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Religion and the Making of Nigeria / by Vaughan, Olufemi

Table of Contents: “…Islam and Christianity in the making of modern Nigeria -- Islam and colonial rule in northern Nigeria -- Christianity and the transformation of colonial southern and northern Nigeria -- The politics of religion in northern Nigeria during decolonization -- Religion and the postcolonial state -- Religious revival and the state : the rise of pentecostalism -- Expanded Sharia : the northern Ummah and the fourth republic -- Expanded Sharia : resistance, violence, and reconciliation -- Sharia politics, Obasanjo's PDP federal government, and the 1999 constitution.…”
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Religion and the Making of Nigeria / by Vaughan, Olufemi

Table of Contents: “…Islam and Christianity in the making of modern Nigeria -- Islam and colonial rule in northern Nigeria -- Christianity and the transformation of colonial southern and northern Nigeria -- The politics of religion in northern Nigeria during decolonization -- Religion and the postcolonial state -- Religious revival and the state : the rise of pentecostalism -- Expanded Sharia : the northern Ummah and the fourth republic -- Expanded Sharia : resistance, violence, and reconciliation -- Sharia politics, Obasanjo's PDP federal government, and the 1999 constitution.…”
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Muslim civic cultures and conflict resolution the challenge of democratic federalism in Nigeria / by Paden, John N.

Table of Contents: “…Nigeria in the world -- The emergence of democratic federalism in Nigeria -- Variations in Muslim identities and values -- Emirate civic cultures -- Nonstate Muslim variations on civic culture -- National Muslim identities and values -- Challenges of the Fourth Republic (1999-2005) -- Challenges of the shari'a issue -- The shari'a issue and sociopolitical conflict -- Religious tolerance and conflict resolution -- Civic cultures and conflict resolution -- Nigeria in international perspective.…”
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Muslim civic cultures and conflict resolution the challenge of democratic federalism in Nigeria / by Paden, John N.

Table of Contents: “…Nigeria in the world -- The emergence of democratic federalism in Nigeria -- Variations in Muslim identities and values -- Emirate civic cultures -- Nonstate Muslim variations on civic culture -- National Muslim identities and values -- Challenges of the Fourth Republic (1999-2005) -- Challenges of the shari'a issue -- The shari'a issue and sociopolitical conflict -- Religious tolerance and conflict resolution -- Civic cultures and conflict resolution -- Nigeria in international perspective.…”
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Islam in Africa south of the Sahara essays in gender relations and political reform /

Table of Contents: “…Gender relations within Islam in Africa -- pt. III. The Sharia code and conditions of women in African Islam -- pt. …”
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Islam in Africa south of the Sahara essays in gender relations and political reform /

Table of Contents: “…Gender relations within Islam in Africa -- pt. III. The Sharia code and conditions of women in African Islam -- pt. …”
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Producing desire changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 / by Zeʼevi, Dror, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The body sexual: medicine and physiognomy -- Regulating desire: sharīʻa and kanun -- Morality wars: orthodoxy, Sufism, and beardless youths -- Dream interpretation and the unconscious -- Boys in the hood: shadow theater as a sexual counter-script -- The view from without: sexuality in travel accounts -- Conclusion: modernity and sexual discourse -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Producing desire changing sexual discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900 / by Zeʼevi, Dror, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…The body sexual: medicine and physiognomy -- Regulating desire: sharīʻa and kanun -- Morality wars: orthodoxy, Sufism, and beardless youths -- Dream interpretation and the unconscious -- Boys in the hood: shadow theater as a sexual counter-script -- The view from without: sexuality in travel accounts -- Conclusion: modernity and sexual discourse -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Manichaean delirium decolonizing the judiciary and Islamic renewal in Sudan, 1898-1985 / by Ibrāhīm, ʻAbd Allāh ʻAlī

Table of Contents: “…In the shoes of the colonized -- A tale of two courts : the Sharia of Allah and the custom of the patriarch -- President Ismail Al-Azhari, 1965-1969 : the politics of moral injury -- Nimerie's instant justice : tongue of God and the rogue -- The Qadis and Mahmoud M. …”
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Manichaean delirium decolonizing the judiciary and Islamic renewal in Sudan, 1898-1985 / by Ibrāhīm, ʻAbd Allāh ʻAlī

Table of Contents: “…In the shoes of the colonized -- A tale of two courts : the Sharia of Allah and the custom of the patriarch -- President Ismail Al-Azhari, 1965-1969 : the politics of moral injury -- Nimerie's instant justice : tongue of God and the rogue -- The Qadis and Mahmoud M. …”
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Practices of truth an ethnomethodological inquiry into Arab contexts / by Dupret, Baudouin

Table of Contents: “…Learning the truth: memorizing the Koran in an Egyptian kuttâb -- The context of truth practices: legislating the sharîa at the shopfloor level -- Telling the truth: the judge and the law in family matters -- The truth about oneself: three Arab channels and their self-presentation -- Speaking the truth: advocacy video clips against terror -- Narratives of truth: documenting the mind in a psychiatric hospital -- Conclusion: Truth: a matter of language game and practical achievement.…”
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Practices of truth an ethnomethodological inquiry into Arab contexts / by Dupret, Baudouin

Table of Contents: “…Learning the truth: memorizing the Koran in an Egyptian kuttâb -- The context of truth practices: legislating the sharîa at the shopfloor level -- Telling the truth: the judge and the law in family matters -- The truth about oneself: three Arab channels and their self-presentation -- Speaking the truth: advocacy video clips against terror -- Narratives of truth: documenting the mind in a psychiatric hospital -- Conclusion: Truth: a matter of language game and practical achievement.…”
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Fictions of justice the International criminal court and the challenges of legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa / by Clarke, Kamari Maxine, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Constructing fictions : moral economies in the tribunalization of violence -- Crafting the victim, crafting the perpetrator : new spaces of power, new specters of justice -- Multiple spaces of justice : Uganda, the International Criminal Court and the politics of inequality -- "Religious" and "secular" micropractices : the roots of secular law, the political content of radical Islamic beliefs -- "The hand will go to hell" : Islamic law and the crafting of the spiritual self -- Islamic sharia at the crossroads : human rights challenges and the strategic translation of vernacular imaginaries.…”
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Fictions of justice the International criminal court and the challenges of legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa / by Clarke, Kamari Maxine, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Constructing fictions : moral economies in the tribunalization of violence -- Crafting the victim, crafting the perpetrator : new spaces of power, new specters of justice -- Multiple spaces of justice : Uganda, the International Criminal Court and the politics of inequality -- "Religious" and "secular" micropractices : the roots of secular law, the political content of radical Islamic beliefs -- "The hand will go to hell" : Islamic law and the crafting of the spiritual self -- Islamic sharia at the crossroads : human rights challenges and the strategic translation of vernacular imaginaries.…”
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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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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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Afghanistan's Islam : From Conversion to the Taliban /

Table of Contents: “…McChesney -- Transporting knowledge in the Durrani Empire : two manuals of Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufi practice -- Waleed Ziad -- Islam, Shari'a and state-building under 'Abd al-Rahman Khan / Amin Tarzi -- Competing views of Pashtun tribalism, Islam & society in the Indo-Afghan borderlands / Sana Haroon -- Nationalism not Islam : the 'Awaken Youth' Party and Pashtun nationalism / Faridullah Bezhan -- Glossy global leadership : unpacking the multilingual religious thought of the Jihad / Simon Wolfgang Fuchs -- Female sainthood between legend and politics : the emergence of Bibi Nushin of Shibirghan / Ingeborg Baldauf -- When Muslims become feminists : Khana-yi Aman, Islam and Pashtunwali / Sonia Ahsan.…”
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Afghanistan's Islam : From Conversion to the Taliban /

Table of Contents: “…McChesney -- Transporting knowledge in the Durrani Empire : two manuals of Naqshbandi-Mujaddidi Sufi practice -- Waleed Ziad -- Islam, Shari'a and state-building under 'Abd al-Rahman Khan / Amin Tarzi -- Competing views of Pashtun tribalism, Islam & society in the Indo-Afghan borderlands / Sana Haroon -- Nationalism not Islam : the 'Awaken Youth' Party and Pashtun nationalism / Faridullah Bezhan -- Glossy global leadership : unpacking the multilingual religious thought of the Jihad / Simon Wolfgang Fuchs -- Female sainthood between legend and politics : the emergence of Bibi Nushin of Shibirghan / Ingeborg Baldauf -- When Muslims become feminists : Khana-yi Aman, Islam and Pashtunwali / Sonia Ahsan.…”
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Globalization and challenges to building peace

Table of Contents: “…-- Beyond criminal justice : promoting the rule of law in post-conflict societies -- Peace by pact : data on the implementation of peace agreements -- Refugee repatriation as a necessary condition for peace -- Catapulting conflicts or propelling peace : diasporas and civil wars -- UN peace operations as norm entrepreneurs : the challenge of achieving communicative action on human rights -- To practice what they preach : international transitional administrations and the paradox of norm promotion -- Re-examining the roots of war in West Africa in a globalizing world -- The African Union (AU) and its commitment to non-indifference : can the AU be an actor for the promotion of human security? -- Hamas between Sharia rule and demo-Islam -- Environmental scarcity and intrastate conflicts : the case of Nepal -- Narcotics : the new security threat for China.…”
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Globalization and challenges to building peace

Table of Contents: “…-- Beyond criminal justice : promoting the rule of law in post-conflict societies -- Peace by pact : data on the implementation of peace agreements -- Refugee repatriation as a necessary condition for peace -- Catapulting conflicts or propelling peace : diasporas and civil wars -- UN peace operations as norm entrepreneurs : the challenge of achieving communicative action on human rights -- To practice what they preach : international transitional administrations and the paradox of norm promotion -- Re-examining the roots of war in West Africa in a globalizing world -- The African Union (AU) and its commitment to non-indifference : can the AU be an actor for the promotion of human security? -- Hamas between Sharia rule and demo-Islam -- Environmental scarcity and intrastate conflicts : the case of Nepal -- Narcotics : the new security threat for China.…”
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