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Islam is growing rapidly both in its traditional homelands and in the West. Some in the West view Islam with a mixture of fear and suspicion. However, it is also fair to say that there is widespread ignorance about Islam, and especially about its relationship to political systems and the economy....

This challenging new book reviews the ethics at the heart of the Islamic legal system, and suggests that these laws have been misinterpreted by certain sources in an attempt to control women.

The Canonization of Islamic Law tells the story of the birth of classical Islamic law in the eighth and ninth centuries CE. It shows how an oral normative tradition embedded in communal practice was transformed into a systematic legal science defined by hermeneutic analysis of a clearly demarcated...

Natural Fiber Textile Composite Engineering sheds light on the area of the natural fiber textile composites with new research on their applications, the material used, the methods of preparation, the different types of polymers, the selection of raw materials, the elements of design the natural fiber...

Industrial desalination of sea and brackish water is becoming an essential part in providing sustainable sources of fresh water for a larger number of communities around the world. Desalination is a main source of fresh water in the Gulf countries, a number of the Caribbean and Mediterranean Islands,...

This book details polysaccharides and other important biomacromolecules covering their source, production, structures, properties, and current and potential application in the fields of biotechnology and medicine. It includes a systematic discussion on the general strategies of isolation, separation...

The vast majority of existing ecocritical studies, even those which espouse the “postcolonial ecocritical” perspective, operate within a first-world sensibility, speaking on behalf of subalternized human communities and degraded landscapes without actually eliciting the voices of the impacted...

It is common to hear that we live in unique, turbulent and crisis-ridden times and this turbulence, transformation and crisis are said to be deeply significant - perhaps threatening - for the human sciences. Responding to such claims, this book provides an accessible engagement with pressing contemporary...

As early as the beginning of the eighth century, having just reached this extreme territory of the Maghreb, Moroccan Islam started to cast its eye to the other side of the Straits of Gibraltar and shortly after set foot on the Iberian Peninsula. From that time on, and for a further eight centuries...

Jamie Jordan, a well-known actress and single mom of four-year-old Max, plans a quiet summer in her hometown of Crestwood. Her serenity is shattered when a delivery truck barrels toward Max on a wet summer morning. He is rescued at the last second by a passerby. No one knows the identity of Max's...

De féeriques aventures au pays des licornes, des fées et des sorciers !Huit histoires fantastiques spécialement écrites pour les grands. Des textes féeriques et pétillants de magie et des illustrations pleines de vie pour faire découvrir à son enfant le plaisir de lire tout seul.Idéal...

Drei Wünsche erfüllt ein Dschinn. Drei Prüfungen müssen Helden in Märchen bestehen. Zum dritten Mal laden wir euch ein in das magische Reich der Hexen und Lampengeister. Durch klirrendkalte Winternächte wirbeln Schneefrauen, auf Sommerweiden treiben Windsbräute ihr gefährliches Spiel und tief...

Geheimnisse, seit Jahrtausenden im Sand verborgen... Der Karawanenführer Kadim traut seinen Augen kaum, als er mit seinem Tross einen niedergebrannten Ort erreicht. Was für ein Feuer ist heiß genug, dass es Stein zum Schmelzen bringt? Dass es Menschen von einem Moment auf den anderen zu Asche verbrennt?...

This is the first book of its kind on Sudan, and arguably one of the first in North Africa. We are part of an emerging, more cosmopolitan approach that calls for a reassessment of ideas about not only the concept of identities**,** but also about migration and technology, especially social media....