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Santa's Night
Santa's night is here! His sleigh holds so many surprises. Read along and open the flaps to find what magic he has brought for you!
Guide to Asian Studies in Europe
The Guide provides a comprehensive survey of researchers, institutes, university departments, museums, organisations and newsletters in the field of Asian Studies in Europe.
Virtually Islamic
Technology is making a global impact on how Muslims approach and interpret Islam. This book offers a survey of the phenomena relating to Islam and the Internet.
Cultures of Confinement
Prisons are on the increase from the United States to China, as ever-larger proportions of humanity find themselves behind bars. While prisons now span the world, we know little about their history in global perspective. Rather than interpreting the prison's proliferation as the predictable result of globalization, Cultures of Confinement underlines the fact that the prison was never simply imposed by colonial powers or copied by elites eager to emulate the West, but was reinvented and transformed by a host of local factors, its success being dependent on its very flexibility. Complex cultural negotiations took place in encounters between different parts of the world, and rather than assigning a passive role to Latin America, Asia, and Africa, the authors of this book point out the acts of resistance or appropriation that altered the social practices associated with confinement. The prison, in short, was understood in culturally specific ways and reinvented in a variety of local contexts examined here for the first time in global perspective.
Islamic Banking & Finance in South-East Asia
To truly understand the current interest in the development of Islamic banking and finance in South-East Asia and how it is different from the conventional banking system, one must first understand the religious relationship originating from the Qur'an, and then trace the historical geographic and political developments of Islam over recent centuries. Only on this basis can the reader, without prejudice or cynicism, begin to appreciate Shari'ah law and Islamic jurisprudence. With this platform established in the first part of the book, readers are invited to learn about the financial products and services offered, understand the challenges in their development, and ultimately recognize the s...
