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Visions of Justice : Sharīʿa and Cultural Change in Russian Central Asia
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Sartori, Paolo

Visions of Justice offers an exploration of legal consciousness among the Muslim communities of Central Asia from the end of the eighteenth century through the fall of the Russian Empire. Paolo Sartori surveys how colonialism affected the way in which Muslims formulated their convictions about entitlements and became exposed to different notions of morality. Situating his work within a range of…

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'9789004330900
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408 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic & Central Asian Studies,
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Waqf in Zaydī Yemen; Legal Theory, Codification, and Local Practice
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HOVDEN, Eirik

Islamic foundations ( waqf, pl. awqāf) have been an integral part of Yemeni society both for managing private wealth and as a legal frame for charity and public infrastructure. This book focuses on four socially grounded fields of legal knowledge: fiqh, codification, individual waqf cases, and everyday waqf-related knowledge. It combines textual analysis with ethnography and seeks to understan…

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Volume: 46
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978-90-04-37784-4
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Blaming Islam
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Bowen, John R.

Why fears about Muslim integration into Western society--propagated opportunistically by some on the right--misread history and misunderstand multiculturalism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

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9780262301855
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1 online resource (xi, 121 pages).
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