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Contemporary Islam, editor of Special issue
Jonas Otterbeck and Anders Ackfeldt
A special issue on music and Islam.
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Islamologi: Perspektiv på en religion
Jonas Otterbeck and Leif Stenberg
An edited book with current research perspectives on Islamic Studies as conducted at Lund University, Sweden.
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Sufi bodies: Religion and society in medieval Islam
Shahzad Bashir
Between 1300 and 1500 C.E. a new form of Sufi Islam took hold among central Islamic peoples, joining individuals through widespread networks resembling today's prominent paths and orders. Understanding contemporary Sufism requires a sophisticated analysis of these formative years. Moving beyond a straight account of leaders and movements, Shahzad Bashir weaves a rich history around the depiction of bodily actions by Sufi masters and disciples, primarily in Sufi literature and Persian miniature paintings of the period.
Focusing on the Persianate societies of Iran and Central Asia, Bashir explores medieval Sufis' conception of the human body as the primary shuttle between interior (batin) and exterior (zahir) realities. Drawing on literary, historical, and anthropological approaches to corporeality, he studies representations of Sufi bodies in three personal and communal arenas: religious activity in the form of ritual, asceticism, rules of etiquette, and a universal hierarchy of saints; the deep imprint of Persian poetic paradigms on the articulation of love, desire, and gender; and the reputation of Sufi masters for working miracles, which empowered them in all domains of social activity.
Bashir's novel perspective illuminates complex relationships between body and soul, body and gender, body and society, and body and cosmos. It highlights love as an overarching, powerful emotion in the making of Sufi communities and situates the body as a critical concern in Sufi thought and practice. Bashir's work ultimately offers a new methodology for extracting historical information from religious narratives, especially those depicting extraordinary and miraculous events. -
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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Samtidsislam – Unga muslimer i Malmö och Köpenhamn
Jonas Otterbeck
This interview based study of young adults with a Muslim family background also resulted in articles in English, see below.
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Gedi, une cité portuaire swahilie. Islam médiéval en Afrique orientale
Stephane Pradines
Gedi, une cité portuaire swahilie. Islam médiéval en Afrique orientale Monographies d’archéologie islamique, IFAO, Le Caire, 302 p.
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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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Volume 2: Development Models in Muslim Contexts : Chinese, 'Islamic' and Neo-liberal Alternatives
Robert Springborg
Recent discussions of the 'Chinese economic development model', the emergence of an alternative 'Muslim model' over the past quarter century and the faltering globalisation of the 'Washington Consensus' all point to the need to investigate more systematically the nature of these models and their competitive attractions.
This is especially the case in the Muslim world which both spans different economic and geographic categories and is itself the progenitor of a development model.
The 'Chinese model' has attracted the greatest attention in step with that country's phenomenal growth and therefore provides the primary focus for this book. This volume examines the characteristics of this model and its reception in two major regions of the world - Africa and Latin America.
It also investigates the current competition over development models across Muslim contexts. The question of which model or models, if any, will guide development in Muslim majority countries is vital not only for them, but for the world as a whole. This is the first political economy study to address this vital question as well as the closely related issue of the centrality of governance to development.
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Sehat-1: Pehli Class: Asatza aur sehat ke karkuno ke liye aik gaed
Tashmin Kassam-Khamis, Farah Shivji, and Sadia Muzaffar Bhutta
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