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Scripturalist Islam the history and doctrines of the Akhbārī Shīʻī school / by Gleave, R. (Robert)

Table of Contents: “…The Akhbārī-Uṣūlī dispute and the early "Akhbārī" school -- Muḥammad Amīn al-Astarābādī and the formation of the Akhbārī school -- Astarābādī's legal thought -- Astarābādī's theological and philosophical thought -- The spread of Akhbarism after Astarābādī -- Defining the Akhbārī-Uṣūlī conflict -- Akhbārī Qurʼanic interpretation -- Sunna and the Akhbār in Akhbārī jurisprudence -- Akhbārī hermeneutics -- Conclusions.…”
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Varieties of Muslim experience encounters with Arab political and cultural life / by Rosen, Lawrence, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…-- On the meaning of ownership : the problematic of property in Moroccan culture -- Islamic concepts of justice -- Readings and re-readings -- Reading the Quran through Western eyes -- Why portraits hold no meaning for Arabs -- Protecting the Prophet : understanding Muslim reactions to the Danish cartoon controversy -- Theorizing from within : Ibn Khaldun and the understanding of Arab political culture -- Representatives and representations -- Knowledge forms : scientists as fundamentalists -- Expecting the unexpected : cultural components of Arab governance -- Power and culture in the acceptance of "universal" human rights -- Afterword.…”
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Varieties of Muslim experience encounters with Arab political and cultural life / by Rosen, Lawrence, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…-- On the meaning of ownership : the problematic of property in Moroccan culture -- Islamic concepts of justice -- Readings and re-readings -- Reading the Quran through Western eyes -- Why portraits hold no meaning for Arabs -- Protecting the Prophet : understanding Muslim reactions to the Danish cartoon controversy -- Theorizing from within : Ibn Khaldun and the understanding of Arab political culture -- Representatives and representations -- Knowledge forms : scientists as fundamentalists -- Expecting the unexpected : cultural components of Arab governance -- Power and culture in the acceptance of "universal" human rights -- Afterword.…”
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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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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? -- The term jihad : various interpretations -- Muhammad and the succession crisis -- Islamic government : a highly debatable concept among Muslims -- The 1925 caliphate debates -- Countering militant Islamist rhetoric using Islam -- Marginalizing al-Qaida : utilizing al-Qaida rhetoric and actions -- Ibn Taymiyyah : unlocking the origins of current militant Islamist ideology (1263-1327) -- Ibn Abdul-Wahhab (1703-1792) : the founder of Wahhabism -- Hassan al-Banna and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood : the first Islamist political party -- Sayyid Qutb : twentieth-century theoretician of militant Islamist ideology (1906-1966) -- Inside the Soviet-Afghan war (1979-1989) : a militant Islamist perspective -- Usama bin Laden : a quick exposé -- A basic analytic primer on Shiism -- Other major figures in the militant Islamist movement -- Al-Qaida's wedge issues for the United States to consider -- Mindsets that hamper America's capabilities -- Conclusion and further reading.…”
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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? -- The term jihad : various interpretations -- Muhammad and the succession crisis -- Islamic government : a highly debatable concept among Muslims -- The 1925 caliphate debates -- Countering militant Islamist rhetoric using Islam -- Marginalizing al-Qaida : utilizing al-Qaida rhetoric and actions -- Ibn Taymiyyah : unlocking the origins of current militant Islamist ideology (1263-1327) -- Ibn Abdul-Wahhab (1703-1792) : the founder of Wahhabism -- Hassan al-Banna and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood : the first Islamist political party -- Sayyid Qutb : twentieth-century theoretician of militant Islamist ideology (1906-1966) -- Inside the Soviet-Afghan war (1979-1989) : a militant Islamist perspective -- Usama bin Laden : a quick exposé -- A basic analytic primer on Shiism -- Other major figures in the militant Islamist movement -- Al-Qaida's wedge issues for the United States to consider -- Mindsets that hamper America's capabilities -- Conclusion and further reading.…”
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The power of oratory in the medieval Muslim world by Jones, Linda G.

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The power of oratory in the medieval Muslim world by Jones, Linda G.

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Privately Empowered : Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction / by Edwin, Shirin

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Privately Empowered : Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction / by Edwin, Shirin

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