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  • DISCOVERING ISLAM
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    DISCOVERING ISLAM
    AKBAR S. AHMED
    Now reissued with a new introduction, Discovering Islam is a classic account of how the history of Islam and its relations with the West have shaped Islamic society today. Islam is often caricatured as aggressive and fanatic. Written in the tradition of Ibn Khaldun, this readable and wide-ranging book balances that image, uncovers the roots of Islamic discontent and celebrates ...

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  • HANDBOOK OF NANOTECHNOLOGY IN NUTRACEUTICALS
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    HANDBOOK OF NANOTECHNOLOGY IN NUTRACEUTICALS
    SHAKEEL AHMED TANIMA BHATTACHARYA ANNU AKBAR ALI
    Nanotechnology has been emerging as an important tool in the nutraceutical and food industries to improve the overall quality of life. Nanotechnology has established a new horizon by bestowing modified properties on nanomaterials and applying them to the production of nanoformulations, nutritional supplements, and the food industry. The Handbook of Nanotechnology in Nutraceutic...

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  • PHARMACOLOGY IN 7 DAYS FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS
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    PHARMACOLOGY IN 7 DAYS FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS
    FAZAL-I-AKBAR DANISH / AHMED EHSAN RABBANI
    Pharmacological knowledge among medical students can have a very short 'half life': students often fail not because they have failed to study, but because they have been unable to retain key knowledge and reproduce it in an exam setting. This book takes an alternative route to the conventional approach of comprehensively exploring each individual drug and its features: not onl...

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  • ISLAM IN TRIBAL SOCIETIES
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    ISLAM IN TRIBAL SOCIETIES
    AKBAR S. AHMED
    A lively debate is currently being conducted in the social sciences around the concepts of "tribe", "segmentary societies" and "Islam in society". This wide-ranging collection by thirteen distinguished anthropologists contributes to the debate by examining various segmentary Islamic tribal societies from Morocco to Pakistan. ...

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  • ISLAM UNDER SIEGE
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    ISLAM UNDER SIEGE
    AKBAR S. AHMED
    In this groundbreaking book, Akbar Ahmed, one of the world's leading authorities on Islam, who has worked in the Muslim world but lives in the West, explains what is going wrong in his society by referring to Islamic history and beliefs. Employing theological and anthropological perspectives, he attempts to answer the questions that people in the West are asking about Islam: "W...

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  • POSTMODERNISM AND ISLAM
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    POSTMODERNISM AND ISLAM
    AKBAR S. AHMED
    Can West and East ever understand each other? In this extraordinary book one of the world's leading Muslim scholars explores an area which has which has been almost entirely neglected by scholars in the field - the area of postmodernism and Islam. This landmark work is startling, constantly perceptive and certain to be debated for years to come. ...

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  • PUKHTUN ECONOMY AND SOCIETY (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    PUKHTUN ECONOMY AND SOCIETY (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    AKBAR AHMED
    First published in 1980, this groundbreaking Routledge Revival is a reissue of an original and authentic anthropological account of Pukhtun society by Professor Akbar Ahmed. Combining extensive fieldwork data collected among the Mohmand tribe in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan with historical and literary sources, Professor Ahmed’s study seeks to construct an ideal-...

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  • MILLENNIUM AND CHARISMA AMONG PATHANS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    MILLENNIUM AND CHARISMA AMONG PATHANS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    AKBAR AHMED
    First published in 1976, this Routledge Revivals reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans, the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group, with their own codes and ways of life. Akbar S. Ahmed, who knows the Swat Pathans well through his family connections, presents a clear a...

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  • JINNAH, PAKISTAN AND ISLAMIC IDENTITY
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    JINNAH, PAKISTAN AND ISLAMIC IDENTITY
    AKBAR AHMED
    Every generation needs to reinterpret its great men of the past. Akbar Ahmed, by revealing Jinnah's human face alongside his heroic achievement, both makes this statesman accessible to the current age and renders his greatness even clearer than before. Four men shaped the end of British rule in India: Nehru, Gandhi, Mountbatten and Jinnah. We know a great deal about the first t...

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  • RESISTANCE AND CONTROL IN PAKISTAN
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    RESISTANCE AND CONTROL IN PAKISTAN
    AKBAR S. AHMED
    How can people in the West make sense of contemporary unrest in the Muslim world? Is Islamic fundamentalism to be understood purely in religious terms? In Resistance and Control in Pakistan, one of the world's leading authorities on Islam, Akbar S. Ahmed, illuminates what is happening in the Muslim world today and assesses the underlying causes. He does this by telling the dram...

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  • ISLAM, GLOBALIZATION AND POSTMODERNITY
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    ISLAM, GLOBALIZATION AND POSTMODERNITY
    AKBAR S. AHMED
    This book examines the cultural responses of Muslims to the transformations, contradictions and challenges confronting contemporary Islam as it moves towards the twenty-first century. The diffusion of populations, the globalization of culture and the forces of postmodernity have shaken the world like never before. These developments have generated a debate among Muslims which, ...

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