the Persians and Romans, the Muslim caliphs began to imitate these princes and rulers, whether in the way of dress or even living in palaces and indulging in a life of amusement and luxury, which led with time to the loss of some of the values that the Muslim caliphs inherited from the Prophet Muhammad, and began to replace it with the love of money and power to the point that some Muslim rulers reached the point of causing sedition and conflicts between some rulers for the sake of power, and this made the Islamic countries enter into long periods of wars, conflicts and strikes as a result of the conflict between Muslim rulers over power, and we will review in this book the most prominent periods of conflicts and wars between Muslim rulers throughout the Islamic ages.

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Ahmed Shaaban

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Maps of the Soul

By: Ahmed Fagih

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Maps of the Soul

By: Ahmed Fagih

Othman al-Sheikh is running away from the shadows of his past life in a small dusty village in the Libyan Desert. Tripoli, meanwhile, is a city in the process of transformation, moulded to the will of its Italian colonisers. Its decadent entertainments and extravagant riches conceal an underbelly of abject poverty and ruthless plotting. Othman falls for the city and its temptations. With a natural instinct for survival, he tries his luck in the capital, swept along by chance and opportunity.

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Darf Publishers Ltd.

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1850772754

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9781850772750

Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq

By: Ahmed S. Hashim

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Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq

By: Ahmed S. Hashim

Years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a loosely organized insurgency continues to target American and Coalition soldiers, as well as Iraqi security forces and civilians, with devastating results. In this sobering account of the ongoing violence, Ahmed Hashim, a specialist on Middle Eastern strategic issues and on irregular warfare, reveals the insurgents behind the widespread revolt, their motives, and their tactics. The insurgency, he shows, is not a united movement directed by a leadership with a single ideological vision. Instead, it involves former regime loyalists, Iraqis resentful of foreign occupation, foreign and domestic Islamist extremists, and elements of organized crime. These groups have cooperated with one another in the past and coordinated their attacks; but the alliance between nationalist Iraqi insurgents on the one hand and religious extremists has frayed considerably. The U.S.-led offensive to retake Fallujah in November 2004 and the success of the elections for the Iraqi National Assembly in January 2005 have led more "mainstream" insurgent groups to begin thinking of reinforcing the political arm of their opposition movement and to seek political guarantees for the Sunni Arab community in the new Iraq.Hashim begins by placing the Iraqi revolt in its historical context. He next profiles the various insurgent groups, detailing their origins, aims, and operational and tactical modi operandi. He concludes with an unusually candid assessment of the successes and failures of the Coalition's counter-insurgency campaign. Looking ahead, Hashim warns that ethnic and sectarian groups may soon be pitted against one another in what will be a fiercely contested fight over who gets what in the new Iraq. Evidence that such a conflict is already developing does not augur well for Iraq's future stability. Both Iraq and the United States must work hard to ensure that slow but steady success over the insurgency is not overshadowed by growing ethno-sectarian animosities as various groups fight one another for the biggest slice of the political and economic pie. In place of sensational headlines, official triumphalism, and hand-wringing, Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq offers a clear-eyed analysis of the increasingly complex violence that threatens the very future of Iraq.

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Cornell University Press

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0801459982

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9780801459986

Translation Movement and Acculturation in the Medieval Islamic World

By: Labeeb Ahmed Bsoul

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Translation Movement and Acculturation in the Medieval Islamic World

By: Labeeb Ahmed Bsoul

This book investigates the transmission of knowledge in the Arab and Islamic world, with particular attention to the translation of material from Greek, Persian, and Sanskrit into Arabic, and then from Arabic into Latin in medieval Western Europe. While most modern scholarly works have addressed contributions of Muslim scholars to the modern development of translation, Labeeb Ahmed Bsoul bases his study on Arabic classical literature and its impact upon modern translation. He focuses on the contributions made by prominent classical Christian and Muslim scholars, showcasing how their works and contributions to the field of knowledge are still relevant today.

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Springer Nature

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3030217035

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9783030217037

The Resurgence of Central Asia

Islam or Nationalism?

By: Ahmed Rashid

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The Resurgence of Central Asia

Islam or Nationalism?

By: Ahmed Rashid

A seminal introduction to the rise of Central Asia, covering Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan The Resurgence of Central Asia is Ahmed Rashid’s seminal study of the states that emerged in the aftermath of the breakup of the Soviet Union: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. All have Muslim majorities and ancient histories but are otherwise very different. Rashid’s book, now with a new introduction by the author examining some of the crucial political developments since its first publication in 1994, provides entrée to this little-known but geopolitically important region. Rashid gives a history of each country, including its incorporation into Tsarist Russia, to the present day, provides basic socioeconomic information, and explains the diverse political situations. He focuses primarily on the underlying issues confronting these societies: the legacy of Soviet rule, ethnic tensions, the position of women, the future of Islam, the question of nuclear proliferation, and the fundamental choices over economic strategy, political system, and external orientation that lie ahead.

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New York Review of Books

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1681370883

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9781681370880

Studies in Natural Products Chemistry

Chapter 14. Silymarin Flavonolignans: Structure–Activity Relationship and Biosynthesis

By: Sameh AbouZid,Osama M. Ahmed

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Studies in Natural Products Chemistry

Chapter 14. Silymarin Flavonolignans: Structure–Activity Relationship and Biosynthesis

By: Sameh AbouZid,Osama M. Ahmed

Silymarin is a well-known hepatoprotective agent having an exceptional safety profile. It exerts its action by antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, immunomodulatory, antiproliferative, antifibrotic, and antiviral activities. Silymarin is composed of an isomeric mixture of seven flavonolignans silybin A, silybin B, isosilybin A, isosilybin B, silychristin A, silychristin B, and silydianin and one flavonoid taxifolin. Silibinin, a mixture of silybin A and silybin B, is considered responsible for the hepatoprotective functions of silymarin. Purification of these compounds in gram scale allowed for testing the hepatoprotective effects of pure compounds in various assays. Some individual flavonolignans showed stronger hepatoprotective functions than silymarin. Only isosilybin B showed high toxicity to human hepatoma cell line. Isosilybin A, taxifolin, and silibinin were the most effective hepatoprotectors. Isosilybin B showed the highest antiproliferative activity against human prostate carcinoma cell lines. Biosynthesis of silymarin flavonolignans occurs by oxidative coupling between the phenylpropanoid coniferyl alcohol and the flavonoid taxifolin. Flavonoid biosynthesis involves phenylpropanoid and polyketide pathways. Plant tissue culture studies have largely contributed to our current understanding of silymarin biosynthesis. Production of silymarin in Silybum marianum cultures can be stimulated by treatment with elicitors such as yeast extract and methyl jasmonate. The components of phenylpropanoid pathway are not modified by elicitation of cell cultures of S. marianum with yeast extract or methyl jasmonate. This was concluded when the overall metabolic changes in elicitor-treated cultures were studied using nuclear magnetic spectroscopy. The flavonoid biosynthesis, not coniferyl alcohol biosynthesis, may be the candidate component of the signaling pathway involved in stimulation of flavonolignan biosynthesis with elicitors. Understanding the basic signaling components in the transduction of the elicitor signal to downstream responses such as silymarin production is mandatory for biotechnological exploitation of this valuable pharmaceutical raw material. Lipoxygenase involvement in the elicitor-induced accumulation of silymarin is well established. Inhibition of external and internal calcium fluxes significantly increases flavonolignan production. Activation of phospholipase D after elicitor treatment mediates silymarin secretion into the culture medium, indicating possible involvement of the enzyme in deposition of silymarin in the external cover of the fruits of S. marianum.

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0128084790

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Sayyid ʻAbd Al-Raḥmān Al-Mahdī

A Study of Neo-Mahdīsm in the Sudan, 1899-1956

By: Hassan Ahmed Ibrahim

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Sayyid ʻAbd Al-Raḥmān Al-Mahdī

A Study of Neo-Mahdīsm in the Sudan, 1899-1956

By: Hassan Ahmed Ibrahim

This is an engrossing analysis of ?Abd al-Ra?m?n al-Mahd?'s initiative to abandon the futile political violence and religious fanaticism of the 19th century historic Mahdiyya. It articulates his alternative constitutional strategy that has placed Neo-Mahdism in the centre stage of Sudanese politics.

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9004138544

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9789004138544

Pre-Partition Punjab’s Contribution to Indian Cinema

By: Ishtiaq Ahmed

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Pre-Partition Punjab’s Contribution to Indian Cinema

By: Ishtiaq Ahmed

This book traces the contribution of Punjabis born before the Partition of India in 1947 to Indian cinema. It examines the story of their contributions at three centres of Hindustani-language films: Bombay, Calcutta and Lahore. This book is co-published with Aakar Books. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)

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Taylor & Francis

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100090590X

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Afghanistan Rising

Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires

By: Faiz Ahmed

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Afghanistan Rising

Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires

By: Faiz Ahmed

Debunking conventional narratives of Afghanistan as a perennial war zone or marginal frontier, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of the first Muslim-majority country to gain independence from the British Empire, form a fully sovereign government, and promulgate an original constitution after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. Far from a landlocked wilderness, turn-of-the-twentieth-century Afghanistan was a magnet for itinerant scholars and emissaries shuttling between Ottoman and British imperial domains. Tracing Afghans’ longstanding but seldom examined scholastic ties to Istanbul, Damascus, and Baghdad, as well as greater Delhi and Lahore, Ahmed vividly describes how the Kabul court recruited jurists to craft a modern state within the interpretive traditions of Islamic law and ethics, or shariʿa, and international legal norms. Beginning with the first Ottoman mission to Kabul in 1877, and culminating with parallel independence struggles in Afghanistan, India, and Turkey after World War I, this rich narrative explores encounters between diverse streams of Muslim thought and politics—from Young Turk lawyers to Pashtun clerics; Ottoman Arab officers to British Raj bureaucrats; and the last caliphs to a remarkable dynasty of Afghan kings and queens. By unearthing a lost history behind Afghanistan’s independence and first constitution, Ahmed shows how debates today on Islam, governance, and the rule of law have deep roots in a beleaguered land. Based on research in six countries and as many languages, Afghanistan Rising rediscovers a time when Kabul stood proudly for anticolonial coalitions, self-determination, and contested visions of reform in the Global South and Islamicate world.

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Harvard University Press

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0674982169

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9780674982161

Child Custody in Islamic Law

Theory and Practice in Egypt since the Sixteenth Century

By: Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim

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Child Custody in Islamic Law

Theory and Practice in Egypt since the Sixteenth Century

By: Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim

A longitudinal history of Islamic child custody law, challenging Euro-American exceptionalism to reveal developments that considered the best interests of the child.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108470564

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Mirages of the Mind

By: Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi

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Mirages of the Mind

By: Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi

Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi’s last published work Mirages of the Mind traces an arc of nostalgia between Pakistan and India. Its main characters—Indian Muslim immigrants to Pakistan—reminisce about and long for an impossible return to their pre-Partition life in India. The book’s lightly fictionalized anecdotes, both humorous and poignantly sad, form a treasure trove of the arcana and subtle differences of twentieth-century Muslim life in the subcontinent. A cultural memoir, multi-layered biography, and anecdotal chain, Mirages of the Mind chronicles a milieu that has all but disappeared. Its narratives portray the hardships, heartbreak, and humour of colonial north-Indian Muslim life and its subsequent forms in post-colonial India and Pakistan. The book’s central character Basharat serves the role of a wise fool—equally ridiculous and full of penetrating, bizarre sense. Basharat’s tales about his friends paint a rare, and perhaps the last, authentic picture of the literary and cultural life of South Asia’s Urdu speakers. The first Urdu anthologies recalled the lives of poets exclusively in anecdotes. With Mirages of the Mind, Mushtaq Ahmed Yousufi rekindles this form and briefly illuminates the beauty of a culture that is fast receding into the darkness of the past.

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Random House India

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8184006209

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Women and Gender in Islam

Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

By: Leila Ahmed

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Women and Gender in Islam

Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

By: Leila Ahmed

A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arabia during the period in which Islam was founded to Iraq during the classical age to Egypt during the modern era. The book is now reissued as a Veritas paperback, with a new foreword by Kecia Ali situating the text in its scholarly context and explaining its enduring influence. “Ahmed’s book is a serious and independent-minded analysis of its subject, the best-informed, most sympathetic and reliable one that exists today.”—Edward W. Said “Destined to become a classic. . . . It gives [Muslim women] back our rightful place, at the center of our histories.”—Rana Kabbani, The Guardian

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Yale University Press

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0300258178

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Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb

Ambitions, Politics, and Rivalries

By: Mansoor Ahmed

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Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb

Ambitions, Politics, and Rivalries

By: Mansoor Ahmed

Mansoor Ahmed's Pakistan's Pathway to the Bomb reveals a new history of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program and the bureaucratic competition that shaped it from its inception in 1956 until the 1998 nuclear tests and beyond. While the enduring security dilemma from India was the chief driver for the country's quest for the bomb, heated domestic rivalries within the country's technocratic community influenced the direction and growth of the nuclear program in equal measure. Ahmed offers a revisionist assessment of the role of Dr. A. Q. Khan, the giant of Pakistan's nuclear program. He reveals the competition between Khan Research Laboratories and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, how A. Q. Khan was able to build a cult of personality that inflated his role in the public mind, and how Khan was able to build a fiefdom largely outside of state control that proliferated nuclear technology abroad. Drawing on elite interviews and previously untapped primary-source documents, this book sheds light on the process by which Pakistan became a nuclear power"--

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Georgetown University Press

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1647122317

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Egyptian Cinema and the 2011 Revolution

Film Production and Representing Dissent

By: Ahmed Ghazal

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Egyptian Cinema and the 2011 Revolution

Film Production and Representing Dissent

By: Ahmed Ghazal

Egypt's film industry is the largest in the Middle East, with an output that spreads across the region and the world. In the run-up to and throughout the 2011 Revolution, a complex relationship formed between the industry and the people's uprising. Both a form of political expression and a documentation of historical events, 'revolutionary' film techniques have contributed to the cultural memory of 2011. At the same time, these films and their makers have been the target of increasing state control and intervention. Ahmed Ghazal, drawing upon his own background in film-making, looks at the way in which Egyptian film has shaped, and been shaped by, the events leading up to and beyond Egypt's 2011 revolution. Drawing on interviews with protagonists in the industry, analysis of films, and archival research, he analyses the critical issues affecting the political economy of the industry. He also explores the technological developments of independent productions and the cinematic themes of dictatorship, poverty, corruption and police brutality that have accompanied the people's calls for freedom - and the counterrevolution that has tried to suppress them.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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075560315X

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A Cave in the Clouds

A Young Woman's Escape from ISIS

By: Badeeah Hassan Ahmed,Susan Elizabeth McClelland

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A Cave in the Clouds

A Young Woman's Escape from ISIS

By: Badeeah Hassan Ahmed,Susan Elizabeth McClelland

Captured by ISIS, her bravery and faith became her pathway to freedom. Badeeah Hassan was just 18 when she witnessed firsthand the horrors of the 2014 genocide of the Yazidi people by ISIS forces. Captured by ISIS, known locally as Daesh, Badeeah was among hundreds forced into a brutal human trafficking network made up of women and girls of Yazidi ethnicity, a much-persecuted minority culture of Iraq. Badeeah’s story takes her to Syria where she is sold to a high-ranking ISIS commander known as Al Amriki, the American, kept as a house slave, raped, and routinely assaulted. Only the presence of her young nephew Eivan and her friend Navine, also prisoners, keeps her from harming herself. In captivity, she draws on memories and stories from her childhood to maintain a small bit of control in an otherwise volatile situation. Ultimately, it is her profound sense of faith and brave resistance that lead her to escape with Eivan and reunite with family. Since her escape, Badeeah has brought her harrowing story of war and survival to the world’s stage, raising awareness about the strength of her people and the acts of genocide against them. This captivating account of courage extends beyond the confines of her experience; Badeeah’s story is about the resilience of women, girls, and persecuted groups everywhere in the face of seemingly insurmountable oppression.

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Annick Press

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1773212370

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9781773212371

Finance of International Trade in the Gulf

By: Ahmed Al-Suwaidi

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Finance of International Trade in the Gulf

By: Ahmed Al-Suwaidi

This book analyses the legal structure and operation of the conventional and Islamic banking systems in the Gulf Arab states. It defines the legal issues involved and case law decided by the English, American and the Gulf Arab states courts in operating the two systems in financing the international trade transactions and covering the concurrent application, the advantages and disadvantages and the problems of each system. This book also gives a particular challenge to the fraud in international trade and considers the development of countertrade and electronic funds transfer as methods of financing some of the international business transactions. This book is very helpful for those who are dealing with the financing of the international trade, their professional advisors, staff of the conventional and Islamic banks and students who study law and commerce as part of their syllabuses of legal and international business studies. This book is also very essential reading for anyone who wants to succeed in the competitive conditions of modern banking business vis-a-vis the international trade in the Gulf Arab states. This book is also very helpful for the lawyer who is called upon to assist the businessman in his ventures or who wants to resolve a problem which has arisen in financing the international business transactions.

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1853339474

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9781853339479

Democracy under God

Constitutions, Islam and Human Rights in the Muslim World

By: Dawood Ahmed,Muhammad Zubair Abbasi

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Democracy under God

Constitutions, Islam and Human Rights in the Muslim World

By: Dawood Ahmed,Muhammad Zubair Abbasi

The place of Islam in constitutions invites fierce debate from scholars and politicians alike. Many of these debates assume an inherent conflict between constitutional Islam and 'secular' values of liberal democracy and human rights. Using case studies from several Muslim-majority states, this book surveys the history and role of Islam in constitutions. Tracing the origins of constitutional Islam, Dawood Ahmed and Muhammad Zubair Abbasi argue that colonial history and political bargaining were pivotal factors in determining whether a country adopted Islam, and not secularism, in its constitution. Contrary to the common contention that the constitutional incorporation of Islam is generally antithetical to human rights, Ahmed and Abbasi show not only that Islam has been popularly demanded and introduced into constitutions during periods of 'democratization' and 'modernization' but also that constitutional Islamization has frequently been accompanied by an expansion in constitutional human rights.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009325078

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9781009325073

Bengali Journals and Journalism in Britain (1916-2007)

By: Faruque Ahmed

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Bengali Journals and Journalism in Britain (1916-2007)

By: Faruque Ahmed

History of Bengali Community and Journalism in the UK, from 1916 to 2007

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Lulu.com

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0557051134

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9780557051137

Libyan Stories

By: Ahmed Fagih

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Libyan Stories

By: Ahmed Fagih

First Published in 2000. This is a collection of twelve short stories from Libya that Fagih edited during the seventies and eighties, initially published in a London magazine called Azure. Penned by prominent Libyan writers, these stories shed light on the human experience of people in the eastern world.

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Routledge

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1136177485

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9781136177484

Third Felicity Era

A Lore-Fiction Novel

By: Ahmed Turki

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Third Felicity Era

A Lore-Fiction Novel

By: Ahmed Turki

In the year 1473 (2050 CE), three Special Forces officers who were stationed in Somalia, Captain Arif from Indonesia, Captain Hayreddin from Pakistan, and Lieutenant Colonel Fatih from Turkiye were on a ski holiday in Bitlis, Turkiye, the Lieutenant Colonel's hometown. On Hayreddin's insistence and Nevahi Sheikh Saladins facilitation, they break their vacation to visit the Nevahi's biggest project ever, the Orbital Cannon, which would launch heavy loads into orbit. Upon returning, they hope to continue their vacation. However, they start the day with news that shook the Supreme Union of States of Muhammed. Caliph Abdulaziz II has been passed away. The officers set off to the Capital by the high-speed train in evacuated space to watch the enthronement ceremony of the new Caliph Abdulhamid III live. While in Istanbul they were called to Sudan with an urgent order to join their brigade there.

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Nevahi Neşriyat Kitap Basım Yayım Yazılım Eğitim ve Ticaret Limited Şirketi

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6056950514

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9786056950513

The Libyan Short Story

A Research and Anthology

By: Ahmed Fagih

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The Libyan Short Story

A Research and Anthology

By: Ahmed Fagih

Ahmed Fagih, PhD. is a writer of international standing. His writings include the award winning trilogy Gardens of the night and a large body of novels, plays, short story collections, and essays. His dramas were performed in so many countries and his books widely read and translated. He found and chaired many institutions in his county and abroad among the posts he occupied the chairman of Arab Cultural Trust. The general secretary of union of writers and artists, the director of the national institute of drama and music. He directed and performed many plays for the theatre group he founded in Tripoli The New Theatre. He served as the head of his countries diplomatic missions in Athens and Bucharest. He is the chairman of the Mizda heritage society and was awarded the highest medal in his country The grand al-fatah medal.

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1469100398

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9781469100395

The Islamic Rational State and New Religious Foundations for an Islamic Liberal Theory

By: Ahmed Meiloud

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The Islamic Rational State and New Religious Foundations for an Islamic Liberal Theory

By: Ahmed Meiloud

This ground-breaking volume on political Islam takes the question of Islam and secularism in an entirely different direction. It shows how leading Islamists use Islamic legal theory to liberate the political sphere from the narrow exegetical worldviews of classical jurists and modern fundamentalists. Exploring the work of a vanguard of Islamists, the book brilliantly parses out the broadlines of these Islamists’ liberal theory and its underpinning legal grounds. This theory promises much. Beyond resolving the problem of political legitimacy in Muslim majority countries, it opens immense potential for reasonable ‘overlapping consensuses’ between traditional worldviews and modern secular perspectives. Most strikingly, this resolution rests not on a break with the Islamic legal heritage but on rediscovering and refining the most profound aspects of it. The secret of this liberal theory lies in the broad application of the medieval concept of maqasid, the Lawgiver’s aims. This approach shifts the focus from textual analysis emphasizing what God said to a systematic rational exploration of what He intended.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1036409856

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9781036409852

Living with Heritage in Cairo

Area Conservation in the Arab-Islamic City

By: Ahmed Sedky

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Living with Heritage in Cairo

Area Conservation in the Arab-Islamic City

By: Ahmed Sedky

The urban dream of the Arab Islamic city is seen in Cairo, the world's largest medieval urban system where traditional lifestyles are still implemented. Despite extensive efforts to preserve Historic Cairo, it is sadly vulnerable. Ahmed Sedky investigates the reasons for this, exploring and comparing regional and international case studies. Questions such as how and what to conserve are raised and elaborated through the perspectives of different stakeholders.

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Pharmacy Practice in Developing Countries

Achievements and Challenges

By: Ahmed Fathelrahman,Mohamed Ibrahim,Albert Wertheimer

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Pharmacy Practice in Developing Countries

Achievements and Challenges

By: Ahmed Fathelrahman,Mohamed Ibrahim,Albert Wertheimer

Pharmacy Practice in Developing Countries: Achievements and Challenges offers a detailed review of the history and development of pharmacy practice in developing countries across Africa, Asia, and South America. Pharmacy practice varies substantially from country to country due to variations in needs and expectations, culture, challenges, policy, regulations, available resources, and other factors. This book focuses on each country's strengths and achievements, as well as areas of weakness, barriers to improvement and challenges. It sets out to establish a baseline for best practices, taking all of these factors into account and offering solutions and opportunities for the future. This book is a valuable resource for academics, researchers, practicing pharmacists, policy makers, and students involved in pharmacy practice worldwide as it provides lessons learned on a global scale and seeks to advance the pharmacy profession. - Uses the latest research and statistics to document the history and development of pharmacy practice in developing countries - Describes current practice across various pharmacy sectors to supply a valuable comparative analysis across countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America - Highlights areas of achievement, strengths, uniqueness, and future opportunities to provide a basis for learning and improvement - Establishes a baseline for best practices and solutions

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0128017112

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The Covenants of the Prophet Muḥammad

From Shared Historical Memory to Peaceful Co-existence

By: Ibrahim Mohamed Zein,Ahmed El-Wakil

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The Covenants of the Prophet Muḥammad

From Shared Historical Memory to Peaceful Co-existence

By: Ibrahim Mohamed Zein,Ahmed El-Wakil

Through analysis of the Covenants of the Prophet Muḥammad, which pledge protection to diverse faith communities, this book makes a profoundly important contribution to research on early Islam by determining the Covenants’ historicity and textual accuracy. The authors focus on the Prophet Muḥammad’s relationship with other faith communities by conducting detailed textual and linguistic analysis of documents which have received little scholarly consideration before. This not only includes decrees of the Prophet Muḥammad, ‘Umar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib, and Mu‘āwiya ibn Abī Sufyān, but also of important Muslim rulers. They present their findings in relation to contemporaneous historical writings, historic testimonies, official recognition, archaeological evidence, historic scribal conventions, date-matching calculations, textual parallelisms, and references in Muslim and non-Muslim sources. They also provide new and revised translations of various Covenants issued by the Prophet Muḥammad which were attested by Muslim authorities after him. The authors argue that the claim of forgery is no longer tenable following the application of rigorous textual and historical analysis. This book is essential reading for Muslims, Christians, Jews, Samaritans, and Zoroastrians, as well as anyone interested in interfaith relations, Islamophobia, extremist ideologies, security studies, and the relationship between Orthodox and Oriental Christianity with Islam.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000820963

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Discovering Islam

Making Sense of Muslim History and Society

By: Akbar S. Ahmed

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Discovering Islam

Making Sense of Muslim History and Society

By: Akbar S. Ahmed

Now reissued with a new introduction, Discovering Islam is a classic account of how the history of Islam and its relations with the West have shaped Islamic society today. Islam is often caricatured as aggressive and fanatic. Written in the tradition of Ibn Khaldun, this readable and wide-ranging book balances that image, uncovers the roots of Islamic discontent and celebrates the sources of its strength. From the four "ideal Caliphs" who succeeded the Prophet to the refugee camps of Peshawar, an objective picture emerges of the main features of Muslim history and the compulsions of Muslim society.

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1040280404

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Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba

By: Mazen Maarouf,Tasnim Abutabikh,Emad El-Din Aysha,Selma Dabbagh,Saleem Haddad,Anwar Hamed,Majd Kayyal,Abdalmuti Maqboul,Ahmed Masoud,Talal Abu Shawish,Rawan Yaghi,Samir El-Youssef

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Palestine +100: Stories from a century after the Nakba

By: Mazen Maarouf,Tasnim Abutabikh,Emad El-Din Aysha,Selma Dabbagh,Saleem Haddad,Anwar Hamed,Majd Kayyal,Abdalmuti Maqboul,Ahmed Masoud,Talal Abu Shawish,Rawan Yaghi,Samir El-Youssef

Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 – a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? How might this event – which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes – reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolation, to shape the country and its people? Will a lasting peace finally have been reached, or will future technology only amplify the suffering and mistreatment of Palestinians? Covering a range of approaches – from SF noir, to nightmarish dystopia, to high-tech farce – these stories use the blank canvas of the future to reimagine the Palestinian experience today. Along the way, we encounter drone swarms, digital uprisings, time-bending VR, peace treaties that span parallel universes, and even a Palestinian superhero, in probably the first anthology of science fiction from Palestine ever. Translated from the Arabic by Raph Cormack, Mohamed Ghalaieny, Andrew Leber, Thoraya El-Rayyes, Yasmine Seale and Jonathan Wright. WINNER of a PEN Translates Award 2018. One of NPR's Favourite Books of 2019. 'It's necessary, of course. But above all it's bold, brilliant and inspiring: a sign of boundless imagination and fierce creation even in circumstances of oppression, denial, silencing and constriction. The voices of these writers demand to be heard - and their stories are defiantly entertaining.' - Bidisha 'This worthy collection excavates and probes, and reacquaints the west with the horrors of Palestinian existence right now.' - Middle East Eye 'Just as we do when Handmaids Tale or Black Mirror plots unfold on the screen, you are most likely to read Palestine +100 and say, this is now.' - Lithub

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Comma Press

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1912697203

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Iraqi Kurds and Nation-Building

By: Mohammed M. A. Ahmed

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Iraqi Kurds and Nation-Building

By: Mohammed M. A. Ahmed

Shining a light on how Iraqi Kurds used the aftermath of the 1991 Kurdish uprising to hold elections and form a parliament, and on how Kurdish officials later consolidated their regional government following the 2003 Iraq War, this book considers the political and economic shortfalls of the government and the obstacles facing Iraqi Kurds.

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Springer

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Plant Stress Tolerance

An Integrated Omics Approach

By: Kareem A. Mosa,Ahmed Ismail,Mohamed Helmy

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Plant Stress Tolerance

An Integrated Omics Approach

By: Kareem A. Mosa,Ahmed Ismail,Mohamed Helmy

Providing a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge research on Omics applications in plant sciences field,“Plant Stress Tolerance” focuses on different approaches towards plant stress tolerance including both biotic stresses and abiotic stresses. This book outlines the challenges facing this area of research, with solid, up-to-date information for graduate students, academic scientists and researchers on using the recent advances of Omics technologies on plant stresses.

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Emir Abd El-Kader

Hero and Saint of Islam

By: Ahmed Bouyerdene

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Emir Abd El-Kader

Hero and Saint of Islam

By: Ahmed Bouyerdene

This extraordinary biography of the Algerian warrior and Sufi saint, Emir Abd el-Kader (1807/8-1883), shows his dazzling spiritual qualities in the fight against the French colonial authorities. The New York Times called the Emir "one of the few great men of the century," while Abraham Lincoln and Pope Pius IX both commended the Emir for rescuing 15,000 Christians while in exile in Damascus. In 1846, the town of Elkader, Iowa was named in his honor.

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World Wisdom, Inc

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1936597179

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Syed Mahmood

Colonial India’s Dissenting Judge

By: Mohammad Nasir,Samreen Ahmed

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Syed Mahmood

Colonial India’s Dissenting Judge

By: Mohammad Nasir,Samreen Ahmed

At a time when ordinary courage has become rare, one has to look up to the lives of those who stood for dissent in the colonial era. Back in the 19th century, Justice Syed Mahmood, son of the great social reformer Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, became the first judge to resist colonial power by espousing the cause of judicial independence. At the age of just 32, he not only remains the youngest, but also the first Indian Muslim and first north Indian to be appointed as a High Court judge in India. Endowed with a judicial acuity ahead of his times, a number of his dissents were later accepted by the courts, and continue to be the law. This book chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of Syed Mahmood's life, and his contribution in shaping the consciousness of post 1857 India. With an impressive array of research, perception and analysis, the book succeeds in exhuming a seminal figure from the dust of history, and showcases the past speaking to the present.

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9354354661

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Jobs from Agriculture in Afghanistan

By: Izabela Leao,Mansur Ahmed,Anuja Kar

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Jobs from Agriculture in Afghanistan

By: Izabela Leao,Mansur Ahmed,Anuja Kar

The agriculture sector can play an important role in poverty reduction and sustained growth in Afghanistan, primarily through job creation, improved productivity, and inclusiveness. Using an 'agricultural jobs lens' and multidimensional approach, this report explores the sector's direct and indirect roles in explaining the dynamics of rural employment. The report critically examines three dimensions. First, it evaluates the current jobs structure in rural areas and finds that rural jobs are concentrated in cereal agriculture, especially in wheat, which reflects why the returns from jobs in agriculture are low in Afghanistan. Second, it analyzes the inclusive nature of agriculture jobs for vulnerable groups such as women, youth, those who are landless, and the bottom 40 percent of income earners. The analysis finds that although agriculture jobs are inclusive, many women and youth participate as voluntary family workers because they are unable to access markets and/or find paid jobs in the nonfarm sector. Third, the report evaluates the role of public and private sector interventions in supporting job creation in agriculture. It was argued that interventions can work and that there is significant scope to scale them up. Overall, the report exhibits many insights about the state of Afghanistan's rural labor market and provides guidance for formulating effective job-creation policies for the rural population. The key recommendations provide a pathway to achieve sustained and inclusive job growth through diversification toward high-value crops and livestock, linking farmers to markets through continued investment in connectivity and rural infrastructure, a balanced development strategy for an enabling environment for farm and nonfarm sectors, and strengthening the private sector presence in agriculture and its linkage with the public sector to agribusiness. In tandem, it is important to improve the design structure of jobs measurement for rural jobs, especially jobs in agriculture tailored to sectoral context.

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1464812659

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Contemporary Islamic Finance

Innovations, Applications, and Best Practices

By: Karen Hunt-Ahmed

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Contemporary Islamic Finance

Innovations, Applications, and Best Practices

By: Karen Hunt-Ahmed

A comprehensive look at the innovations, applications, and best practices of Islamic finance Islamic-compliant finance is transacted in every major world financial center, and the need for information on the topic in light of its global reach has grown exponentially. As an expert in this field, author Karen Hunt-Ahmed understands the intricacies of this area of the capital markets. Now, along with the help of a number of experienced contributors, she skillfully addresses Islamic finance from the perspective of practitioners, examining issues in wealth management, contract law, private equity, asset management, and much more. Engaging and accessible, Contemporary Islamic Finance skillfully explains the practices and innovations of Islamic finance in everything from banking and real estate to private equity, asset management, and many other areas. It is intended to be the go-to resource for both Muslims as well as non-Muslims with an interest in the subject. Divided into three comprehensive parts, it will put you in a better position to understand, and excel at, this important endeavor. Introduces you to the history, legal structures, and basic financial contracts in the industry Highlights the various issues facing contemporary Islamic finance practitioners, and details their significance in the contemporary financial and cultural environment Includes case studies of United States-based transactions and related challenges and successes Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, this detailed analysis of Contemporary Islamic Finance will help you gain a firm understanding of how effective this proven approach can be.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118180909

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9781118180907

Christianity will either fade away or be stripped of superstition and distortions

By: Islamic University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam,Ahmed Akgunduz,Ahmet Ilker Kuzlu,Osman Celil Ziylan

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Christianity will either fade away or be stripped of superstition and distortions

By: Islamic University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam,Ahmed Akgunduz,Ahmet Ilker Kuzlu,Osman Celil Ziylan

Christianity will either fade away or be stripped of superstition and distortions. This work in your hand will explain these verses and hadiths and explain the return of Jesus (a.s) to the earth on the basis of Islam.

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IUR Press

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9491898310

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The Terms of Risala-i Nur Collection

By: Ahmed Akgunduz

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The Terms of Risala-i Nur Collection

By: Ahmed Akgunduz

This important academic work is the necessary fruit of our academic efforts, which we have been carrying out for nearly 10 years, to revise the four main books of the Risāla-i Nūr Collection, The Words, The Rays, The Flashes and The Letters of Bedīuzzaman, and to explain important academic terms with glosses. The first two of these works are now in print and have attracted considerable interest in scholarly circles. Upon requests, we have found it appropriate to publish these terms, which are essential for the understanding of the Risāla-i Nūr Collection, as a separate book.

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9491898388

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