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Making and unmaking nations : war, leadership, and genocide in modern Africa / by Straus, Scott

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the puzzle of genocide -- The concept and logic of genocide -- Escalation and restraint -- A theory of genocide -- Mass categorical violence and genocide in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1960-2008 -- Retreating from the brink in Côte d'Ivoire -- The politics of dialogue in Mali -- Pluralism and accommodation in Senegal -- Endangered Arab-Islamic nationalism in Sudan -- Fighting for the Hutu revolution in Rwanda -- Conclusion : making nations and preventing their unmaking.…”

Movers and shakers social movements in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…/ Stephen Ellis & Ineke van Kessel -- Social movement theory : past, presence & prospects / Jacquelien van Stekelenburg & Bert Klandermans -- Speaking to global debates through a national and continental lens : South African and African social movements in comparative perspective / Adam Habib & Paul Opoku-Mensah -- African civil society, 'blood diamonds' and the Kimberley process / Lansana Gberie -- The Islamic courts union : the ebb and flow of a Somali Islamist movement / Jon Abbink -- Liberia's women acting for peace : collective action in a war-affected country / Veronika Fuest -- Nurtured from the pulpit : the emergence and growth of Malawi's democracy movement / Boniface Dulani -- Bare-foot activists : transformations in the haratine movement in Mauritania / Zekeria Ould Ahmed Salem -- An Islamic social movement in contemporary West Africa : NASFAT of Nigeria / Benjamin Soares -- The United Democratic Front's legacy in South Africa : mission accomplished or vision betrayed? …”
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Conflicted Antiquities : Egyptology, Egyptomania, Egyptian Modernity / by Colla, Elliott, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The Egyptian Sculpture Room -- The Artifaction of the Memnon Head -- Ozymandias -- Conflicted Antiquities: Islam's Pharaoh and Emergent Egyptology -- The Antiqakhana -- Pharaonic Selves -- Two Pharaohs -- The Discovery of Tutankhamen's Tomb: Archaeology, Politics, Literature -- Nahdat Misr -- Pharaonism after Pharaonism: Mahfouz and Qutb.…”
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Rival Kurdish Movements in Turkey : Transforming Ethnic Conflict / by Gurbuz, Mustafa Cagri

Table of Contents: “…Îslam Çareser e -- Islamic Activists Discover Kurdish -- Increasing Competition over Kurdish Language -- Hizbullah: From Ayatollah Khomeini to Said Nursi -- HÜDA-PAR: Calling the Party of God in Kurdish -- 8. …”
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The archaeology of Jerusalem : from the origins to the Ottomans / by Galor, Katharina

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: history of the research -- Natural and man-made city limits -- The Chalcolithic period and the Bronze Age -- The Iron Age -- The Babylonian and Persian periods -- The Hellenistic period -- The Roman period -- The Byzantine period -- The early Islamic period -- The crusader and Ayyubid periods -- The Mamluk period -- The Ottoman period.…”
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A history of modern Africa : 1800 to the present / by Reid, Richard J (Richard James)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: understanding the contours of Africa's past -- Western transitions: slave trade and "legitimate" commerce in Atlantic Africa -- Eastern intrusions: slaves and ivory in eastern Africa -- Southern frontiers: colony and revolution in southern Africa -- Revival and reaction: North African Islam -- Jihad: revolutions in western Africa -- The eastern crescent: the Islamic frontier in eastern Africa -- The compass and the cross -- "Whatever happens": towards the scramble -- Africans adapting: conquest and partition -- "Pax colonia": empires of soil and service -- Hard times: protest, identity, and depression -- Battles home and away: Africa in global war (again) -- The beached whale: colonial strategies in the postwar world -- Conceiving and producing nations -- Compromising conflict: routes to independence -- Unsafe foundations: challenges of independence -- Violence and the militarization of political culture -- Rectification, redemption, and reality: issues and trends in contemporary Africa.…”

The boundaries of Europe : from the fall of the ancient world to the age of decolonisation /

Table of Contents: “…Premessa (Foreword) / Pietro Rossi -- Mediterraneo da "mare nostrum" a frontiera tra civilta (The Mediterranean from "mare nostrum" to frontier between civilisations) / Arnaldo Marcone -- L'Europa e l'Islam : incontri e scontri (Europe and Islam : encounters and confrontations) / Franco Cardini -- The conquest of the north / Bo Strath -- Die Ausdehnung nach Osten (The expansion towards the East) / Manfred Hildermeier -- Europa und das osmanische Reich (Europe and the Ottoman Empire) / Markus Koller -- La russia tra europa e asia (Russia between Europe and Asia) / Alberto Masoero -- Europe and the Atlantic / John H. …”
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The poetics of Iranian cinema aesthetics, modernity and film after the revolution / by Sheibani, Khatereh

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Islamic Revolution and aesthetic evolution -- Cinema art: a poetic interpretation -- Kiarostami and the aesthetics of Ghazal -- Kiarostami and modern Persian poetry -- Modernity and identity in a cinematic perspective -- Mirroring the past, envisioning the future -- Bayzai and the conventions of visual arts -- Conclusion: responding to the Cry of the Simurgh.…”
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Indonesia betrayed how development fails / by Collins, Elizabeth Fuller

Table of Contents: “…: the state and corruption -- Local autonomy : democracy in name only? -- Islam and the quest for justice -- Indonesia in global context: development, free-market capitalism, and democracy.…”
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Music, disability, and society by Lubet, Alex, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Piano men, or the right hand doesn't-- no -- Let's face the music and dance : jazz and physical disability -- Play like an Egyptian : music and blind culture -- Losing-- my religion : music, disability, gender, and Jewish and Islamic law -- Bringing it all back home, or teach your children-- well?.…”
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The international dimension of the failed Algerian transition democracy betrayed? / by Cavatorta, Francesco

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Algeria's failed process of democratisation -- Regime change and international variables -- Explaining Algeria's transition : the international connection -- The external context of the algerian transition -- The external-internal linkages of the transition -- Islamism and democracy : international perceptions -- From partners to allies : the integration of authoritarian Algeria in the iternational system -- Conclusion.…”
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Peripheral visions publics, power, and performance in Yemen / by Wedeen, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…t chews as public spheres -- Practicing piety, summoning groups: disorder as control -- Piety in time: contemporary islamic movements in national and transnational contexts -- Conclusion -- Politics as performative -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Model citizens of the state the Jews of Turkey during the multi-party period / by Bali, R�fat N., 1948-

Table of Contents: “…The Democrat Party years, 1950-1960 -- From the 1960 revolution to the 1971 "memorandum" -- From the "memorandum" of March 12, 1971, to the military coup of September 12, 1980 -- The years of military administration, 1980-1983 -- The �Ozal years, 1984-1993 -- The rise, fall, and ideological transformation of political Islam, 1994-2003.…”
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African histories : new sources and new techniques for studying African pasts / by Brizuela-Garcia, Esperanza

Table of Contents: “…Archaeobotany and cultivation in Africa -- Early written evidence of state and society in classical northeastern Africa -- Linguistic evidence and the Bantu expansion -- Archaeological evidence for the development of African cities -- African memories and perspectives of the Atlantic slave trade -- Islamic sources and versions of Swahili origins -- Intellectual history and cultural nationalism in West Africa -- Planning, photography, and the struggle for power in colonial Africa -- Remembering decolonization through ethnography and popular painting in Central Africa -- Literature and decolonization in Africa -- Textbooks and tribunals in the aftermath of crises -- Anthropology and the gendering of the study of AIDS in Africa -- Epilogue: African histories and histories of Africa.…”

Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society /

Table of Contents: “…Chambre -- Women and philanthropy in Egypt / Amani Kandil -- An Islamic activist in interwar Egypt / Beth Baron -- Women and philanthropy in Palestinian and Egyptian societies : the contributions of Islamic thought and the strategy of national survival / Ghada Hashem Talhami -- Women and philanthropy in India / Pushpa Sundar -- Women and philanthropy in South Korea from a non-Western perspective / Hye Kyung Lee.…”
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Observing bioethics by Fox, Renée C. (Renée Claire), 1928-

Table of Contents: “…The coming of bioethics -- The coming of bioethicists -- "Choices on our conscience": the inauguration of the Kennedy Institute of Education -- "Hello, Dolly": bioethics in the media -- Celebrating bioethics and bioethicists -- Thinking socially and culturally in bioethics -- Reminiscences of observing participants -- Bioethics circles the globe -- Bioethics in France -- The development of bioethics in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan -- The coming of the culture wars to American bioethics.…”
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Reinventing religious studies key writings in the history of a discipline /

Table of Contents: “…Religious studies and identity politics -- pt. VII. Islam and 9/11.…”
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Economic development in China's Northwest : entrepreneurship and identity along China's multi-ethnic borderlands / by Bird, Joshua

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Ethnicity and nationality -- Economic development and identity in China -- Xining City: Xining's Tibetan entrepreneurs -- Hezheng County: China's multi-ethnic economy at the local level -- Dongxiang County: the people of the East Village -- Linxia City: doing business in China's "Little Mecca" -- Lanzhou city: an Islamic economy in a Han city -- Conclusion.…”
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Beyond Borders : Stories of Yunnanese Chinese Migrants of Burma / by Chang, Wen-Chin, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Migration history -- The days in Burma: Zhang Dage -- Entangled love: Ae Maew -- Pursuit of ambition: father and son -- Islamic transnationalism: Yunnanese Muslims -- (Transnational) trade -- Venturing into barbarous regions: Yunnanese caravan traders -- Transcending gendered geographies: Yunnanese women traders -- Circulations of the jade trade: the Duans and the Pengs -- Epilogue: from mules to vehicles.…”
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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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