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1201) Jawed Karim
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This biography for early readers examines the life of Muslim Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube, in a simple, age-appropriate way that helps young readers develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes table of contents, author biography, timeline, glossary, index, and other informative backmatter. The My Itty-Bitty Bio series celebrates diversity, covering women and men from a range of backgrounds and professions including immigrants and individuals...
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Jesus and Muhammad are arguably the two most influential individuals who have ever lived. Over half of the world today claims to follow them and the religions they founded: Christianity and Islam. But who were these two men? Where did they come from? What did they do and teach? And what was their vision for the future? Understanding Jesus and Muhammad answers all these questions, drawing on the earliest ancient documents we have about them. In the...
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Juliane Hammer is associate professor and the Kenan Rifai Scholar of Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism and Palestinians Born in Exile.
An in-depth look at how Muslim American organizations address domestic violence within their communities
In Peaceful Families, Juliane Hammer chronicles and examines the efforts, stories, arguments, and...
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This profound book is a powerful yet balanced critique of mainstream economics that makes a forceful plea for taking economics out of its secular and occident-centred cocoon. It presents an innovative and formidable case to re-link economics with moral and egalitarian concerns so as to harness the discipline in the service of humanity.
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This book explores in detail the proposition that (private) morality, especially religious morality, is vital for achieving economic well-being and human happiness; and that this linkage would be even stronger in an Islamic economy. The book highlights the need for an active interaction between religion, morality and economics in general and in an (idealized) Islamic economy in particular.
1206) 25 Prophets of Islam
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Ever wondered who is a prophet, and if there is a connection between the work of one prophet and another? This book explains the role of a prophet and the relationship between the work of one prophet and another while sharing with you the names and lives of some of the prophets of Islam. The prophets of Islam include: Adam, Idris (Enoch), Nuh (Noah), Hud (Heber), Saleh (Methusaleh), Lut (Lot), Ibrahim (Abraham), Ismail (Ishmael), Ishaq (Isaac), Yaqub...
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This reference shows how to understand the history and tactics of the global terror group ISIS-and how to use that knowledge to defeat it.
ISIS-the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-has taken on the mantle of being the single most dangerous terrorist threat to global security since al-Qaeda. In Defeating ISIS, internationally renowned intelligence veteran, author, and counterterrorism expert Malcolm Nance gives an insider's view to explain the origins...
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"Winner of the 2017 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association" "Winner of the 2017 Award for Excellence in Religion in Analytical-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of Religion" Noah Salomon is assistant professor of religion at Carleton College.
For some, the idea of an Islamic state serves to fulfill aspirations for cultural sovereignty and new forms of ethical political practice. For others, it violates the proper domains...
1209) On the Muslim Question
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Anne Norton is professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire; 95 Theses on Politics, Culture, and Method; and Republic of Signs.
Why "the Muslim question" is really about the West and its own anxieties-not Islam
In the post-9/11 West, there is no shortage of strident voices telling us that Islam is a threat to the security, values, way of life, and even existence...
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In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials struggled to control and co-opt Russia's mass hajj traffic, seeing it not only as a liability, but also an opportunity. To support the hajj as a matter...
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Through touching stories, humorous anecdotes, and profound insights into the spiritual realm that draw on sacred Islamic teachings, Dr. Haidar Bagir shines a brilliant light into the darkness that all too often overwhelms us. Consisting of twenty-nine short, inspirational chapters, this work will take you on a spiritual quest to overcome the maladies of your soul and help you experience true happiness.
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Hüseyin Yılmaz is associate professor of history and director of the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University.
How the Ottomans refashioned and legitimated their rule through mystical imageries of authority
The medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750–1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet...
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"One of Foreign Affairs' Best Books on the Middle East (Terrorism & Counterterrorism) 2016" Diego Gambetta is professor of social theory at the European University Institute, Florence, and official fellow of Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. His books include The Sicilian Mafia and Codes of the Underworld (Princeton). Steffen Hertog is associate professor of comparative politics at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Princes,...
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Sometimes life isn't just about the choices WE make, it's about how the choices THEY make, affect us. “I Didn't Sign Up for This” is an honest and unabashedly bold memoir by a woman thrown into a life of isolation after her husband was convicted of murder.
Sharp witted and bracingly candid, Shabazz unpacks the adverse effects of incarceration on loved ones, often hidden and damaging-to tell a personal story of recovery from shame into a spirit-filled...
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La mise en tutelle de la musulmane est-elle cautionnée par le Coran? L'idée de l'infériorité de la femme est-elle réellement inscrite dans le Coran? Telles sont les questions auxquelles l'auteure tente de répondre dans le présent ouvrage. Elle se penche sur les diverses approches adoptées par des penseurs réformistes musulmans, dont elle expose les enjeux sociaux, politiques et culturels ainsi que les finalités. Elle procède à une analyse...
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"Winner of the 2016 JMEWS Book Award, Journal of Middle Eastern Women's Studies and Association of Middle East Women's Studies" Ellen McLarney is assistant professor of Arabic literature and culture at Duke University.
The unheralded contribution of women to Egypt's Islamist movement-and how they talk about women's rights in Islamic terms
In the decades leading up to the Arab Spring in 2011, when Hosni Mubarak's authoritarian regime was swept from...
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The pomegranate is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub in the family Lythraceae, subfamily Punicoideae that grows between 5 and 10 m tall. The pomegranate was originally described throughout the Mediterranean region.
The fruit is typically in season in the Northern Hemisphere from October to Februaryand in the Southern Hemisphere from March to May. As intact sarcotestas or juice, pomegranates are used in baking, cooking, juice blends, meal garnishes,...
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Surah An-Nur (The Light) is the 24th sura of the Qur'an with 64 ayat. The general agreement of scholars is that this sura was revealed shortly before or after the Battle of the Trench in 5 AH. The surah begins with various explanations and decrees on or relating to corrupt sexual acts, family law, and specifications on the giving of testimony. Foremost amongst these rulings is God's punishment for adultery. This section ends with the pronouncement...
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An English Translation of Nahw Meer for the student of Arabic Grammar by Meer Syed Shareef Abul Hasan Bin Mohammed Al-Jurjani (RA). Ilm un Nahw is that science that teaches us how to join Nouns, Verbs, and Particles to form a complete sentence and what the vowel of the last letter of each word should be. This science started from the time of Omar bin Al-Khattab (RA) when one of the Bedouins read part of the Ayah 3 of Surah At-Tauba with a Kasrah at...
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