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  • Islam, Law and the Modern State

    (Re)imagining Liberal Theory in Muslim Contexts

    by Arif A. Jamal ...
    Series series ICLARS Series on Law and Religion
    Within the global phenomenon of the (re)emergence of religion into issues of public debate, one of the most salient issues confronting contemporary Muslim societies is how to relate the legal and political heritage that developed in pre-modern Islamic polities to the political order of the modern states in which Muslims now live. This work seeks to develop a framework for addressing this issue. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Manual of Drug and Alcohol Abuse

    Guidelines for Teaching in Medical and Health Institutions

    Edited by A. Arif, J. Westermeyer ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    During the last few centuries, and particularly in recent decades, problems result ing from the excessive use of drugs and alcohol have spread virtually as an epidemic to every country in the world and to almost every community. Abuse of alcohol and drugs is related to numerous other health problems, such as the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) on all continents. Health and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Regulating Religion in Asia

    Norms, Modes, and Challenges

    Edited by Jaclyn L. Neo, Arif A. Jamal, Daniel P. S. Goh ...
    In recent years, law and religion scholarship has increasingly emphasized the need to study the interaction of legal and religious ideas and institutions, norms and practices. The overall question that this scholarship explores may be stated as follows: how do legal and religious ideas and institutions, methods and mechanisms, beliefs and believers influence each other, for better and for worse, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Freedom of Religion or Belief

    Edited by Silvio Ferrari, Mark Hill QC, Arif A Jamal, Rossella Bottoni ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Law
    Freedom of religion is an issue of universal interest and scope. However, in the last two centuries at least, the philosophical, religious and legal terms of the question have been largely defined in the West. In an increasingly global world, widening our knowledge of this right’s roots in different cultural and legal systems becomes a priority. This Handbook seeks to attain this goal through a ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • What I Believe

    by Tariq Ramadan ...
    Tariq Ramadan is very much a public figure, named one of Time magazine's most important innovators of the twenty-first century. He is among the leading Islamic thinkers in the West, with a large following around the world. But he has also been a lightning rod for controversy. Indeed, in 2004, Ramadan was prevented from entering the U.S. by the Bush administration and despite two appeals, supported ... Read more

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  • The West and the Rest

    Globalization and the Terrorist Threat

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Scruton shows how the different religious and philosophical roots of Western and Islamic societies have resulted in those societies' profoundly divergent beliefs about the nature of political order. For one thing, the idea of the social contract, crucial to the self-conception of Western nations, is entirely absent in Islamic societies. Similarly, Scruton explains why the notions of territorial ... Read more

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  • Politics of Piety

    The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject

    by Saba Mahmood ...
    Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. Saba ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Religion in the Contemporary World

    A Sociological Introduction

    by Alan Aldridge ...
    In the new edition of this widely praised text, Alan Aldridge examines the complex realities of religious belief, practice and institutions. Religion is a powerful and controversial force in the contemporary world, even in supposedly secular societies. Almost all societies seek to cultivate religions and faith communities as sources of social stability and engines of social progress. They also try ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • The Impossible State

    Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament

    by Wael Hallaq ...
    Wael B. Hallaq boldly argues that the "Islamic state," judged by any standard definition of what the modern state represents, is both impossible and inherently self-contradictory. Comparing the legal, political, moral, and constitutional histories of premodern Islam and Euro-America, he finds the adoption and practice of the modern state to be highly problematic for modern Muslims. He also ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics

    by Monica Duffy Toft,Daniel Philpott,Timothy Samuel Shah ...
    A fresh and illuminating perspective on the surge in religion"s political influence across the globe. Is religion a force for good or evil in world politics? How much influence does it have? Despite predictions of its decline, religion has resurged in political influence across the globe, helped by the very forces that were supposed to bury it: democracy, globalization, and technology. And despite ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Of Virgins and Martyrs

    Women and Sexuality in Global Conflict

    by David Jacobson ...
    Series series Themes in Global Social Change
    Explores the role of women’s status, bodies, and sexuality in global conflicts.Women's bodies have become a battleground. Around the world, people argue about veiling, schooling for Afghan girls, and "SlutWalk" protests, all of which involve issues of women's sexuality and freedom. Globalization, with its emphasis on human rights and individuality, heats up these arguments. In Of Virgins and ... Read more

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  • The Myth of Religious Violence

    Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict

    by William T Cavanaugh ...
    The idea that religion has a dangerous tendency to promote violence is part of the conventional wisdom of Western societies, and it underlies many of our institutions and policies, from limits on the public role of religion to efforts to promote liberal democracy in the Middle East. William T. Cavanaugh challenges this conventional wisdom by examining how the twin categories of religion and the ... Read more

    $79.19 USD