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The Anthologist’s Art

Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī and His Yatīmat al-dahr

By: Bilal Orfali

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The Anthologist’s Art

Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī and His Yatīmat al-dahr

By: Bilal Orfali

Why did premodern authors in the Arabic-Islamic culture compile literary anthologies, and why were these works remarkably popular? How can an anthology that consists of reproduced material be original and creative, and serve various literary and political ends? How did anthologists select their material, then record and arrange it? This book examines the life and works of Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī (350–429/961–1039), an eminent anthologist from Nīshāpūr, paying special attention to his magnum opus, Yatīmat al-dahr (The Unique Pearl), and its sequel, Tatimmat al-Yatīma (The Completion of the Yatīma). This book is a direct window on to an anthologist’s workshop in the second half of the fourth/tenth century. It examines the methodological consciousness expressed in Thaʿālibī’s selection and arrangement, and his sophisticated system of internal references and cross-references to other works; how he selected from his contemporaries’ oeuvres; how he sought, recorded, memorized, misplaced, and sometimes lost or forgot his selections; how he scrutinized the authenticity of material, accepting, questioning, or rejecting its attribution; and the errors and inconsistencies that resulted from this process.

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900431735X

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9789004317352

The Bard of Blood

By: Bilal Siddiqi

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The Bard of Blood

By: Bilal Siddiqi

Researched with the assistance of US and Indian intelligence agents, war correspondents and the crime veteran S. Hussain Zaidi, The Bard of Blood takes you on a thrilling journey from the power corridors of RAW to the war-torn terrain of Balochistan. In Delhi, ex-RAW boss Lieutenant General Sadiq Sheikh is killed by a double agent. Sadiq’s killer is a man who knows too much and is part of a diabolical plot to create what might become the Third World War. In Mumbai, literature professor Kabir Anand is settling down into his new life, when a call from the PMO thrusts him back into the world he is trying hard to forget. A brilliant agent who served under Sadiq Sheikh, Kabir has been forced to leave RAW because of a disastrous mission in Balochistan in 2006 that was undertaken as part of the Indian secret service’s covert support of the Balochi rebels against the Pakistan government. Kabir must now revisit those ghosts, avenge his mentor and face his deadliest enemies—Mullah Omar and the ISI—while racing against time to save his country.

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Penguin UK

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8184750323

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9788184750324

An Analysis of Yasser Tabbaa's The Transformation of Islamic Art During the Sunni Revival

By: Bilal Badat

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An Analysis of Yasser Tabbaa's The Transformation of Islamic Art During the Sunni Revival

By: Bilal Badat

Tabbaa’s Transformation offers an innovative approach to understanding the profound changes undergone by Islamic art and architecture during the often neglected Medieval Islamic period. Examining devices such as calligraphy, arabesque, muqarnas, and stonework, Tabbaa argues we propagated in a moment of confrontation and facilitated the re-emergence of the Sunni Abbasid caliphate in a more orthodox image. Tabbaa offers a timely and thought-provoking alternative to conventional essentialist, positivist and ethno-narrative interpretations of Islamic art.

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CRC Press

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0429939892

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9780429939891

Prophet Adam Alayhis Salam - Father of Humankind

Stories of the Prophets, Qasas ul Anbiya, Glorious Guides

By: Maria Reza Junaid Bilal

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Prophet Adam Alayhis Salam - Father of Humankind

Stories of the Prophets, Qasas ul Anbiya, Glorious Guides

By: Maria Reza Junaid Bilal

Listen, learn and love the true stories of the “Glorious Guides” sent by Allah SWT. Story of Prophet Adam AS is the first part of Glorious Guides – Stories of the Prophets series. This bright and colourful book introduces the life of one of the 25 Prophets mentioned in the Qur’an. With the help of this story and its accompanying Activity Book, your children will be able to see how the message of the Prophets is still relevant to them and the world they live in. It will also help reinforce the idea of the Qur'an as a Message from Allah SWT, and, over time, kindle interest and understanding of the Holy Book. Digital illustrations, use of simple language, activities designed to support comprehension and story recall along with guidance for use make it ideal for religious studies and Islamic Home-school. Visit us at www.lastinglegacy.club

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Wisdom Publications

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1911314750

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9781911314752

Radiant Lights, Eloquent Words: A Scholarly Edition of al-Anwār al-bahiyya fī taʿrīf maqāmāt fuṣaḥāʾ al-bariyya. Attributed to Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī (d. 429/1039)

By: Bilal Orfali,Ramzi Baalbaki

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Radiant Lights, Eloquent Words: A Scholarly Edition of al-Anwār al-bahiyya fī taʿrīf maqāmāt fuṣaḥāʾ al-bariyya. Attributed to Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī (d. 429/1039)

By: Bilal Orfali,Ramzi Baalbaki

Radiant Lights, Eloquent Words is the first scholarly edition of K. al-Anwār al-bahiyya fī taʿrīf maqāmāt fuṣaḥāʾ al-bariyya attributed to Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī. The work is introduced by an analytical study.

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9004517057

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9789004517059

Deep Learning: Convergence to Big Data Analytics

By: Murad Khan,Bilal Jan,Haleem Farman

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Deep Learning: Convergence to Big Data Analytics

By: Murad Khan,Bilal Jan,Haleem Farman

This book presents deep learning techniques, concepts, and algorithms to classify and analyze big data. Further, it offers an introductory level understanding of the new programming languages and tools used to analyze big data in real-time, such as Hadoop, SPARK, and GRAPHX. Big data analytics using traditional techniques face various challenges, such as fast, accurate and efficient processing of big data in real-time. In addition, the Internet of Things is progressively increasing in various fields, like smart cities, smart homes, and e-health. As the enormous number of connected devices generate huge amounts of data every day, we need sophisticated algorithms to deal, organize, and classify this data in less processing time and space. Similarly, existing techniques and algorithms for deep learning in big data field have several advantages thanks to the two main branches of the deep learning, i.e. convolution and deep belief networks. This book offers insights into these techniques and applications based on these two types of deep learning. Further, it helps students, researchers, and newcomers understand big data analytics based on deep learning approaches. It also discusses various machine learning techniques in concatenation with the deep learning paradigm to support high-end data processing, data classifications, and real-time data processing issues. The classification and presentation are kept quite simple to help the readers and students grasp the basics concepts of various deep learning paradigms and frameworks. It mainly focuses on theory rather than the mathematical background of the deep learning concepts. The book consists of 5 chapters, beginning with an introductory explanation of big data and deep learning techniques, followed by integration of big data and deep learning techniques and lastly the future directions.

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Springer

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9811334595

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9789811334597

Prophet Sheith AS and his brothers Haabil & Qaabil (Activity Book)

By: Maria Reza Junaid Bilal

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Prophet Sheith AS and his brothers Haabil & Qaabil (Activity Book)

By: Maria Reza Junaid Bilal

An accompanying Activity Book, packed with interactive games, activities and ideas to support Play Based Learning. Using this Activity Book not only makes story time more fun but also helps to support story recall, reinforcement and inferential comprehension. Special focus on how the Qur’anic stories are applicable to our own lives and how we can gain guidance from them

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Junaid Bilal

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1911314785

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9781911314783

Prophet Sheith AS and his brothers Haabil & Qaabil

Qaabil and Haabil (Cain and Abel )

By: Maria Reza Junaid Bilal

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Prophet Sheith AS and his brothers Haabil & Qaabil

Qaabil and Haabil (Cain and Abel )

By: Maria Reza Junaid Bilal

A Story Book, that is not written to tell a story! Rather it uses the story to convey important Islamic Concepts and Life Skills. Be ready for the Brainy Breaks MCQs Story Map Fun Facts to aid concept reinforcement. Islamic Concepts in this Story Book *Know your enemy *Tricks & Traps of Shaytaan *Protection from Shaytaan *Sacrifice *Circle of Life *Ongoing good & Ongoing bad To ensure authenticity, the story has been compiled using the most reliable sources of knowledge available: The Qur’an , Sahih Hadith Tafsir ibn Kathir , Qasaṣ al-'Anbiyā' , Al-Bidāyah wan nihāyah by Hafidh Ibn Kathīr. An accompanying Activity Book, packed with interactive games, activities and ideas to support Play Based Learning. Using this Activity Book not only makes story time more fun but also helps to support story recall, reinforcement and inferential comprehension. Special focus on the how the Qur’anic stories are applicable to our own lives and how we can gain guidance from them.Activity Book includes: * Defeating Shaytaan, * My Dua, * Beware Poster, * Story Sequencing, * Fresh VS Rotten, * Vocabulary * Snap and much more.

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Wisdom Publications

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1911314777

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9781911314776

The Sacred Book

By: Bilal Ahmed

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The Sacred Book

By: Bilal Ahmed

On a journey through spiritual awakening, living in the moment, no memory of the past, no plans for the future, the only reality being the sound of silence, or OM, a gateway in the cosmic, receiving divine guidance. A journey through various ashrams in San Francisco, learning from the most enlightenment gurus and masters who ever walked on mother earth, themselves travelling towards the West, to help create the new dawn of spirituality, from the East. As predicted in the past, helping build a Golden era, with Divine Love, Knowledge and Existence, together in Oneness of male and female aspects of divinity, respecting and loving the divine mother or nature.

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Lulu.com

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1304213463

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9781304213464

The Secret Book

By: Bilal Ahmed

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The Secret Book

By: Bilal Ahmed

On a spiritual journey, my awakening happened. With the right gurus, after deep practices for many years, I found my truth. Self-realization is the biggest gift. We search lifetime after lifetime. This book offers the secret knowledge to experience God. The same teachings taught by gurus, prophets, saints and masters over centuries. A mystic and Vedanta approach. A compilation of Islam, Christianity, Hindu and Buddhist teachings, with emphasis on devotion and love. Also details tantra practices, a Soul love between male and female, with the light of God. May God bless you in your spiritual enlightenment.

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1300967757

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Max Weber and Charles Peirce

At the Crossroads of Science, Philosophy, and Culture

By: Basit Bilal Koshul

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Max Weber and Charles Peirce

At the Crossroads of Science, Philosophy, and Culture

By: Basit Bilal Koshul

Max Weber and Charles Peirce: At the Crossroads of Science, Philosophy, and Culture shows that a relational conception of science is implicit in Max Weber’s reflections on scientific inquiry as a bridge between the Geisteswissenschaften (soft sciences) and Naturwissenschaften (hard sciences). Because he is not a trained philosopher, Weber does not have the precise philosophical language in which to articulate his ideas clearly. Consequently, his relational vision of science remains obscure. Basit Bilal Koshul brings clarity and precision to Weber’s insights using the pragmaticist philosophy of Charles Peirce. He makes explicit the phenomenology, semiotics, and logic that are implicit in Weber’s methodological writings and translates them into Peircean terms. Since Peirce explicitly offers his philosophy of science as a critique of the modern divide between the humanistic and natural sciences and of the divide between religion and science, this translation has a double effect. It clarifies Weber’s insights on the methodology of scientific inquiry, and it extends the reparative force of these insights into the larger culture of which science is one part. The reconstruction of Weber’s relational conception of science along the lines of Peirce’s pragmaticism, in turn, reveals that Weber’s work points toward deep affinities between religion and science. Given the fact that the same phenomenology, semiotics, and logic that underpin Peirce’s philosophy of science are also at the root of his philosophy of religion, we can begin to appreciate the fact that Weber’s work makes an important contribution to bridging the divide between religion and science. In providing models that bridge divides and move towards complementary relationships, Weber and Peirce not only help us to better understand disenchantment as the fate of our times, but also offer uniquely valuable resources to reach for cultural horizons that lie beyond it.

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Lexington Books

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0739178016

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9780739178010

Bioresource Technology

Concept, Tools and Experiences

By: Tanveer Bilal Pirzadah,Bisma Malik,Rouf Ahmad Bhat,Khalid Rehman Hakeem

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Bioresource Technology

Concept, Tools and Experiences

By: Tanveer Bilal Pirzadah,Bisma Malik,Rouf Ahmad Bhat,Khalid Rehman Hakeem

Bioresource Technology Discover the latest developments in the field of bioresource technology with this practical handbook The management and cultivation of bioresources are critical components of the economic survival of nations. Significantly underexplored, recent advances in bioresource technologies have breathed new life into the research and development of new bioresource techniques and capabilities. In Bioresource Technology: Concept, Tools, and Experiences, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a comprehensive work intended to bridge the gap between field-oriented taxonomists and ecologists and lab-oriented functional and molecular biologists. The book is divided into three sections: food, environment, and energy. In the first part, the authors explore the functional food sector, from green and smart food packaging to nanosensors as diagnostic tools in the food industry. The second part is concerned with the achievement of future energy security through the use of bioresources as energy sources. Finally, the third section discusses sustainable environmental management policies via bioresource use. Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of: A thorough introduction on the recent advances in the technology pertaining to functional food industry to overcome the future food challenges Comprehensive explorations of the art and science of growing microgreens, including their historical background, cultivation practices, quality, and shelf life In-depth examinations of the bioprospecting of bioresources, including bioprospecting in agriculture, chemical industries, and diagnostic applications Provides state-of-the art technologies in the green energy sector to cater for the energy demand of the people, reducing greenhouse gases (GHG) and the reliance on fossil fuels In-depth understanding on the recent advances in the bioresource management policies and sustainable environment Perfect for postgraduate students, research scholars, faculty, and scientists involved in agriculture, plant sciences, environmental sciences, bioenergy, biofuels, molecular biology, and microbiology, Bioresource Technology: Concept, Tools, and Experiences is also an indispensable resource for those working in biochemistry, biotechnology, and food technology.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119789435

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9781119789437

The Comfort of the Mystics

A Manual and Anthology of Early Sufism

By: Gerhard Böwering,Bilal Orfali

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The Comfort of the Mystics

A Manual and Anthology of Early Sufism

By: Gerhard Böwering,Bilal Orfali

This critical Arabic text edition of Salwat al-ʿārifīn wa-uns al-mushtāqīn, a manual of early Sufism by Abū Khalaf al-Ṭabarī (d. ca. 470/1077), is based on a very old manuscript preserved in Dār al-Kutub al-Miṣrīya of Cairo, Egypt and copied in 459/1067. It is introduced by a detailed analytical study of the author and his work. Salwat al-ʿārifīn forms an integral part of Sufi literature and reflects Islamic developments in Nishapur in northeastern Iran. This crucial Arabic text, published for the first time, is especially valuable because of its great philological accuracy and sound textual tradition. It represents an essential source for the intellectual history of Islam during the middle of the 4th/10th to the middle of the 5th/11th century.

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9004233628

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9789004233621

Prophet Adam Alayhis Salam (Activity Book)

Stories of the Prophets, Qasas ul Anbiya, Glorious Guides

By: Maria Reza Junaid Bilal

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Stories of the Prophets, Qasas ul Anbiya, Glorious Guides

By: Maria Reza Junaid Bilal

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Wisdom Publications

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1911314769

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Temple Folk

By: Aaliyah Bilal

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Temple Folk

By: Aaliyah Bilal

A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with faith, family, and freedom in America"--

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256

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Simon and Schuster

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1982191813

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9781982191818

International Security

Threats, Theories, and Transformation

By: Bilal Karabulut

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International Security

Threats, Theories, and Transformation

By: Bilal Karabulut

International Security: Threats, Theories, and Transformation maps out security studies, the subdiscipline of discipline of International Relations (IR), which has strong topics and dynamic structure, but this, and almost everything in the globalization process is changing or transforming rapidly. This situation also affects the field of IR and security studies. New concepts are entering literature, traditional thought patterns are not enough to understand and make sense of the IR discipline. In addition to traditional security issues such as terrorism and war, new security areas emerging with the process of globalization are also comprehensively analyzed in this book. These include energy security, cyber security, environmental security, health security, economic security, food security, demographic security and irregular migration.

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264

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Lexington Books

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1666934771

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9781666934779

The Golden Scales

A Makana Mystery

By: Parker Bilal

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The Golden Scales

A Makana Mystery

By: Parker Bilal

A lost child. A missing hero. A bitter rivalry. In Cairo the ghosts of the past are stirring... Makana is a former police inspector who fled for his life to Cairo from his native Sudan seven years ago. Down on his luck and haunted by the past, he lives on a rickety Nile houseboat. When the notorious and powerful Saad Hanafi hires him to track down a missing person Makana is in no position to refuse him. Hanafi, whose past is as shady as his fortune is glittering, is the owner of Cairo's star-studded football team. His most valuable player has just vanished and Adil Romario's disappearance threatens to bring down not only Hanafi's private empire, but the entire country. But why should the city's most powerful man hire its lowliest private detective? Thrust into a dangerous and glittering world, Makana's investigation leads him into the treacherous underbelly of his adopted country- where he encounters Muslim extremists, Russian gangsters and a desperate mother hunting for her missing daughter. It becomes a trail that stirs up painful memories, leading him back into the sights of an old and dangerous enemy...

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A&C Black

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1408824892

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The African American Odyssey

By: Bilal R. Muhammad

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The African American Odyssey

By: Bilal R. Muhammad

The African American Odyssey is a literary compilation of a portrait combined with a strong compelling chronological history and discussion of the African American plight, from an African American perspective. It also entails many significant aspects of African American struggles, achievements and wondering about in a country that adamantly refuses to see African Americans. Propelled by enthusiasm, anguish, and deep concern for the magnitude of social and economic despaired conditions African Americans find themselves in today, the author is obsessed with confronting the pervassive challenges of systemic and institutionalized white supremacy, unjustified evil racist oppression, suffering and unnecessary social and economic misery perpetrated against African Americans by a hatefully hostile government determined to marginalize or exterminate them. Exasperatingly, Muhammad expressively takes the reader on a journey through centuries of convoluted wondering while illustrating to them, the events that produced the African American experience. He conclusively shares his hope, skepticism and cautious optimism for the future of African Americans.

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1467035122

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Advances in Water and Wastewater Treatment Technology

By: Muhammad Suleman Tahir,Muhammad Sagir,Muhammad Bilal Tahir

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Advances in Water and Wastewater Treatment Technology

By: Muhammad Suleman Tahir,Muhammad Sagir,Muhammad Bilal Tahir

This book highlights the several pollutants and their derivatives that exist in water and wastewater, such as pharmaceuticals, antibiotics, personal care products, heavy metals, pesticides, dyes etc., as a result of rapid urbanization and industrialization. Several part pollution is caused by nutrients, organics, and contaminants with low concentration but is highly toxic to human and aquatic environment. This book provides a holistic approach in terms of measurement, monitoring, and recent advances in treatment technologies for water and wastewater treatment and water reuse. The technologies involve the physio-chemical, biological and advanced oxidation processes in which they are modified or coupled with nanomaterials and/or newly developed products for improving the performance of the current treatment processes. In addition, the membrane processes include recent research on the removal of challenging chemicals by various membrane bioreactors and reverse osmosis processes.

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Springer Nature

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9819911877

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9789819911875

The African American Odyssey

By: Bilal R. Muhammad

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By: Bilal R. Muhammad

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Beyond the Law: Living Blasphemy in Pakistan

Ethnography of Mundane Violence, Faith, and Lifeworlds

By: Muhammad Bilal

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Beyond the Law: Living Blasphemy in Pakistan

Ethnography of Mundane Violence, Faith, and Lifeworlds

By: Muhammad Bilal

The book embarks on a journey into the intricate landscape of blasphemy in Pakistan amid a rising tide of blasphemy accusations, public lynchings, and contentious blasphemy laws. Challenging conventional perspectives, this book delves beyond legal and religious confines, offering an ethnography of the mundane as a secular reading and a grand existential scheme to highlight how blasphemy laws and religious prisms often fail to capture the essence of the blasphemy dilemma in Pakistan. The author offers an insightful re-evaluation of the blasphemy issue, addressing its multifaceted definition, the motivations driving intentional blasphemous acts and frivolous accusations, the authority to punish alleged offenders, the paradox of religious violence, and the emergence of mediated expressions and virtual negotiation of blasphemy. Through meticulous grassroots analysis of ordinary Pakistanis’ perspectives, the book offers pragmatic policy solutions for blasphemy issues, presenting unorthodox insights into Pakistan, its diverse populace, and the ever-evolving sensibilities of Islam and societal dynamics in both local and global contexts.

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3031710282

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Islam Our Guiding Light

And a Cordial Invitation to Islam

By: Sheikh Bilal Raqib Muhammad

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Islam Our Guiding Light

And a Cordial Invitation to Islam

By: Sheikh Bilal Raqib Muhammad

What happens to a dream Deferred?" Langston Hughes asked in one of his most moving and insightful poems. "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?...Or does it explode?" I asked myself the same question about my own life. Literally born in a land of pain and discrimination and forced to face a violent world. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it snake and slither towards hopelessness, drunkenness, addiction, and poverty? Or does it explode in rage? A dream deferred. My parents always said, "Follow your heart, but take your brain with you!" So, I payed attention to what my soul was conveying to me and I also understood the importance of becoming my own personal activist and advocate, not in grief and despair, but in firm faith and hope in Allah. I knew that if I was unable to transform my personal experiences of contempt and negativity into positive ones, I could easily become an American nightmare. By definition, an alchemist is a person who transforms or creates something through a seemingly magical process which is basically how my life evolved. By no means has it been an easy journey, I've made a lot of mistakes and plenty of bad decisions, but for His own purpose, Allah's amazing grace and mercy salvaged me. Alhamdulillah! As the accomplished author of previous literary work, my passion for writing has enabled me to complete this sacred project Titled: Islam Our Guiding Light. By the grace and mercy of Allah, time has grown and matured me into an elder, though a native son and product of the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, N.Y. where I was born, cut my teeth, and was reared in the midst of the harshness of the early 1950's. I lived in the trenches of this inner-city village with parents and siblings during my childhood and regularly ventured off a walking distance to my second home, Grandmother's house. My Grandmother was the family matriarch, the "premier of ladies", and an expert teacher in morals, manners and dignity. Her method of teaching and guidance, though firm and non-negotiable, was really simplistic and entailed the virtuous example she indubitably lived by. She taught me that in order to truly know God, you had to live right and act right, otherwise the Devil would snatch and consume your soul. She admonished me to believe in God wholeheartedly and dare-not divide and portion off His worship to others. Grandmother instructed me to worship the Most High upon principal and specifically on purpose. She assured me of the Absoluteness and Oneness of God, His independence, but creations dependence upon Him. Grandmother told me to live and act as if I actually see God, especially since He always see's me. Despite the socio/economic challenges, hurdles and obstacles in my path, at an early and tender age, with eyes wide open, though a contemptible, agitated and restless young man, I was able to navigate my way through life's journey and entered this incredible evening of my calcified life with minimal casualty and my soul still in tact. Instinctively, I knew how to fly under the radar, so my youth years weren't out of control and enabled me to kinda strive according to the so-called "American Tradition." I completed formal education, worked in private industry and government. I've fought against the odds during some of the darkest days of racial unrest, from the rise of the Ku Klux Klan to the newer label of "White Supremacy", and the struggles of the civil rights movement. I witnessed and participated in the civil rights revolution transforming a frontier into the pinnacle of American history, freeing African Americans from centuries of disenfranchisement. Though, several decades later, I'm sadly witnessing how the progress and achievements of those struggles have caused tragic side-effects as racism recedes as a serious obstacle to Black advancement. Unfortunately, the horrific particulars of that era remain a terrifying reality in its echoes in this present day. Thereby, Islam has always been my Guid...

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