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Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : conversion, apostasy, and literacy / by Kefeli, Agnès Nilüfer

Table of Contents: “…Apostasy, conversion, and literacy at work -- Popular knowledge of Islam on the Volga frontier -- Tailors, Sufis, and Abïstays: agents of change -- Christian martyrdom in Bolghar land -- Desacralization of Islamic knowledge and national martyrdom.…”
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Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy /

Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : conversion, apostasy, and literacy /

by Kefeli, Agnes

Table of Contents: “…Apostasy, conversion, and literacy at work -- Popular knowledge of Islam on the Volga frontier -- Tailors, Sufis, and Abïstays: agents of change -- Christian martyrdom in Bolghar land -- Desacralization of Islamic knowledge and national martyrdom.…”
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Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy /

Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia : conversion, apostasy, and literacy /

by Kefeli, Agnes

Table of Contents: “…Apostasy, conversion, and literacy at work -- Popular knowledge of Islam on the Volga frontier -- Tailors, Sufis, and Abïstays: agents of change -- Christian martyrdom in Bolghar land -- Desacralization of Islamic knowledge and national martyrdom.…”
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Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia : Comparative Perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Sufis and saṅgha in motion : toward a comparative study of religious orders and networks in southern Asia / Anne M. …”
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Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia : Comparative Perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Sufis and saṅgha in motion : toward a comparative study of religious orders and networks in southern Asia / Anne M. …”
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Afghanistan's Islam : From Conversion to the Taliban /

Table of Contents: “…The beginnings of Islam in Afghanistan : conquest, acculturation and Islamization / Arezou Azad -- Women and religious patronage in the Timurid Empire / Nushin Arbabzadah -- The rise of the Khwajagan-Naqshbandi Sufis in Timurid Herat / Jürgen Paul -- Earning a living : promoting Islamic culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / R.D. …”
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Afghanistan's Islam : From Conversion to the Taliban /

Table of Contents: “…The beginnings of Islam in Afghanistan : conquest, acculturation and Islamization / Arezou Azad -- Women and religious patronage in the Timurid Empire / Nushin Arbabzadah -- The rise of the Khwajagan-Naqshbandi Sufis in Timurid Herat / Jürgen Paul -- Earning a living : promoting Islamic culture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / R.D. …”
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Remaking Muslim politics pluralism, contestation, democratization /

Table of Contents: “…Peletz -- Muslim democrats and Islamist violence in post-Soeharto Indonesia / Robert W. Hefner -- Sufis and Salafis : the political discourse of transnational Islam / Peter Mandaville -- Pluralism and normativity in French Islamic reasoning / John R. …”
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Remaking Muslim politics pluralism, contestation, democratization /

Table of Contents: “…Peletz -- Muslim democrats and Islamist violence in post-Soeharto Indonesia / Robert W. Hefner -- Sufis and Salafis : the political discourse of transnational Islam / Peter Mandaville -- Pluralism and normativity in French Islamic reasoning / John R. …”
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Women embracing Islam gender and conversion in the West /

Table of Contents: “…Conversion and gender, two contested concepts / Willy Jansen -- Gender and conversion to Islam in the West / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Contextualizing conversion -- The quest for peace in submission: reflections on the journey of American women converts to Islam / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- The shaping of a Scandinavian "Islam": converts and gender equal opportunity / Anne Sofie Roald -- Symbolizing distance: conversion to Islam in Germany and the United States / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr -- Discourses and narratives -- Gender, conversion, and Islam: a comparison of online and offline conversion narratives / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- The shifting significance of the halal/haram frontier: narratives on the hijab and other issues / Stefano Allievi -- Trajectories and paradigms -- Female conversion to Islam: the Sufi paradigm / Haifaa Jawad -- African American Islam as an expression of converts' religious faith and nationalist dreams and ambitions / Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons -- Feminism and conversion: comparing British, Dutch, and South African life stories / Margot Badran -- Transmission and identity -- How Deborah became Aisha: the conversion process and the creation of female Muslim identity / Nicole Bourque -- Keeping the faith: convert Muslim mothers and the transmission of female Muslim identity in the West / Marcia Hermansen.…”
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Women embracing Islam gender and conversion in the West /

Table of Contents: “…Conversion and gender, two contested concepts / Willy Jansen -- Gender and conversion to Islam in the West / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Contextualizing conversion -- The quest for peace in submission: reflections on the journey of American women converts to Islam / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- The shaping of a Scandinavian "Islam": converts and gender equal opportunity / Anne Sofie Roald -- Symbolizing distance: conversion to Islam in Germany and the United States / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr -- Discourses and narratives -- Gender, conversion, and Islam: a comparison of online and offline conversion narratives / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- The shifting significance of the halal/haram frontier: narratives on the hijab and other issues / Stefano Allievi -- Trajectories and paradigms -- Female conversion to Islam: the Sufi paradigm / Haifaa Jawad -- African American Islam as an expression of converts' religious faith and nationalist dreams and ambitions / Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons -- Feminism and conversion: comparing British, Dutch, and South African life stories / Margot Badran -- Transmission and identity -- How Deborah became Aisha: the conversion process and the creation of female Muslim identity / Nicole Bourque -- Keeping the faith: convert Muslim mothers and the transmission of female Muslim identity in the West / Marcia Hermansen.…”
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The rise of political Islam in Turkey by Rabasa, Angel

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Politics and Religion in Turkey -- Structure of the report -- The Islamic landscape in Turkey -- Religion, ethnicity and politics -- The management of Islam -- Sufi brotherhoods -- Religious movements -- Islamic foundations -- Islamic schools -- Shiites and Alevis -- Turkish attitudes toward religion -- The violent fringe -- Turks in Europe -- The rise of political Islam in Turkey -- The impact of the Kemalist revolution -- The advent of multi-party democracy -- The "Turkish-Islamic synthesis" -- The impact of the ZAL reforms -- The rise of the religious right -- Political Islam in power : the welfare interlude -- The impact of the February 28 process -- The AKP in power -- The reconfiguration of Turkish politics -- The AKP : a new synthesis or Islamism in disguise? …”
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The rise of political Islam in Turkey by Rabasa, Angel

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Politics and Religion in Turkey -- Structure of the report -- The Islamic landscape in Turkey -- Religion, ethnicity and politics -- The management of Islam -- Sufi brotherhoods -- Religious movements -- Islamic foundations -- Islamic schools -- Shiites and Alevis -- Turkish attitudes toward religion -- The violent fringe -- Turks in Europe -- The rise of political Islam in Turkey -- The impact of the Kemalist revolution -- The advent of multi-party democracy -- The "Turkish-Islamic synthesis" -- The impact of the ZAL reforms -- The rise of the religious right -- Political Islam in power : the welfare interlude -- The impact of the February 28 process -- The AKP in power -- The reconfiguration of Turkish politics -- The AKP : a new synthesis or Islamism in disguise? …”
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Disguise, deception, trompe-l'oeil interdisciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Bruce Elder -- Wax figures and anatomical models : the body unveiled -- Uneasy associations : wax bodies outside the canon / Catherine Heard -- What lies beneath : the female anatomy flap revealed / Linda Carreiro -- Buddhist and Sufi texts : deception and disguise in the spiritual journey -- Why must God show himself in disguise? …”
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Disguise, deception, trompe-l'oeil interdisciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Bruce Elder -- Wax figures and anatomical models : the body unveiled -- Uneasy associations : wax bodies outside the canon / Catherine Heard -- What lies beneath : the female anatomy flap revealed / Linda Carreiro -- Buddhist and Sufi texts : deception and disguise in the spiritual journey -- Why must God show himself in disguise? …”
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Race and Rurality in the Global Economy /

Table of Contents: “…Merchants and Ulama: Markadugu and MoriduguSufi-Scholars and Zawiya; The Revolutionary Countryside; Counterrevolution: The Zawiya as Fandugu; Conclusion; References; 2 Making Development through Rural Initiative "Unthinkable": Tanzania in the Time of Ujamaa; Introduction; Defining a Narrative of State-Led Development; What Was Missing from the State-Centered Narrative of Ujamaa Development; A Past Ignored Creates Frustration; Conclusion; References; 3 Racialization and the Historical Production of Contemporary Land Rights Inequalities in Upland Northern Thailand; Introduction…”
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Race and Rurality in the Global Economy /

Table of Contents: “…Merchants and Ulama: Markadugu and MoriduguSufi-Scholars and Zawiya; The Revolutionary Countryside; Counterrevolution: The Zawiya as Fandugu; Conclusion; References; 2 Making Development through Rural Initiative "Unthinkable": Tanzania in the Time of Ujamaa; Introduction; Defining a Narrative of State-Led Development; What Was Missing from the State-Centered Narrative of Ujamaa Development; A Past Ignored Creates Frustration; Conclusion; References; 3 Racialization and the Historical Production of Contemporary Land Rights Inequalities in Upland Northern Thailand; Introduction…”
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Jamón and Halal : Lessons in Tolerance from Rural Andalucía / by Civantos, Christina, 1970-

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Jamón and Halal : Lessons in Tolerance from Rural Andalucía / by Civantos, Christina, 1970-

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The formation of the Sudanese Mahdist state ceremony and symbols of authority : 1882-1898 / by Searcy, Kim

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