Author: Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: future, shari`a, negotiating, state, secular, islam
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-03-31
List price: $41.50
ISBN-10: 0674027760
ISBN-13: 9780674027763

What should be the place of Shari‘a—Islamic religious law—in predominantly Muslim societies of the world? In this ambitious and topical book, a Muslim scholar and human rights activist envisions a positive and sustainable role for Shari‘a, based on a profound rethinking of the relationship between religion and the secular state in all societies. An-Na‘im argues that the coercive enforcement of Shari‘a by the state betrays the Qur’an’s insistence on voluntary acceptance of Islam. Just as the state should be secure from the misuse of religious authority, Shari‘a should

Authors:Abdullahi Dahir Ahmed, Sardar M. N. Islam,
Publisher: Physica-Verlag HD
Keywords: policy, analyses, implications, contributions, economics, series, time, liberalization, developing, countries, issues, financial
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 2009-10-14
List price: $139.00
ISBN-10: 3790821675
ISBN-13: 9783790821673

The latest global financial and economic crisis of 2008 has shown the need to re-examine the desirability of financial liberalization. This book is undertaking such a study on the issue of financial and market liberalization by adopting sophisticated econometric methods. It examines the effects of financial liberalization on economic development and social welfare using a case study approach on a sample of three Sub-Saharan African and an Asian country in which financial liberalization reforms were implemented. Further, it highlights some key causes of the failure of reform, and the policies a

Author: Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi
Publisher: Greenwood
Keywords: culture, customs, africa, somalia
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-10-30
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0313313334
ISBN-13: 9780313313332

Somalia, the Horn of Africa nation, is finally recovering from recent wars and famine. Written by a native Somali, Culture and Customs of Somalia gives students and interested readers an in-depth look at the land and people, past and present. It is the only accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date general reference on this country. Somalia was once colonized by Europeans, but Abdullahi’s superb survey, with its historical context, evokes a Somaliland from a Somali viewpoint.This Muslim country has strong pastoral roots and is known as a land of poets with a long oral cultural tradition.

Authors:Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk, Hassan Ahmed Ibrahim, Ahmed
Publisher: Brill
Keywords: asia, studies, middle, east, political, social, diaspora, southeast, hadhrami, economic
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2009-04-30
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 9004172319
ISBN-13: 9789004172319

This volume originates from the proceedings of an international conference convened by the Department of History and Civilisation, International Islamic University Malaysia, in collaboration with the Embassy of the Republic of Yemen in Kuala Lumpur, from 26th to 28th August 2005. Twelve out of thirty-five papers presented at the conference have been reviewed, thoroughly revised and published in this volume under the title: "The Hadhrami Diaspora in Southeast Asia: Identity Maintenance or Assimilation?". The introduction and the twelve chapters address the question of the "Hadhrami Identity in

Authors:Ahmed E. Yousef, Carolyn Carlstrom, Ahmed Yousef,
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: manual, laboratory, microbiology, food
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-06-15
List price: $105.00
ISBN-10: 0471391050
ISBN-13: 9780471391050

Yousef and Carlstrom’s Food Microbiology: A Laboratory Manual serves as a general laboratory manual for undergraduate and graduate students in food microbiology, as well as a training manual in analytical food microbiology. Focusing on basic skill-building throughout, the Manual provides a review of basic microbiological techniques–media preparation, aseptic techniques, dilution, plating, etc.–followed by analytical methods and advanced tests for food-bourne pathogens. The Manual includes a total of fourteen complete experiments. The first of the Manual’s four sections reviews b

Author: Ahmed
Publisher: Pakistan Institute of Arts and Design of Book-Productio
Keywords: ummayad, khilafat, spain, rise, arabia, architecture, advent, islam, muslim
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1974-12-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: B0007AN28A
ISBN-13:

Muslim architecture: From the advent of Islam in Arabia to the rise of the great Ummayad Khilafat in Spain Author: AhmedPublisher: Pakistan Institute of Arts and Design of Book-ProductionThis item is no longer availablePages: 128ASIN: B0007AN28APublication Date: 1974

Author: Ahmed Ali
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: paperbook, directions, new, delhi, twilight
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 1994-06
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 081121267X
ISBN-13: 9780811212670

The sounds and smells of Delhi--the flutter of pigeons’ wings, the call to prayer, the scent of jasmine and frying ghee--come to life in the novel whose detail E.M. Forster called "new and fascinating" upon its original publication in 1940. Reprinted with a revised introduction by the author, Twilight in Delhi is enacted between two revolutionary momen s of change, depicting the change of a way of life and culture.