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By: Derek J. Penslar
ISBN: 9780691168098
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Jews and the Military is the first comprehensive and comparative look at Jews' involvement in the military and their attitudes toward war from the 1600s until the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. Derek Penslar shows that although Jews have often been described as people who shun the army, in fact they have frequently been willing, even eage
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By: John O'Brien
ISBN: 9780691197111
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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"Engaging and insightful. O'Brien provides rich descriptions of the cultural work these teenagers do in their efforts to be both good Muslims and fully American."--Mark Chaves, author of American Religion.n.
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By: Dale F. Eickelman
ISBN: 9780691025551
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 1992
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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A social biography of a rural Moroccan judge. It combines the outlooks and perceptions of the author and those of the shrewd and reflective 'Abd ar-Rahman, supplementing our knowledge of resurgent militant Islamic movements by describing other popularly supported Islamic attitudes toward the contemporary world.
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By: Judith Laikin Elkin
ISBN: 9780313259364
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1990
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The only comprehensive resource of its kind, this interdisciplinary bibliography lists and describes all significant books, dissertations, articles, and periodicals on the subject of Latin American Jews published in any language between 1970 and 1986.
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By: Michael Walzer
ISBN: 9780691125084
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Jewish legal and political thought developed in conditions of exile, where Jews had neither a state of their own nor citizenship in any other. What use, then, can this body of thought be to Jews living in Israel or as emancipated citizens in secular states This collection of essays by political theorists and lawyers deals with such questions.
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By: David E. Van Zandt
ISBN: 9780691636733
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Nura Maznavi
ISBN: 9781593764289
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2012
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
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By: Sarah Stroumsa
ISBN: 9780691152523
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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While the great medieval philosopher, theologian, and physician Maimonides is acknowledged as a leading Jewish thinker, his intellectual contacts with his surrounding world are often described as related primarily to Islamic philosophy. This title demonstrates that he was deeply influenced not only by Islamic philosophy but by Islamic culture.
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By: Jacques Picard
ISBN: 9780691164236
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Scott A. Mitchell
ISBN: 9781350210660
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Scott A. Mitchell
ISBN: 9781350046863
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Susanne Olsson
ISBN: 9781784534714
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Ayala Fader
ISBN: 9780691139173
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Examines language, gender, and the body from infancy to adulthood, showing how Hasidic girls in Brooklyn become women responsible for rearing the next generation of nonliberal Jewish believers. This work investigates how Hasidic women and girls conceptualize the religious, the secular, and the modern.
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By: Hamid Enayat
ISBN: 9781850434665
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Enayat describes and interprets some of the major Islamic political ideas, examining the differences between the two main schools in Islam - Shi'ism and Sunnism. The concept of the Islamic state, and the Muslim response to the challenge of modern ideologies, are also covered.
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By: Dr. Iris Idelson-Shein
ISBN: 9781350178113
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr. Iris Idelson-Shein
ISBN: 9781350052147
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Mathilde Becker Aarseth
ISBN: 9780755607099
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Mathilde Becker Aarseth
ISBN: 9780755607082
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Elisheva Baumgarten
ISBN: 9780691130293
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Presents a synthetic history of the family in Germany and northern France during the High Middle Ages. Concentrating on the special roles of mothers and children, this book advances efforts to write a comparative Jewish-Christian social history. It provides an analysis of the history of Jewish families in medieval Ashkenaz.
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By: Shahram Akbarzadeh
ISBN: 9780868405803
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2001
Publisher: UNSW Press
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Explores the history and experience of Muslims in Australia.
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By: Khadijah Elshayyal
ISBN: 9781838602048
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Mohammad Siddique Seddon
ISBN: 9781441122995
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Offers an insight into key contemporary global issues relating to the lives and experiences of young Muslims. This book addresses many of the central issues facing young Muslims in both localized and globalized contexts through engaging with the work of academics, youth work practitioners and those working in non-governmental organizations.
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By: Dr Mohammad Siddique Seddon
ISBN: 9781441119872
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Offers an insight into key contemporary global issues relating to the lives and experiences of young Muslims. This book addresses many of the central issues facing young Muslims in both localized and globalized contexts through engaging with the work of academics, youth work practitioners and those working in non-governmental organizations.
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By: Craig Considine
ISBN: 9781440860539
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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