Author: Shahnaz Ahsan
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 9781473665255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Hashim and Family
Author: Shahnaz Ahsan
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 9781473665255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 9781473665255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Child Migration in Africa
Author: Iman Hashim
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1780321198
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Child Migration in Africa explores the mobility of children without their parents within West Africa. Drawing on the experiences of children from rural Burkina Faso and Ghana, the book provides rich material on the circumstances of children's voluntary migration and their experiences of it. Their accounts challenge the normative ideals of what a 'good' childhood is, which often underlie public debates about children's migration, education and work in developing countries. The comparative study of Burkina Faso and Ghana highlights that social networks operate in ways that can be both enabling and constraining for young migrants, as can cultural views on age- and gender-appropriate behaviour. The book questions easily made assumptions regarding children's experiences when migrating independently of their parents and contributes to analytical and cross-cultural understandings of childhood. Part of the groundbreaking Africa Now series, Child Migration in Africa is an important and timely contribution to an under-researched area.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1780321198
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Child Migration in Africa explores the mobility of children without their parents within West Africa. Drawing on the experiences of children from rural Burkina Faso and Ghana, the book provides rich material on the circumstances of children's voluntary migration and their experiences of it. Their accounts challenge the normative ideals of what a 'good' childhood is, which often underlie public debates about children's migration, education and work in developing countries. The comparative study of Burkina Faso and Ghana highlights that social networks operate in ways that can be both enabling and constraining for young migrants, as can cultural views on age- and gender-appropriate behaviour. The book questions easily made assumptions regarding children's experiences when migrating independently of their parents and contributes to analytical and cross-cultural understandings of childhood. Part of the groundbreaking Africa Now series, Child Migration in Africa is an important and timely contribution to an under-researched area.
The Congregation
Author: Hashim Conner
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781449986124
Category : Adultery
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
There is no need for a video tape, when Sex, Lies, & unfaithfulness is cast upon your eyes within the Third Street Baptist Church. Come on in and let the hypocrisy commence. "Come as you are..." is the invitation that is given with welcoming arms, while Rev. Coleman digs deep into his spiritual bag every Sunday, oddly enough the Congregation leaves the same way they came; indulging into their sinful ways exploring some of the Seven deadly sins.Greed, Lust, Envy and more. Of course, everything is not always what it seems, and these Sinners' would love to convince you of their Sainthood, with a closer glance you will GET THE TRUTH! Please make your way down to Third ST. this Sunday and grab a seat next to one of our favorite families. After you get the word you cant leave without getting the gossip from sista Patton-Silver. Protesting to be one of the most honest and faithful servants there, her nose is in everyone's Business. She has all the latest news on her son Issac, and daughter-in-law Veronica (the Patton's) as well as the low down on the Coleman's and the Williamson's too. So come on in we look forward to having you as a member of The Congregation. The Place where the truth should set you free!
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781449986124
Category : Adultery
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
There is no need for a video tape, when Sex, Lies, & unfaithfulness is cast upon your eyes within the Third Street Baptist Church. Come on in and let the hypocrisy commence. "Come as you are..." is the invitation that is given with welcoming arms, while Rev. Coleman digs deep into his spiritual bag every Sunday, oddly enough the Congregation leaves the same way they came; indulging into their sinful ways exploring some of the Seven deadly sins.Greed, Lust, Envy and more. Of course, everything is not always what it seems, and these Sinners' would love to convince you of their Sainthood, with a closer glance you will GET THE TRUTH! Please make your way down to Third ST. this Sunday and grab a seat next to one of our favorite families. After you get the word you cant leave without getting the gossip from sista Patton-Silver. Protesting to be one of the most honest and faithful servants there, her nose is in everyone's Business. She has all the latest news on her son Issac, and daughter-in-law Veronica (the Patton's) as well as the low down on the Coleman's and the Williamson's too. So come on in we look forward to having you as a member of The Congregation. The Place where the truth should set you free!
The Prophet's Hair
Author: Salman Rushdie
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101973692
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection • Secular moneylender and manic collector of treasures, Hashim lives a life of gentle honor until he discovers, washed up to his private quay, a great relic: a silver pendant bearing a strand of the Prophet’s hair. From one of the most controversial novelists of the last century, world-renowned master of invention and allusion Salman Rushdie, “The Prophet’s Hair” vibrates with fantastical promise, smashing together cultures and worlds, fantasy with reality, into breathless and lush allegorical fable. Selected from Rushdie’s collection of nine enchanting short stories, East West. An ebook short.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1101973692
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection • Secular moneylender and manic collector of treasures, Hashim lives a life of gentle honor until he discovers, washed up to his private quay, a great relic: a silver pendant bearing a strand of the Prophet’s hair. From one of the most controversial novelists of the last century, world-renowned master of invention and allusion Salman Rushdie, “The Prophet’s Hair” vibrates with fantastical promise, smashing together cultures and worlds, fantasy with reality, into breathless and lush allegorical fable. Selected from Rushdie’s collection of nine enchanting short stories, East West. An ebook short.
The Lamp of Umm Hashim and other stories
Author:
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774249709
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The first of several works in Arabic to deal with the way in which an individual tries to come to terms with two divergent cultures Together with such figures as the scholar Taha Hussein, the playwright Tawfik al-Hakim, the short story writer Mahmoud Teymour and--of course--Naguib Mahfouz, Yahya Hakki belongs to that distinguished band of early writers who, midway through the last century, under the influence of Western literature, began to practice genres of creative writing that were new to the traditions of classical Arabic. In the first story in this volume, the very short ''Story in the Form of a Petition, '' Yahya Hakki demonstrates his ease with gentle humor, a form rare in Arabic writing. In the following two stories, ''Mother of the Destitute'' and ''A Story from Prison, '' he describes with typical sympathy individuals who, less privileged than others, somehow manage to scrape through life's hardships. The latter story deals with the people of Upper Egypt, for whom the writer had a special understanding and affection. It is, however, for the title story (in fact, more of a novella) of this collection that the writer is best known. Recounting the difficulties faced by a young man who is sent to England to study medicine and who then returns to Egypt to pit his new ideals against tradition, ''The Lamp of Umm Hashim'' was the first of several works in Arabic to deal with the way in which an individual tries to come to terms with two divergent cultures.
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN: 9789774249709
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The first of several works in Arabic to deal with the way in which an individual tries to come to terms with two divergent cultures Together with such figures as the scholar Taha Hussein, the playwright Tawfik al-Hakim, the short story writer Mahmoud Teymour and--of course--Naguib Mahfouz, Yahya Hakki belongs to that distinguished band of early writers who, midway through the last century, under the influence of Western literature, began to practice genres of creative writing that were new to the traditions of classical Arabic. In the first story in this volume, the very short ''Story in the Form of a Petition, '' Yahya Hakki demonstrates his ease with gentle humor, a form rare in Arabic writing. In the following two stories, ''Mother of the Destitute'' and ''A Story from Prison, '' he describes with typical sympathy individuals who, less privileged than others, somehow manage to scrape through life's hardships. The latter story deals with the people of Upper Egypt, for whom the writer had a special understanding and affection. It is, however, for the title story (in fact, more of a novella) of this collection that the writer is best known. Recounting the difficulties faced by a young man who is sent to England to study medicine and who then returns to Egypt to pit his new ideals against tradition, ''The Lamp of Umm Hashim'' was the first of several works in Arabic to deal with the way in which an individual tries to come to terms with two divergent cultures.
This Is How
Author: M. J. Hyland
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802197663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
From the Man Booker–shortlisted author of Carry Me Down comes “an unflinching, absorbing, morally complex portrait” of a man in search of himself (The New York Times). Patrick Oxtoby is a perpetual outsider who has always longed to find his place in the world. So when he’s faced with yet another disappointment after his fiancé breaks off their engagement, Patrick moves to a remote seaside village to escape. But in spite of his hopes for a new and better life, Patrick still finds himself struggling to fit in. He can’t shake the feeling that his new friends are conspiring against him, further fracturing his already fragile personality and prompting him to take a course of action that permanently alters his life. This Is How is a psychologically probing and deeply moving account of a man at odds with the world, and whose conflict with that unyielding reality leads to his own downfall. It is a masterpiece of inner tension that is “bleak yet moving, mercilessly dispassionate yet shot through with kindness and wit . . . a profound achievement” (The Guardian).
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802197663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
From the Man Booker–shortlisted author of Carry Me Down comes “an unflinching, absorbing, morally complex portrait” of a man in search of himself (The New York Times). Patrick Oxtoby is a perpetual outsider who has always longed to find his place in the world. So when he’s faced with yet another disappointment after his fiancé breaks off their engagement, Patrick moves to a remote seaside village to escape. But in spite of his hopes for a new and better life, Patrick still finds himself struggling to fit in. He can’t shake the feeling that his new friends are conspiring against him, further fracturing his already fragile personality and prompting him to take a course of action that permanently alters his life. This Is How is a psychologically probing and deeply moving account of a man at odds with the world, and whose conflict with that unyielding reality leads to his own downfall. It is a masterpiece of inner tension that is “bleak yet moving, mercilessly dispassionate yet shot through with kindness and wit . . . a profound achievement” (The Guardian).
Freedom of Expression in Islam
Author: Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of expression (Islamic law)
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Freedom of Expression in Islam is informative not only on the subject of the possibilities of freedom of expression within Islam, but also on the cultural tradition of Islam and its guidelines on social behaviour. Distinguished by its clarity and readability, this book is not only essential reading for anyone interested in Islamic law, in Muslim society or in issues of comparative jurisprudence, but is also an important contribution to the current debate concerning the definition and limits of the principle of free speech. Suitable for undergraduate and post-graduate courses in Islamic Studies, Comparative Jurisprudence and Political Theory.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of expression (Islamic law)
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Freedom of Expression in Islam is informative not only on the subject of the possibilities of freedom of expression within Islam, but also on the cultural tradition of Islam and its guidelines on social behaviour. Distinguished by its clarity and readability, this book is not only essential reading for anyone interested in Islamic law, in Muslim society or in issues of comparative jurisprudence, but is also an important contribution to the current debate concerning the definition and limits of the principle of free speech. Suitable for undergraduate and post-graduate courses in Islamic Studies, Comparative Jurisprudence and Political Theory.
Shariah Law
Author: Mohammad Hashim Kamali
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1786071517
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Shariah law is a subject that is misunderstood and misrepresented by many in the West. More than simply a system of law, it is concerned with a set of values and rules that are essential to the understanding and practice of Islam. In this volume, Mohammad Hashim Kamali, a world-renowned expert on Shariah, adopts a question-and-answer format to provide a clear introduction to its most salient aspects. Extending from the sources of Shariah in the Qur’an, hadith and the legal maxims of Islamic law to the discussion of issues such as freedom of religion, gender equality and human rights, Shariah Law: Questions and Answers connects the theoretical aspects of the law with how it is applied in the world today. At once scholarly and accessible, it is sure to be a vital resource for students, teachers and general readers, addressing as it does a range of contemporary concerns, including jihad, democracy, the environment, genetic engineering, human cloning, euthanasia and abortion.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1786071517
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Shariah law is a subject that is misunderstood and misrepresented by many in the West. More than simply a system of law, it is concerned with a set of values and rules that are essential to the understanding and practice of Islam. In this volume, Mohammad Hashim Kamali, a world-renowned expert on Shariah, adopts a question-and-answer format to provide a clear introduction to its most salient aspects. Extending from the sources of Shariah in the Qur’an, hadith and the legal maxims of Islamic law to the discussion of issues such as freedom of religion, gender equality and human rights, Shariah Law: Questions and Answers connects the theoretical aspects of the law with how it is applied in the world today. At once scholarly and accessible, it is sure to be a vital resource for students, teachers and general readers, addressing as it does a range of contemporary concerns, including jihad, democracy, the environment, genetic engineering, human cloning, euthanasia and abortion.
The Prisoners' Diaries
Author: Norma Hashim
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789834353872
Category : Palestinian Arabs
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789834353872
Category : Palestinian Arabs
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
Islam in Southeast Asia
Author: K. S. Nathan
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN: 9812302824
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Examines the role, relevance and challenges, as well as the political and strategic dimensions of Islam in contemporary Southeast Asia.
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN: 9812302824
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Examines the role, relevance and challenges, as well as the political and strategic dimensions of Islam in contemporary Southeast Asia.