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Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran An Intellectual History of the Constitutional Revolution

Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran An Intellectual History of the Constitutional Revolution

Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran is an original historiographic examination of the idea of freedom in early modern Iran within a larger context of the formation of modern Muslim thought. The study develops an appropriate method for the historiography of ideas by taking into consideration cultural linguistic and socio-political limitations and obstacles to free thinking in closed societies. The research shows how most locutions about freedom uttered during early modern Iran were formed within the horizon of the question of Iran’s decline and were somehow related to remedying such situations. It challenges previous studies which employed Isaiah Berlin’s distinction between positive and negative freedom as two fundamentally different concepts of freedom. It replaces Berlin’s dichotomy of positive and negative liberties with MacCallum’s triadic concept of freedom and argues that thinkers in early modern Iran could noticeably present rival interpretations of three variables of the concept of freedom namely the agent the constraint and the purpose of freedom. Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran is a unique contribution to the histories of the 1905-11 Constitutional Revolution in Iran and comparative political thinking between Iran and Europe. It is an essential resource for scholars interested in Constitutionalism History Political Theory and Sociology within Middle Eastern Studies. | Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran An Intellectual History of the Constitutional Revolution

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The Second Partition of Palestine Hamas–Fatah Struggle for Power

The Second Partition of Palestine Hamas–Fatah Struggle for Power

This book examines the factors and issues responsible for the intra-Palestinian conflict that has undermined the strength and vitality of the struggle for liberation against the state of Israel. It explores how the ideological incompatibility and competition for political primacy account for the Hamas–Fatah conflict entailing the risk of partition of Palestine even before it takes shape as an independent sovereign entity. It analyzes the developments since the signing of the September 1993 Oslo Accord and discusses themes such as the background of Palestinian politics; the role of Fatah; the rise of Hamas as Fatah’s political rival; the Hamas–Fatah struggle for power; and the role played by the international community including by the US and the European Union. The study deals with the various facets of territorial and political challenges faced by the rival Palestinian actions; the failure of the reconciliation efforts by Egypt and Yemen; the stalled peace process in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; the emergence of the Islamic resistance movement and secular nationalist party; and the political and ideological shifts in Palestinian politics. Comprehensive and topical this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of West Asian studies peace and conflict studies politics and international relations foreign policy political studies area studies and strategic and defence studies. | The Second Partition of Palestine Hamas–Fatah Struggle for Power

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The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 A Study in British and Russian Imperialism

The New Testament in Muslim Eyes Paul's Letter to the Galatians

The New Testament in Muslim Eyes Paul's Letter to the Galatians

This book explores Christian origins by examining a key New Testament epistle Paul’s letter to the Galatian churches seen by Christians as the charter of Christian liberty from the inherited Jewish law. The New Testament in Muslim Eyes provides a close textual commentary on perhaps the earliest declaration of Paul’s apostleship and of his undying commitment to the risen Christ. It notes the subtleties of the Greek original against the backdrop of an exciting glimpse of Quranic Arabic parallels and differences. It asks: Does Paul qualify as a prophet of Allah (God)? The thoughts of Paul are assessed by examining his claims against the background of Islam’s rival views of Abraham and his legacy. The Arabic Quran framed and inspired the life of the Arab Apostle Muhammad who was sent according to Islam to all humanity Jewish and Gentile alike. Pauline themes are set in dialectical tension with the claims of the Quran. Akhtar compares and contrasts the two rival faiths with regard to: the resources of human nature the salvation of the sinner and the status of the works of the law. Both Christians and Muslims concur on the need for God’s grace an essential condition of success in the life of faith. The core Pauline Christian doctrine of justification by faith alone is scrutinised and assessed from a variety of non-Christian especially Islamic stances. Providing an Islamic view of Christian origins this book helps to build bridges between the two religions. It will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Biblical Studies Islamic Studies and the Philosophy of Religion. | The New Testament in Muslim Eyes Paul's Letter to the Galatians

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The Jamaat Question in Bangladesh Islam Politics and Society in a Post-Democratic Nation

Metaethical Subjectivism

Schizophrenia and Parenting

Psychological Criminology An Integrative Approach

Towards Korean Reconciliation Socio-Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation

Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again

Quest for the Unity of Knowledge

The Politics of Korean Language Textbooks in the Two Koreas Nationalism Ideologies and Education

Santería Enthroned Art Ritual and Innovation in an Afro-Cuban Religion

The Miners: One Union One Industry A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46

Spaces in Late Antiquity Cultural Theological and Archaeological Perspectives

China's African Challenges

The Turing Test Argument

Media and Science-Religion Conflict Mass Persuasion in the Evolution Wars

Media and Science-Religion Conflict Mass Persuasion in the Evolution Wars

This book examines why the religion-science skirmishes known as the Evolution Wars have persisted into the 21st century. It does so by considering the influences of mass media in relation to decision-making research and the Elaboration Likelihood Model one of the most authoritative persuasion theories. The book’s analysis concentrates on the expression of cues or cognitive mental shortcuts in Darwin-sceptic and counter-creationist broadcasts. A multiyear collection of media generated by the most prominent Darwin-sceptic organizations is surveyed along with rival publications from supporters of evolutionary theory described as the pro-evolutionists. The analysed materials include works produced by Young Earth Creationist and Intelligent Design media makers New Atheist pacesetters as well as both agnostic and religious supporters of evolution. These cues are shown to function as subtle but effective means of shaping public opinion including appeals to expertise claims that ideas are being censored and the tactical use of statistics and technical jargon. Contending that persuasive mass media is a decisive component of science-religion controversies this book will be of keen interest to scholars of Religion Science and Religion interactions as well as researchers of Media and Communication Studies more generally. *Winner ISSR 2021 Book Prize* | Media and Science-Religion Conflict Mass Persuasion in the Evolution Wars

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Civil Society in Liberal Democracy

Never Again Rock Against Racism and the Anti-Nazi League 1976-1982

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Exploring New Horizons

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Exploring New Horizons

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is one of the most rapidly developing centres of the multipolar world covering an enormous landmass including China India Russia and its southern Eurasian neighbours. With both its eight member states and a growing group of observer states the SCO’s activities have expanded beyond its initial focus on security and stability to broader cooperation with the UN and other groupings such as the G20 BRICS NATO and ASEAN. Bringing together large and disparate nation-states with often rival geostrategic agendas means that it not only faces substantial structural challenges but also has great potential. The contributors to this volume representing a range of the states within the SCO evaluate the possibilities for the Organization and the challenges it faces in achieving them through a prism of legal regulation. They evaluate the bloc’s prospects for economic humanitarian legal trade labour migration and environmental cooperation as well as its more traditional concerns with security and defence. The authors analyzing the quality of cooperation between states within the SCO note the controversial character of this process: it demonstrates both efficiency and declarative and decorative nature of the SCO. A valuable read for scholars and policy-makers with a focus on Eurasian cooperation and processes of regionalism and universalism in international relationships. | The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Exploring New Horizons

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Cultural Analysis Volume 1 Politics Public Law and Administration

Cultural Analysis Volume 1 Politics Public Law and Administration

As a result of a lifetime of incomparably wide-ranging investigations Aaron Wildavsky concluded that politics in the United States and elsewhere was a patterned activity exhibiting recurring regularities. Political values beliefs and institutions were neither endlessly varied nor haphazardly organized. They tended to exhibit a limited range of variation and were organized in discoverable predictable ways. In Cultural Analysis the fourth collection of his essays posthumously published by Transaction Wildavsky argues that American politics public law and public administration are the contested terrain of rival inescapable political cultures. Analysts of American politics distinguish liberals from conservatives and Democrats from Republicans but do not explain how these categories of political allegiance develop maintain themselves or change. Wildavsky offers a cultural-functional explanation for ideological and partisan coherence and realignment. Wildavsky also felt that these dualisms did not adequately capture the ideological and partisan variation he observed on the political landscape. Like others he detected another recurring strain of political allegiance: that of classical liberalism or libertarianism. People of this political stripe valued freedom more than equality (the primary political value of contemporary liberals) and also more than order the primary political value of conservatives. The value of Wildavsky's reconceptualization of the ideological and social foundations of political conflict compromise and coalition is assessed here by Wildavsky's former colleagues and students at the University of California Berkeley: Dennis Coyle Richard Ellis Robert Kagan Austin Ranney and Brendon Swedlow. | Cultural Analysis Volume 1 Politics Public Law and Administration

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Rivals in the Gulf Yusuf al-Qaradawi Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis

Rivals in the Gulf Yusuf al-Qaradawi Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis

Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis details the relationships between the Egyptian Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi and the Al Thani royal family in Qatar and between the Mauritanian Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Al Nahyans the rulers of Abu Dhabi and senior royal family in the United Arab Emirates. These relationships stretch back decades to the early 1960s and 1970s respectively. Using this history as a foundation the book examines the connections between Qaradawi’s and Bin Bayyah’s rival projects and the development of Qatar’s and the UAE’s competing state-brands and foreign policies. It raises questions about how to theorize the relationships between the Muslim scholarly-elite (the ulama) and the nation-state. Over the course of the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis Qaradawi and Bin Bayyah shaped the Al Thani’s and Al Nahyan’s competing ideologies in important ways. Offering new ways for academics to think about Doha and Abu Dhabi as hegemonic centers of Islamic scholarly authority alongside historical centers of learning such as Cairo Medina or Qom this book will appeal to those with an interest in modern Islamic authority the ulama Gulf politics as well as the Arab Spring and its aftermath. | Rivals in the Gulf Yusuf al-Qaradawi Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis

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Michael Costa: England's First Conductor The Revolution in Musical Performance in England 1830-1880

Michael Costa: England's First Conductor The Revolution in Musical Performance in England 1830-1880

Among the major changes that swept through the music industry during the mid-nineteenth century one that has received little attention is how musical performances were managed and directed. Yet this was arguably the most radical change of all: from a loose control shared between the violin-leader musical director and maestro al cembalo to a system of tight and unified control under a professional conductor-manager. This process brought with it not only baton conducting in its modern form but also higher standards of training and discipline a new orchestral lay-out and a more focused rehearsal regime. The resulting rise in standards of performance was arguably the greatest achievement of English music in the otherwise rather barren mid-Victorian period. The key figure in this process was Michael Costa who built for himself unprecedented contractual powers and used his awesome personal authority to impose reform on the three main institutions of mid-Victorian music: the opera houses the Philharmonic and the Sacred Harmonic Society. He was a central figure in the battles between the two rival opera houses between the Philharmonic and the New Philharmonic and between the venerable Ancient Concerts and the mass festival events of the Sacred Harmonic Society. Costa’s uniquely powerful position in the operatic symphonic and choral world and the rapidity with which he was forgotten after his death provide a fascinating insight into the politics and changing aesthetics of the Victorian musical world. | Michael Costa: England's First Conductor The Revolution in Musical Performance in England 1830-1880

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