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One of the most prominent Sunni clerics in the Muslim world, Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi influences the discourse around matters central to the Islamic faith and to Islam's relationship with the West. He is the voice of the moderate current in contemporary Islam. In this volume, Polka explores al-Qaradawi's life and development as a Muslim scholar.

Brings well-deserved attention to author Claire Myers Owens' little known yet extraordinary life and passionate spirit. Drawing on autobiographies, letters, journals, and novels, Friedman chronicles Owens's robust intellect and her tumultuous private life and, along the way, shows readers what makes her story significant.

A pioneering analysis of third-generation Holocaust documentaries in Israel, this book investigates compelling films that have been screened in Israel, Europe, and the United States, appeared in numerous international film festivals, and won international awards, but have yet to receive significant academic attention.

The final volume in Miller's trilogy on the history of American intentional communities. Providing a comprehensive survey of communities during the last quarter of the twentieth century, Miller offers a detailed study of their character, scope, and evolution.

Explores the politics of religious engagement in the public sphere by comparing two modernist conservative movements: the Mormon Church in the US and the Gulen movement in Turkey. The book traces the public activities and activism of these two influential and controversial actors at the state, political society, and civil society domains.

Sheds light on Palestinian Muslim women's agency in shari`a courts from the British Mandate period to the present. Brownson's archival research on wife-initiated maintenance claims, divorce, and child custody cases deepens our understanding of women's position in the courts, demonstrating Muslim women's active participation in their legal affairs.

Moishe Rozenbaumas (1922-2016) recounts his fascinating life, from his Lithuanian boyhood, to the fraught experiences that take him across Europe and Central Asia and back again, to his daring escape from Soviet Russia to build a new life in Paris.

Referendums have become an undeniably important, and perhaps inescapable, peacemaking tool. As such, understanding the ways in which referendum outcomes are shaped by peace negotiations is vital. Drawing on two case studies, Amaral presents a rich comparative analysis of the Annan Plan in Cyprus and the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland.

During his more than fifty-year writing career, American Jewish philosopher Horace Kallen incorporated a deep focus on science into his pragmatic philosophy of life. In this intellectual biography, Kaufman explores Kallen's life and illumines how American scientific culture inspired not only Kallen's thought but that of an entire generation.

Explores questions of authorship and audience response as well as themes of horror, gore, cannibalism, queerness, and transformation in the the NBC series Hannibal. Contributors also address Hannibal's distinctive visual, auditory, and narrative style.

Analyses the communication, politics, stereotypes, and genre techniques featured in the television series Scandal while raising key questions about the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and viewing audiences.

Since W.B. Yeats wrote that "the man of science is too often a person who has exchanged his soul for a formula", the anti-scientific bent of Irish literature has been taken as a given. This book brings together scholars to challenge the stereotype that Irish literature has been unconcerned with scientific and technological change.

Francis Adrian Van der Kemp was a writer, minister, and political leader of prominence in his native Holland when he fled from persecution to settle in upstate New York. He became one of the area's important citizens during its formative period. This is an absorbing biography of an influential citizen and resident of central New York State.

Moses Hazen was one of the leading agents of the Continental Congress in the efforts to recruit Canadians from Quebec and Nova Scotia. This book is more than a biography of Hazen; it is also the story of the Canadians who left their homes, farms, and businesses to join the Continental Army.

Traces the transformation of the Palestinian women's movement from the 1930s to the post-Oslo period and through the Second Intifada to examine the often-fraught relationship between women and nationalism in Palestine. Jad also explores the impact of emerging feminist NGOs in depoliticizing the secular Palestinian women's movement.

Shines a light on the rich history of Algonquian and Iroquoian people, offering the first comprehensive study of the relationship between Native Americans and the Adirondacks. While the book focuses on the nineteenth century, the analysis extends to periods before and after this era.

Moving beyond rigid portrayals of Islamic patriarchy and female oppression, this book analyses debates about manhood in early twentieth-century Iran, particularly around questions of race and sexuality. DeSouza presents the larger implications of Pahlavi hegemonic masculinity in creating racialized male subjects and "productive" sexualities.

Literary, lyrical, and cuttingly satiric, Mother India is a brilliantly original novel about Jews who go to India to find transformation and eternal release. The novel is populated by the darkly comic universe of three generations of women along with other family members, as well as by the Indians whose world they seek to penetrate.

Demands for freedom, justice, and dignity have animated protests and revolutions across the Middle East in recent years, changing the landscape of the region. Drawing from diverse disciplines, this volume offers critical perspectives on these changes, covering politics, religion, gender dynamics, human rights, media, literature, and music.

Explores a moment of intense religious upheaval and transformation in France between 1880 and 1920. During this time, women became increasingly involved in faith-based organizations, engaging in social and political action both to expand women's rights and to ensure that religion remained part of the public debate about France's identity.

In Why Alliances Fail, Buehler explores the circumstances under which stable, enduring alliances are built to contest authoritarian regimes, marshaling evidence from coalitions between North Africa's Islamists and leftists.

Demands for freedom, justice, and dignity have animated protests and revolutions across the Middle East in recent years, changing the landscape of the region. Drawing from diverse disciplines, this volume offers critical perspectives on these changes, covering politics, religion, gender dynamics, human rights, media, literature, and music.

Given the importance of finales to television viewers and critics alike, Howard and Bianculli along with the other contributors explore endings and what they mean to the audience, both in terms of their sense of narrative and as episodes that epitomize an entire show.

Drawing upon a wide range of narrative and archival sources, Rubin explores the famous yet understudied criminal trial of the alleged murder of the former sultan Abdulaziz and its representations in contemporary public discourse and subsequent historiography.

Explores the rise of language and gender politics in Lebanese television during the Civil War of 1975 to 1991. Khazaal tells the untold story of the coevolution of Lebanese television and its audience, and the ways in which the war influenced that transformation.

In this poignant memoir, Petre Solomon recalls the experiences he shared with Paul Celan and captures the ways in which Bucharest profoundly influenced Celan's evolution as a poet.

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars from the fields of Irish studies and Jewish studies, this volume captures the most recent scholarship on their comparative history with nuance and remarkable insight.

Nostalgically commemorates the lost culture of an ancient Iraqi Jewish minority living amidst a majority Muslim population in 1940s Baghdad. The plot unfolds during a time of great turmoil and events profoundly affected Muslim-Jewish relationships.

Presents a call to rethink binary categories of "religion" and "secularism" in contemporary Arab American fiction and art. This book juxtaposes accounts of secular experience in the writing of Arab Anglophone authors such as Mohja Kahf, Laila Lalami, and Rawi Hage, with Arab and Muslim artists such as Ninar Esber, Hasan Elahi, and Emily Jacir.

Black-Arab political and cultural solidarity has had a long and rich history in the United States. That alliance is once again exerting a powerful influence on American society. In Breaking Broken English, Hartman explores the historical and current manifestations of this relationship through language and literature.