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Bioethics in Pakistan: Local contexts, local cases
Kulsoom Ghias, Murad M. Khan, Kausar S. Khan, and Sameer Nizamuddin
This is a well-researched well-articulated and locally relevant casebook that provides a unique lens essential to finding tangible solutions to pressing ethical issue prevalent in our setting and generating further discourse on ethics in healthcare.
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Educational leadership policies and practices: Voices from developing countries
Jan-e-Alam Khaki, Gulab Khan, Mola Dad Shafa, and Sadruddin Bahadur Qutoshi
Educational Leadership Policies and Practices highlights voices from different developing countries that echo the need for sustainable, enabling, and liberating educational leadership that will stimulate ideas and ideals to usher new ways of looking at old problems of educational leadership.
The chapters, largely, are based on original empirical field research, learnings drawn from applied research, and study of organizational learning. In addition, they are based on policy analysis and analytical deconstruction of the mind-boggling nuances of pedagogical, transformational, or transforming leadership theories.
In an area where so little has been written on school and system leaders, Educational Leadership Policies and Practices: Voices from the Developing Countries is a very welcome contribution to the field. The various authors do a great job of portraying how radically different the contexts are for making education progress as leaders. We see the familiar concepts: transformational, moral, pedagogical, capacity building, contingent, mobilizing community, and so on, but the contexts are so different that the findings and lessons generate new ideas about leadership. The six main leadership lessons for less developed countries examined in the final chapter are especially powerful.
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Environmental and climate change dictionary
Fozia Parveen
The idea of creating a dictionary was conceived after AKU-IED launched the climate change and environmental sustainability module in 2022 for parents, teachers, and students. As a follow-up to the launch, under the ismaili civic banner, over 100 teachers and youth educators were oriented about the module. It was realized that several words that we presume teachers would know are not as common in their vocabulary as we had thought, especially considering that head teachers come from diverse background.
Working on the principle of creating more scholarship for climate change education and education for sustainable development, this dictionary was initiated in the environmental education elective course, where students brought words we often used in class together to create a mini-dictionary.
The five green musketeers who stared this project are Zaibunisa Hussain, Noman Ali, Zia Rahman, Hussain Taj, and Munika Issa. They shortlisted all the words and their definitions. Sayem Khaleq, an intern at AKU-IED, aligned the word list. However, Miss Almeera Ali, another intern, worked tirelessly with me to shape it up and put it together for the world to witness, and learn more about it.
We hope that you will receive it with open hearts and appreciate this little effort from my students, and interns.
Feel free to reach out to me at fozia.parveem@aku.edu or follow AKU-IED socials for more details and updates. -
Behavioral change communication tool kit to promote hygiene among school children
Nousheen Akber Pradhan, Naseem Hashmani, Tazeen Saeed Ali, and Rozina Karmaliani
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Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean: Diversity and Pluralism, Past and Present
Stephane Pradines and Farouk Topan
This book examines the role of Muslim communities in the emergence of connections and mobilities across the Indian Ocean World from a longue durée perspective. Spanning the 7th century through the medieval period until the present day, this book aims to move beyond the usual focus on geographical sub-regions to highlight different aspects of interconnectivity in relation to Islam. Analysing textual and material evidence, contributors examine identities and diasporas, manuscripts and literature, as well as vernacular and religious architecture. It aims to explore networks and circulations of peoples, ideas and ideologies, as well as art, culture, religion and heritage. It focuses on global interactions as well as local agencies in context. Highlights the centrality of Muslim cultures in understanding interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean Explores the role of Islam in forming and transforming global interactions and local agencies across the Indian Ocean Offers intra-Muslim perceptions of beliefs, practices and activities, both religious and other Presents 15 case studies across Ethiopia, Gujarat, Java, Kerala, the Malay-Indonesian archipelago, Maldives, Oman, Tanzania, Zanzibar and the Persianate cultural zone.
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Volume 10: Muslim cultures of the Indian Ocean : diversity and pluralism, past and present
Stephane Pradines and Farouk Topan
Scholars are increasingly recognising the centrality of the Indian Ocean in the study of Muslim cultures.
This volume explores the expanding and changing roles of these Muslim communities across the Indian Ocean World from the seventh century to the mediaeval period to the present day. The book goes beyond the usual focus on geographical sub-regions to highlight different aspects of interconnectivity in relation to Islam. By analysing textual and material evidence, the fifteen papers in this volume examine identities and diasporas, manuscripts and literature, as well as vernacular and religious architecture. It explores the networks and movements of peoples, ideas and ideologies, as well as art, culture, religion and heritage.
Key Features:
- Highlights the centrality of Muslim cultures in understanding interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean
- Explores the role of Islam in forming and transforming global interactions and local agencies across the Indian Ocean
- Offers intra-Muslim perceptions of beliefs, practices and activities, both religious and other
- Presents 15 case studies across Ethiopia, Gujarat, Java, Kerala, the Malay-Indonesian archipelago, Maldives, Oman, Tanzania, Zanzibar and the Persianate cultural zone
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Transforming teaching & learning in higher education: Stories of impact from the Aga Khan University
Jane Rarieya (Ed.), Tashmin Khamis (Ed.), and Lucy Spowart (Ed.)
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Negativity in psychoanalysis theory and clinic
Duane Rousselle
Negativity in Psychoanalysis examines the role of negativity in psychoanalytic theory and its application in clinical settings.While theories around negativity and death drive have become routinized within philosophical interpretations of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, they often mask an inherent positivity. This volume assembles highly esteemed psychoanalytic theorists and clinicians for an in-depth discussion on the topic. It features comprehensive introductions to Freudian and Lacanian perspectives, alongside contemporary clinical and cultural issues. The book also investigates how psychoanalytic negativity influences and is influenced by social, theological, and philosophical dialogues.This work will prove invaluable for practicing psychoanalysts and those in training, while also appealing to academics and scholars in critical and cultural theory, continental and post-continental philosophy, and sociology, especially those whose research intersects clinical and theoretical traditions.
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Post-anarchism and psychoanalysis: seminars on politics and society
Duane Rousselle
"I know Rousselle for years as a very serious theoretician, but now he did something quite unexpected: he collected in a single volume his transcribed live interventions. The effect is nothing less than miraculous: a flow of engaged thinking, an often polemical dialogue, to be read coldly like one reads pure theory. Eternal thought, its deepest insights, transpire in the dynamic of intellectual life and its struggles. Green life and grey theory are thus no longer opposed: theory itself becomes green, part of life. A book that will not just teach you a lot – you will literally enjoy it!" -Slavoj Zizek
"Duane Rousselle’s latest book marks a genuine breakthrough for thinking through the relationship between psychoanalysis and politics. It allows us to grasp how we might think anarchism in terms of psychoanalysis, which marks its singular contribution. Since the book contains writings that were originally spoken, it is not only extremely accessible but also completely engaging. While reading, one has the sense of participating in a fascinating conversation that one hopes will never end. Absolutely not to be missed." -Todd McGowan
"This is a series of interventions from one of the most exciting psychoanalytic thinkers around today. Rousselle has taught us to think about radical politics and psychoanalysis in new and original ways. By bringing these fields of activity and investigation together he illuminates new paths forward while also pointing out the pitfalls and difficulties of revolutionary politics. These lectures are like the seminars of a new Lacan - full of wit, theoretical rigor and brilliant insights. His provocations tantalize us and turn us all into political hysterics. ‘What you want is another Master’? No, what you want is another Rousselle!" -Saul Newman -
Critical Care and COVID-19
Salim Surani, Syed Anjum Khan, and Reena Shah
Since its emergence in late 2019, COVID-19 has sparked global catastrophe, taking the lives of millions around the world. This pandemic has deeply challenged the global community across sectors, including health and economics. Constantly evolving information led to millions of publications related to the disease in less than two years, a ground-breaking magnitude in the world of academic. This book “Critical Care & COVID-19” summarizes what we know about COVID-19 as it pertains to epidemiology, pathology, therapeutics, and effects on different organ systems. It also dives into the mental health challenges as a result of COVID-19, the nursing and respiratory therapist journey, and lessons learned from the frontline. This 25-chapter book covers the COVID-19 spectrum and benefits clinicians, nurses, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, and regulators.
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Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society and Gender in the Early Republic
Sevgi Adak
The veiling and unveiling of women have been controversial issues in Turkey since the late-Ottoman period. It was with the advent of local campaigns against certain veils in the 1930s, however, that women's dress turned into an issue of national mobilisation in which gender norms would be redefined. In this comprehensive analysis of the anti-veiling campaigns in interwar Turkey, Sevgi Adak casts light onto the historical context within which the meanings of veiling and unveiling in Turkey were formed. By shifting the focus from the high politics of the elite to the implementation of state policies, the book situates the anti-veiling campaigns as a space where the Kemalist reforms were negotiated, compromised and resisted by societal actors. Using previously unpublished archival material, Adak reveals the intricacies of the Kemalist modernisation process and provides a nuanced reading of the gender order established in the early republic by looking at the various ways women responded to the anti-veiling campaigns. A major contribution to the literature on the social history of modern Turkey, the book provides a complex analysis of these campaigns which goes beyond a simple binary between liberation and oppression.
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Tek Parti Dönemini Yeniden Düşünmek: Devlet, Toplum ve Siyaset
Sevgi Adak and Alexandros Lamprou
Edited volume published in Turkish, focusing on the single-party period in Turkey.
Book description: While the single-party period (1923-1945) is arguably the most studied period in the history of the Republic of Turkey, it is also the most decontextualized, mythologized and politicized one. Although there is a rich academic literature focusing on the period, written from very different perspectives and political positions, this literature largely reflects an elite-centred perspective that prioritizes the state, the policies of the central government and ideological debates.
The point of departure for this edited volume is that the single-party period and the historiography regarding this period should be re-evaluated in the light of new perspectives and questions. The chapters that make up the volume show that single-party Turkey is shaped by much more complex dynamics than revealed by analyses based on dichotomies such as "secular regime vs conservative people" or "centre vs. periphery", which dominate the existing literature. The chapters focus on different aspects of the early Republican period and look at state-society relations and the encounters of state and societal actors at all levels. The volume offers fresh and state of the art research that reveals the divisions and tensions within the state, acknowledges the power of social actors, and takes into account the interactions and negotiations between actors and institutions in both national and transnational contexts. Thus, the book proposes to understand the authoritarian regime of the single-party period by focusing on the daily practices of the state and without ignoring the ambiguities and inconsistencies inherent in the modernisation process.
Contributors: Onur Ada, Sevgi Adak, Umut Azak, Nathalie Clayer, Remzi Çağatay Çakırlar, Fatma Müge Göçek, Yelda Kaya, Didem Kılıçkıran, Kıvanç Kılınç, Alexandros Lamprou, Barış Alp Özden, Emmanuel Szurek.
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A new vision for Islamic pasts and futures
Shahzad Bashir
This groundbreaking, born-digital work invites readers to imagine Islam anew. Moving beyond conventional theological, nativist, and orientalist approaches, Shahzad Bashir decenters Islam from a geographical identification with the Middle East, an articulation through men's authority alone, and the assumption that premodern expressions are more authentically Islamic than modern ones. Focusing on time as a human construct, A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures interprets stories and images, paying attention to evidence and methods of interpretation. Islam, in Bashir's telling, is a vast net of interconnected traces that appear to be different depending on the vantage from which they are seen. Complementing narrative with extensive visual evidence, the multimodal digital form enacts the multiplicity of the project's analyses and perspectives, conferring a shape-shifting quality that bridges the gap between sensing Islam and understanding it, between feeling it as a powerful presence and analyzing it through intellectual means. This interactive, open-access edition allows readers to enter Islam through a diverse set of doorways, each leading to different time periods across different parts of the world. Bashir discusses Islam as phenomenon and as discourse-observed in the built environment, material objects, paintings, linguistic traces, narratives, and social situations. He draws on literary genres, including epics, devotional poetry and prayers, and modern novels; art and architecture in varied forms; material culture, from luxury objects to cheap trinkets; and such forms of media as photographs, graffiti, and films. The book's layered digital interface allows for an exploration of and engagement with this rich visual material and multimedia evidence not possible in a printed volume. A collaboration between the MIT Press and the Digital Publications Initiative of Brown University. Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the MIT Press, and the Digital Publications Initiative of Brown University. The URL for this project will be islamic-pasts-futures.org.
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Football as Soft Power: The Political Use of Football in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Vitas Rafael Carosella
In November 2022 Qatar hosts the first Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region FIFA World Cup. This paper seeks to understand the use of football as a soft power political tool in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Based on culture, values and policies, soft power is power through attraction as opposed to coercion. The stronger one player’s values, culture and policies are, the more soft power that player has. Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, traditional fossil fuel-based states, suffer from a lack of attraction. By investing in football, each nation hopes to project a new image and ensure future relevance. Qatar uses football to increase its standing in the international community, helping to ensure its own protection in case of regional disputes. The UAE uses football to help convert itself into an international travel and business centre, while Saudi Arabia invests in football to help project a progressive image of itself to the world and ensure regime security
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Pakistan left review: Then and now
Nadir Cheema and Stephen M. Lyon
This volume places the spotlight on an important moment in history. The late 1960s was a time of profound change around the world, and the contributions included here from Pakistan’s leftist intellectuals based in London, speak volumes about the implications of the turbulence and the promise for a better future in relation to Pakistan. More than five decades on, the promise of a better tomorrow looks as far away as ever, but the turbulence has returned with a vengeance. The newly written contributions reflect on the significance of this leftist journal at the time and the impact of those ideas and discourses on the politics that came to be.
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Non Sola Scriptura: Essays on the Qur’an and Islam in Honour of William A. Graham
Bruce Fudge, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Christian Lange, and Sarah Savant
William A. Graham is an influential and pioneering scholar of Islamic Studies at Harvard University. This volume brings together 17 contributions to the study of the Qur’an and Islam, all influenced by his work.
Contributions to this collection, by his colleagues and students, treat many different aspects of Islamic scripture, from textual interpretation and hermeneutics to recitation and parallels with the Bible. Other chapters tackle in diverse ways the question of what it means to be "Islamic" and how such an identity may be constituted and maintained in history, thought, and learning. A final section reflects on the career of William Graham and the relation of scholarship to the undervalued tasks of academic administration, especially where the study of religion is concerned.
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Rethinking teacher education: Improvement, innovation and change
Joe Lugalla, Fredrick Mtenzi, and Samuel Andema
Rethinking Teacher Education: Improvement, Innovation and Change is the result of the conference organised by The Aga Khan University - Institute for Educational Development, East Africa (AKU-IED, EA) on education, in Uganda in 2017. The Conference, gathered participants from nine countries, to deliberate on a cross section of factors regarding teacher education in the region and landscaping the same on global perspectives. The choice of the conference theme was inspired by a need to consider new systems, policies, structures and reforms to help drive sustainable education for the development of nations in the East African region.
A variety contributors participated from across the education landscape, and included researchers working in higher education, practitioners such as teachers in schools, tutors, instructors in colleges, and lecturers and professors at universities. Also contributing were non-governmental organisations with interests in education and student learning outcomes, civil society organisations whose interests navigate the role education plays in social and national development, policy makers and curriculum developers, librarians, publishers, booksellers and teacher trainees, all of who shared their rich experiences and perspectives on teacher education in the 21st century in East Africa and globally.
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A personal journey: At the Aga khan education service, Pakistan
Sadrudin Pardhan
This book is about Dr Pardhan`s journey with the Aga Khan Education Service, Pakistan where he served the organization as its Chief Executive Officer on three different occasions, and a member of its Board for six years. In this book, he shares his experiences about how the organization and his own life evolved during during 32 plus years of association.
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My AKU-IED journey
Sadrudin Pardhan
This book is about how a teacher education institution developed as a part of the Aga Khan University and Aga Khan Development Network. In the 1980s concern was expressed at the highest levels of AKDN about the deteriorating quality of education in the developing countries. AKDN which operated over 300 schools in East Africa, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh was obviously concerned about this. It was decided that AKDN should experiment with School Improvement Programmes to test whether specific interventions would improve the situation at school level. There was developing consensus at AKDN leadership level that instead of one off programmes if an institution could be developed that supported school improvement efforts and gave credible certification the quality id education would improve substantially. In 1989 AKDN appointed a task Force to look into posibilities of developing a teacher educationinstitution to support quality improvement of education in countries where AKDN operates.
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Climate change and environmental sustainability module: Activity booklet
Fozia Parveen, Sara Hassan, and Subhan Khan
Dear readers (teachers, parents, and students), Thank you for accessing our activity booklet. The information booklet introduced concepts relating to climate change and environmental sustainability. In this booklet several cross cutting activities on various themes have been presented. The booklet contains ready-made activities containing but not limited to comic strips, experiments, conversations, writing, simple tag, cut and paste as well as research activities. We hope you enjoy, adapt and implement these activities in your community.
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Climate change and environmental sustainability module: Information booklet
Fozia Parveen, Sara Hassan, and Subhan Khan
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Historic Mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa, from Timbuktu to Zanzibar
Stephane Pradines
This book is the first comprehensive synthesis on mosques in sub-Saharan Africa, bringing together sites from more than twenty states from sub-Saharan Africa; and more than 285 monuments, from the IXth to the XIXth centuries. This monograph is divided into three large geographical areas, from the earthen mosques of West Africa, to the Nile Valleys and the Horn of Africa, and to the Indian Ocean shores and Swahili coral stone mosques. This book is a statement that African mosques are unique in the history of Islamic architecture, and they belong to our World Heritage; and these monuments demonstrate cultural links with North Africa, Arabia, Persia and India.
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Clinical case orientation with basic physiological concepts of endorcine reproductive physiology
Rehana Rehman and Syeda Sadia Fatima
Clinical Case Orientation with Basic Physiological Concepts of Endocrine Reproductive Physiology covers all the physiology topics related to the endocrine reproductive system covered in undergraduate medical education that need to be recalled for application in clinical sessions. They are presented as clinical cases to take the readers to the bench side, and challenge them to recall the interplay of physiological aspects with the identification of learning objectives. Students may use this book as a guide to develop understanding and critical thinking, while also reflecting on the acquired knowledge regarding endocrine reproductive physiology, and pathophysiology.
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