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  • The Little Angels

    Feel the Goodness

    by Aisha Khan ...
    When two compassionate little girls decide to change the world, they embark upon a journey to bring education, nutrition, and safety to children less fortunate than themselves. The Little Angels explores the idea of how small efforts can make positive impacts, and will inspire children to take their own steps toward changing the world! ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Callaloo Nation

    Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad

    by Aisha Khan, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Mixing—whether referred to as mestizaje, callaloo, hybridity, creolization, or multiculturalism—is a foundational cultural trope in Caribbean and Latin American societies. Historically entwined with colonial, anticolonial, and democratic ideologies, ideas about mixing are powerful forces in the ways identities are interpreted and evaluated. As Aisha Khan shows in this ethnography, they reveal the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Deepest Dye

    Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World

    by Aisha Khan ...
    How colonial categories of race and religion together created identities and hierarchies that today are vehicles for multicultural nationalism and social critique in the Caribbean and its diasporas.When the British Empire abolished slavery, Caribbean sugar plantation owners faced a labor shortage. To solve the problem, they imported indentured “coolie” laborers, Hindus and a minority Muslim ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Empirical Futures

    Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz

    Edited by George Baca, Aisha Khan, Stephan Palmié ...
    Since the 1950s, anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate the disciplines of anthropology and history. Author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History and other groundbreaking works, he was one of the first scholars to anticipate and critique “globalization studies.” However, a strong tradition of epistemologically sophisticated and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Avicenna

    Leading Physician and Philosopher-Scientist of the Islamic Golden Age

    by Bridget Lim, Aisha Khan ...
    Series series Physicians, Scientists, and Mathematicians of the Islamic World
    Known as the “prince of physicians,” Avicenna made enormous contributions to the fields of medicine, natural history, metaphysics, and religion. His use of Aristotelian logic and his work on the concept of “being” opened the door for a rationalist study of religion, influencing the later Christian philosophers Aquinas, Descartes, and Kant. Avicenna’s monumental Canon of Medicine is regarded as ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Islam and the Americas

    Edited by Aisha Khan ...
    Series series New World Diasporas
    "A tour de force that underwrites and shifts the petrified image of Islam disseminated by mainstream media."--Walter D. Mignolo, author of The Darker Side of Western Modernity "Gives us an entirely different picture of Muslims in the Americas than can be found in the established literature. A complex glimpse of the rich diversity and historical depth of Muslim presence in the Caribbean and Latin ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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    by Akbar Ganji ...
    Series series Boston Review Books
    A famous Iranian dissident calls for universal human rights and democracy based on our common humanity.Akbar Ganji, called by some “Iran's most famous dissident,” was a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. But, troubled by the regime's repressive nature, he became an investigative journalist in the 1990s, writing for Iran's pro-democracy newspapers. Most notably, he traced the murders ... Read more

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  • Different Spaces, Different Voices: A Rendezvous with Decoloniality

    by Sayan Dey ...
    This collection of interviews fromfrom various decolonial researchersand academicians across the worldcentrally reflects upon upon twocrucial aspects - the differencesbetween the concepts of postcolonialityand decoloniality, and the multifariousforms of decolonial thinking and doingthat are taking place in thecontemporary era. ... Read more

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  • What I Believe

    by Tariq Ramadan ...
    Tariq Ramadan is very much a public figure, named one of Time magazine's most important innovators of the twenty-first century. He is among the leading Islamic thinkers in the West, with a large following around the world. But he has also been a lightning rod for controversy. Indeed, in 2004, Ramadan was prevented from entering the U.S. by the Bush administration and despite two appeals, supported ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Of Virgins and Martyrs

    Women and Sexuality in Global Conflict

    by David Jacobson ...
    Series series Themes in Global Social Change
    Explores the role of women’s status, bodies, and sexuality in global conflicts.Women's bodies have become a battleground. Around the world, people argue about veiling, schooling for Afghan girls, and "SlutWalk" protests, all of which involve issues of women's sexuality and freedom. Globalization, with its emphasis on human rights and individuality, heats up these arguments. In Of Virgins and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Identity and Violence

    The Illusion of Destiny

    by Amartya Sen ...
    Series series Issues of Our Time
    “One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”—Nadine GordimerIn this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by race, religion, and class, Sen presents an inspiring vision ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

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  • Invention Of Women

    Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses

    by Oyeronke Oyewumi ...
    The “woman question,” this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western construction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Author Oyeronke Oyewumi reveals an ideology of biological determinism at the heart of Western social categories-the idea that biology provides ... Read more

    $17.29 USD