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Women in classical Islamic law a survey of the sources / by Spectorsky, Susan A. (Susan Ann)

Table of Contents: “…Women in the Qur'åan -- Marriage in the formative period -- Divorce in the formative period -- From the formative to the classical periods -- Women's lives.…”
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Islam its history, teaching, and practices / by Nigosian, S. A. (Solomon Alexander)

Table of Contents: “…Muhammad, messenger of God -- Islam in history -- Muslim groups -- Qur'an -- Sunnah, hadith, and shari?ah -- Faith and action -- Observances and festival.…”
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Islam's quantum question reconciling muslim tradition and modern science / by Guessoum, Nidhal

Table of Contents: “…Fundamentals (first things first) : god, the Qur'an and science -- pt. 2. Islam and contemporary science issues -- pt. 3. …”
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An introduction to Islam for Jews by Firestone, Reuven, 1952-

Table of Contents: “…-- Arabs and Israelites -- Pre-Islamic origins -- The emergence of Islam -- Muhammad and the Jews of Medina -- The death of the prophet and the expansion of the community -- The conquests -- The caliphal dynasties -- The decline of the Muslim world -- God, the Qur'an, and Islamic law -- God -- The five doctrines or "pillars of faith" -- The evolution of a formal theology -- The Qur'an -- The interpretive tradition -- The prophetic record -- Islamic law -- The workings of shari'a -- The umma: Islam in practice -- The umma and the caliphate -- The five pillars of Islam -- A sixth pillar? …”
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Pedagogy for religion missionary education and the fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal / by Sengupta, Parna, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…The molding of native character -- A curriculum for religion -- An object lesson in colonial pedagogy -- The schoolteacher as modern father -- Teaching gender in the colony -- Mission schools and Qur'an schools -- Conclusion : pedagogy for tolerance.…”
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Elijah Muhammad and Islam by Berg, Herbert

Table of Contents: “…American Islam before Elijah Muhammad -- The life of Elijah Muhammad -- Elijah Muhammad and the Qur'an -- The major "Islamic" themes in Elijah Muhammad's Quranic commentary -- Elijah Muhammad, other Muslims, and Islam -- The legacy of Elijah Muhammad.…”
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Understanding jihad / by Cook, David, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Qur'an and conquest -- The "greater jihad" and the "lesser jihad" -- The crystallization of jihad theory: crusade and counter-crusade -- Jihad during the nineteenth century: renewal and resistance -- Radical Islam and contemporary jihad theory -- Globalist radical Islam and martyrdom operations -- The rise of jihadi states.…”
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Founding gods, inventing nations conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam / by McCants, William Faizi, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Gifts of the gods : the origins of civilization in ancient Near Eastern and Greek mythology -- The beneficent sky god : cultural history in the Qur'an -- Who was first? : protography and discovery catalogs -- Inventing nations : postconquest native histories of civilization's origins -- "The sciences of the ancients" : speculation on the origins of philosophy, medicine, and the exact sciences.…”
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Knowing the enemy jihadist ideology and the War on Terror / by Habeck, Mary R.

Table of Contents: “…Nothing remains in its right place -- Historical context -- The Qur'an is our constitution -- Our 'Aqida -- The clash of civilizations. pt. 1, The American campaign to suppress Islam -- The clash of civilizations. pt. 2, Jihad on the path of God -- From Mecca to Medina : following the method of Muhammad -- Jihadist ideology and the war on terror.…”
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American Muslim women, religious authority, and activism more than a prayer / by Hammer, Juliane

Table of Contents: “…A woman-led Friday prayer: March 18, 2005 -- Women leading prayers: tracing the debate -- Gender justice and Qur'anic exegesis -- History, women's rights, and Islamic law -- Authority, tradition, community -- Space, leadership, voice -- Media, representation(s), politics -- Memoirs, narratives, and marketing -- Covers and other matters: concluding thoughts.…”
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The politics of women's rights in Iran by Osanloo, Arzoo, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…A genealogy of "women's rights" in Iran -- Producing states: women's participation and the dialogics of rights -- Qur'anic meetings: "doing the cultural work" -- Courting rights: rights talk in Islamico-civil family court -- Practice and affect: writing/righting the law -- Human rights: the politics and prose of discursive sites -- Conclusion "women's rights" as exhibition at the brink of war.…”
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Inside Islam by Delcambre, Anne-Marie, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…-- Islam and modernity? -- Is the Qur?an untouchable?…”
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Logos & revelation Ibn 'Arabi, Meister Eckhart, and mystical hermeneutics / by Dobie, Robert J.

Table of Contents: “…"His character was the Qur'an" : Ibn 'Arabi, analogical imagination, and revelation -- "Revelatio proprie est apud intellectum" : Meister Eckhart and the birth of the word in the soul -- pt. 1. …”
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The politically incorrect guide to Islam (and the Crusades) by Spencer, Robert, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Islam -- Muhammad : prophet of war -- The Qur'an : book of war -- Islam : religion of war -- Islam : religion of intolerance -- Islam oppresses women -- Islamic law : lie, steal, and kill -- How Allah killed science -- The lure of Islamic paradise -- Islam--spread by the sword? …”
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Heterodox Islamic economics : the emergence of an ethico-economic theory / by Choudhury, Masudul Alam, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Empirical evaluation of Islamic financing instruments across evolutionary learning trend governed by monotheistic methodology of unity of nowledge -- 8. The qur'anic phenomenological model of system : application to human resource contra human capital theory -- 9. …”
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mHealth Innovation in Asia Grassroots Challenges and Practical Interventions /

Table of Contents: “….- Chapter 1: Barriers to informal mHealth adoption by community health workers in regional Indonesia --  Chapter 2:  Take care of your health, this is what the Qur’an said - The use of mobile phone among poor rural women with Type-2 Diabetes in Central Java, Indonesia -- Chapter 3: One size does not fit all - The importance of contextually sensitive mHealth strategies for frontline female health workers -- Chapter 4: Chinese Consumers’ Perceptions and Interpretations of Fitness Mobile Apps: Qualitative Insights -- Section 2: Strategies -- Chapter 5: The Path to Scale: Navigating design, policy and infrastructure -- Chapter 6: mHealth, health and mobility - A culture-centered interrogation.- Afterword.…”
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Militant Islamist ideology understanding the global threat / by Aboul-Enein, Youssef H.

Table of Contents: “…Precise definitions of the threat -- A hidden center of gravity : militant Islamists cloaking themselves in Islam -- What is not being taught in politicized madrassas : beginning to understand militant Islamist ideology -- The Qur'an : how do militant Islamists abuse verses? …”
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The power of oratory in the medieval Muslim world by Jones, Linda G.

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Islamic economics : theory and practice / by Hassan, Abul, 1973-, Choudhury, Masudul Alam, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of contents; Figures; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Glossary of Arabic Terms; 1 How to study Islamic economics as science in reference to the qur'an and the sunnah; Learning objectives; The present state of the study of economics; The nature of Islamic economics according to the Islamic episteme; Critique of axioms and assumptions of Islamic economics borrowed from mainstream economics; For whom is this book appropriate?…”
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Privately Empowered : Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction / by Edwin, Shirin

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