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Crucial to understanding Islam is a recognition of the role of Muslim networks The earliest networks were Mediterranean trade routes that quickly expanded into transregional paths for pilgrimage, scholarship, and conversion, each network complementing and reinforcing the others. This volume selects major moments and key players from the seventh century to the twenty-first that have defined Muslim networks as the building blocks for Islamic identity and social cohesion.

Although neglected in scholarship, Muslim networks have been invoked in the media to portray post-9/11 terrorist groups. Here, thirteen essays provide a long view of Muslim networks, correcting both scholarly omission and political sloganeering. New faces and forces appear, raising questions never before asked. What does the fourteenth-century North African traveler Ibn Battuta have in common with the American hip hopper Mos Def? What values and practices link Muslim women meeting in Cairo, Amsterdam, and Atlanta? How has technology raised expectations about new transnational pathways that will reshape the perception of faith, politics, and gender in Islamic civilization?

This book invokes the past not only to understand the present but also to reimagine the future through the prism of Muslim networks, at once the shadow and the lifeline for the umma, or global Muslim community..
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This collection of essays on women in China captures a pivotal moment in a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary dialogue. For the first time, the voice of China-based scholars are heard alongside scholars positioned in the United States. The distinguished contributors to this volume are of different generations, hold citizenship in different countries, and were trained in different disciplines, but all embrace the shared project of mapping gender in China and making power-laden relationships visible. The essays take up gender issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Chapters focus on learned women in the 18th century, the changing status of contemporary village women, sexuality and reproduction, prostitution, women's consciousness, women's writing, the gendering of work, and images of women in contemporary Chinese fiction. Some of the liveliest disagreements over the usefulness of western feminist theory and scholarship on China take place between Chinese working in China and Chinese in temporary or longtime diaspora. "Engendering China" should appeal to a broad academic spectrum, including scholars of Asian studies, critical theory, feminist studies, cultural studies, and policy studies..
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"Learning and teaching Baby Sign Language in this story format was fun and easy."

Learning "baby" sign language does not have to be overwhelming Instead of trying to learn sign language and then teach it to your child, why not have your child share in the learning process? Storybook Sign Language: A Day With Mommy incorporates many of the most commonly used signs into the story itself, while giving a detailed description of how to perform the signs on the opposite page. By doing this together, you and your child can instantly apply the signs you have learned to the events in the story. The learning experience is fun and effective, allowing you to do what child development experts agree is so important-read to your child..
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Exploring diverse cultural productions from poems and paintings, to exhibition sites, panoramas, and political organizations, some of the most exciting critics of Romanticism do long-overdue justice to the role of the city in British Romanticism. Their essays challenge the traditional conception that Romanticism was rooted in nature and rural life, by demonstrating that much of its uniqueness originated within the city. Examining the Romantic period from the urban perspective, they reveal how rapid developments in population, industry, communication, trade, and technology set the stage and the tone for many great literary and cultural achievements..
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Witty, authoritative, comprehensive and fun, Wake Up and Smell the Profit is the ultimate guide to making more money in your coffee business In this book you'll find the sharpest insights and the best ideas from two of the UK's top Coffee Business Gurus. Together 'The Coffee Boys' have 40 years' experience in how to make money in the coffee selling business. Whether you operate a single site espresso bar, a Michelin starred restaurant or chain of hotels, there is something in this book for everyone.With 52 motivating tips and suggestions (plus an extra bonus idea for good measure), all you need to do is apply one initiative a week for a year and you could have a much more profitable and easier to manage business within twelve months.With this book you'll be able to:A* Make more money and work lessA* Have happier customers who spend more moneyA* Win more customers without spending a fortuneA* Enjoy running your business moreA* Create customers who rave about your business and consequently generate more customers through word of mouthWhat are you waiting for?.
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In an instant, their world of high flying and good living is shattered One minute the wind is whipping in their faces and the briny spray is smacking their high tech sailboat as they race across white-capped waters, competing against nineteen other 50-footers. The next minute an assassin's deadly shot singles out its mark. PJ McDonough and his stunned crew find themselves targets and begin a frightening adventure that changes their lives forever. Weaving a nail-biting plot from San Francisco Bay to the shores of Mystic, Connecticut, and from the skies of the Caribbean to the mountains of Columbia, author Greg Gilmartin has developed a wild ensemble of characters who will take readers right to the edge of their seat. Using high tech boats, aircraft, and weapons, the crew journeys into a deadly confrontation, revealing mystical connections to ancient Indian beliefs, the depths of contemporary criminal greed and cruelty, and the edges of friendship and teamwork. CREW is the story of average people put into extraordinarily formidable circumstances and coming to terms with their own personal threshold for danger and courage. Readers are sure to be drawn into this un-put-downable adventure novel that will have them racing through the pages well past their bed times..
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