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Espaces fortifiés, espaces urbanisés en Islam médiéval. Témoins architecturaux et cultures matérielles
Stephane Pradines
This issue of Annales Islamologiques is primarily the result of a meeting on Islamic archeology organized at the Ifao by Stéphane Pradines from April 29 to May 1, 2003. These meetings, entitled: “Fortified spaces,urbanized in medieval Islam.Architectural witnesses and material cultures”, were an opportunity to bring together some scientists among the best specialists in these questions working in Egypt, Jordan and Syria.
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Fortifications et urbanisation en Afrique orientale
Stephane Pradines
Fortifications et urbanisation en Afrique orientale, Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 58, BAR S1216, Archaeopress, Oxford, 374 p.
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Messianic hopes and mystical visions: The Nūrbakhshīya between medieval and modern Islam
Shahzad Bashir
Messianic Hopes and Mystical Visions tells the story of the Nurbakhshiya, an Islamic messianic movement that originated in fifteenth-century Iran and central Asia and survives to the present in Pakistan and India. In the first full-length study of the sect, Shahzad Bashir illumines the significance of messianism as an Islamic religious paradigm and illustrates its centrality to any discussion of Islamic sectarianism. By tracing Nurbakhshi activity in the Middle East and central and southern Asia through more than five centuries, Bashir brings to view the continuities and disruptions within Islamic civilization across regions and over time. Bashir effectively captures the way Nurbakhshis have understood and debated the meaning of their tradition in various geographical and temporal contexts.
Bashir provides a detailed biography of the movement's founder, Muhammad Nurbakhsh (d. 1464). Born to a Twelver Shi'i family, Nurbakhsh declared himself the mahdi, or the Muslim messiah, as an adept of the Kubravi Sufi order under the influence of the teachings of the great Sufi master Ibn al-'Arabi (d. 1240). Nurbakhsh's religious worldview, which Bashir treats in depth in this volume, offers a new window onto the intellectual world of the late medieval Islamic East.
Although Nurbakhsh met with limited success as a claimant to the title of mahdi during his lifetime, his movement prospered after his death as his disciples remained active in Timurid and Safavid Iran, central Asia, and Ottoman Anatolia. Bashir analyzes the spread of the Nurbakhshiya as well as its greatest sociopolitical triumph―transplantation into Kashmir in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, from where the movement extended into neighboring Ladakh and Baltistan. Making use of previously unexamined sources, Bashir recounts every phase of Nurbakshi history, paying particular attention to the reinterpretation and adjustment of the tradition in each local context. -
Urban life and street children's health: Children's accounts of urban hardships and violence in Tanzania
Joe Lugalla and Colleta Kibassa
The authors examine the dynamics of urban life and street children's health in the era of globalization and structural adjustments in Tanzania. They discuss the factors that push children out of their homes, how the children survive in streets, the hardships and violence they endure and how this affects their health. They argue that the impact of the legacy of colonial policies and some post-colonial development policies, the negative consequences of uncontrolled process of globalization, the impact of structural adjustments and the HIV/AIDS epidemic are simultaneously intensifying the situation of poverty in Tanzania. These processes are not only destroying families and communities that have for many years acted as safety nets for children in need, but are also manufacturing poor, helpless and powerless children most of whom resort to street life.
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Before the rooster crows
Peter Kimani
This is the story of Muriuki, a young man from a Kenyan village who leaves him home and back-breaking job on a coffee plantation for the city, to pursue wealth, and happiness with his childhood sweetheart Mumbi. But life is not straightforward for the young lovers who become steeped in the quagmire of Kenyan politics, and are confronted with the sophistication of a new world, its economic hardships and brutality, and the racism and persistent inequities of the post-colonial and global society. Then Mumbi is murdered on account of her activism and race, in lineage with so many of her country's historical and fictional female activists. Muriuki avenges her death in a controversial act which reverberates historically and throughout the society in which he lives. But then he experiences betrayal by his own people, which changes him irrevocably. A novel which is widely taught in Kenyan high schools and universities. It’s also a recommended text by the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development.
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Poverty, Aids, and street children in East Africa
Joe Lugalla and Colleta Kibassa
The book focuses on street children's lives and health status in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, the strengths and weaknesses of existing public policies, and makes recommendations for remedies.
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Islam, muslimer och den svenska skolan
Jonas Otterbeck
About Muslims as pupils in Swedish state schools. It was required reading in Teacher's training for long.
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Islam på svenska : tidskriften Salaam och islams globalisering
Jonas Otterbeck
My PhD dissertation about Islamic discourse in Sweden. It resulted in a few English articles, see below (years around 2000).
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Learning communities in education : Issues, strategies and contexts
John Retallick, Barry Cocklin, and kennece Coombe
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Econometric advances in spatial modelling and methodology: Essays in honour of Jean Paelinck
Daniel A. Griffith, Carl Amrhein, and Jean-Marie Huriot
The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the questions. S. Karlin, 11th R. A. Fisher Memorial Lecture, Royal Society, 20 April 1983 We are proud to offer this volume in honour of the remarkable career of the Father of Spatial Econometrics, Professor Jean Paelinck, presently of the Tinbergen Institute, Rotterdam. Not one to model solely for the sake of modelling, the above quotation nicely captures Professor Paelinck's unceasing quest for the best question for which an answer is needed. His FLEUR model has sharpened many spatial economics and spatial econometrics questions! Jean Paelinck, arguably, is the founder of modem spatial econometrics, penning the seminal introductory monograph on this topic, Spatial Econometrics, with Klaassen in 1979. In the General Address to the Dutch Statistical Association, on May 2, 1974, in Tilburg, "he coined the term [spatial econometrics] to designate a growing body of the regional science literature that dealt primarily with estimation and testing problems encountered in the implementation of multiregional econometric models" (Anselin, 1988, p. 7); he already had introduced this idea in his introductory report to the 1966 Annual Meeting of the Association de Science Regionale de Langue Fran~aise.
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Multivariate statistical analysis for geographers
Daniel A. Griffith and Carl Amrhein
Explains how to implement, interpret, and conduct diagnostics on the results of multivariate techniques. The book focuses on geo-referenced data analysis applications, with explicit diagnostics for the role played by spatial autocorrelation in multivariate analyses. It also aims to establish specific connections between popular spatial analysis and multivariate procedures, and outlines methodology for implementing spatial auto, logistic, and Poisson regressions.
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Adjustment and poverty in Tanzania
Joe Lugalla
In his book Lugalla looks at the relationship between adjustment policies and poverty in Tanzania. He understands Tanzanian poverty in the context of dominant social relations of inequality and not in terms of poverty lines. The author's main argument is that adjustment policies are intensifying these relations in Tanzania rather than reducing or eliminating them. He concludes that adjustment policies are not able to solve but create and even intensify poverty in Tanzania.
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Crisis, urbanization, and urban poverty in Tanzania: A study of urban poverty and survival politics
Joe Lugalla
Third World urbanization is accompanied with declining trends in economic growth and appalling conditions of urban poverty. Lugalla provides an in-depth analysis of the `process of urbanization in Tanzania during the period of crisis and policies of adjustments, focusing mainly on their impact on the socio-economic conditions of life in the urban areas. While using a case study of Tanzania, this book can be useful in observing what happens in other African countries that are also experiencing a severe social and economic crisis and have adopted, or are planning to adopt, the adjustment policies.
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Muslimer i svensk skola
Jonas Otterbeck
On Muslim pupils in Swedish schools written to advice teachers on a situation that was considered new at the time.
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Statistical analysis for geographers
Daniel A. Griffith, Carl Amrhein, and Joseph R. Desloges
Written from the perspective of both human and physical geography, this book applies elementary statistical analysis to the geographical sciences. It emphasizes the study of spatial data series and highlights problems peculiar to such data treating both descriptive and inferential statistics.
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