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History of civilizations of Central Asia

Development in contrast: from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century

By: Adle, Chahryar,Baipakov, Karl M.,Habib, Irfan,UNESCO

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History of civilizations of Central Asia

Development in contrast: from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century

By: Adle, Chahryar,Baipakov, Karl M.,Habib, Irfan,UNESCO

The period treated in this volume is highlighted by the slow retreat of nomadism and the progressive increase of sedentary polities owing to a fundamental change in military technology: Furthermore, this period certainly saw a growing contrast in the pace of economic and cultural progress between Central Asia and Europe. The internal growth of the European economies and the influx of silver from the New World gave Atlantic Europe an increasingly important position in world trade and caused a major shift in inland Asian trade. Thus, 1850 marks the end of the total sway of pre-modern culture as the extension of colonial dominance was accompanied by the influx of modern ideas.

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UNESCO Publishing

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9231038761

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9789231038761

Religion as Critique

Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace

By: Irfan Ahmad

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Religion as Critique

Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace

By: Irfan Ahmad

Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam--indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices. Challenging common views of Islam as hostile to critical thinking, Ahmad delineates thriving traditions of critique in Islamic culture, focusing in large part on South Asian traditions. Ahmad interrogates Greek and Enlightenment notions of reason and critique, and he notes how they are invoked in relation to "others," including Muslims. Drafting an alternative genealogy of critique in Islam, Ahmad reads religious teachings and texts, drawing on sources in Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, and English, and demonstrates how they serve as expressions of critique. Throughout, he depicts Islam as an agent, not an object, of critique. On a broader level, Ahmad expands the idea of critique itself. Drawing on his fieldwork among marketplace hawkers in Delhi and Aligarh, he construes critique anthropologically as a sociocultural activity in the everyday lives of ordinary Muslims, beyond the world of intellectuals. Religion as Critique allows space for new theoretical considerations of modernity and change, taking on such salient issues as nationhood, women's equality, the state, culture, democracy, and secularism.

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300

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UNC Press Books

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1469635100

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9781469635101

The Dark Side of News Fixing

By: Syed Irfan Ashraf

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The Dark Side of News Fixing

By: Syed Irfan Ashraf

This book provides a local journalist’s perspective on a four-decade long regional contribution to global news production. It shows how the fixers’ risky news pursuits made possible for global media to access distant regions and dangerous caves on Pakistan and Afghanistan borders, causing unprecedented deaths of the local reporters in the context of the U.S-led war on terror. The book analyzes the fixer as a role in its relationship with militarization. It is not a coincidence that fixers become valuable to commercial media only during the height of violence or crises. Emerging under conditions of scarcity or war, the value of this role, in turn, is intrinsically tied to the fear of extinction. It is this vulnerability or perceived expendability— imposed by the need to find work—that binds fixers in a symbiotic relationship with global market and global war. This book, then, serves as a vantage point from which one can clearly see the connection between the regional wars and commercial media, as well as local journalists’ transformation into daily wage earners in a global media shift toward neoliberalism.

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242

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Anthem Press

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1839981385

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9781839981388

Out of Heart

By: Irfan Master

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Out of Heart

By: Irfan Master

Donating your heart is the most precious gift of all. LONGLISTED for the 2018 CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL Adam is a teenage boy who lives with his mum and younger sister. His dad has left them although lives close by. His sister no longer speaks and his mum works two jobs. Adam feels the weight of the world upon his shoulders. Then his grandfather dies and in doing so he donates a very precious gift - his heart. William is the recipient of Adam's grandfather's heart. He has no family and feels rootless and alone. In fact, he feels no particular reason to live. And then he meets Adam's family. William has received much, but it appears that he has much to offer Adam and his family too. A powerful tale of love and strength in adversity.

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183

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Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.

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1471405362

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9781471405365

Testing Creative Writing in Pakistan

By: Humaira Irfan

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Testing Creative Writing in Pakistan

By: Humaira Irfan

This book investigates the impact of creative writing tests on classroom practice in Pakistan. All National Education Policies in Pakistan since 1959 have expressed grave concern at the deteriorating standard of Board Examinations but no significant steps have been taken to improve the examination system. The method of assessment in the Pakistani classroom is influenced by the Board Examinations, with the students memorising the essays and stories from their textbooks and reproducing them. The Board Examination tends to produce negative washback as it damages learners’ creative talents. Appropriate changes in the textbooks and the external examination, however, will, in turn, definitely improve the teaching and assessment practices in the classroom.

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158

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527515605

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9781527515604

A Christian View of Islam

By: Thomas F. Michel,Irfan A. Omar

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A Christian View of Islam

By: Thomas F. Michel,Irfan A. Omar

A collection of essays on Christian-Muslim relations by one of the world's leading experts.

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348

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Orbis Books

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160833404X

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9781608334049

Heaven's Bankers

Inside the Hidden World of Islamic Finance

By: Harris Irfan

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Heaven's Bankers

Inside the Hidden World of Islamic Finance

By: Harris Irfan

A leading Islamic finance banker sheds light on an industry with growing global influence: “A superb introduction to a fascinating subject” (Financial Times) A trillion-dollar financial industry has revolutionized the global economy. Governments and corporations across the Islamic world have turned to finance that complies with Shari‘a law in order to fund economic growth. Even in the West, Islamic finance became an important alternative source of funding when the conventional finance industry was reeling from the effects of the financial crisis. From its origins in the seventh century, Islamic finance has sought to develop core ethical principles that are based in the foundations of Islam and Shari‘a. But with an increasing Western interest, is it able to remain true to the principles of its faith? Can it maintain its ideals of social justice? Or is Islamic finance guilty of the very dangers it seeks to avoid. In Heaven's Bankers, Harris Irfan, one of the world's leading Islamic finance bankers, gives unparalleled insight into the heart of this secretive industry. From his personal experience of working with leading bankers, scholars and lawyers, he debunks the myths of Islamic banking, analyzes its greatest deals, and looks to the future of a system that has reprioritized the very nature of money itself.

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275

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Abrams

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1468311832

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9781468311839

Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century

By: Irfan Shahîd

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Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century

By: Irfan Shahîd

This book elucidates the birth of the new relationship between the Roman Empire and the Arabs and the rise of its institutional forms. Shahîd discusses the participation of the Arab foederati in Byzantium's wars with her neighbors--the Persians and the Goths--during which those Arab allies contributed to the welfare of the imperium and the ecclesia.

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Dumbarton Oaks

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0884021165

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9780884021162

Islamism and Democracy in India

The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami

By: Irfan Ahmad

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Islamism and Democracy in India

The Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami

By: Irfan Ahmad

Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is the most influential Islamist organization in India today. Founded in 1941 by Syed Abul Ala Maududi with the aim of spreading Islamic values in the subcontinent, Jamaat and its young offshoot, the Student Islamic Movement of India or SIMI, have been watched closely by Indian security services since September 11. In particular, SIMI has been accused of being behind terrorist bombings. This book is the first in-depth examination of India's Jamaat-e-Islami and SIMI, exploring political Islam's complex relationship with democracy and providing a rare window into the Islamist trajectory in a Muslim-minority context. Irfan Ahmad conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork at a school in the town of Aligarh, among student activists at Aligarh Muslim University, at a madrasa in Azamgarh, and during Jamaat's participation in elections in 2002. He deftly traces Jamaat's changing position in relation to India's secular democracy and the group's gradual ideological shift toward religious pluralism and tolerance. Ahmad demonstrates how the rise of militant Hindu nationalism since the 1980s--evident in the destruction of the Babri mosque and widespread violence against Muslims--led to SIMI's radicalization, its rejection of pluralism, and its call for jihad. Islamism and Democracy in India argues that when secular democracy is responsive to the traditions and aspirations of its Muslim citizens, Muslims in turn embrace pluralism and democracy. But when democracy becomes majoritarian and exclusionary, Muslims turn radical.

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329

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Princeton University Press

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1400833795

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9781400833795

Essays in Indian History

Towards a Marxist Perception ; With, The Economic History of Medieval India: a Survey

By: Irfan Habib

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Essays in Indian History

Towards a Marxist Perception ; With, The Economic History of Medieval India: a Survey

By: Irfan Habib

This volume offers a collection of several of Professor Habib's essays, providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history.

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Anthem Press

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1843310252

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9781843310259

Jihad Or Itjihad

Religious Orthodoxy And Modern Science In Contemporary India

By: S. Irfan Habib

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Jihad Or Itjihad

Religious Orthodoxy And Modern Science In Contemporary India

By: S. Irfan Habib

While Europe was still stuck in the Dark Ages, scientists in the Islamic world were tranlsating Aristotle, and making huge strides in astronomy, mathematics and philosophy. Two thousand years later, the idea of 'scientific progress' seems to be locked in a hopeless war with Islam. When and how did Islam lose its enthusiasm for the workings of the natural world? S. Irfan Habib, one of the country's foremost historians, traces teh trajectomy of how 'mainstream' Islam came to question modern science - beginning with the reformers of the nineteenth century and ending with present-day idealogoues. Through the lives of famous men like Sir Syed Ahmed Khan and Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad, he demonstrates that the modern-day promulagtion of Islam and its followers as 'anti-modern' and 'anti-science' is a myth that leads, quite literally, to explosives consequences. Habib also channels his scholarship to both history and Islam to question the controversial idea of 'Islamic science' as a category distinct from 'modern', 'Eurocentric' science. In an engaging, easy style that belies the weightiness of the questions it seeks to answer, Jihad or Itijihad challenges both stereotypes and propaganda. This book places in perspective the relationship between Islam and science today.

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Harper Collins

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9350295563

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9789350295564

Pindi Calling

By: Irfan Haq

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Pindi Calling

By: Irfan Haq

Pindi Calling is a cautionary tale of deception about how lying to make things seem better always comes to a painful end.

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Trafford Publishing

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1426913648

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Book's by Irfan Khan

History of civilizations of Central Asia

History of civilizations of Central Asia

Religion as Critique

Religion as Critique

The Dark Side of News Fixing

The Dark Side of News Fixing

Out of Heart

Out of Heart

Testing Creative Writing in Pakistan

Testing Creative Writing in Pakistan

A Christian View of Islam

A Christian View of Islam

Heaven's Bankers

Heaven's Bankers

Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century

Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century

Islamism and Democracy in India

Islamism and Democracy in India

Essays in Indian History

Essays in Indian History

Jihad Or Itjihad

Jihad Or Itjihad

Pindi Calling

Pindi Calling

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