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  • Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam

    by Asma Sayeed ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
    Asma Sayeed's book explores the history of women as religious scholars from the first decades of Islam through the early Ottoman period. Focusing on women's engagement with hadīth, this book analyzes dramatic chronological patterns in women's hadīth participation in terms of developments in Muslim social, intellectual and legal history. It challenges two opposing views: that Muslim women have been ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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  • A History of Modern Indonesia

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  • Betrayal in Paris

    How the Treaty of Versailles Led to China's Long Revolution: Penguin Specials

    by Paul French ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    At the conclusion of 'the war to end war', the victorious powers set about redesigning the world map at the Paris Peace Conference. For China, Versailles presented an opportunity to regain territory lost to Japan at the start of the war. Yet, despite early encouragement from the world's superpowers, the country was to be severely disappointed. In this First World War China Special Paul French ... Read more

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    by Lamin O. Sanneh ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in World Christianity
    Long the dominant religion of the West, Christianity is now rapidly becoming the principal faith in much of the postcolonial world--a development that marks a momentous shift in the religion's very center of gravity. In this eye-opening book, Lamin Sanneh examines the roots of this "post-Western awakening" and the unparalleled richness and diversity, as well as the tension and conflict, it has ... Read more

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  • The Chinese Sisters of the Precious Blood and the Evolution of the Catholic Church

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