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The Great 'Umar Khayyam A Global Reception of the Rubáiyát /

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The Holy Drama : Persian Passion Play in Modern Iran by Nematollahi Mahani, Mahnia A.

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War and peace in world religions : the Gerald Weisfeld lectures 2003 /

Table of Contents: “…War and peace in Judaism / Dan Cohn-Sherbok ; War and peace in Christianity / Ian Hazlett ; War and peace in Islam / Lloyd Ridgeon -- Part III. Inter-religious foundations for peace ; Global ethic: development and goals / Hans Küng ; Peace and multireligious co-operation: the World Conference of Religions for Peace (WCRP) / Norbert Klaes.…”

Iran's foreign policy from Khatami to Ahmadinejad /

Table of Contents: “…Iran's foreign policy : independence, freedom and the Islamic Republic / R.K. Ramazani -- Foreign policy theories : implications for the foreign policy analysis of Iran / Ali Akbar Rezaei -- The United States and Iran in Iraq : risks and opportunities / Judith S. …”
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A passage to globalism globalization, identities and South Asian diasporic fiction in Britain / by Roy, Bidhan Chandra, 1882-1962

Table of Contents: “…Naipaul's Magic seeds, Manzu Islam's Burrow and Hari Kunzru's Transmission -- The new ummah: negotiating Muslim identities in Salman Rushdie's The satanic verses, Hanif Kureishi's The black album, and Monica Ali's Brick lane -- Gendering the world: globalization and gender identities in Farhana Sheikh's The red box, Meera Syal's Life isn't all ha ha hee and Nadeem Aslam's Maps for lost lovers -- Conclusion: Conflicted identities and new directions.…”
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An episodic history of mathematics mathematical culture through problem solving / by Krantz, Steven G. (Steven George), 1951-

Table of Contents: “…The ancient Greeks and the foundations of mathematics -- Zeno's paradox and the concept of limit -- The mystical mathematics of Hypatia -- The Islamic world and the development of algebra -- Cardano, Abel, Galois, and the solving of equations -- René Descartes and the idea of coordinates -- Pierre de Fermat and the invention of differential calculus -- The great Isaac Newton -- The complex numbers and the fundamental theorem of algebra -- Carl Friedrich Gauss: the prince of mathematics -- Sophie Germain and the attack on Fermat's last problem -- Cauchy and the foundations of analysis -- The prime numbers -- Dirichlet and how to count -- Bernhard Riemann and the geometry of surfaces -- Georg Cantor and the orders of infinity -- The number systems -- Henri Poincaré, child phenomenon -- Sonya Kovalevskaya and the mathematics of mechanics -- Emmy Noether and algebra -- Methods of proof -- Alan Turing and cryptography.…”
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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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Green polymer chemistry and composites : pollution prevention and waste reduction /

Table of Contents: “…Green Chemistry and Sustainable Nanotechnological Developments: Principles, Designs, Applications, and Efficiency / Yassine Slimani and Essia Hannachi -- The Next Generation Sustainable Polymers / Abu Darda, Halima Khatoon, Mohd Irfan, Sameer Ahmad, Weqar Ahmad Siddiqi, Sajid Iqbal, Ashiq Hussain Pandit, and Mohd Danish Ansari -- An Efficient Self-Charging Photocapacitor for Integrated Energy Storage and Conversion / Shama Islam, Zubair Aslam, Halima Khatoon, Hana Khan, and Mohd Zulfequar -- Polylactic Acid: An Eco-Friendly Material in the Packaging Industry, Paving the Way Toward a Greener Environment / S. …”
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Imagining the fetus the unborn in myth, religion, and culture /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Restoring nuance to imagining of the fetus -- The story of Samkarsana's and K.r.s.na's births : a drama involving embryos -- The great men of Jainism in utero: a survey -- A womb with a view : the Buddha's final fetal experiences -- Life in the womb : conception and gestation in Buddhist scripture and classical Indian medical literature -- Philosophical embryology : Buddhist texts and the ritual construction of a fetus -- Tibetan Buddhist narratives of the forces of creation -- Female feticide in the Punjab and fetus imagery in Sikhism -- Embryology in Babylonia and the bible -- The leaping child : imagining the unborn in early Christian literature -- Famous fetuses in Rabbinic narratives -- A prophet emerging : fetal narratives in Islamic literature -- The colossal fetuses of La Venta and Mesoamerica' earliest creation story -- Out of place : fetal references in Japanese mythology and cultural memory -- Seeing like a family : fetal ultrasound images and imaginings of kin.…”
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American diplomacy

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Distinctive characteristics of American diplomacy / Geoffrey Wiseman -- The distinction between foreign policy and diplomacy in American international thought and practice / David Clinton -- US diplomacy and diplomats: a Chinese view / Chen Zhimin -- European responses to US diplomacy / Michael Smith -- Transformational diplomacy: US tactics for change in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2004-2006 / Karin A. Esposito and S. …”
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Regimes of ethnicity and nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey by Akt�urk, Sener

Table of Contents: “…Regimes of ethnicity: comparative analysis of Germany, Soviet Union, post-Soviet Russia, and Turkey -- The challenges to the monoethnic regime in Germany, 1955--1982 -- The construction of an assimilationist discourse and political hegemony: transition from a monoethnic to an antiethnic regime in Germany, 1982--2000 -- Challenges to the ethnicity regime in Turkey: Alevi and Kurdish demands for recognition, 1923--1980 -- From social democracy to Islamic multiculturalism: failed and successful attempts to reform the ethnicity regime in Turkey, 1980--2009 -- The nation that wasn't there? …”
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Damascus : a history / by Burns, Ross

Table of Contents: “…The emergence of Damascus (9000 -- c1000 BC) -- Dimashqu : Damascus from the Aramaeans to the Assyrians (c1000 -- 732 BC) -- A greater game : Assyrians, Persians, Greeks (732-300 BC) -- The sowing of Hellenism : Ptolemies and Seleucids (300-64 BC) -- Towards a Pax Romana (64 BC-AD 30) -- Metropolis Romana (AD 30-268) -- Holding the line (AD 269-610) -- 'Farewell oh Syria' (611-661) -- The Umayyads (661-750) -- Decline, confusion and irrelevance (750-1098) -- Islam resurgent (1098-1174) -- Saladin and the Ayyubids (1174-1250) -- Mamluks (1250-1515) -- The Ottoman centuries (1516-1840) -- Reform and revitalisation (1840-1918) -- Epilogue : Countdown to Catastrophe (1919-2011)…”
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Origins of political extremism mass violence in the twentieth century and beyond / by Midlarsky, Manus I.

Table of Contents: “…An Ostensibly Sacred 'Ism': 6. Radical Islamism: foundations; 7. Contemporary radical Islamist movements; 8. …”
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On knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine

Table of Contents: “…: constraints in anthropological research in violent situations / Els van Dongen -- Neutralizing the young : the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and youth / Pamela Reynolds -- In touch without touching : Islam and healing / David Parkin.…”
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Facing fear the history of an emotion in global perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Fear and Its Opposites in the History of Emotions / Max Weiss -- Fear of the Thirty Years War / David Lederer -- Conceptions of Terror in the European Enlightenment / Ronald Schechter -- "When Fear rather than Reason Dominates" : Priests behind the Lines in the Tupac Amaru Rebellion (1780-83) / Charles Walker -- Fear in Colonial California and within the Borderlands / Lisbeth Haas -- Weimar Cinema between Hypnosis and Enlightenment / Andreas Killen -- Italian Fascism's Wartime Enemy and the Politics of Fear / Marla Stone -- The Persecuted Body : Evangelical Internationalism, Islam, and the Politics of Fear / Melani McAlister -- Danger, Media, and the Urban Experience in Delhi / Ravi Sundaram -- Fear of the Past : Post-Soviet Culture and the Soviet Terror / Alexander Etkind -- White Hajjis : Dutch Islamophobias Past and Present / Michael Laffan.…”
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Our lived realities : reading gender in Malaysia /

Table of Contents: “…Gapor -- Women, law, and justice, the case of domestic violence in Malaysia / Noraida Endut -- Shifting boundaries, Islam, jurisprudence, and gender in Malaysia / Zarizana Abdul Aziz.…”
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Small-scale wind power : design, analysis, and environmental impacts /

Table of Contents: “…Design of Darrieus-style wind turbines / M. Islam-- 4. Design of Savonius-style wind turbines / Sukanta Roy, Ujjwal K. …”
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Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans / by Chambers, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Apprenticeship and labour amongst Indian Muslim artisans -- 6. Neoliberalism and Islamic reform among Indian Muslim artisans: affect and self-making…”
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Fear and loathing in the North : Jews and Muslims in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region /

Table of Contents: “…Contact -- Trading with Muslims and the Sámi in medieval Norway / Bjørn Bandlien -- The evidence for Islamic scientific works in medieval Iceland / Christian Etheridge -- Fire-worshipping magicians of the north : Muslim perceptions of Scandinavia and the Norsemen / Kay Peter Jankrift -- The encounter with Islam between doctrinal image and life writing : Ambrosius Zeebout's report of Joos van Ghistele's travels to the East, 1481-1485 / Stefan Schröder -- II. …”
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