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Toward Sustainable Community
This book focuses on how to maintain environmental sustainability as one of its main principles, and it addresses how smart cities serve to diminish w...
Proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2017 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures
This edited volume brings together findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of structural engineering, applied to buildings, bridg...
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Challenges of a Changing America: An Anthology from the Cairo Review of Global Affairs
An anthology from the pages of the Cairo Review of Global Affairs brings together experts from the Middle East and around the world for a penetrating ...
The new edition of this highly popular guide, How to Read World Literature, addresses the unique challenges and joys faced when approaching the litera...
Aesthetic Possibilities for a Political Future
An Ethics of Improvisation takes up the puzzles and lessons of improvised music in order to theorize the building blocks of a politically just society...
If films drawing on Middle East tropes often highlight white Westerners, figures such as Sinbad and the Thief of Bagdad embody a counter-tradition of ...
What I Say to My Friends About Racism
In this "vital book for these times" (Kirkus Reviews), Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today's most...
Contemplation in the Islamic Tradition
Sufism is all too often associated just with 'mysticism' in the West. The author of this new textbook, a former pupil of Annemarie Schimmel, suggests ...
The conventional wisdom that political and economic actors in colonial countries are passive and reactive is undermined by Goldberg's close examinatio...
Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904)
Julia Clancy-Smith's unprecedented study brings us a remarkable view of North African history from the perspective of the North Africans themselves. F...
Islam today is a truly global faith, yet it remains somewhat of an enigma to many of us. Each and every day our newspapers are saturated with referenc...
The book deals with the role of Jerusalem as a central religious-political symbol, and with the processes by which symbols of faith and sanctity are b...
The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety
The important role of the Prophet Muhammad in the everyday lives of Muslims is usually overlooked by Western scholars and has consequently never been ...
Domestic devotion has become an increasingly important area of research in recent years, with the publication of a number of significant studies on th...
Islam in Historical Perspective is a general introduction to Islam and the history of Muslim societies. Richly illustrated by quotations and images fr...
Historiography, the Chancery, and Social Practice in Late Medieval Egypt
The so-called Mamluk sultans who ruled Egypt and Syria between the late thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries AD have often been portrayed as lacki...
A Cumulative Author List Representing Library of Congress Printed Cards and Titles Reported by Other American Libraries
Vols. for 1963- include as pt. 2 of the Jan. issue: Medical subject headings....
Random Thoughts
The book covers the monthly musings of the author from the year 2011 to 2015 that got manifest as write-ups in the daily Greater Kashmir, the daily Ri...
Secretions of Islamic Atheism
“There is always an atheism to be extracted from a religion,” Deleuze and Guattari write in their final collaboration, What Is Philosophy? Their c...
A Short Guide to the Faith
In this straightforward and authoritative collection of fifteen essays -- each by a different, specialized expert in the field -- readers will encount...
Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries presents a ground-breaking comparative approach to the study of multic...
Striving for remembrance
A common objective of saint veneration in all three Abrahamic religions is the recovery and perpetuation of the collective memory of the saint. Christ...
Swahili Poetry of Commitment by Ustadh Mahmoud Mau
The present volume is a pioneering collection of poetry by the outstanding Kenyan poet, intellectual and imam Ustadh Mahmmoud Mau (born 1952) from Lam...
A collection of autobiographical essays written by prominent authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults....
Volume 1
Crusades covers seven hundred years from the First Crusade (1095-1102) to the fall of Malta (1798) and draws together scholars working on theatres of ...
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the b...
Contesting the Nation
This book deals with the relationship between historical scholarship and politics in twentieth century Egypt. It examines the changing roles of the ac...
Amadu Bamba and the Founding of the Muridiyya of Senegal, 1853–1913
In Senegal, the Muridiyya, a large Islamic Sufi order, is the single most influential religious organization, including among its numbers the nation�...
Al-Saʿdi's Taʾrīkh Al-Sūdān Down to 1613, and Other Contemporary Documents
The principal text translated in this volume is the "Ta'rikh Al-sudan" of the 17th-century Timbuktu scholar, 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sadi. The other documen...
Al-Sa‘dī's Ta’rīkh Al-sūdān down to 1613 and other Contemporary Documents
The principal text translated in this volume is the Ta’rīkh Al-sūdān of the seventeenth-century Timbuktu scholar ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Sa‘dī....
Literary and Dramatic Explorations
Magical realism has deep roots across many African languages and regions. This book explores African magical realism from a transregional and inclusiv...
Volume 3, Prophetic Piety: Individual and Collective Manifestations
This third collective volume of the series The Presence of the Prophet explores the expressions of piety and devotion to the person of the Prophet and...
A Monthly Register
A monthly register of the most important works published in North and South America, in India, China, and the British colonies: with occasional notes ...
Business and Welfare Among Chinese, Japanese, and Blacks
Consumerism, Education, and National Identity, 1863-1922
A "New Woman" was announced in Egypt at the turn of the nineteenth century. With a new genre of prescriptive literature, new products, a new education...