Search Results - "The Sufis"

Afghanistan's Islam : From Conversion to the Taliban /

Table of Contents: “…The beginnings of Islam in Afghanistan : conquest, acculturation and Islamization / Arezou Azad -- Women and religious patronage in the Timurid Empire / Nushin Arbabzadah -- The rise of the Khwajagan-Naqshbandi Sufis in Timurid Herat / Jürgen Paul -- Earning a living : promoting Islamic culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / R.D. …”
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Race and Rurality in the Global Economy /

Table of Contents: “…Merchants and Ulama: Markadugu and MoriduguSufi-Scholars and Zawiya; The Revolutionary Countryside; Counterrevolution: The Zawiya as Fandugu; Conclusion; References; 2 Making Development through Rural Initiative "Unthinkable": Tanzania in the Time of Ujamaa; Introduction; Defining a Narrative of State-Led Development; What Was Missing from the State-Centered Narrative of Ujamaa Development; A Past Ignored Creates Frustration; Conclusion; References; 3 Racialization and the Historical Production of Contemporary Land Rights Inequalities in Upland Northern Thailand; Introduction…”
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The Great 'Umar Khayyam : A Global Reception of the Rubáiyát /

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