Search Results - "Islamic"

Sharia Incorporated A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present /

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Islam and Politics in Indonesia : The Masyumi Party between Democracy and Integralism / by Madinier, Remy

Table of Contents: “…Half title page; Full title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Author's Note; Introduction; Chapter One -- The Party's Infancy: Its Political Genesis and Historical Lineage; Chapter Two -- The Early Signs of Political Schizophrenia: Caught between Stability and Revolution; Chapter Three -- Confronting Reality: Masyumi and the Exercise of Power; Chapter Four -- The Fall; Chapter Five -- Governing in the Name of Islam; Chapter Six -- The Ideal of an Islamic Society; Chapter Seven -- Conclusion…”
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Islamic Shangri-La : Inter-Asian Relations and Lhasa's Muslim Communities, 1600 to 1960 / by Atwill, David G.

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Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road by Elverskog, Johan

Subjects: “…Islam Relations Buddhism.…”
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Asian Islam in the 21st century

Subjects: “…Islam Asia 21st century.…”
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The madrasa in Asia political activism and transnational linkages /

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Gog and Magog in early Syriac and Islamic sources Sallam's quest for Alexander's wall /

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Contesting feminisms : gender and Islam in Asia /

Subjects: “…Feminism Religious aspects Islam.…”
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Familiar Strangers : A History of Muslims in Northwest China / by Lipman, Jonathan Neaman

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Asian Muslim women : globalization and local realities /

Subjects: “…Feminism Religious aspects Islam.…”
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Movimientos agrarios y cambio social en Asia y África / by Mukherjee, Prodyot C., Meyer, Jean A., 1942-, Tanaka, Michiko, Devalle, Susana B. C., Agüero, Celma

Table of Contents: “…Un movimiento mahdista, impacto del Islam en el proceso de cambio social en Africa Occidental /…”
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Mediating piety technology and religion in contemporary Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Turner -- The fate of God in the age of technology / Anton Sevilla -- Technology, religion and nationalism -- A message from Ashabirin : high technology and political Islam in Indonesia / Sulfi kar Amir -- Powerpointing Islam : form and spiritual reform in Reformasi Indonesia / Daromir Rudnyckyj -- Mediating piety -- A spectacle of worship : technology, modernity and the rise of the Christian megachurch / Joseph Nathan Cruz -- The "short-waved faith" : Christian broadcasting and Protestant conversion of the Hmong in Vietnam / Ngo Thi Thanh Tam -- 'New media', religious discourse, community -- Shopping for God : media and religion in Singapore / Robin Chee and James Chen -- The new face of global evangelism : virtualizing spiritual experience / Jayeel Serrano Cornelio -- Religious ecology on the internet: a case study of Tibetan Buddhism / Low Yuen Wei.…”
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Kingship In Asia and early America : 30. International Congress of Human Sciences In Asia and North Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Sacral and not-so-sacral kingship in the ancient Near East / John van Seters -- Kingship in Islam: an historical analysis / S.A.A. Rizvi -- Aspects of the nature and functions of Vedic kingship / James A. …”
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Studies on Asia and Africa from Latin America /

Table of Contents: “…Devalle - The rise and consolidation of the Islamic State / Manuel Ruiz Figueroa - Secularist discourse as ethnic ideology: a case from the Arab East / Santiago Quintana Pali - Les offrendes funeraires à Mari: expression rituelle d'un état dimorphe / Jorge Silva Castillo - L'État et la reproduction ethnique en Afrique / Yarisse Zoctizoum - Langues, ethnies et construction nationale en Afrique noire: le cas du Zaïre / Sylvain Carreau.…”
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Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory : Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court / by Stoker, Valerie, 1969-

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