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History of Islam in German Thought

This 2019 Bosnian translation of History of Islam in German Thought: From Leibniz to Nietzsche (2010) is a concise overview of the perception of Islam in eight of the most…

A Critical Analysis of Basic Income

A Critical Analysis of Basic Income At least six different Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments are underway or planned right now in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Finland, and…

Sufism and Deconstruction/Sufizmi Dhe Dekonstrucksioni

This 2017 Albanian translation of Sufism and Deconstruction (2004) Examines a series of common features in the works of Derrida and the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi, considered to be one…

Africa and the Gulf Region: Blurred Boundaries and Shifting Ties

The ties that bind Africa and the Gulf region have deep historical roots that influence both what Braudel called the longue durée and the short-term events of current policy shifts,…

Religion and Democratization: Framing Political and Religious Identities in Muslim and Catholic societies

Religion and Democratization is a comparative study of democratization in Muslim and Catholic societies. It explores the nature and impact of “religiously friendly democratization” processes, which institutionally favor a religion of…

Understanding Islam 

With over one billion believers throughout the globe, Islam remains one of the most misunderstood of the world’s great Revelations. In this fully revised and amended translation of his masterpiece,…

The Sacred Republic

The Sacred Republic: Power and Institution in Iran presents a comprehensive, detailed analysis of the establishment, evolution and current significance of different institutions in today’s Islamic Republic of Iran. The…

A Frequency Lexicon of Standard Arabic Used in Children’s TV Programs

Mahmoud Al-Ashiri’s book in Arabic, A Frequency Lexicon of Standard Arabic Used in Children’s TV Programs: A Corpus-based Lexicon (Dar Konoz Almarefa Publishers, 2021), offers an invaluable resource for designing and…

A New Day : Essays on World Christianity in Honor of Lamin Sanneh

A collection “A New Day: Essays on World Christianity in Honor of Lamin Sanneh” honoring Lamin Sanneh, one of the most adamant advocates and apostles of the radical change in…

Al Mû`assasah Al-Arabîyyah lil Dirasaat wa l-Nashr. [Creativity and the Sacred]

The book, which is written in Arabic, relies on a variety of texts from different disciplines ranging from philosophy, poetry, and art to cosmology and physics, but it remains absorbed…

al-Kitaab fii ta'allum al-'Arabiyya: A textbook for Arabic, Part One

This is the second book in the Al-Kitaab Arabic Language Program, which was extensively revised and reorganized for the third edition. This book with its companion website develops skills in…

Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend : Examining Its Suitability as a Model

Contributors discuss the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) and Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) as a model both for resource policy and for social policy. This book explores whether other states, nations,…