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Prolegomena to the Qur'an

By: Al-Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Musawi al-Khu'i

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Prolegomena to the Qur'an

By: Al-Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Musawi al-Khu'i

Ayatollah al-Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al Musawi al-Khui (1899-1992) was one of the most respected and widely acclaimed authorities on Twelver Shi'ite Islam in this century. This book, which was first published in Arabic in 1974, presents al-Khuis comprehensive introduction to the history of the Quran. In it, al-Khui revisits many critical and controversial topics connected with the collection and ultimate canonization of the text that have received little attention in contemporary Muslim scholarship since the classical age. For instance, he tackles what is probably the single most controversial subject in Quranic studies: the question of possible alterations to the Quran as maintained by some succeeding generations of compilers of the Quran. Throughout the volume, al-Khui stresses the importance of understanding the historical setting in which the Quran was revealed; he does this in order to apply its provisions appropriately in contemporary Muslim society, with its ever-expanding legal and ethical requirements. In addition to expounding his own views, al-Khui also has the polemical purpose of refuting Sunni beliefs and concepts concerning various matters related to the theories of alteration and abrogation in the Quran. His arguments illuminate some of the substantial yet little-understood and appreciated issues that have been truly at stake between the two principal segments of the Muslim community. Translator Abdulaziz A. Sachedina supplies a helpful introduction to al-Khuis work, discussing the methodological problems involved with the study of such texts, and placing it in the historical context of polemic literature in Islam.

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Oxford University Press

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0195353730

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Proceedings of the Fourth Annual International Conference on Shi‘i Studies

By: Jafar Ahmad,Sayed Hossein Al Qazwini,Cameron Zargar,Vahid Mahdavi Mehr,Oliver Leaman,Christopher Clohessy,Sayyid Fadhil Bahrululoom,Nour Tessie Jorgensen,Mohamed Ahmed Abd Elrahman Ibrahim Enab,Ali Faraj,Ali Paya

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Proceedings of the Fourth Annual International Conference on Shi‘i Studies

The Annual International Conference on Shi‘i Studies is organised by the Research and Publications Department of The Islamic College, London. The conference aims to provide a broad platform for scholars working in the field of Shi‘i Studies to present their latest research and to explore diverse opinions on Shi‘i thought, practice, and heritage. This book comprises a selection of papers from the fourth conference held on 5-6 May 2018.

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ICAS Press

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1907905472

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Shining Sun: In Memory of 'Allamah Tabataba'i

A Translation of Mihr-i Taban

By: Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Husayni Tihrani

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Shining Sun: In Memory of 'Allamah Tabataba'i

A Translation of Mihr-i Taban

By: Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Husayni Tihrani

Shining Sun is a tribute to the life and thought of the renowned Islamic scholar, Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabataba’i, written soon after his death by one of his students. Shining Sun includes an overview of Tabataba’i’s life and transcriptions of discussions between Tabataba’i and his students. These discussions cover history, philosophy, mysticism, theology, and the Qur’an. Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabataba’i (1902-1981), commonly referred to as the most learned (‘Allamah), was a prominent Muslim scholar who breathed new life into the Shi‘a seminaries by establishing courses on the interpretation of the Qur’an and by introducing a novel method of Qur’anic interpretation. He was a master of Islamic philosophy and a model of spirituality. "‘Allamah Tabataba’i is undoubtedly the major Shi`a thinker of modern times, and his impact on Persian philosophy and theology is incomparable. Anyone who approaches his work is bound to be impressed by it, and the fertility of his thought can be seen in the considerable contributions that his many students have continued to make to Islamic philosophy. It is wonderful to see the Persian tradition of respecting great personalities in writing continuing in modern times." - Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky, USA

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ICAS Press

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1904063403

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Essential Tawhid

By: Sayyid Abul Qasim Radhawi

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Essential Tawhid

By: Sayyid Abul Qasim Radhawi

Essential Tawhid decribes in detail, the unique perspective on God from Shi'ite sources and is also a comparative work on God from the perspective of Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism.

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Lulu.com

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144674258X

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Fatimeh Al-Zahra (Sa)

By: Sayyid Munthir Hakim

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Fatimeh Al-Zahra (Sa)

By: Sayyid Munthir Hakim

By God! They raised objection against the cutting swords of Ali, his being indifference with respect to the death in the battlefield, his power of the combat in the warfare, and the scattering strokes. By God! If people have joined with each other and would have given the caliphate to some one about whom the Holy Prophet (SAW) has recommended, any time if the people had deviated from the path of the truth, he would guided them towards the righteous path with out any pain and disturbance that neither the mount had become incapacitated nor its rider would have tired and sad. Ultimately he would have lead them to the pure and pleasant fountainhead of water, the canal that on both sides was saturated with the waterthat had never been polluted. And then after the complete quenching of their thirst had returned them, and as a result they would have found him their well-wisher in hidden and apparent. [Ali] would never had taken any benefit from the world and from it there had not been any advantage except the quenching of the thirsty and feedings of the hungry ones. And here the world-worshipper from the ascetic one, righteous one from the liar had been explicit for all of them. And in accordance of what God’s has said in the Holy Qur’an: ‘If the people of towns would have accepted faith and were pious, We would have opened the gates of heaven’s blessing upon them, but since they denied We punished them for their evil deeds.’ And: ‘Those who indulges in the tyranny and oppression their deeds would caught their skirt, and they would never be able to escape from the divine punishment.’ The second Sermon of Fatimeh al-Zahra (SA), p-155.

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1496926951

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Shiʿite Islam

By: Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ṭabāṭabā'ī

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Shiʿite Islam

By: Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ṭabāṭabā'ī

Despite a growing interest in the last hundred years in both orientalism and comparative religions, and the fact that there are over fifty million Shi’a Muslims, until now there has been no thorough and objective study of that part of Islam called Shi’ism for Western scholars. The present work provides a clear account of the origin, history, and doctrines of an important sector of the Muslim religious community. It is written by a distinguished leader of that community, who, in addition to possessing a thorough knowledge of its traditional history and literature, presents its rational-philosophic, traditional-legal, and gnostic-mystical elements with warmth and sympathy. The result is a well-integrated general picture which succeeds in giving the reader a clear and comprehensive picture of how the Shi’ite Muslim views his religion.

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State University of New York Press

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0791494608

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The Return to Being: The Treatise on Friendship with God

By: Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabataba’i

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The Return to Being: The Treatise on Friendship with God

By: Sayyid Muhammad Husayn Tabataba’i

The Return to Being tells the story of the journey of the human soul from the material world to its ultimate goal – annihilation in Allah’s actions, attributes, and essence. In this work, ‘Allamah Tabataba’i outlines the human-divine relationship and the stages by which human beings can reach human perfection in their journey towards the station of ‘being in Being’. The author contends that all human beings have the capacity to achieve this highest stage of spiritual perfection whereby they can witness the beauty and glory of God. Integrating ontological and epistemological principles, Tabataba’i elaborates on the two interior and exterior aspects of realities, including religion, which manifest at different existential levels. The author also suggests spiritual methods to anyone who would like to learn more about theoretical and practical principles in order to attain spiritual refinement and to achieve the interior dimensions of existence and religious knowledge.

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ICAS Press

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1904063365

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Kernel of the Kernel

Concerning the Wayfaring and Spiritual Journey of the People of Intellect (Risāla-yi Lubb al-Lubāb dar Sayr wa Sulūk-i Ulu'l Albāb) A Shiʿi Approach to Sufism

By: Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ṭabāṭabā'ī

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Kernel of the Kernel

Concerning the Wayfaring and Spiritual Journey of the People of Intellect (Risāla-yi Lubb al-Lubāb dar Sayr wa Sulūk-i Ulu'l Albāb) A Shiʿi Approach to Sufism

By: Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ṭabāṭabā'ī

Kernel of the Kernel is an authoritative work on Sufism from a Shi'i perspective that is not only fascinating, but also contains much practical advice. In addition to providing a theoretical discussion of spiritual wayfaring, it is also the account of a personal fifty-year spiritual journey by Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ṭabāṭabā'ī, a renowned Iranian-Shii scholar and spiritual master. In Kernel of the Kernel, Ṭabāṭabā'ī discusses the doctrinal foundations of spiritual wayfaring as well as processes and stages that an aspiring wayfarer must go through in order to attain spiritual realization. He discusses the relation between the exoteric and esoteric aspects of Islam and clearly demonstrates that these inward and outward dimensions of Islam complement each other. The book also provides information on the Quranic origins of Sufism and its special relations with Shi'ism as well as the role of Shi'i Imams in the spiritual realization of a sincere wayfarer.

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State University of New York Press

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0791489272

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What a Muslim should Know and Believe

By: Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi

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What a Muslim should Know and Believe

By: Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi

This book, although brief and simple, is a comprehensive and detailed exposition of the main articles of Faith and all the dos and don’ts of Islam. This booklet will serve as a guide to those parents whose children are reaching the age of maturity, as well as to those missionaries who bring someone into the fold of true Islam. It would show them the minimum that their wards should believe in and act upon the moment they become baligh or are converted.

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Al-Ma‘ãrif Publications

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1990774067

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Recalling the Caliphate

Decolonization and World Order

By: S. Sayyid

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Recalling the Caliphate

Decolonization and World Order

By: S. Sayyid

As late as the last quarter of the twentieth century, there were expectations that Islam’s political and cultural influence would dissipate as the advance of westernization brought modernisation and secularisation in its wake. Not only has Islam failed to follow the trajectory pursued by variants of Christianity, namely confinement to the private sphere and depoliticisation, but it has also forcefully re-asserted itself as mobilisations in its name challenge the global order in a series of geopolitical, cultural and philosophical struggles. The continuing (if not growing) relevance of Islam suggests that global history cannot simply be presented as a scaled up version of that of the West. Quests for Muslim autonomy present themselves in several forms — local and global, extremist and moderate, conservative and revisionist — in the light of which the recycling of conventional narratives about Islam becomes increasingly problematic. Not only are these accounts inadequate for understanding Muslim experiences, but by relying on them many Western governments pursue policies that are counter-productive and ultimately hazardous for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Recalling the Caliphate engages critically with the interaction between Islam and the political in context of a post colonial world that continues to resist profound decolonisation. In the first part of this book, Sayyid focuses on how demands for Muslim autonomy are debated in terms such as democracy, cultural relativism, secularism, and liberalism. Each chapter analyses the displacements and evasions by which the decolonisation of the Muslim world continues to be deflected and deferred, while the latter part of the book builds on this critique and attempts to accelerate the decolonisation of the Muslim Ummah.

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Hurst Publishers

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178738876X

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Racism, Governance, and Public Policy

Beyond Human Rights

By: Katy Sian,Ian Law,S. Sayyid

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Racism, Governance, and Public Policy

Beyond Human Rights

By: Katy Sian,Ian Law,S. Sayyid

This book presents a new framing of policy debates on the question of racism through a discursive critique of contemporary issues and contexts, drawing on a program of new European research carried out between 2010 and 2013, with a central focus on the UK. This includes analysis of the discursive construction of Muslims in three contexts: the workplace, education and the media. Informed by a fundamental critique of both the "post-racial" and the limitations of human rights strategies, it identifies the ongoing significance of contemporary raciality in governance strategies and develops a new radical agenda for addressing these processes, advocating strategies of "racism reduction.

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Routledge

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1135083665

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Introduction to Logic: As Developed by Muslim Logicians

By: Sayyid Ali Murtada

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Introduction to Logic: As Developed by Muslim Logicians

By: Sayyid Ali Murtada

Logic is traditionally defined as a rule-based instrument, the application of which keeps the mind from making mistakes in reasoning. Logic teaches us various types of arguments and explains how to distinguish valid arguments from non-valid ones. This book is an English translation of Sayyid Ali Murtada’s 'Ilm al-Mantiq published in 2014. The Arabic original is based on Muhammad Rida al-Muzaffar’s (1904–1963) al-Mantiq, a textbook on logic used in Islamic seminaries. The present work is an introduction to logic and deals with topics ranging from conception, judgment, and signification to the four relations, the five universals, and the definition of propositions, contradiction, and syllogisms.

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ICAS Press

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1907905278

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A Postcolonial People

South Asians in Britain

By: Nasreen Ali,Salman Sayyid

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A Postcolonial People

South Asians in Britain

By: Nasreen Ali,Salman Sayyid

This is a critical survey of contemporary South Asian Britain. The book combines analysis with empirically rich studies to map out the diversity of the British Asian way of life. The contributors provide insights & information on the Asian British experience in its socio-economic & cultural dimensions.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1850657971

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Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi - A Biography

Challenges, Achievements, & Life

By: Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi

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Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi - A Biography

Challenges, Achievements, & Life

By: Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi

This is the biography of ‘The Shining Star’ (’Akhtar-e-Tabaan’) which rose in Bihar (India), radiated across the Indian subcontinent, and illuminated the path of many Africans towards Shī‘a Islam. Through his pen, he lit the lamp of Shī‘ism across continents and oceans, from Indonesia, to Guyana, to Europe, and beyond. ‘Allāmah Sayyid Saeed Akhtar Rizvi was confronted by many dark clouds: unfamiliar lands, languages, cultures, opposition, prejudice, politics, & more. However, his luminosity pierced through, overcoming all hurdles in his path of tabligh. Hopefully, reading his life’s story will re-energize your spirit to serve the cause of Islam, even when challenges come your way. This book hopes to demonstrate that if a person is equipped with true knowledge, a spirit of perseverance and sincerity, God will grant him tawfiq and success. ISBN 9780920675854. Copyright 2021, Al-Ma'arif Publications, All rights reserved.

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Al-Ma‘ãrif Publications

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0920675859

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Khums - An Islamic Tax

By: Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi

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Khums - An Islamic Tax

By: Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi

Khums is an issue every practicing Shi'ah must deal with once a year. The need for an easy to understand, yet comprehensive guide has been felt for years. Especially now more than ever, with the financial complexities of our world today. This book hopes to fill that void, since its first publication in 1984. The most popular aspect of this book is the khums calculation form, which provides easy to use, step-by-step instructions on calculating your khums for the year. This 4th edition includes numerous revisions and expansions, including: the history and usage of khums during the time of the Prophet and Imams, the moral and political aspects of khums, updated examples and rulings, practical and common issues for those living in the West, frequently raised questions, and much more. The book also reflects rulings based on various prominent maraji' in order to cater to as many muqallidin as possible. Previous versions of this book have been well received, as well as prompting insightful feedback from communities around the globe. It has been reprinted in Iran and Pakistan, translated into various languages, has had excerpts published in magazines, has been incorporated in other publications, and has been the basis for countless other seminars, booklets, and calculation forms. Some overall topics and features include: - Discussing the Islamic economic system - Khums in the Qur'an and history - Defining khums, income, surplus, expenses, etc - Various rulings and common situations - The distribution of khums - Some thoughts on khums and society - Calculation forms and guidelines Be sure to also check out the seminar and Q&A session on Khums, by Sayyid Muhammad Rizvi. It covers: - The meaning behind the concept of Khums - Items upon which khums is wajib - When do you pay khums? - What is surplus? What is profit? What is income? - What is exempt from khums? - What are savings? - What are allowable expenses? - What to do with debt? - Insurance premiums - Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) - Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) - Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA) - Private Company Pension Plans - Life Insurance (Whole and Term) Premiums - Critical Illness Insurance Premiums - Saving for the future - Child allowance - Saving for a home - Home equity - Dowry - Unused items - Gifts - Business inventory and property - Division of Khums - Q&A session

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Al-Ma‘ãrif Publications

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0920675158

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A Fundamental Fear

Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism

By: S. Sayyid

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A Fundamental Fear

Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism

By: S. Sayyid

The fear and anxiety aroused by Islamism is not a myth, nor is it simply a consequence of terrorism or fundamentalism. Writing in 1997, before 9/11 and before the austerity that has bred a new generation of far right groups across Europe and the US, S. Sayyid warned of a spectre haunting Western civilization. This groundbreaking book, banned by the Malaysian government, is both an analysis of the conditions that have made ‘Islamic fundamentalism’ possible and a provocative account of the ways in which Muslim identities have come to play an increasingly political role throughout the world. This is a pioneering, provocative and intricately crafted study, which shows the challenge of Islamism is not only geopolitical or even cultural but also epistemological.

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Zed Books Ltd.

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1783601930

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9781783601936

Folklore and Folklife in the United Arab Emirates

By: Sayyid Hamid Hurriez

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Folklore and Folklife in the United Arab Emirates

By: Sayyid Hamid Hurriez

A unique description and analysis of the domains and genres of UAE folklore, including folk customs and beliefs, traditional arts and crafts, folk dances, folk narratives and proverbs. Challenging the established meaning of folklife, this volume also deals with folklore in public life, in the mass media, in education and in politics.

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Routledge

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1136849149

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9781136849145

Some Aspects of Islam in Africa

By: ʻUthmān Sayyid Aḥmad Ismāʻīl Bīlī

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Some Aspects of Islam in Africa

By: ʻUthmān Sayyid Aḥmad Ismāʻīl Bīlī

Presents a collection of papers on aspects of Islam in Africa. This book intends to establish an independent and indigenous school of African history that sees history through African eyes.

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Garnet & Ithaca Press

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0863723195

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9780863723193

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