Trial and Tribulation in the Qur'an Marie-Ève MarchandThis book offers a critical analysis and re examination of the notion of Divine trial, by providing a comprehensive typology and a contextual interpretation of the Qur'anic narratives pertaining to the concept. Divine trial is investigated through a historical review of prophetic tradition (hadith) and the exegetical literature (tafsir).
Martin Henning explores why economic growth and transformation is essentially a regionally based and spatially dependent process and introduces the core ideas involved in understanding the dynamics of regional economies drawing on case studies to illuminate these ideas in practice
This book draws on an international field and all types of library sector to support library managers in their management and leadership vocations
This edited collection addresses the issue of radicalism by focusing on the media that contributed to its diffusion in the early modern era
First collection of essays on the subject with a wide historical coverage including major figures
This text offers a broad survey outlining the main human rights instruments and describing how they are implemented in the United Nations
written between 1953 and 1971 include a broad range of art produced for the Russian church within the context of the Christian tradition
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She moved to England after the war and settled in Manchester
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nanotechnology has become a potent cultural signifier
interviews and artworks by many of today’s most radical cultural practitioners and astute commentators on matters avant garde mediates the different strategies and temporalities of avant-garde art and politics
the highly regarded BAFTA-winning British television dramatist