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  • On Being Ill

    with Notes from Sick Rooms by Julia Stephen

    by Virginia Woolf, Julia Stephen, Rita Charon ...
    Virginia Woolf's daring essay on how illness transforms our perception, plus an essay by Woolf's mother from the caregiver's perspective: "Revelatory." — BooklistThis new publication of "On Being Ill" with "Notes from Sick Rooms" presents Virginia Woolf and her mother, Julia Stephen, in textual conversation for the first time in literary history. In the poignant and humorous essay "On Being Ill," ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Worldly Afterlives

    Tracing Family Trails Between India and Empire

    by Julia Stephens ...
    Series series Histories of Economic Life
    The hidden histories of empire, told through the haunted afterlives of colonial migrationsIndian migrants provided the labor that enabled the British Empire to gain control over a quarter of the world’s population and territory. In the mid-1800s, the British government began building an elaborate bureaucracy to govern its mobile subjects, issuing photo IDs, lists of kin, and wills. It amassed ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Subjects of Ottoman International Law

    by Lâle Can, Michael Christopher Low, Julia Stephens, Faiz Ahmed, Jeffrey Dyer, David Gutman, Stacy D. Fahrenthold0, Umut Özsu1, Will Smiley2, Aimee M. Genell3, Will Hanley4 ...
    The core of this edited volume originates from a special issue of the Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (JOTSA) that goes well beyond the special issue to incorporate the stimulating discussions and insights of two Middle East Studies Association conference roundtables and the important work of additional scholars in order to create a state-of-the-field volume on Ottoman ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Governing Islam

    Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia

    by Julia Stephens ...
    Governing Islam traces the colonial roots of contemporary struggles between Islam and secularism in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The book uncovers the paradoxical workings of colonial laws that promised to separate secular and religious spheres, but instead fostered their vexed entanglement. It shows how religious laws governing families became embroiled with secular laws governing markets, ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

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    The renowned British novelist's "casual and wittily acute guidance" on reading—and writing—great fiction ( Harper's Magazine).Renowned for such classics as A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India, E. M. Forster was one of Britain's—and the world's—most distinguished fiction writers, a frequent nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In this collection of lectures delivered at ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Islamic Law

    by Wael B. Hallaq ...
    The study of Islamic law can be a forbidding prospect for those entering the field for the first time. Wael Hallaq, a leading scholar and practitioner of Islamic law, guides students through the intricacies of the subject in this absorbing introduction. The first half of the book is devoted to a discussion of Islamic law in its pre-modern natural habitat. The second part explains how the law was ... Read more

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  • The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa

    A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue

    by John Allembillah Azumah ...
    Thoughtful and challenging, this book argues for a reassessment of the role historically played by Islam in Africa, and offers new hope for in creased mutual understanding between African people of different faiths. Drawing on a wealth of sources, from the colonial period to the most up-to-date scholarship, the author challenges the widely held perception th at, while Christianity oppressed and ... Read more

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  • The Patriarchs

    The Origins of Inequality

    by Angela Saini ...
    For fans of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, a groundbreaking exploration of gendered oppression—its origins, its histories, our attempts to understand it, and our efforts to combat itFor centuries, societies have treated male domination as natural to the human species. But how would our understanding of gender inequality—our imagined past and contested present— look if we didn’t assume that ... Read more

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  • The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State

    by Noah Feldman ...
    "[A] concise and thoughtful history of the evolution of the Islamic legal system from the time of the first caliphs to our own" from the bestselling author ( U.S. News & World Report).One of Economist's Best Books of the YearWinner of the PROSE Award in Government and Politics, Association of American PublishersIn this incisive book, Harvard law professor Noah Feldman tells the story behind the ... Read more

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  • A Room Of One's Own

    The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    Series series The Virginia Woolf Library
    Why is it that men, and not women, have always had power, wealth, and fame? Woolf cites the two keys to freedom: fixed income and one’s own room. Foreword by Mary Gordon. ... Read more

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  • Women and Gender in Islam

    Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

    by Leila Ahmed ...
    Series series Veritas Paperbacks
    A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generationThis pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arabia during the period in which Islam was ... Read more

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  • The Case for Colonialism

    by Bruce Gilley ...
    "For the last hundred years, Western colonialism has had a bad name." So began Professor Bruce Gilley's watershed academic article "The Case for Colonialism" of 2017. The article sparked a global furor. Critics and defenders of Gilley's argument battled it out in the court of public opinion. The Times of London described Gilley as "probably the academic most likely to be no-platformed in Britain." ... Read more

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