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  • Defiance in Exile

    Syrian Refugee Women in Jordan

    by Waed Athamneh, Muhammad Masud, Ebrahim Moosa ...
    This book offers a glimpse into Syrian refugee women’s stories of defiance and triumph in the aftermath of the Syrian uprising.The al-Zaatari Camp in northern Jordan is the largest Syrian refugee camp in the world, home to 80,000 inhabitants. While al-Zaatari has been described by the Western media as an ideal refugee camp, the Syrian women living within its confines offer a very different account ... Read more

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  • The Bangladesh Environmental Humanities Reader

    Environmental Justice, Development Victimhood, and Resistance

    by Samina Luthfa, Mohammad Tanzimuddin Khan, Munasir Kamal, Rubiat Afrose, Taslima Akhter, Fakrul Alam, Faria Alam, Zahid ul Arefin Choudhury0, Philip Gain1, Fahmidul Haq2, Monzima Haque3, Mesbah Kamal4, Mrittika Kamal5, Shehreen Ataur Khan6, Lutfun Nahar Lata7, Md. Rezwanul Haque Masud8, Sabrina Masud9, Anu Muhammad0, Golam Rabbani1, Lutfur Rahman2, Qazi Arka Rahman3, Soumya Sarker4, Fatema Tuj-Juhra5 ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    This volume analyses Bangladesh’s human-nature/environment relationships in terms of development victimhood, environmental injustices, and resistance of the marginalized. It demonstrates how the popular GDP-based economic growth model helps governments undertake “development” projects, threatening the environment and livelihood of the poor while benefiting the affluent. It represents the extant ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • The Objectives of Islamic Law

    The Promises and Challenges of the Maqasid al-Shari'a

    by Idris Nassery, Muna Tatari, Cefli Ademi, Habib Ahmed, Jasser Auda, Ayesha S. Chaudhry, Adis Duderija, Mohammad Hashim Kamali0, Mouez Khalfaoui1, Mohammed Nekroumi2, Felicitas Opwis3, Younes Soualhi4, Rumee Ahmed5, Muhammad Khalid Masud7 ...
    Scholars, thinkers, and activists around the world are paying increasing attention to a legal reform method that promises to revolutionize the way people think about Islamic law. Known as “The Objectives of the Shari‘a” (maqa?id al-shari‘a), the theory offers a way to derive and apply new Islamic laws using an ancient methodology. The theory identifies core objectives that underlie Islamic law, ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Sharia Law In The Twenty-first Century

    by Hana Jalloul Muro, Muhammad Khalid Masud ...
    Sharia Law in the Twenty-First Century consists of concise, detailed analytical studies on current critical discussions of Sharia in the Western and Muslim legal traditions. Contributors to this volume are well-known academics in their fields and have been at the forefront of critical studies on various aspects of Islamic law. Breaking new ground for understanding the dynamics of law and society, ... Read more

    $106.19 USD

  • Conservation of Marine Resources and Sustainable Coastal Community Development in Malaysia

    by Muhammad Mehedi Masud ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book addresses a timely and compelling emerging issue related to the conservation and sustainable use of marine resources and the sustainable development of the coastal community. Marine protected areas (MPAs) make a remarkable contribution to the protection of marine communities by providing sustainable livelihoods, deriving financial benefits from the development of fisheries and tourism, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Freedom of Expression in Islam

    Challenging Apostasy and Blasphemy Laws

    Edited by Muhammad Khalid Masud, Kari Vogt, Lena Larsen, Christian Moe ...
    In Muslim countries, apostasy and blasphemy laws are defended on the grounds that they are based on Islamic Shari'a and intended to protect religion. But blasphemy and apostasy laws can be used both to suppress thought and debate and to harass religious minorities, both inside and outside Islam. This book – comprising contributions from Muslim scholars, experts and activists - critically and ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

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    Globalization and the Terrorist Threat

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  • An Introduction to Islamic Law

    by Wael B. Hallaq ...
    The study of Islamic law can be a forbidding prospect for those entering the field for the first time. Wael Hallaq, a leading scholar and practitioner of Islamic law, guides students through the intricacies of the subject in this absorbing introduction. The first half of the book is devoted to a discussion of Islamic law in its pre-modern natural habitat. The second part explains how the law was ... Read more

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  • On Saudi Arabia

    Its People, Past, Religion, Fault Lines - and Future

    by Karen Elliott House ...
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  • The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa

    A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue

    by John Allembillah Azumah ...
    Thoughtful and challenging, this book argues for a reassessment of the role historically played by Islam in Africa, and offers new hope for in creased mutual understanding between African people of different faiths. Drawing on a wealth of sources, from the colonial period to the most up-to-date scholarship, the author challenges the widely held perception th at, while Christianity oppressed and ... Read more

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  • The Home That Was Our Country

    A Memoir of Syria

    by Alia Malek ...
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    "[A] concise and thoughtful history of the evolution of the Islamic legal system from the time of the first caliphs to our own" from the bestselling author ( U.S. News & World Report).One of Economist's Best Books of the YearWinner of the PROSE Award in Government and Politics, Association of American PublishersIn this incisive book, Harvard law professor Noah Feldman tells the story behind the ... Read more

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