How have architecture and design been represented in popular culture? How do these fictional reflections feed back into and influence 'the real world'? Archi.Pop: Architecture and Design in Popular Culture offers the first contemporary critical overview of this diverse and intriguing relationship i[...]
This album includes photographs of the Holy Lands that are found in the Yildiz Albums. Mainly due to the different forms of government, legal systems, and also because of commercial concerns, this appearance of the Haramayn today is quite different from what you will see in the book. There are few t[...]
Muslim intellectuals may try to define something called British Islam, but the truth is that as the Muslim community of Britain has grown in size and religiosity, so too has the opportunity to found and run mosques which divide along ethnic and sectarian lines. Just as most churches in Britain are [...]
This book shows how and why the Italian Renaissance gained 5-star ranking in popular culture around the world. The change began in the late 1800s when trains made travel to Italy affordable for a middle class eager to experience masterpieces from the age of the Medici. Today planes transport million[...]
*Includes pictures *Traces the history of the area from before Medina to the current day *Includes footnotes and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "Whenever the Prophet...returned from a journey and observed the walls of Madinah, he would make his Mount go fast, and if[...]
Mujercitos (effeminate man) historicizes the photographs of men dressed as women in the periodical Alarma during the 70's in Mexico. This research examines how these photographs participate in the larger national imaginary of non-normative sexualities in Mexico through an analysis of how and whi[...]
Hizo su formacion academica en La Habana y en Filadelfia. Estudio latin y griego. En El Redactor dio a conocer su novela Una lagrima y una gota de rocio. En 1852 comenzo a publicar en El Orden su novela Un joven aleman. Y en 1854 edito los cuadernos No me olvides, redactados casi enteramente por el,[...]
KVINDERNE I MEDINA er en bog om kvindelige imamer, om muslimske heltinder, der udkæmper blodige slag side om side med Muhammed, og det er en bog om kvindelige lærde, som underviser mænd i Koranen og Muhammeds gerninger. Kort sagt, det er en bog, der handler om stærke, muslimske kvinder i Muhamm[...]
This book studies the legal reasoning of M lik ibn Anas (d. 179 H./795 C.E.) in the "Muwa a " and "Mudawwana." Although focusing on M lik, the book presents a broad comparative study of legal reasoning in the first three centuries of Islam. It reexamines the role of considered opinion ("ra y"), diss[...]
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Tapas är ett nytt, spännande basläromedel i spanska som lättsamt och lekfullt introducerar eleverna i det spanska språket och i den spansktalande kulturen. För nybörjarna i år 6 finns Tapas 1 som är en allt-i-ett-bok avsedd för förbrukning. Tapas 2 är också den en nybörjarbo[...]
The second edition of this book serves as a reference for postgraduate students and practitioners, describing the latest diagnostic and operative techniques in hysteroscopy. Written by leading experts in the field, the text begins with a review of the anatomy, histology, physiology and pathology of [...]