The Rhetoric of Sobriety

The Rhetoric of SobrietyExplains the prohibition of alcohol in Islam using a wide range of materials from the early Islamic period. Why does Islam condemn wine and other alcoholic beverages? The complexity behind this simple question is examined in The Rhetoric of Sobriety. Drawing on an array of revelatory, legal, historical, and exegetical materials (both Sunni and Shi'ite) from the early Islamic period, and contrasting them with comparable Judaic and Christian works from

Instead she aims to demystify the origins of Strauss's thought and present his relationship to German and Jewish thought in the early twentieth century in a manner accessible not just to the small circles devoted to the study of Strauss

This book identifies the meaning of an authentically democratic constitution and the civility required of democratic citizens

Edward Said

It draws attention to seven key factors that not only highlight the present crisis in journalism

A radical and comprehensive review of the practices of governance within one of the world's most important and influential organizations

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follows the ancient thoroughfare of al-Mu‘izz li-Din Allah south past Khan al-Khalili and al-Ghuriya to the Street of the Tentmakers

but with our moral

Modern agriculture relies on the extensive use of chemicals to combat plant diseases and increase agricultural productivity which leads to health and environmental hazards

covering growth performance

and will be a valuable resource for researchers

This study of the construction of black womanhood in Jamaica between 1865 and 1938 sheds new light on the struggle for full and equal citizenship of people of African descent in the post-emancipation British Caribbean