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Islam : A Guide For The Perplexed - Study & Evaluation Of An Attempt Of Application: Alleviating Poverty In Tafahna Alashraf, Nancy Fathy Emara
Islam : A Guide For The Perplexed - Study & Evaluation Of An Attempt Of Application: Alleviating Poverty In Tafahna Alashraf, Nancy Fathy Emara
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No abstract provided.
Women, Power And Position Within The Household Economy, Mamdouh Kamal Hakim
Women, Power And Position Within The Household Economy, Mamdouh Kamal Hakim
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No abstract provided.
Barbarous Magnificence: The Decline And Continuity Of Akan Traditional Religious Practices, Kwasi Bempong
Barbarous Magnificence: The Decline And Continuity Of Akan Traditional Religious Practices, Kwasi Bempong
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This thesis uses archaeological, anthropological, and historical evidence along with indigenous texts as the determining factors to address two major problems in the literature: the widely held belief that Akan culture developed in the forests of modem Ghana and that their supreme deity, Onyame, is a 'withdrawn deity', with whom they did not share an intimate relationship. Although these problems may seem unrelated the former is used to support the latter by ignoring the historical antecedents of Northern Akan culture that blossomed in the savanna-forest transition zone and the subsequent movement of well-developed religious practices and beliefs from the north …
Charity, Development And The Global Market: The Pursuit Of An Alternative Through Fair Trade, Christy L Ferguson
Charity, Development And The Global Market: The Pursuit Of An Alternative Through Fair Trade, Christy L Ferguson
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No abstract provided.
The Miraculous And Coptic Orthodox Christianity: Empowerment, Embodiment And The Living Tradition, MarkéTa Sebelová
The Miraculous And Coptic Orthodox Christianity: Empowerment, Embodiment And The Living Tradition, MarkéTa Sebelová
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Women And Inheritance Laws: The Case Of Egypt, Hedayat Labib
Women And Inheritance Laws: The Case Of Egypt, Hedayat Labib
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This work is a study of the discrepancy between the law and practice of inheritance. Since inheritance problems are confronted by both sexes, examples will involve men and women but with the main focus on the latter. Economic dependence on men results in powerlessness and passivity on the part of women. Men utilize cultural capital in their attempt to justify their unjust disinheritance of their female kin. This is used to mystify and justify to themselves their material possession of the shares of women. Whether they accept this situation or not, women are socialized into perceiving men in a certain …
Aragi:An Ethnography Of Sudanese Displacement, Bjorn Curley
Aragi:An Ethnography Of Sudanese Displacement, Bjorn Curley
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No abstract provided.
Social Orientalism, Daniel P Reany
Social Orientalism, Daniel P Reany
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No abstract provided.