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Authority without Territory: The Aga Khan Development ...

Authority without Territory: The Aga Khan Development ...

Daryoush Mohammad Poor

Examining the connection between the concept of authority and the transformation of the Ismaili imamate, Authority without Territory is the first study of the imamate in contemporary times with a particular focus on Aga Khan, the 49th ...
The State of Social Progress of Islamic Societies: Social, ...

The State of Social Progress of Islamic Societies: Social, ...

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and Intellectual Changes in Iran Ali Paya, Hossein Raghfar, Abbas Abdi, Daryoush Mohammad Poor, and Marjan Fadavi-Ardekani H. Tiliouine, R.J. Estes (eds.), The State of Social Progress of Islamic Societies, International Handbooks of ...
Epigraphy and Islamic Culture: Inscriptions of the Early ...

Epigraphy and Islamic Culture: Inscriptions of the Early ...

Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq

Inscriptions of the Early Muslim Rulers of Bengal (1205-1494) Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq. Siddiq, Mohammad Yusuf. The Development of Arabic Script (written in Arabic under the title: al-Kitaba al-'Arabiyya), Majalla al-Jami'a al-Salafiyyah (May  ...
Private View

Private View

Khālid Ḥasan

MY FAVOURITE ABSCONDER Wherever Mohammad Javed Ahmed, son of Mohammad Ramzan, junior clerk Forest Department, once resident at Quarter No 5, Line No 509, Loco Shed, Lahore, happens to be now, I wish him luck and hope  ...
ABIA: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index: ...

ABIA: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index: ...

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3-197 Siddiq, Mohammad Yusuf Masjid, madrasah, khanqah and bridge : reflection on some Islamic inscriptions of Bengal / Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh 42/2 (1997) : 231-286. [eng ; latn script] ...
Songs from Kabul: The Spiritual Music of Ustad Amir Mohammad

Songs from Kabul: The Spiritual Music of Ustad Amir Mohammad

John Baily

This book presents the vocal art music of Kabul as performed by Ustad Amir Mohammad.
Pelagic Passageways: The Northern Bay of Bengal Before ...

Pelagic Passageways: The Northern Bay of Bengal Before ...

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Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq, 'An Epigraphical Journey to an Eastern Islamic Land', Muqarnas, vol. 7, 1990, pp. 83–108, see p. 94. Mohammad Yusuf Siddiq, ' Calligraphy and Islamic culture: reflections on some new epigraphical discoveries in ...
Debates. Official Report

Debates. Official Report

Pakistan. Constituent Assembly (1947-1954)

Khan Mohammad Jalaluddin Khan : Sir, I thought the Honourable Speaker will allow me just a few sentences in Pushto as well. I thought so. I do not know whether you will allow me or not. Mr. Speaker : What is it ? Khan Mohammad Jalaluddin ...
It's Not Like I'm Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet ...

It's Not Like I'm Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet ...

Sarah Halpern-Meekin

In accessible and engaging prose, It’s Not Like I’m Poor examines the costs and benefits of the new work-based safety net, suggesting ways to augment its strengths so that more of the working poor can realize the promise of a middle ...
Divine Guide in Early Shi'ism, The: The Sources of ...

Divine Guide in Early Shi'ism, The: The Sources of ...

Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi

The Sources of Esotericism in Islam Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi. 4 The S uper- Existence of the Imam You are like the stars of the sky; as soon as one star sets, another rises, up until the Day of Resurrection. The Prophet After the pre- existence ...
The Oudh Weekly Notes: A Weekly Journal

The Oudh Weekly Notes: A Weekly Journal

Hyder Husein

On the execution of the document of the 7th March, 1884, Lutf-ul-lah Khan got actual possession of all the property ... a suit against Hamid-ul-lah Khan, his two wives, and Mohammad Abdul Ghani Khan and Mohammad Abdul Rahman Khan , ...
Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century

Health, Medicine and Mortality in the Sixteenth Century

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The Norwich Census of the Poor 1570, Norfolk Record Society, xl (1971) ; J. M. Dixon, 'Poor relief in Norwich during the reign of Queen Elizabeth' (University of Leeds M.A. dissertation, 1927); E. M. Leonard, The Early History of English Poor  ...
The Spirituality of Shi'i Islam: Beliefs and Practices

The Spirituality of Shi'i Islam: Beliefs and Practices

Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi

Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi is one of the most distinguished scholars of Shi'i history and theology, and in this volume he offers a wide-ranging and engaging survey of the core texts of Shi'i Islam.
Qu'est-ce que le shî'isme ?

Qu'est-ce que le shî'isme ?

Mohammad-Ali Amir-Moezzi

Mohammad-Ali Amir-Moezzi, Christian Jambet. Guidesdela lumière/ Guidesdel' obscurité/ justice/guidance injustice /égarement Gens dela Droite Gens de laGauche Amour/Alliance (walâya) dissociation(barâ'a) Lafoi spécifiquement shî' ite ...
Faith in the Poor

Faith in the Poor

Bob Holman

Bob Holman, a former social worker and professor of social administration, has spent the last 20 years living in poor housing estates and helping the poor in practical ways. This book highlights the problems and implications poverty brings.
Poor But Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites

Poor But Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites

Wayne Flynt

Alabama's Poor Whites Wayne Flynt. John Gates Julia Rhodes Isaac Johnson Orrie Robinson Henry Kelly Charley Ryland Jim Lauderdale Mrs. Lee Snipes Nancy Nolan M. B. Truitt Susie R. O'Brien Neeley Williams ORAL HISTORIES Oral ...
Poor White

Poor White

Sherwood Anderson

The merchants, who ran their stores - poor tumble-down ramshackle affairs - on the credit system, could not get pay for the goods they handed out over their counters and the artisans, the shoemakers, carpenters and harnessmakers, could not ...
Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the ...

Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the ...

Joe Soss

Disciplining the Poor explains the transformation of poverty governance over the past forty years—why it happened, how it works today, and how it affects people.
Poorly Performing Staff in Schools and How to Manage Them: ...

Poorly Performing Staff in Schools and How to Manage Them: ...

Tessa Atton

This book will help headteachers, managers and governors diagnose and tackle poor performance where it has arisen and help them to prevent poor performance in the future.
Order and Disorder: The Poor Clares Between Foundation and ...

Order and Disorder: The Poor Clares Between Foundation and ...

Bert Roest

In Order and Disorder: The Poor Clares between Foundation and Reform, Bert Roest provides an up-to-date and comprehensive history of the Poor Clares from their early beginnings until the sixteenth century.
The commodities outlook: analysis based on the MIER ...

The commodities outlook: analysis based on the MIER ...

Mohd. Haflah Piei

Haflah Piei, Mohammad Haji Alias, Malaysian Institute of Economic Research. IR/ PS Stacks HC 445.5 .M53 1987 v.ll The Commodities Outlook: Analysis Based on the MIER Agriculture Model Mohd. Haflah Piei and Mohammad Haji Alias ...
Engaging Economics: New Testament Scenarios and Early ...

Engaging Economics: New Testament Scenarios and Early ...

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The Poor of Galatians 2:10: The Interpretative Paradigm of the First Centuries Bruce W. Longenecker Not infrequently, scholars see Paul's mention of the poor in Gal 2:10 as pe- ripheral and secondary to the main theological considerations  ...
Doing Comparative Politics: An Introduction to Approaches ...

Doing Comparative Politics: An Introduction to Approaches ...

Timothy C. Lim

Designed to teach students how to think comparatively and theoretically about the world they live in, the book is organized around a set of critical questions¿why are poor countries poor? why is East Asia relatively prosperous? what makes ...
Public Spendingon Health Care and Poor

Public Spendingon Health Care and Poor

Marijn Verhoeven

This paper estimates the impact of public spending on the poor''s health status in over 70 countries.
Poor Angus

Poor Angus

Robin Jenkins

Poor Angus centres round a struggling painter, Angus McAllister, who has returned to the seemingly idyllic Hebridean island of his birth in the hope that it will inspire him to create his masterpiece.
The Visible Poor: Homelessness in the United States

The Visible Poor: Homelessness in the United States

Joel Blau

A powerful contribution to public debate on homelessness, The Visible Poor must be read by concerned citizens as well as by policy-makers and advocates.
Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery: With ...

Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery: With ...

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... doth declare, first, that under the words, “Poor and Godly preachers of Christ's Holy Gospel,” poor and orthodox ministers of dissenting congregations in England and Wales within the protection of the Act of Toleration (1 William and Mary, c.
Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America

Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America

Linda Tirado

A first book by a widely read, controversial essayist on poverty profiles the realities of the working poor in America and why poor people make decisions that are popularly criticized. 40,000 first printing. Tour.

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