A guide to the religion and culture of Islam, it focuses on key issues including: the Qur'an, faith, theology, gender, fundamentalism, martyrdom, Jihad, Islam in America, Islam in Europe and Islamic L...
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Examines the role of women and gender ideology during the pre-contact and colonial periods in Latin America. This book looks at early indigenous societies along with the Spanish and the Portuguese, no...
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Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (767-820) was one of Islam's foundational legal thinkers. Shafi'i considered law vital to social and cosmic order: the key obligation of each Muslim was to obey God. This...
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