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Farewell to Egypt
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Islamic economics and finance has recently enjoyed a spike in
interest and a rise in status from theology-tinged discussion
fodder for Muslim intellectuals to a fully fledged academic
discipline knocking on the doors of university social science
departments. The Handbook of Empirical Research on Islam and
Economic Life provides a solid background and overview of current
empirical research, evaluating how well Islamic institutions have
performed in pursuing their objectives. With contributions from
leading scholars, this unique Handbook provides chapters examining
a range of phenomena in Islamic finance, focusing on five main
research areas: religion and growth, Islamic social finance,
Islamic banking and finance, Islamic capital market and Sukuk
(Islamic bonds). This selection of research literature provides: -
a socio-economic profile of Muslim countries - an outline of
Islamic systems of accounting and governance - an analysis of the
religion-development link - a consideration of the role of the
state under Islam. Scholars of finance and Islam in Muslim and in
Western universities, students in graduate and post-graduate
courses in Islamic studies, and Islamic research institutes and
libraries in Western, Middle Eastern and Asian universities will
all find great value in this vital resource and its exploration of
a compelling approach to finance. Contributors include: A.U.F.
Ahmad, M.S. Akhtar, E. Aksak, M.A.M. Al JanabiIhsan Isik, N. Alam,
F. Alqahtani, S.O. Alhabshi, C. Aloui, S.B. Anceaur, D. Ashraf, M.
Asutay, A.F. Aysan, O. Bacha, A. Barajas, M. Bekri, C. De Anca, G.
Dewandaru, M. Disli, A.O. El Aloui, M. Farooq, K. Gazdar, R.
Grassa, H.B. Hamida, M.K. Hassan, R. Hayat, C.M. Henry, J. Howe,
M.H. Ibrahim, M. Jahrom, K. Jouaber-Snoussi, F. Kamarudin, M.
Khawaja, H. Khan, K. Khan, O. Krasicka, M.T. Majeed, N.A.K. Malim,
M. Masih, A. Massara, D.G. Mayes, A.K.M. Meera, M. Mehri, C.
Mertzanis, H.S. Min, M.A. Mobin, Y.A. Nainggolan, M. Naseri, A.M.
Nassir, A. Ng, S. Nowak, M.S. Nurzaman, M. Omran, H. Ozturk, M.
Rashid, M.E.S.M. Rashid, R.M. Shafi, A. Shah, N.S. Shirazi, F.
Sufian, G.M.W. Ullah, P. Verhoeven, L. Weill, S. Zaheer, S.R.S.M.
Zain, A. Zarka
For many, December 26 is more than the day after Christmas. Boxing
Day is one of the world's most celebrated cultural holidays. As a
legacy of British colonialism, Boxing Day is observed throughout
Africa and parts of the African diaspora, but, unlike Trinidadian
Carnival and Mardi Gras, fewer know of Bermuda's Gombey Dancers,
Bahamian Junkanoo, Dangriga's Jankunu and Charikanari, St. Croix's
Christmas Carnival Festival, and St. Kitts's Sugar Mas. One Grand
Noise: Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World delivers a
highly detailed, thought-provoking examination of the use of
spectacular vernacular to metaphorically dramatize such tropes as
""one grand noise,"" ""foreday morning,"" and from ""back-o-town.""
In cultural solidarity and an obvious critique of Western values
and norms, revelers engage in celebratory sounds, often donning
masks, cross-dressing, and dancing with abandon along thoroughfares
usually deemed anathema to them. Folklorist Jerrilyn McGregory
demonstrates how the cultural producers in various island locations
ritualize Boxing Day as a part of their struggles over identity,
class, and gender relations in accordance with time and space.
Based on ethnographic study undertaken by McGregory, One Grand
Noise explores Boxing Day as part of a creolization process from
slavery into the twenty-first century. McGregory traces the holiday
from its Egyptian origins to today and includes chapters on the
Gombey Dancers of Bermuda, the evolution of Junkanoo/Jankunu in the
Bahamas and Belize, and J'ouvert traditions in St. Croix and St.
Kitts. Through her exploration of the holiday, McGregory negotiates
the ways in which Boxing Day has expanded from small communal
traditions into a common history of colonialism that keeps alive a
collective spirit of resistance.
Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning play encompassing the wide-ranging experiences of Black women, now with introductions by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown.
From its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country for nearly fifty years. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be a woman of color in the 20th century.
First published in 1975, when it was praised by The New Yorker for “encompassing…every feeling and experience a woman has ever had,” for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Now with new introductions by Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown, and one poem not included in the original, here is the complete text of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.
The Qur'anic surahs and passages that are customarily taken to
postdate Muhammad's emigration to Medina occupy a key position in
the formative period of Islam: they fundamentally shaped later
convictions about Muhammad's paradigmatic authority and universal
missionary remit; they constitute an important basis for Islam's
development into a religion with a strong legal focus; and they
demarcate the Qur'anic community from Judaism and Christianity. The
volume exemplifies a rich array of approaches to the challenges
posed by this part of the Qur'an, including its distinctive
literary and doctrinal features, its relationship to other late
antique traditions, and the question of oral composition.
Contributors are Karen Bauer, Saqib Hussain, Marianna Klar, Joseph
E. Lowry, Angelika Neuwirth, Andrew J. O'Connor, Cecilia Palombo,
Nora K. Schmid, Nicolai Sinai, Devin J. Stewart, Gabriel S.
Reynolds, Neal Robinson and Holger Zellentin.
National identity and liberal democracy are recurrent themes in
debates about Muslim minorities in the West. Britain is no
exception, with politicians responding to claims about Muslims'
lack of integration by mandating the promotion of 'fundamental
British values' including 'democracy' and 'individual liberty'.
This book engages with both these themes, addressing the lack of
understanding about the character of British Islam and its
relationship to the liberal state. It charts a gradual but decisive
shift in British institutions concerned with Islamic education,
Islamic law and Muslim representation since Muslims settled in the
UK in large numbers in the 1950s. Based on empirical research
including interviews undertaken over a ten-year period with
Muslims, and analysis of public events organized by Islamic
institutions, Stephen Jones challenges claims about the isolation
of British Islamic organizations and shows that they have
decisively shaped themselves around British public and
institutional norms. He argues that this amounts to the building of
a distinctive 'British Islam'. Using this narrative, the book makes
the case for a variety of liberalism that is open to the expression
of religious arguments in public and to associations between
religious groups and the state. It also offers a powerful challenge
to claims about the insularity of British Islamic institutions by
showing how the national orientation of Islam called for by British
policymakers is, in fact, already happening.
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