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Volume 5: Genealogy and Knowledge in Muslim Societies : Understanding the Past
Sarah Bowen Savant and Helena de Felipe
Genealogy is one of the most important and authoritative organising principles of Muslim societies.
From the Prophet’s day to the present, ideas about kinship and descent have shaped tribal, ethnic, sectarian and other identities. An understanding of genealogy is therefore vital to our understanding of Muslim societies, particularly with regard to the generation, preservation and manipulation of genealogical knowledge.
This book addresses the subject through a range of case studies that link genealogical knowledge to the particular circumstances in which it was created, circulated and promoted. They stress the malleability of kinship and memory, and the interests this malleability served.
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The Political Aesthetics of Global Protest : the Arab Spring and Beyond
Pnina Werbner, Martin Webb, and Kathryn Spellman-Poots
A remarkable feature of the Arab Spring and other protests that followed in Egypt, India, Botswana and the UK, among other places, has been the salience of images, songs, videos, humour, satire and dramatic performances.
This book explores the central role the aesthetic played in energising the mass mobilisations of young people, the disaffected, the middle classes, the apolitical silent majority, as well as enabling solidarities and alliances among democrats, workers, trade unions, civil rights activists and opposition parties.
Comparing the North African and Middle Eastern uprisings with protest movements such as Occupy, the authors bring to bear an anthropological and sociological approach from a variety of perspectives, illuminating the debate by drawing on a wide array of disciplinary expertise.
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Islam and the Foundations of Political Power
Ali Abdel Razek, Maryam Loutfi, and Abdou Filali-Ansary
The publication of this essay in Egypt in 1925 took the contemporaries of Ali Abdel Razek by storm.
At a time when there was widespread turmoil over the abolition of the caliphate by Ataturk in Turkey, Ali Abdel Razek, a religious cleric trained at Al-Azhar University, argued in favour of secularism.
The abolition of the caliphate had re-ignited the question of Islam and its relationship to political power. This essay unleashed the Arab world’s first great public debate published in the press with polemics supporting or refuting Ali Abdel Razek’s ideas.
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Building success in a global university: government and academia - redefining the relationship around the world
Britta Baron and Carl Amrhein
There is a fascinating complexity of inherent to a modern, research and teaching intensive, publicly funded university. Captains of Industry whom we all have met, who know a modern university, frequently suggest it is the most complex organization they have ever encountered—much more complicated than their own businesses. The complexity of a university arises from shared decision making (sometimes called collegial governance), academic freedom, and the personalities of the dominant group of individuals—the tenured professors.
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Understanding the Qur’an Today
Mahmoud Hussein and David Bond
In Islam, there is a long tradition of interpretation regarding the meaning and significance of Divine revelation, reflecting a plurality of views.
This book argues that whereas God transcends time, His Word is inscribed within time. It is not a monologue, but a living exchange, through which God reveals to His Prophet different orders of truth, weaving together the absolute and the relative, the general and the particular, the eternal and the contingent.
An international bestseller, Understanding the Qur’an Today offers a contemporary perspective on one of the world’s most influential texts and adds an invaluable contribution to the debate on Islam and modernity.
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Universal Primary Education (UPE): Drop-outs in Northern Uganda
Judith Akello Abal and Anil Khamis
Lira District implemented the policy of Universal Primary Education (UPE) after it was adopted by the government of Uganda in 1997 in line with presidential manifesto. It was set to enable all school-going age children attend free primary education. The broad policy framework was to empower and liberate citizens from illiteracy though basic education. Despite high enrolment rate (UNESCO, 2000; MOES, 2005), schools especially in rural areas registered high dropout rates due to school related problems such as poor learning environment and household level factors. The study addresses the issue of rate and causes of UPE dropouts while focusing on relevance of UPE curriculum in meeting the needs of school dropouts and how stakeholders should handle this problem. The research was conducted using mixed-method approach and multiple participants; combining documentary analysis and interview. The findings show that parents and community should play the role in furthering UPE which needs revitalizing. Finally, there should be an intervention by Ministry in revisiting budgetary allocation in order to upscale provision of teaching, learning facilities and feeding programme.
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Education in Pakistan : Learning from research partnerships
Ayesha Bashiruddin, Zubeda Bana, and Arbab Khan Afridi
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Volume 3: Ethnographies of Islam : Ritual Performances and Everyday Practices
Baudouin Dupret, Thomas Pierret, Paulo G. Pinto, and Kathryn Spellman-Poots
This comparative approach to the various uses of the ethnographic method in research about Islam in anthropology and other social sciences is particularly relevant in the current climate. Political discourses and stereotypical media portrayals of Islam as a monolithic civilisation have prevented the emergence of cultural pluralism and individual freedom.
This book counters such discourses by showing the diversity and plurality of Muslim societies and by promoting reflection on how the ethnographic method allows the description, representation and analysis of the social and cultural complexity of Muslim societies in the discourse of anthropology.
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The Construction of Belief : Reflections on the Thought of Mohammed Arkoun
Abdou Filali-Ansari and Aziz Esmail
Mohammed Arkoun was one of the most prominent and influential Arab intellectuals of his day. During a career spanning more than thirty years, he was revered as an outstanding research scholar, a bold critic of the theoretical tensions embedded within Islamic studies and an outspoken public figure, upholding political, social and cultural modernism.
This festschrift honours Mohammed Arkoun’s scholarship, bringing together the contributions of eleven distinguished scholars of history, religious studies and philosophy. It offers a comprehensive selection of critical engagements with Arkoun’s work, reflecting on his considerable influence on contemporary thinking about Islam and its ideological, philosophical and theological dimensions.
The authoritative reference study on the work of Mohammed Arkoun, the volume is essential reading for students and scholars of Islam, Muslim societies and cultures, modernity, religious studies, philosophy and semantics.
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Interpretations of Law and Ethics in Muslim Contexts
Aptin Khanbaghi
Law within Muslim societies is not uniform; even within Muslim majority regions it can be interpreted differently according to different denominations and legal traditions. As law forms an integral part of normative social practice, reflecting the moral and ethical principles of a society, it is important to highlight the diversity of interpretations to better enable the study of law along with the ethical principles of a community.
Volume 2 of the MCA series brings together some of the many unheard voices of scholars studying law and ethics in languages other than English. It features 200 abstracts with bibliographical details in three languages (English, Arabic and Turkish), giving access to information about scholarly publications from Muslim contexts in the fields of law and sharia.
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Volume 4: Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts : Perspectives from the Past
Derryl N. MacLean and Sikeena Karmali Ahmed
Cosmopolitanism is a key concept in social and political thought, standing in opposition to closed human group ideologies such as tribalism, nationalism and fundamentalism. Much recent discussion of this concept has been situated within Western self-perceptions, with little inclusion of information from Muslim contexts.
This volume redresses the balance by focusing attention on instances in world history when cosmopolitan ideas and actions pervaded specific Muslim societies and cultures, exploring the tensions between regional cultures, isolated enclaves and modern nation-states. Models are chosen from four geographic areas: The Swahili coast, the Ottoman empire/Turkey, Iran and Indo-Pakistan.
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Alternative perspectives to english teaching in bilingual contexts
Jacob Marriote Ngwaru
Under achievement in English as a second language (ESL) (the official language and language in education in many Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries) refuses to go away despite revised policies, efforts and practices at relevant levels down to classroom and lecture room. At the same time, the extent and nature of the support that second language learners need to succeed academically remains a recurring elusive educational policy issue ever so urgent. This book identifies instructional pedagogies used in SSA as one of the main reasons for low achievement at both primary and secondary school. Using studies carried out at primary and secondary school in Zimbabwe as the backdrop, the book calls for teachers to explore alternative perspectives to ESL teaching by using classroom based data to develop methodologies that respond to their learners' specific language needs. The adoption of explicit pedagogy to ensure appropriate language proficiency and grammatical competence at all levels is advocated. This is a true teacher/faculty and learner companion as it uses their experiences to find ways of reforming education at classroom level through reflective pedagogy.
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Alternative perspectives to english teaching in bilingual contexts
Marriote Ngwaru
Under achievement in English as a second language (ESL) (the official language and language in education in many Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries) refuses to go away despite revised policies, efforts and practices at relevant levels down to classroom and lecture room. At the same time, the extent and nature of the support that second language learners need to succeed academically remains a recurring elusive educational policy issue ever so urgent. This book identifies instructional pedagogies used in SSA as one of the main reasons for low achievement at both primary and secondary school. Using studies carried out at primary and secondary school in Zimbabwe as the backdrop, the book calls for teachers to explore alternative perspectives to ESL teaching by using classroom based data to develop methodologies that respond to their learners' specific language needs. The adoption of explicit pedagogy to ensure appropriate language proficiency and grammatical competence at all levels is advocated. This is a true teacher/faculty and learner companion as it uses their experiences to find ways of reforming education at classroom level through reflective pedagogy.
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Leading through collaboration for efficient school improvement: A critical perspective on the role of the principal
Mary Oluga
School improvement poses a lot of challenges especially where the educational system is governed by different stakeholders at various levels. The contributions of the various stakeholders; teachers, administrators, students and parents, are of significance for the success of the school but without structured collaboration among the key players in the system the school principal may end up holding onto all powers in the school to the dissatisfaction of the others. The school principal engages multi-faceted leadership qualities to draw from the abilities and skills of the stake holders and the section heads of a private school in Karachi, to lead the school. The result is a school with a prestigious reputation. The study highlights the qualities of leadership that support collaboration within a complex hierarchy of leadership for the successful school improvement. The structured collaboration, leads to the establishment of a community of leaders and learning communities for improved student learning outcomes. The information presented in the book could be of significance in developing and reviewing educational leadership and school improvement Professional Development Programmes.
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Literacy and learning practices at home and school in rural Zimbabwe: The real pedagogical dilemmas
Jacob Marriote Ngwaru
In recent years research has tried to address factors that influence the African child's educational achievement. This book is a thick layer to the existing debate. Literacy and learning practices of children at home and school in rural Zimbabwe reveal some of these reasons. Critical and auto-ethnographic methodologies are employed to gain insight into the lives of rural communities in order to identify the underlying causes of poor educational achievement. Application of a number of theoretical perspectives expose underlying negative coercive relations of power in the community, the need for greater appreciation of the embeddedness of larger social practices in pedagogic enterprise and the fact that issues of language, education and culture tend to conceal relations of domination and subordination in the schooling system. This fresh approach, methodology and debate should be of great interest to university students, teachers college students, researchers, university and college lecturers as well as education policy makers and teachers of English as a second language in Sub- Saharan Africa.
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Electronic healthcare information security
Charles A. Shoniregun, Kudakwashe Dube, and Fredrick Mtenzi
The legal developments in healthcare have been driven by the public concern for personal privacy and confidentiality within the context of an increasingly connected world centred on the Internet. The developments in standardisation within e-Healthcare have been influenced by the two key paradigms of patient-centred and managed care that necessitated demands for lowering costs and increasing quality of patient care. The technical challenge of these paradigm shifts is inter-operability for supporting the delivery of care at multiple locations by multiple carers who need to share the patient health record
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Islam : Between Message and History
Abdelmadjid Charfi, Abdou Filali-Ansary, Sikeena Karmali Ahmed, and David Bond
This book could easily be called ‘A Guide for the Modern Muslim’, someone for whom the sentiments of his or her ancestors resonate but who cannot accept the canonised formulas of a prescriptive education.
Charfi spells out what for him is the essential message of Islam, followed by a history of its unfolding through the person of the Prophet Muhammad, whom he perceives as a visionary seeking to change the ideals, attitudes and behaviours of the society in which he lived. Charfi delineates the message and its history as two separate elements, conflated by tradition.
Charfi confronts with great lucidity the difficult questions with which Muslims are struggling, attempting to reconsider them from a moral and political perspective independent of traditional frameworks.
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Foundation clinical nursing skills
Charles Docherty and Jacqueline McCallum
First year nursing students require a firm foundation in clinical skills in order to succeed on placement, and in their studies. It is not enough to know how to perform a skill - today's students must understand how clinical skills link to biology, holistic care, safety and clinical evidence before they can undertake and master skills on placement. When starting out, it has been difficult to link theory to practice, especially across a range of patients, until now! Foundation Clinical Nursing Skills provides a clear introduction to both the knowledge and practical procedures that first year nursing students require. Without assuming prior knowledge, the authors carefully describe each element of a skill and demonstrate how it should be performed correctly on any patient and in any setting. Covering the NMC's Essential Skills Clusters for first year students, straightforward language explains the biology, evidence-base and rationale so students know why to perform each skill in that way. Colour illustrations and selected video clips show students how to perform a skill. Scenarios and tips show how care is given to children, adults and those people with learning disabilities or experiencing mental health problems. Examples are taken from community and hospital settings ensuring students can deliver skills on every placement. Supporting evidence, protocols and guidelines are reviewed and updated every three months on our free dedicated Online Resource Centre (which includes extra activities and teaching tools). Designed specifically to help first year students get off to the best start possible, Foundation Clinical Nursing Skills provides a high quality and student friendly account of the skills that are required at this stage of the course. On the Online Resource Centre: For registered lecturers and mentors: - Tips for teaching and assessing clinical skills - Figures from the book, ready to download and use in teaching material For students: - Evidence, guidelines and protocols, reviewed and updated every three months - Video demonstration of key skills - Over forty interactive scenarios and fifty interactive self-test questions - Active web links provide a gateway to the articles cited in the book - Flashcard glossary to help learn key terms - Links to useful websites
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Volume 1: The Challenge of Pluralism : Paradigms from Muslim Contexts
Abdou Filali-Ansary and Sikeena Karmali Ahmed
The volume discusses notions of pluralism and its specific relevance to Muslim societies. Current popular and academic discussions tend to make certain assumptions regarding Islam and its lack of compatibility with notions of pluralism. Some notable liberal thinkers have even argued that pluralism itself is inherently antithetical to Islam.
These assumptions are challenged by discussing the broad spectrum of relevance and application of the notion of pluralism to modern day societies, examining securalism, multiculturalism, democracy, globalisation and the pivotal role of civil society.
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Encyclopaedias about Muslim Civilisations
Aptin Khanbaghi
Over the past 150 years, numerous encyclopaedias have been produced on Muslim civilisations, both by Muslims and non-Muslims, with different approaches to the organisation of knowledge and understanding of Muslim beliefs, cultures and societies. Access to and knowledge of these reference works and databases have until now been hindered by language barriers. The first volume in the MCA series seeks to overcome this obstacle by presenting material in three languages: English, Arabic and Turkish.
This is a unique reference catalogue containing 200 annotated bibliographies and abstracts of encyclopaedias published during the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
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Upside down
Peter Kimani
A children’s novel inspired by post-election violence of 2007/8, the book examines Kenya’s contemporary history through the eyes of an 11-year old. The book is widely read in Kenyan schools as it features in the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development’s list of recommended texts.
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Emerging issues in TEFL : Challenges for Asia
Sabiha Mansoor, Aliya Sikandar, Nasreen Hussain, and Nasreen M. Ahsan
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Schools and schoolings practices in Pakistan : Lessons for policy and practice
Rashida Qureshi and Fauzia Shamim
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