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The Deepest Dye

Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World

By: Aisha Khan

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The Deepest Dye

Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World

By: Aisha Khan

How colonial categories of race and religion together created identities and hierarchies that today are vehicles for multicultural nationalism and social critique in the Caribbean and its diasporas. When the British Empire abolished slavery, Caribbean sugar plantation owners faced a labor shortage. To solve the problem, they imported indentured ÒcoolieÓ laborers, Hindus and a minority Muslim population from the Indian subcontinent. Indentureship continued from 1838 until its official end in 1917. The Deepest Dye begins on post-emancipation plantations in the West IndiesÑwhere Europeans, Indians, and Africans intermingled for work and worshipÑand ranges to present-day England, North America, and Trinidad, where colonial-era legacies endure in identities and hierarchies that still shape the post-independence Caribbean and its contemporary diasporas. Aisha Khan focuses on the contested religious practices of obeah and Hosay, which are racialized as ÒAfricanÓ and ÒIndianÓ despite the diversity of their participants. Obeah, a catch-all Caribbean term for sub-Saharan healing and divination traditions, was associated in colonial society with magic, slave insurrection, and fraud. This led to anti-obeah laws, some of which still remain in place. Hosay developed in the West Indies from Indian commemorations of the Islamic mourning ritual of Muharram. Although it received certain legal protections, HosayÕs mass gatherings, processions, and mock battles provoked fears of economic disruption and labor unrest that lead to criminalization by colonial powers. The proper observance of Hosay was debated among some historical Muslim communities and continues to be debated now. In a nuanced study of these two practices, Aisha Khan sheds light on power dynamics through religious and racial identities formed in the context of colonialism in the Atlantic world, and shows how today these identities reiterate inequalities as well as reinforce demands for justice and recognition.

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Harvard University Press

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0674987829

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9780674987821

Jihad & Co.

Black Markets and Islamist Power

By: Aisha Ahmad

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Jihad & Co.

Black Markets and Islamist Power

By: Aisha Ahmad

For two decades, militant jihadism has been one of the world's most pressing security crises. In civil wars and insurgencies across the Muslim world, certain Islamist groups have taken advantage of the anarchy to establish political control over a broad range of territories and communities. In effect, they have built radical new jihadist proto-states. Why have some ideologically-inspired Islamists been able to build state-like polities out of civil war stalemate, while many other armed groups have failed to gain similar traction? What makes jihadists win? In Jihad & Co., Aisha Ahmad argues that there are concrete economic reasons behind Islamist success. By tracking the economic activities of jihadist groups in Afghanistan, Somalia, Pakistan, Mali, and Iraq, she uncovers an unlikely actor in bringing Islamist groups to power: the local business community. To illuminate the nexus between business and Islamist interests in civil war, Ahmad journeys into war-torn bazaars to meet with both jihadists and the smugglers who financed their rise to power. From the arms markets in the Pakistani border region to the street markets of Mogadishu, their stories reveal a powerful economic logic behind the rise of Islamist power in civil wars. Behind the fiery rhetoric and impassioned, ideological claims is the cold, hard cash of the local war economy. Moving readers back and forth between mosques, marketplaces, and battlefields, Ahmad makes a powerful argument that economic savvy, as much as ideological fervor, explains the rise of militant jihadism across the modern Muslim world.

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Oxford University Press

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0190656786

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Callaloo Nation

Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity Among South Asians in Trinidad

By: Aisha Khan

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Callaloo Nation

Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity Among South Asians in Trinidad

By: Aisha Khan

DIVAnalyzes the relationship between conceptions of racial and ethnic identity and the ways social stratification and inequality are reproduced and experienced in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago./div

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Duke University Press

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0822333880

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Heart Tantrums and Brain Tumours

A Tale of Misogyny, Marriage and Muslim Feminism

By: Aisha Sarwari

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Heart Tantrums and Brain Tumours

A Tale of Misogyny, Marriage and Muslim Feminism

By: Aisha Sarwari

When Aisha Sarwari left her childhood home in Uganda for America as a young woman, she set out to create her own identity and story. The daughter of Pakistani and Indian migrants, she had never lived in South Asia. Raised to be a 'good Muslim girl', she struggled to reconcile these culturalexpectations with her desire for equality and acceptance.After she met Yasser, a Pakistani law student, they returned to their ancestral country and married. Little did they know that a brain tumor would become an almost lethal third wheel in their relationship. The cancer gnawed at Yasser's personality, provoking aggressive outbursts. The illnessexplained Yasser's violence, Aisha told herself; but at what point did it become the excuse? She began to see their marriage within a bigger picture--of women's place in an oppressive society, and of the tug between feminist principles and personal happiness.Between Africa, the USA and Pakistan, this is a unique story of abuse and trauma, identity and belonging, misogyny and motherhood, patriarchy and power. With searing honesty and political passion, Heart Tantrums and Brain Tumors reveals one woman's battle to redefine the rules--by fighting for, andsometimes with, the man she loved.

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Oxford University Press

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178738893X

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9781787388932

Electric Santería

Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion

By: Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús

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Electric Santería

Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion

By: Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús

Santería is an African-inspired, Cuban diaspora religion long stigmatized as witchcraft and often dismissed as superstition, yet its spirit- and possession-based practices are rapidly winning adherents across the world. Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús introduces the term "copresence" to capture the current transnational experience of Santería, in which racialized and gendered spirits, deities, priests, and religious travelers remake local, national, and political boundaries and reconfigure notions of technology and transnationalism. Drawing on eight years of ethnographic research in Havana and Matanzas, Cuba, and in New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Bay area, Beliso-De Jesús traces the phenomenon of copresence in the lives of Santería practitioners, mapping its emergence in transnational places and historical moments and its ritual negotiation of race, imperialism, gender, sexuality, and religious travel. Santería's spirits, deities, and practitioners allow digital technologies to be used in new ways, inciting unique encounters through video and other media. Doing away with traditional perceptions of Santería as a static, localized practice or as part of a mythologized "past," this book emphasizes the religion's dynamic circulations and calls for nontranscendental understandings of religious transnationalisms.

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Columbia University Press

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0231539916

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9780231539913

Amal Unbound

By: Aisha Saeed

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Amal Unbound

By: Aisha Saeed

A New York Times Bestseller! Amal has big dreams, until a nightmarish encounter . . . Twelve-year-old Amal's dream of becoming a teacher one day is dashed in an instant when she accidentally insults a member of her Pakistani village's ruling family. As punishment for her behavior, she is forced to leave her heartbroken family behind and go work at their estate. Amal is distraught but has faced setbacks before. So she summons her courage and begins navigating the complex rules of life as a servant, with all its attendant jealousies and pecking-order woes. Most troubling, though, is Amal's increasing awareness of the deadly measures the Khan family will go to in order to stay in control. It's clear that their hold over her village will never loosen as long as everyone is too afraid to challenge them--so if Amal is to have any chance of ensuring her loved ones' safety and winning back her freedom, she must find a way to work with the other servants to make it happen.

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Penguin

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0399544690

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9780399544699

Heart Tantrums

A Feminist's Memoir of Misogyny and Marriage

By: Aisha Sarwari

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Heart Tantrums

A Feminist's Memoir of Misogyny and Marriage

By: Aisha Sarwari

In order to be able to survive, Aisha Sarwari was told, love and devoted acts of service will always light the way. These however, become the very reason of her complete unravelling. In this large and messy voice of a memoir, Heart Tantrums artfully describes the scatter of catastrophic losses-the loss of her father in early adolescence; leaving behind her family home in East Africa; and trying to fit into a completely different culture in Lahore after marriage. In 2017, when Aisha first held her husband Yasser Latif Hamdani's brain MRI against the light, she began to also lose the man she loved to a personality-altering brain tumour. Oscillating between being a good woman and a bad woman, Aisha has been adamant that the hard knocks of life would not define her. But even self-respect comes at a high price. The internal life of mental health chaos is like the very disease itself-degenerative. The book rejects the idea that love and domestic servitude saves the day. Pakistan, she never thought, could become like living in a state of self-exile for the couple that married for country-Aisha Sarwari, a proud Pakistani feminist and career professional, and Yasser Latif Hamdani, a human rights lawyer turned internationally acclaimed biographer of Pakistan's founding father, M.A. Jinnah. Often, they both failed to play for the team, but their fight for belonging was sometimes punctuated by the warmth of parenting and the joy of extraordinary friendships. This book is a prayer on a page, with this immigrant girl finding her way in the dark through a raw and magnificently well-told story of grief, hybrid identity, immigration woes, systemic family oppression, caregiver fatigue and, of course, what every good literature tries hard to hack-the terror of oblivion.

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Penguin Random House India Private Limited

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9357082514

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9789357082518

A Journey from Me to You

By: Aisha Cahn

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A Journey from Me to You

By: Aisha Cahn

During the past ten years, author Aisha Cahn has been through some of the most poignant, emotional, and life-changing experiences. Some of them were challenging, while others made her look at life from a spiritual perspective. This journey led Cahn to the quest for answers about her existence in this world and the purpose of life. In A Journey from Me to You, Cahn shares this inquiry against the backdrop of faith, art, and her own personal trail of events. She tells how she gained insight and answers from the Quran, and how she further explored the subject through her work as an artist, bringing together the disciplines of faith and science through the form of contemporary, conceptual art. Her artwork reflects an element of spirituality in each of these three disciplines. Delving into the meaning of life, A Journey from Me to You shows how the mysteries of existence have shaped the framework of Cahns role in the greater landscape of this world. Its led her to become more spiritual by focusing on her inner self, which has enhanced her undying love for the Almighty God.

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Balboa Press

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1504395395

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9781504395397

United Arab Emirates: a primary health care case study in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

By: Asma Mahmoud FIKRI,Aisha SUHAIL,Tayba AL AWADHI

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United Arab Emirates: a primary health care case study in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

By: Asma Mahmoud FIKRI,Aisha SUHAIL,Tayba AL AWADHI

This case study examines country-level primary health care (PHC) systems in United Arab Emirates in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic between January 2020 and August 2022. The case study is part of a collection of case studies providing critical insights into key PHC strengths, challenges and lessons learned using the Astana PHC framework, which considers integrated health services, multisectoral policy and action, and people and communities. Led by in-country research teams, the case studies update and extend the Primary Health Care Systems (PRIMASYS) case studies commissioned by the Alliance in 2015.

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World Health Organization

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924006415X

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9789240064157

Transformed by Values

By: CYNTHIA AISHA MEGUID

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Transformed by Values

By: CYNTHIA AISHA MEGUID

Rise and take control of your life and ability to excel in living your highest values! From an author with 20 years Islamic and personal development teaching, training and coaching, Cynthia Aisha Meguid, an expert in various self-improvement methodologies within an Islamic framework, shows you her most effective strategies and techniques for mastering your character, mind, emotions, your relationships, communication and your life - aligned with the power of excelling in your Islamic values. Transformed by Values is a highly valuable Islamic self-improvement & self-mastery solution packed, guidebook using the most advanced personal development strategies! After reading Transformed by Values, you will be surprised how easy it is to achieve your dreams of excelling in your positive emotional habits, thinking habits, relationships, communication, behaviours and more! This first ever, 350 page guidebook, (3 volumes in 1 book) gives you expert knowledge, strategies, and skills PLUS over 100 activities, to excel in the psychological, emotional, social, and spiritual skills needed - to excel in living your Islamic values with excellence. * Live your Quranic and Prophetic values with greater effectiveness to guide your personal growth, character and transformation. * Excel in Islamic values such as – self-discipline, God-consciousness, unconditional love, unshakeable faith, solid bravery, authentic self-confidence, patience, calmness under pressure, perseverance and more! * Plus - Learn effective strategies for overcoming any personal challenges and obstacles. Did you know...Values are the deep roots of every thought, intention, emotion, behaviour and habit – like the roots of a tree. Living your Islamic values is about living with a mental, emotional and spiritual state of excellence (Ihsan). This self-empowering book will help you excel in your ability to live your values in your emotional, mental, social and spiritual life - by learning the most effective personal development knowledge and methods within an Islamic perspective. More details: 1 - In Part 1, you explore the power of Islamic values, your current values, and how effective you are in living your values in all areas of your life. 2 - In Part 2, you explore how to live your Islamic values with excellence by learning how to master your relationship skills, perceptual skills, language skills, reframing skills, attention skills, time management skills, and goals management skills. 3 - In Part 3, unlock more profound change by learning how to master your sensory thinking skills, communication skills, beliefs and ability to turn your Islamic values into stronger, automatic and habitual ways of thinking, being, responding and actions! The many easy-to-follow, practice activities will keep you highly motivated, engaged, and support you in achieving daily improvements in how you live and excel in your Islamic values in any life area. Methodologies include: self-help, personal development, Islamic, neuro-linguistic programming and applied cognitive psychology. Empower yourself and become the best Muslim version of yourself by getting your copy today! Buy Transformed by Values now! To upgrade your life and ability to excel in living your values - insha'Allah! *Paperback, hardcover and audio versions - coming soon

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Cynthia Aisha Meguid Publications

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064567513X

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9780645675139

Mirror

By: Aisha Rahman

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Mirror

By: Aisha Rahman

Mirror is reflection of the society where we live. A mirror to you and I, as we are the part of this society. A mirror to those who are being responsible for all social crimes or issues. Hence, this book is the collection of poetries, short stories and articles collected from different societies, different states and different parts of India.

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Wordsmith Niche Publishers

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9357491317

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9789357491310

The Determinants and Evolution of Iran's Foreign Policy Toward The Gulf States in the Context of Iran Nuclear Negotiations

By: Aisha Khalid AL-Saad

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The Determinants and Evolution of Iran's Foreign Policy Toward The Gulf States in the Context of Iran Nuclear Negotiations

By: Aisha Khalid AL-Saad

This book explores the determinants of Iran's foreign policy towards its GCC neighboring countries. She considers the dimensions of internal and external, as well as identity and nationalism. AL-Saad aims to identify the strategic importance of Iran's nuclear program, the agreement with the major powers in 2015, and its impact on Iran's foreign policy. She then addresses possible future scenarios and implications of Iran's foreign policy towards the GCC region, upon the US withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal.

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Grosvenor House Publishing

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1839751940

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9781839751943

Excited Delirium

Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease

By: Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús

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Excited Delirium

Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease

By: Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús

In 1980, Charles Wetli---a Miami-based medical examiner and self-proclaimed “cult expert” of Afro-Caribbean religions---identified what he called “excited delirium syndrome.” Soon, medical examiners began using the syndrome regularly to describe the deaths of Black men and women during interactions with police. Police and medical examiners claimed that Black people with so-called excited delirium exhibited superhuman strength induced from narcotics abuse. It was fatal heart failure that killed them, examiners said, not forceful police restraints. In Excited Delirium, Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús examines this fabricated medical diagnosis and its use to justify and erase police violence against Black and Brown communities. Exposing excited delirium syndrome’s flawed diagnostic criteria, she outlines its inextricable ties to the criminalization of Afro-Latiné religions. Beliso-De Jesús demonstrates that it is yet a further example of the systemic racism that pervades law enforcement in which the culpability for state violence is shifted from the state onto its victims. In so doing, she furthers understanding of the complex layers of medicalized state-sanctioned violence against people of color in the United States.

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Duke University Press

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1478059567

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9781478059561

Reaching for the Crescent

Aspirations of Singapore Islamic Studies Graduates and the Challenges

By: Norshahril Saat,Azhar Ibrahim,Noor Aisha Abdul Rahman

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Reaching for the Crescent

Aspirations of Singapore Islamic Studies Graduates and the Challenges

By: Norshahril Saat,Azhar Ibrahim,Noor Aisha Abdul Rahman

Islamic religious teachers (asatizah) and scholars (ulama) play a significant role in providing spiritual leadership for the Singapore Malay/Muslim community. Lately, the group has been cast under the spotlight over a range of issues, from underperformance in the national examination, their ability to integrate into the broader society, exposure to radical and conservative ideas such as Salafism from the Middle East, and unemployment. Reaching for the Crescent examines a growing segment within the group, namely Islamic studies graduates, who obtained their degrees from universities in the Middle East and neighbouring Malaysia and Indonesia. It identifies factors that condition the proliferation of Islamic studies graduates in Singapore, examine the dominant religious institutions they attend, the nature of Islamic education they received, and their challenges. It tackles the impact of their religious education on the spiritual life and well-being of the community. Based on qualitative and quantitative data collected, the book calls for a rethinking of a prevailing discourse of Arabization of Singapore Muslims and academic approaches that focus on madrasah education and Islam through the security lens.

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ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

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9814951382

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9789814951388

Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority

A Rereading of the Classical Genre of Qurʾān Commentary

By: Aisha Geissinger

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Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority

A Rereading of the Classical Genre of Qurʾān Commentary

By: Aisha Geissinger

A number of classical Sunnī Quran commentaries quote several different types of exegetical materials attributed to a few female figures from the first century A.H/seventh century C.E.—āthār, ḥadīths, legal opinions and variant readings, as well as lines of poetry. In Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority, Aisha Geissinger provides a comprehensive introduction to such quotations, and offers an analysis of their place and significance within the pre-modern genre of Quran commentary, demonstrating that key hermeneutical concepts in classical quranic exegesis (tafsīr) are gendered. Bringing together materials which have not previously been examined in detail and utilising gender as a lens through which to study them, this work provides a new approach to the study of pre-modern tafsīr.

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BRILL

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9004294449

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9789004294448

The fragments

By: Aisha Rahman

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The fragments

By: Aisha Rahman

How it began to write "The fragments" is not a big story but it jas started years ago.This book would show me and my story which i had not shared before. It will reflect the different live moments and my imagination in one frame.I have tried to draw a beautiful image through my poetries.

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JEC PUBLICATION

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9356169039

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9789356169036

Islam on Campus

Contested Identities and the Cultures of Higher Education in Britain

By: Alison Scott-Baumann,Mathew Guest,Shuruq Naguib,Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor,Aisha Phoenix

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Islam on Campus

Contested Identities and the Cultures of Higher Education in Britain

By: Alison Scott-Baumann,Mathew Guest,Shuruq Naguib,Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor,Aisha Phoenix

Islam on Campus explores how Islam is represented, perceived and lived within higher education in Britain. It is a book about the changing nature of university life, and the place of religion within it. Even while many universities maintain ambiguous or affirming orientations to religious institutions for reasons to do with history and ethos, much western scholarship has presumed higher education to be a strongly secularizing force. This framing has resulted in religion often being marginalized or ignored as a cultural irrelevance by the university sector. However, recent times have seen higher education increasingly drawn into political discourses that problematize religion in general, and Islam in particular, as an object of risk. Using the largest data set yet collected in the UK, this book explores university life and the ways in which ideas about Islam and Muslim identities are produced, experienced, perceived, appropriated, and objectified. It asks what role universities and Muslim higher education institutions play in the production, reinforcement, and contestation of emerging narratives about religious difference. This is a culturally nuanced treatment of universities as sites of knowledge production, and contexts for the negotiation of perspectives on culture and religion among an emerging generation. It demonstrates the urgent need to release Islam from its official role as the othered, the feared. When universities achieve this we will be able to help students of all affiliations and of none to be citizens of the campus in preparation for being citizens of the world.

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Oxford University Press

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0192586009

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9780192586001

Zarasha

By: Aisha Tehseen

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Zarasha

By: Aisha Tehseen

Zarasha Wakhan’s family has been living in the valley near the Pakistan-China border for generations. As a girl full of ambitions and dreams, Zarasha is comforted knowing that she is the light of her father’s life and that God is always protecting her and her family. But one night when her father mistakenly opens the door to strangers, her life changes forever. After Zarasha loses her parents on account of a terrible crime, she alongside her sister move to another village to start all over again. Zarasha soon realizes that no miracle will bring back her parents. As the girls attempt to become accustomed to their new family and normal, Zarasha’s troubles are unfortunately not behind her as life is not done teaching her the most valuable lesson she will ever learn: to overcome her fears, she must first believe in herself. Zarasha is an inspirational story of bravery and perseverance. It is a testament to never letting go of one’s connection with the ultimate, higher power, for it is that power that propels one’s self to great heights and transforms destiny.

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iUniverse

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1532098774

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Callaloo Nation

Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad

By: Aisha Khan

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Callaloo Nation

Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad

By: Aisha Khan

Mixing—whether referred to as mestizaje, callaloo, hybridity, creolization, or multiculturalism—is a foundational cultural trope in Caribbean and Latin American societies. Historically entwined with colonial, anticolonial, and democratic ideologies, ideas about mixing are powerful forces in the ways identities are interpreted and evaluated. As Aisha Khan shows in this ethnography, they reveal the tension that exists between identity as a source of equality and identity as an instrument through which social and cultural hierarchies are reinforced. Focusing on the Indian diaspora in the Caribbean, Khan examines this paradox as it is expressed in key dimensions of Hindu and Muslim cultural history and social relationships in southern Trinidad. In vivid detail, she describes how disempowered communities create livable conditions for themselves while participating in a broader culture that both celebrates and denies difference. Khan combines ethnographic research she conducted in Trinidad over the course of a decade with extensive archival research to explore how Hindu and Muslim Indo-Trinidadians interpret authority, generational tensions, and the transformations of Indian culture in the Caribbean through metaphors of mixing. She demonstrates how ambivalence about the desirability of a callaloo nation—a multicultural society—is manifest around practices and issues, including rituals, labor, intermarriage, and class mobility. Khan maintains that metaphors of mixing are pervasive and worth paying attention to: the assumptions and concerns they communicate are key to unraveling who Indo-Trinidadians imagine themselves to be and how identities such as race and religion shape and are shaped by the politics of multiculturalism.

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Duke University Press

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0822386097

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9780822386094

The Deepest Dye

Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World

By: Aisha Khan

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The Deepest Dye

Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World

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Harvard University Press

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0674987829

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A Historical Atlas of India

By: Aisha Khan

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A Historical Atlas of India

By: Aisha Khan

Maps and text chronicle the history of India, from the Harappan civilization to the 21st century.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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0823939774

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9780823939770

Avicenna (Ibn Sina)

Muslim Physician and Philosopher of the Eleventh Century

By: Aisha Khan

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Avicenna (Ibn Sina)

Muslim Physician and Philosopher of the Eleventh Century

By: Aisha Khan

Presents the life, times, and legacy of the Muslim physician and philosopher Avicenna.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1404205098

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9781404205093

What You Will See Inside a Mosque

By: Aisha Karen Khan

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What You Will See Inside a Mosque

By: Aisha Karen Khan

Describes what happens inside a mosque and introduces the Muslim faith. This important new series of books is designed to show children ages 6-10 the Who, What, When, Where, Why and How of traditional houses of worship, liturgical celebrations, and rituals of different world faiths, empowering them to respect and understand their own religious traditions--and those of their friends and neighbors. Colorful full-page photographs set the scene for concise but informative descriptions of what is happening, the objects used, the clergy and laypeople who have specific roles, the spiritual intent of the believers, and more. Details from the full-page photos appear with short captions to identify the objects and people in the photographs. What You Will See Inside a Mosque will: Satisfy kids' curiosity about what goes on in mosques attended by their friends, broadening awareness of other faiths at an important age when opinions and prejudices can first form. Provide Muslim children with a deeper understanding of the practices of their own religious tradition. Give children the opportunity to ask questions, making them more active participants.

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SkyLight Paths Publishing

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1594732574

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9781594732577

Labour Disrupted

Reflections on the Future of Work in South Africa

By: Malehoko Tshoaedi,Christine Bischoff,Andries Bezuidenhout

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Labour Disrupted

Reflections on the Future of Work in South Africa

By: Malehoko Tshoaedi,Christine Bischoff,Andries Bezuidenhout

Analyses the fragmentation and future of labour movements in South Africa and globally in the context of globalisation, the fourth industrial revolution and the Covid-19 pandemic.

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NYU Press

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1776148231

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Medicinally Important Trees

By: Aisha Saleem Khan

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Medicinally Important Trees

By: Aisha Saleem Khan

This book provides researchers and advanced students associated with plant and pharmaceutical sciences with comprehensive information on medicinal trees, including their identification, morphological characteristics, traditional and economic uses, along with the latest research on their medicinal compounds. The text covers the ecological distribution of over 150 trees, which are characterized mainly on the basis of their unique properties and phytochemicals of medicinal importance (i.e., anti-allergic, anti-diabetic, anti-carcinogenic, anti-microbial, and possible anti-HIV compounds). Due to the incredibly large diversity of medicinal trees, it is not possible to cover all within one publication, so trees with unique medicinal properties that are relatively more common in many countries are discussed here in order to make it most informative for a global audience. With over 100 illustrations taken at different stages of plant development, this reference work serves as a tool for tree identification and provides morphological explanations. It includes the latest botanical research, including biochemical advancements in phytochemistry techniques such as chromatographic and spectrometric techniques. In addition, the end of each chapter presents the most up-to-date references for further sources of exploration.

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Springer

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3319567772

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Violence Against Women in South Asian Communities

Issues for Policy and Practice

By: Ravi K. Thiara,Aisha K. Gill

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Violence Against Women in South Asian Communities

Issues for Policy and Practice

By: Ravi K. Thiara,Aisha K. Gill

This book is powerful, challenging and inspirational, and is an important contribution to debates on the complex intersections between ethnicity, gender and inequality, as well as on human rights and violence against women.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1843106701

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9781843106708

Medicinally Important Trees

By: Aisha Saleem Khan

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Avicenna

Leading Physician and Philosopher-Scientist of the Islamic Golden Age

By: Bridget Lim,Aisha Khan

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Avicenna

Leading Physician and Philosopher-Scientist of the Islamic Golden Age

By: Bridget Lim,Aisha Khan

Known as the “prince of physicians,” Avicenna made enormous contributions to the fields of medicine, natural history, metaphysics, and religion. His use of Aristotelian logic and his work on the concept of “being” opened the door for a rationalist study of religion, influencing the later Christian philosophers Aquinas, Descartes, and Kant. Avicenna’s monumental Canon of Medicine is regarded as possibly the greatest medical work ever. Available in a Latin translation in Europe one hundred years after his death, it continued to be used there for the next six centuries.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1508171424

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The Door Is Open

Stories of Celebration and Community by 11 Desi Voices

By: Veera Hiranandani,Supriya Kelkar,Maulik Pancholy,Simran Jeet Singh,Aisha Saeed,Reem Faruqi,Rajani LaRocca,Naheed Hasnat,Sayantani DasGupta,Mitali Perkins

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The Door Is Open

Stories of Celebration and Community by 11 Desi Voices

By: Veera Hiranandani,Supriya Kelkar,Maulik Pancholy,Simran Jeet Singh,Aisha Saeed,Reem Faruqi,Rajani LaRocca,Naheed Hasnat,Sayantani DasGupta,Mitali Perkins

Discover stories of fear, triumph, and spectacular celebration in this warm-hearted novel of interconnected stories that celebrates the diversity of South Asian American experiences in a local community center. Discover stories of fear, triumph, and spectacular celebration in the fictional town of Maple Grove, New Jersey, where the local kids gather at the community center to discover new crushes, fight against ignorance, and even save a life. Cheer for Chaya as she wins chess tournaments (unlike Andrew, she knows stupid sugary soda won't make you better at chess), and follow as Jeevan learns how to cook traditional food (it turns out he can cook sabji-- he just can't eat it). These stories, edited by bestselling and award-winning Pakistani-American author Hena Khan, are filled with humor, warmth, and possibility. They showcase a diverse array of talented authors with heritage from the Indian subcontinent, including beloved favorites and rising stars, who each highlight the beauty and necessity of a community center that everyone calls home.

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Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

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0316450839

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9780316450836

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