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  Author: creativelivenew1   |   29 June 2023   |   comments: 0
The Crescent Arises Over the Banyan Tree A Study of the Muhammadiyah Movement in a Central Javanese Town, C.1910s-2010
Free Download Mitsuo Nakamura, "The Crescent Arises Over the Banyan Tree: A Study of the Muhammadiyah Movement in a Central Javanese Town, C.1910s-2010"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 981431191X | PDF | pages: 476 | 9.7 mb
Part One of this book is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author during 1970-72 on a local branch of the Muhammadiyah in the town of Kotagede, a suburb of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This work, first published in 1983, observed that the Muhammadiyah social and educational movement had reformed traditional Javanese Islam into a vital living faith and adapted Muslim life to modernity. The author was one of the first scholars who had noted that there was continuing Islamization in Indonesia and predicted its progress in the future. Part Two is based on the author's three decades of follow-up visits to the Kotagede from the 1970s to 2010. During this period, the Muhammadiyah movement made enormous advancements, enough to to make the town known as a "Muhammadiyah town". On the national level, the Muhammadiyah has grown to be the second largest Islamic civil society organization (after the traditionalist Nahdlatul Ulama) in Indonesia, with millions of members and supporters. Yet, the wider environment for it has been altered greatly by urbanization, diversification and globalization. It is also facing unprecedented challenges arising from calls for democratization in the post-Soeharto era. The longitudinal study in this volume depicts the most recent dynamics of the Muhammadiyah movement in a local as well as transhitoric context.

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  Author: creativelivenew1   |   07 April 2023   |   comments: 0
The Postcolonial Crescent Islam's Impact on Contemporary Literature
Free Download The Postcolonial Crescent: Islam's Impact on Contemporary Literature By John C. Hawley
1998 | 291 Pages | ISBN: 0820437948 | PDF | 8 MB
When the Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced the "fatwa" against the novelist Salman Rushdie in 1989, the world awoke to the question which unifies the fifteen essays in this volume: What is the contentious relationship between the world's fastest growing religion and an increasingly secular literary world? Recognizing the convergence between Islam's religious concerns and the political agenda it shares with many postcolonial emerging nations, noted international scholars address issues of authorization, the role of gender, and the pluralism among Islamic (and non-Arabic) cultures. After providing a historical context for current crises, the essayists discuss the coming cultural enrichment and potential threat.

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  Author: Baturi   |   11 February 2023   |   comments: 0
Freedom's Crescent
Freedom's Crescent: The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1108424090 | 533 Pages | PDF | 7 MB
The Lower Mississippi Valley is more than just a distinct geographical region of the United States; it was central to the outcome of the Civil War and the destruction of slavery in the American South. Beginning with Lincoln's 1860 presidential election and concluding with the final ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, Freedom's Crescent explores the four states of this region that seceded and joined the Confederacy: Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana. By weaving into a coherent narrative the major military campaigns that enveloped the region, the daily disintegration of slavery in the countryside, and political developments across the four states and in Washington DC, John C. Rodrigue identifies the Lower Mississippi Valley as the epicenter of emancipation in the South. A sweeping examination of one of the war's most important theaters, this book highlights the integral role this region played in transforming United States history.

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  Author: Baturi   |   28 January 2023   |   comments: 0
Talking New Orleans Music Crescent City Musicians Talk about Their Lives, Their Music, and Their City
Burt Feintuch, "Talking New Orleans Music: Crescent City Musicians Talk about Their Lives, Their Music, and Their City "
English | ISBN: 1496803620 | 2015 | 240 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
In New Orleans, music screams. It honks. It blats. It wails. It purrs. It messes with time. It messes with pitch. It messes with your feet. It messes with your head. One musician leads to another; traditions overlap, intertwine, nourish each other; and everyone seems to know everyone else. From traditional jazz through rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll to sissy bounce, in second-line parades, from the streets to clubs and festivals, the music seems unending.

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  Author: Baturi   |   07 January 2023   |   comments: 0
Cross and Crescent Responding to the Challenge of Islam
Colin Gilbert Chapman, "Cross and Crescent: Responding to the Challenge of Islam"
English | 2003 | pages: 356 | ISBN: 0830832041 | PDF | 7,2 mb
Is the Muslim my neighbor?For increasing numbers of Christians, the answer to that question is yes. The crescent, an emblem of the Islamic faith recognized throughout the world, is gaining prominence in the West, bringing with it the collision of worldviews.When the cross meets the crescent, what ought to happen? In the newly revised classic Cross and Crescent, Colin Chapman brings remarkable sensitivity and humanity to a question that too often incites hostility and suspicion. He introduces Islam in its historical context, its theological assumptions and, most important, its common practice in the West. In this comprehensive, gracious introduction to Islam, you will meet the Muslims in your community and learn how to love these neighbors as yourself.

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  Author: Baturi   |   24 August 2022   |   comments: 0
The Struggle for Mastery in the Fertile Crescent
Ajami, Fouad, "The Struggle for Mastery in the Fertile Crescent"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 081791756X, 0817917551 | EPUB | pages: 75 | 0.4 mb
In this book, Fouad Ajami analyzes the struggle for influence along the Fertile Crescent-the stretch of land that runs from Iran's border with Iraq to the Mediterranean-among three of the regional powers who have stepped into the vacuum left by the West: Iran, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia. He explains that, of the three powers competing for influence, Saudi Arabia and Iran are in it for the long haul. Each of those powers has a sense of mission and constituencies that enable them to stick it out and pay the price for a sphere of influence. Each country's prospects for supremacy is detailed and Ajami asserts that Iran must ultimately be reckoned to be the strongest.

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  Author: Baturi   |   18 March 2022   |   comments: 0



Crescent City Girls The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans
LaKisha Michelle Simmons, "Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1469622807 | PDF | pages: 283 | 4.0 mb
What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural studies, recreating children's streets and neighborhoods within Jim Crow New Orleans and offering a rare look into black girls' personal lives. Simmons argues that these children faced the difficult task of adhering to middle-class expectations of purity and respectability even as they encountered the daily realities of Jim Crow violence, which included interracial sexual aggression, street harassment, and presumptions of black girls' impurity.

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  Author: Baturi   |   08 December 2020   |   comments: 0


Horn and Crescent Cultural Change and Traditional Islam on the East African Coast, 800-1900
Randall L. Pouwels, "Horn and Crescent: Cultural Change and Traditional Islam on the East African Coast, 800-1900 (African Studies)"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0521523095 | PDF | 288 pages | 6.7 MB
In this first major historical study of Islam among the Swahili, Randall Pouwels shows how Islam and other aspects of coastal civilization have evolved since about AD 1000 as an organic whole.

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