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Containing some of the papers presented to the second International Conference on Islamic Economics held in Islamabad in 1983, this text reflects Muslim thinking on some of the most important economic issues of the late 20th century.

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Containing some of the papers presented to the second International Conference on Islamic Economics held in Islamabad in 1983, this text reflects Muslim thinking on some of the most important economic issues of the late 20th century.

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A philosophical case against religious violenceWe live in an age beset by religiously inspired violence. Terms such as "holy war" are the stock-in-trade of the evening news. But what is the relationship between holiness and violence Can acts such as murder ever truly be described as holy In Does Judaism Condone Violence, Alan Mittleman offer

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Traces Albert Einstein's involvement with Zionism from his initial contacts with the movement at the end of World War I to his emigration from Germany in 1933 in the wake of Hitler's rise to power. This book offers a nuanced picture yet of Einstein's complex and sometimes stormy relationship with Jewish nationalism.

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This systematic exposition of various aspects of the economics of Islam not only provide an overview of the various dimensions of Islamic economics, but also aim to establish the viability of the application of these concepts in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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This systematic exposition of various aspects of the economics of Islam not only provide an overview of the various dimensions of Islamic economics, but also aim to establish the viability of the application of these concepts in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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"K. Mohrman offers a powerful rethinking of Mormonism and its place in U.S. history, culture, and politics, arguing that Mormon peculiarity is a potent expression of U.S. exceptionalism. Exceptionally Queer ultimately shows how discussions of Mormonism in this country have been and continue to be central to ideas of what it means to be American"--

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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as German Jews struggled for legal emancipation and social acceptance, they also embarked on a program of cultural renewal, two key dimensions of which were distancing themselves from their fellow Ashkenazim in Poland and giving a special place to the Sephardim of medieval Spain. Where they saw Ashkenazic

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Two interrelated essays which address the debate concerning Heidegger's relationship to Nazism. In the first, Lyotard establishes the theme of the "outsider" by placing "the jews" in lower case - a representation of the threatening alien force. In the second, he discusses the "Heidegger affair".

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This study aims to go beyond isolating and stating Islamic economic ideals in relation to Western conceptions, and to progress toward implementation. It offers an integrated picture of the programme that Islam offers to help realise the kind of well-being it envisages.

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This text portrays the Islamic approach to issues of poverty and income distribution in the perspective of Islam's overall scheme for the establishment of a just socio-economic order.

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Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is the most influential Islamist organization in India. This book offers an in-depth examination of India's Jamaat-e-Islami and SIMI, exploring political Islam's complex relationship with democracy and providing a rare window into the Islamist trajectory in a Muslim-minority context.

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This text surveys the theory of money, banking and monetary policy in an Islamic economy. It also considers policy recommendations on how to eliminate payment of interest from the economy of Pakistan.

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Sorkin seeks to reorient Jewish history by offering the first comprehensive account in any language of the process by which Jews became citizens with civil and political rights in the modern world.

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Addresses the relation of Jewish cultural studies to cultural studies as a whole. Jonathan Boyarin is the author of "Storm from Paradise" (Minnesota, 1993) and the editor of "Remapping Memory" (Minnesota, 1994).

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Looks at Jews' involvement in the military and their attitudes toward war from the 1600s until the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. This title demonstrates that Israel's military ethos did not emerge from a vacuum and that long before the state's establishment, Jews had a vested interest in military affairs.

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This text discusses and aims to vindicate the traditional viewpoint on the role of women, based on a strict interpretation of the "Qur'an" and the "Sunnah".