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The Book of Ramallah

A City in Short Fiction

By: Maya Abu Al-Hayat,Liana Badr,Anas Abu Rahma,Ahlam Bsharat,Ameer Hamad,Khaled Hourani,Ahmad Jaber,Ziad Khadash,Ibrahim Nasrallah,Mahmoud Shukair

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The Book of Ramallah

A City in Short Fiction

By: Maya Abu Al-Hayat,Liana Badr,Anas Abu Rahma,Ahlam Bsharat,Ameer Hamad,Khaled Hourani,Ahmad Jaber,Ziad Khadash,Ibrahim Nasrallah,Mahmoud Shukair

A coffee seller waits all day for one of his customers to ask him how he is, until eventually he just tells the city itself... A teenager is ordered off a bus at a checkpoint and told he must kiss a complete stranger if he wants the bus to be let through... A woman pilgrimages to the Cave of the Prophets, to pray for rain for her tiny patch of land, knowing it will take more than water to save it... Unlike most other Palestinian cities, Ramallah is a relatively new town, a de facto capital of the West Bank allowed to thrive after the Oslo Peace Accords, but just as quickly hemmed in and suffocated by the Occupation as the Accords have failed. Perched along the top of a mountainous ridge, it plays host to many contradictions: traditional Palestinian architecture jostling against aspirational developments and cultural initiatives, a thriving nightlife in one district, with much more conservative, religious attitudes in the next. Most striking however – as these stories show – is the quiet dignity, resilience and humour of its people; citizens who take their lives into their hands every time they travel from one place to the next, who continue to live through countless sieges, and yet still find the time, and resourcefulness, to create.

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Comma Press

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1912697521

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9781912697526

In Quest of Justice

Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt

By: Khaled Fahmy

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In Quest of Justice

Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt

By: Khaled Fahmy

In Quest of Justice provides the first full account of the establishment and workings of a new kind of state in Egypt in the modern period. Drawing on groundbreaking research in the Egyptian archives, this highly original book shows how the state affected those subject to it and their response. Illustrating how shari’a was actually implemented, how criminal justice functioned, and how scientific-medical knowledges and practices were introduced, Khaled Fahmy offers exciting new interpretations that are neither colonial nor nationalist. Moreover he shows how lower-class Egyptians did not see modern practices that fused medical and legal purposes in new ways as contrary to Islam. This is a major contribution to our understanding of Islam and modernity.

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Univ of California Press

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0520395611

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9780520395619

Radicalization in Western Europe

Integration, Public Discourse and Loss of Identity among Muslim Communities

By: Carolin Görzig,Khaled Al-Hashimi

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Radicalization in Western Europe

Integration, Public Discourse and Loss of Identity among Muslim Communities

By: Carolin Görzig,Khaled Al-Hashimi

Employing a theoretical framework based on the concept of identity loss, this book seeks to understand why increased integration has stimulated greater radicalization among the Muslim populations in Western Europe. Through extensive field research in four European countries – the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and France – the authors investigate three key questions: 1) Why are 2nd and 3rd generations of Muslims in Europe more radical than their parents?; 2) Why does Europe experience more "home-grown terrorism" today than thirty or forty years ago?; 3) Why do some European countries feature more radical Muslim communities than others? The book reveals that these three puzzling questions can be solved when analyzing the loss of individuality if the face of integration and identification with European society. While Individualist and structural approaches fail to explain radicalization of Muslims in Europe, this study, by framing radicalization through coupling the public discourse with identity loss, provides a much needed insight into the process of radicalization. Explaining radicalization and gaining an understanding of the drivers of radicalization is crucial to prevent and mitigate intercultural alienation, to further develop immigration policies, redress integration failures as well as to avoid dangerous oversimplifications. This book contributes not only to understanding why greater integration is matched by increasing radicalization, but its insights also contribute to developing ideas about how radicalization can be prevented or overcome and integration policies can be enhanced. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism and counter-terrorism, radical Islam, war and conflict studies, European politics, IR and security studies.

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192

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Routledge

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1317812662

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Reasoning with God

Reclaiming Shari‘ah in the Modern Age

By: Khaled Abou El Fadl

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Reasoning with God

Reclaiming Shari‘ah in the Modern Age

By: Khaled Abou El Fadl

In light of recent concern over Shari’ah, such as proposed laws to prohibit it in the United States and conflict over the role it should play in the new Egyptian constitution, many people are confused about the meaning of Shari‘ah in Islam and its role in the world today. In Reasoning with God, renowned Islamic scholar Khaled Abou El Fadl explains not only what Shari‘ah really means, but also the way it can revitalize and reengage contemporary Islam. After a prologue that provides an essential overview of Shari‘ah, Abou El Fadl explores the moral trajectory of Islam in today’s world. Weaving powerful personal stories with broader global examples, he shows the ways that some interpretations of Islam today have undermined its potential in peace and love. Rather than simply outlining challenges, however, the author provides constructive suggestions about how Muslims can reengage the ethical tradition of their faith through Shari‘ah. As the world’s second largest religion, Islam remains an important force on the global stage. Reasoning with God takes readers—both Muslim and non-Muslim—beyond superficial understandings of Shari‘ah to a deeper understanding of its meaning and potential.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442238445

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9781442238442

Speaking in God's Name

Islamic Law, Authority and Women

By: Khaled Abou El Fadl

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Speaking in God's Name

Islamic Law, Authority and Women

By: Khaled Abou El Fadl

Drawing on both religious and secular sources, this challenging book argues that divinely ordained law is frequently misinterpreted by Muslim authorities at the expense of certain groups, including women. Khaled Abou El Fadl cites a series of injustices in Islamic society and ultimately proposes a return to the original ethics at the heart of the Muslim legal system.

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Simon and Schuster

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1780744684

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9781780744681

No One Prayed Over Their Graves

A Novel

By: Khaled Khalifa

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No One Prayed Over Their Graves

A Novel

By: Khaled Khalifa

Longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Fiction | One of The Washington Post's 50 best works of fiction of 2023 “Gorgeous . . . Lush, elegiac [and] Márquezian . . . A novel of abundance and generosity.” —Sarah Cypher, The Washington Post “Richly embroidered . . . [Khalifa’s] galloping narration restores life and soul to a city that has become a byword for devastation.” —The Economist From the National Book Award finalist Khaled Khalifa, the story of two friends whose lives are altered by a flood that devastates their Syrian village. On a December morning in 1907, two close friends, Hanna and Zakariya, return to their village near Aleppo after a night of drunken carousing in the city, only to discover that there has been a massive flood. Their neighbors, families, children—nearly all of them are dead. Their homes, shops, and places of worship are leveled. Their lives will never be the same. Hanna was once a wealthy libertine, a landowner who built a famed citadel devoted to the pursuit of pleasure and excess. But with the loss of his home, wife, and community, he transforms, becoming an ascetic mystic obsessed with death and the meaning of life. In No One Prayed Over Their Graves, we follow Hanna's life before and after the flood, tracing friendships, loves and lusts, family and business, until he is just one thread in the rich tapestry of Aleppo. Khaled Khalifa weaves a sweeping tale of life and death in the hubbub of Aleppine society at the turn of the twentieth century. No One Prayed Over Their Graves is a portrait of a people on the verge of great change—from provincial villages to the burgeoning modernity of the city, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews live and work together, united in their love for Aleppo and their dreams for the future.

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345

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374601933

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9780374601935

And God Knows the Soldiers

The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses

By: Khaled M. Abou El Fadl

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And God Knows the Soldiers

The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses

By: Khaled M. Abou El Fadl

This is a substantially expanded edition of the author's seminal work The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses: A Contemporary Case Study. Beginning with the case study of a Muslim basketball player who refused to stand up while the American national anthem was playing, the author documents the disintegration of the Islamic juristic tradition, and the prevalence of authoritarianism in contemporary Muslim discourses. The author analyzes the rise of what he describes as puritan and despotic trends in modern Islam, and asserts that such trends nullify the richness and diversity of the Islamic tradition. By declaring themselves the true soldiers of God and the defenders of religion, Muslim puritan movements are able to degrade women, eradicate critical thinking, and empty Islam of its moral content. In effect, the author argues, the self-declared protectors of Islam become its despots and oppressors who suppress the dynamism and vigor of the Islamic message. Anchoring himself in the rich Islamic jurisprudential tradition, the author argues for upholding the authoritativeness of the religious text without succumbing to authoritarian methodologies of interpretation. Ultimately, the author asserts that in order to respect the integrity of the Divine laws it is necessary to adopt rigorous analytical methodologies of interpretation, and to re-investigate the place of morality in modern Islam.

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213

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University Press of America

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1461677351

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9781461677352

The Development of Arabic Logic (1200–1800)

By: Khaled El-Rouayheb

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The Development of Arabic Logic (1200–1800)

By: Khaled El-Rouayheb

Recent years have seen a dramatic change in scholarly views of the later career of Arabic and Islamic philosophy. For much of the twentieth century, researchers tended to dismiss the value of Arabic writings on philosophy and logic after the twelfth century, often on the basis of the prejudice that handbooks, commentaries and glosses are of necessity pedantic and unoriginal. This assumption has now been abandoned. As a consequence, a vast amount of later Arabic writings on philosophy and logic, hitherto neglected, are now being studied and edited. The present work is an attempt at giving an overview of the development of Arabic logic from 1200 to 1800, identifying major themes, figures and works in this period, while taking into account regional differences within the Islamic world. It offers a corrective to Nicholas Rescher's seminal but now outdated The Development of Arabic Logic, published in 1964.

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Schwabe Verlag (Basel)

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3796539378

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9783796539374

Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century

Scholarly Currents in the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb

By: Khaled El-Rouayheb

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Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century

Scholarly Currents in the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb

By: Khaled El-Rouayheb

For much of the twentieth century, the intellectual life of the Ottoman and Arabic-Islamic world in the seventeenth century was ignored or mischaracterized by historians. Ottomanists typically saw the seventeenth century as marking the end of Ottoman cultural florescence, while modern Arab nationalist historians tended to see it as yet another century of intellectual darkness under Ottoman rule. This book is the first sustained effort at investigating some of the intellectual currents among Ottoman and North African scholars of the early modern period. Examining the intellectual production of the ranks of learned ulema (scholars) through close readings of various treatises, commentaries, and marginalia, Khaled El-Rouayheb argues for a more textured - and text-centered - understanding of the vibrant exchange of ideas and transmission of knowledge across a vast expanse of Ottoman-controlled territory.

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417

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Cambridge University Press

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1316352021

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9781316352021

The Relationship Between E-Government and Job Performance

By: Khaled Mahmoud AL- Mashaqbeh

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The Relationship Between E-Government and Job Performance

By: Khaled Mahmoud AL- Mashaqbeh

E-government is the use of information technology for promoting a more efficient and effective government service that allows excellent public access to information and makes the government more accountable. The use of E-government services enables the use of different information equipment, which will allow enterprises and the public sector to receive related services at different places and times (Carter & Belanger, 2005). Various countries around the world have adopted the modernization theory of implementing e-government that is a transformation approach. The recent technological developments; the technological revolution, in the twentieth century and their significant acceleration in the twenty-first century brought radical changes in communities through the use of these developments; electronic media, communications, the Internet and electronic linkage, and the human element, that altogether represent the concept of electronic government (Dawes, 2009; Hussein, 2008; Wirtz & Daiser, 2017). In simple terms, e-government has the responsibility of providing citizens with public service and essential information using several or different information and technology (Burns & Robins, 2005). The e-government aims at delivering improved public services with increased flexibility, efficiency and opportunity for interactions among citizens.

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دار الخليج للنشر والتوزيع / daralkhalij for Publishing and Distribution

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9923231747

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9789923231746

Stochastic Geometry Analysis of Multi-Antenna Wireless Networks

By: Xianghao Yu,Chang Li,Jun Zhang,Khaled B. Letaief

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Stochastic Geometry Analysis of Multi-Antenna Wireless Networks

By: Xianghao Yu,Chang Li,Jun Zhang,Khaled B. Letaief

This book presents a unified framework for the tractable analysis of large-scale, multi-antenna wireless networks using stochastic geometry. This mathematical analysis is essential for assessing and understanding the performance of complicated multi-antenna networks, which are one of the foundations of 5G and beyond networks to meet the ever-increasing demands for network capacity. Describing the salient properties of the framework, which makes the analysis of multi-antenna networks comparable to that of their single-antenna counterparts, the book discusses effective design approaches that do not require complex system-level simulations. It also includes various application examples with different multi-antenna network models to illustrate the framework’s effectiveness.

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188

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Springer

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981135880X

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9789811358807

Book's by Khaled Hourani

The Book of Ramallah

The Book of Ramallah

In Quest of Justice

In Quest of Justice

Radicalization in Western Europe

Radicalization in Western Europe

Reasoning with God

Reasoning with God

Speaking in God's Name

Speaking in God's Name

No One Prayed Over Their Graves

No One Prayed Over Their Graves

And God Knows the Soldiers

And God Knows the Soldiers

The Development of Arabic Logic (1200–1800)

The Development of Arabic Logic (1200–1800)

Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century

Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century

The Relationship Between E-Government and Job Performance

The Relationship Between E-Government and Job Performance

Stochastic Geometry Analysis of Multi-Antenna Wireless Networks

Stochastic Geometry Analysis of Multi-Antenna Wireless Networks

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