This book is a comprehensive introductory text to the subject of Western Muslims' diverse interpretations, discussions and practices of Shari'a with a particular focus on their daily lives in the West.
There has been a steady stream of articles written on the relations between political thought and the interpretation of literature, but there remains a need for a book that both introduces and significantly contributes to the field - particularly one that shows in detail how we can think more freely and creatively about political possibilities by reading and reflecting on politically significant literature.
This book is a comprehensive introductory text to the subject of Western Muslims' diverse interpretations, discussions and practices of Shari'a with a particular focus on their daily lives in the West.
Chapters “Jiaohua through Humanistic Buddhism: Integrating Transcendence with Worldly Matters” and "e;Jiaohua through Humanistic Buddhism: Integrating Transcendence with Worldly Matters"e; are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.
This book argues that, in the development of science, three principles have been used; transparency of results; transparency of procedures; financial transparency.
Foreign Fighters and the Extreme Right is the first comprehensive academic study taking an in-depth look at white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other right-wing extremists leaving their home countries to join armed groups fighting in civil wars and other armed conflicts.
This book argues that, in the development of science, three principles have been used; transparency of results; transparency of procedures; financial transparency.
The book focuses on different practices of associated labor in Brazil and Argentina, in the case of the workers' recuperated factories, over the past 40 years.
By exploring the trajectories of Islamist parties in six diverse countries (Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia), this book provides a comparative analysis of the strategies employed by Islamist groups to confront established political structures through electoral processes and their subsequent governance practices if and when they assume power.
Contemporary policymakers, as their predecessors, continue to view nomadic people as a weak minority, and their way of life and raising livestock as a backward and inefficient paradigm.
Contemporary policymakers, as their predecessors, continue to view nomadic people as a weak minority, and their way of life and raising livestock as a backward and inefficient paradigm.
This volume brings together emerging and established religious ethicists to investigate how those in the field carry forward the practice and tradition of social criticism and, at the same time, how social criticism informs the scholarly values of their field.
This volume brings together emerging and established religious ethicists to investigate how those in the field carry forward the practice and tradition of social criticism and, at the same time, how social criticism informs the scholarly values of their field.
This book breaks down barriers between disciplines engaging with flow, by speaking from geography into psychology to establish geographical foundations for this psychological phenomenon.
This book aims at explaining romantic love between straight adults through literary texts of the western canon from the nineteenth and twentieth century.
Philosophical thinking allows itself to be nourished by seemingly non-committal exercises of thought but at the same time seeks forms of irrefutable knowledge.
This book contends that the development of modern Chinese international thought has been profoundly shaped by the distinctive nature of the Chinese state as a contender state and its global positioning since 1912.
This book offers a political anthropological discussion of our contemporary situation regarding sceptical attitudes towards scientific expertise and authority, and the increasing role of power and politics.
