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Islam at 250 : Studies in Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll
Islam at 250: Studies in Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll is a collection of original articles on the state of Islamic sciences and Arabic culture in the early phases of their crystallization. It covers a wide range of intellectual activity in the first three centuries of Islam, such as the study of ḥadīth, the Qurʾān, Arabic language and literature, and history. Individually and taken together, …
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- 978-90-04-42795-2
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- xxxviii, 374 pp.
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- Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, Volume: 10
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Islam and the Making of the Nation : Kartosuwiryo and Political Islam in 20th…
Recently Kartsowiryo and the Darul Islam have become heroic symbols of the Islamist struggle. The author looks beyond the popular dichotomy between rebel and martyr and unveils a politician whose legacy has been shaping the role of Islam in Indonesian politics for over fifty years. She thereby offers an alternative view of Soekarno as the leader of the republic and his antagonism with the Islam…
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- 978-90-04-26046-7
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- 244 pp.
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- Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume: 282
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Islam and the Limits of the State : Reconfigurations of Practice, Community a…
This book examines the relationship between the state state implementation of Shariʿa and diverse lived realities of everyday Islam in contemporary Aceh, Indonesia. With chapters covering topics ranging from NGOs and diaspora politics to female ulama and punk rockers, the volume opens new perspectives on the complexity of Muslim discourse and practice in a society that has experienced tremendo…
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- 978-90-04-30486-4
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- xx, 249 pp., 1 illus, 1 map.
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- Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, Volume: 3
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International Disinformation : A Handbook for Analysis and Response
Dive into the world of disinformation with this groundbreaking book. Uncover how Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) shapes modern politics and society, and how it impacts your own life. Explore answers to key questions: What are the origins and characteristics of disinformation? How can we identify it? How do we counteract it? Packed with historical and current data, this …
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- 978-90-04-71576-9
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- viii, 284 pp.
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- 327 CHL i
International Organizations and the Promotion of Effective Dispute Resolution…
This second volume of the AIIB Yearbook of International Law examines the role of international organizations in promoting effective dispute resolution. It is divided into five parts to reflect a series of overarching themes and relationships. Firstly, international arbitration’s effectiveness and affinity with multilateral institutions. Second, international organizations as proponents of th…
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- 978-90-04-40741-1
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- vi, 254 pp.
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- AIIB Yearbook of International Law, Volume: 2
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- 540 INT
International Submarine Cables and Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Juri…
If one uses Facebook, Facetime, Skype, Netflix, or any application of the internet internationally, a submarine cable is involved. Fibre optic cables bind the world together and computer server farms, maintained by major telecom and content companies, allow vast amounts of data to be stored and retrieved from the cloud. Not often appreciated is the fact that these server locations worldwide are…
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- 978-90-04-35160-8
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- viii, 72 pp.
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- Brill Research Perspectives in the Law of the Sea
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- 540 BUR i
Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise the present and try to shape the future. This book explores aetiology as a tool for thinking, and draws attention to the paradoxical structure of origin stories. Aetiologies r…
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- 978-90-04-50043-3
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- Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation, Volume: 2
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Assessment Framework for People-Centred Solutions to Carbon Neutrality : A Co…
This open access book presents a catalogue of over one thousand indicators which can be used by cities' public administrators to monitor and evaluate social innovation action plans to support people-centred, collaborative or co-designed solutions to lower carbon emissions. Indicators are clustered according to a framework of social innovation solutions for climate neutrality at city level, deve…
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- 978-3-031-53111-8
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- IX, 110
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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- 540 BRE a
At Risk of Deprivation : The Multidimensional Well-Being Impacts of Climate M…
This open access book examines how and why various forms of climate (im)mobilities can impact people's objective and subjective well-being. Worsening climate impacts are forcing subsistence farmers worldwide to decide between staying or leaving their homes. This mixed methods study analyzes cases of climate-related migration, displacement, relocation, and immobility in Peru's coastal, highland,…
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- 978-3-658-42298-1
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- Studien zur Migrations- und Integrationspolitik
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- 550 BER r
Involving Readers : Practices of Reading, Use, and Interaction in Early Moder…
This volume explores how and by whom early modern Dutch Bibles were used. Through a detailed analysis of paratextual features and readers’ traces in over 180 surviving Bible copies, Renske Hoff shows how individuals manifested their faith in owning, reading, and personalising the Bible, in a period characterised by religious turmoil. From nuns and countesses to tailors and merchants: Bibles …
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- 978-90-04-69652-5
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- xviii, 332 pp.
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- Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World, Volume: 129
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