Search Results - "Islamic thought"

Plague, Quarantines and Geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire /

Plague, quarantines and geopolitics in the Ottoman Empire /

by Bulmuş, Birsen

Table of Contents: “…Conceptualizing plague in Ottoman Islamic thought -- 3. Plague and Ottoman medical thought -- 4. …”
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West Africa, Islam, and the Arab world : studies in honor of Basil Davidson / by Hunwick, John O.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to West Africa -- North Africa's links with Sub-Saharan Africa -- Islam in West Africa -- Timbuktu : a famous West African city of Islam and Arabic writing -- The Islamic manuscript heritage of Timbuktu -- Arabic as the Latin of Africa -- Non-Muslims and Muslims in the Arab world -- Arab views of Black Africans and slavery -- African-Arab relations in the twentieth century -- Honor to Basil Davidson -- Appendix I: The Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) -- Appendix II: Sudanic Africa : a journal of historical sources -- Appendix III: Conservation of West African Arabic manuscripts -- Appendix IV: Published manuscripts.…”
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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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Islamic economics : a book of readings / by Karwai, Sulaiman A., Habib, Aisha G., Jibril, Binta Tijjani

Taylor & Francis
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