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By: Sayyed Mohammed Ali Jamalzadeh

ISBN: 9780691610634
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, acclaimed as the father of modern Persian short story, wrote this work. Sar o Tah-e Yak Karbas. to provide his fellow Iranians a memoir in story form of traditional Islamic life in Iran before westernization. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again mak


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By: Ziba Mir-Hosseini

ISBN: 9780691010045
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Following the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the re-introduction of Sharica law, women's rights in Iran suffered a setback. Through interviews with clerics in the Iranian religious center of Qom, this book seeks to understand the notions of gender that inform Islamic jurisprudence and to explore how clerics perpetuate and modify these notions.


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By: Timur Kuran

ISBN: 9780691126296
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The doctrine of 'Islamic economics' entered debates over the social role of Islam in the mid-twentieth century. Since then it has pursued the goal of restructuring economies according to perceived Islamic teachings. This book argues that the doctrine of Islamic economics is simplistic, incoherent, and largely irrelevant to economic challenges.


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By: Barbara D. Metcalf

ISBN: 9780691044200
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies in South Asia that highlight a wide variety of genres, many rarely found in standard accounts of Islamic practice, from oral narratives to elite guidance manuals, from devotional songs to secular judicial decisions arbitrating Islamic law.


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By: Robert Ignatius Burns

ISBN: 9780691618517
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The struggle between Islam and the Crusaders comprised a dialogue of cultures on a broad geographic scale and a wide expanse of time, a perennial seesaw of conquest in the West as in the East. Father Burns' pioneering work on Valencia has demonstrated that the inner reality of this sustained confrontation lies as much in the colonial interims as in


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By: Robert Ignatius Burns

ISBN: 9780691645513
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Francis Edward Peters

ISBN: 9780691122335
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Introduces Islam to readers with Christian or Jewish backgrounds. This book starts with the central feature of Muslim faith and life: the Quran. It compares Jesus and Muhammad, describes Islamic commandments and rituals, details the structures of Sunni and Shi'ite communities, and lays out central Islamic beliefs on war, women, and mysticism.


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By: Michael G. Peletz

ISBN: 9780691095080
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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How do Islamic courts work What sorts of cultural understandings inform judicial process and litigants' strategies How do women's claims fare Addressing such questions, this book provides ethnographic, historical, and transnational perspectives on contemporary Islam in the shifting landscape of an important region of the world - Malaysia.


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By: Sohail H. Hashmi

ISBN: 9780691113104
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2002
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Gives a rounded treatment to the subject of Islamic political ethics. This book explores the Islamic ethics of civil society, boundaries, pluralism, and war and peace. It considers questions of diversity, discussing, among other subjects, Islamic regimes' policies regarding women and religious minorities.


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By: Barbara D. Metcalf

ISBN: 9780691614137
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In a study of the vitality of Islam in late-nineteenth-century north India, Barbara Metcalf explains the response of Islamic religious scholars ('ulama) to the colonial dominance of the British and the collapse of Muslim political power. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again


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By: Barbara D. Metcalf

ISBN: 9780691641799
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: J. Stephen Lansing

ISBN: 9780691192949
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Eric Nordlinger

ISBN: 9780691029214
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Advocates a fresh variant of isolationism, a 'national strategy' confining US military actions largely to North America and to neighboring sea-and air-lanes but encouraging international activism and engagement in nonsecurity realms. This book shows that a national strategy would have lessened the perils, including those of the Cold War.


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By: George Polya

ISBN: 9780691079882
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 1951
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The description for this book, Isoperimetric Inequalities in Mathematical Physics. (AM-27), will be forthcoming.


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By: Edward G. Carmines

ISBN: 9780691023311
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 1990
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The description for this book, Issue Evolution: Race and the Transformation of American Politics, will be forthcoming.


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By: Rebecca M. Blank

ISBN: 9780691004013
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1999
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Provides an antidote to scapegoating, guesswork, and outright misinformation of welfare debates. Demonstrating that government aid has been far more effective, this book explains that even private support for the poor depends extensively on public funds. It states that it takes a nation to fight a problem as pervasive and subtle as modern poverty.


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By: N. David Mermin

ISBN: 9780691141275
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Reveals that some of our most intuitive notions about time are shockingly wrong, and that the real nature of time discovered by Einstein can be rigorously explained without advanced mathematics. This book is suitable for intellectually curious readers of various kinds, including professional physicists.


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By: Nunzio Pernicone

ISBN: 9780691603339
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Historians have frequently portrayed Italian anarchism as a marginal social movement that was doomed to succumb to its own ideological contradictions once Italian society modernized. Challenging such conventional interpretations, Nunzio Pernicone provides a sympathetic but critical treatment of Italian anarchism that traces the movement's rise, tra


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By: Nunzio Pernicone

ISBN: 9780691632681
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: A. James Gregor

ISBN: 9780691616414
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Political scientists generally have been disposed to treat Italian Fascism--if not generic fascism--as an idiosyncratic episode in the special history of Europe. James Gregor contends, to the contrary, that Italian Fascism has much in common with an inclusive class of developmental revolutionary regimes. Originally published in 1980. The Princeto


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By: A. James Gregor

ISBN: 9780691643700
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Millicent Marcus

ISBN: 9780691102085
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 1987
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Federico Chabod

ISBN: 9780691606170
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Federico Chabod

ISBN: 9780691634982
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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