Subject(s): Research -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. -- Industrial | Technology transfer -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Technology and state -- Handbooks, manuals, etc | Science and state -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Summary: "Provides a state-of-the-art overview of science, technology, and innovation in the context of globalization and global poli
Subject(s): Mysticism -- Islam History | Mysticism -- History | Sufism -- History | Sufism -- History -- Europe | Sufism -- History -- North America | Neoplatonism
Contents:Neoplatonism and emanationism -- Plotinus, the key -- Emanation explained -- Neoplatonism spreads -- Arab neoplatonism to Ibn Arabi -- Arab neoplatonism -- The first su
Subject(s): Islam -- Study and teaching | Islamic sociology | Anthropology -- Methodology | Islam -- Customs and culture | Sociology, Islamic -- Islamic countries
Contents:Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Islam : beliefs, history, and rituals -- From studying Islam to studying Muslims -- Studying Muslims in the West : before and after S
Subject(s): Shi'ah -- Political aspects | Islam and state
Contents:1. Shiite discourses on sovereignty -- 2. Seeding secularity: the rise of a jurisprudential state -- 3. Religious rationale for separation -- 4. Political construction of clericalism -- 5. Clerics against clericalism -- 6. Clerical hegemony: contradictions and paradoxes
Subject(s): Multiculturalism | State, The
Contents:Introduction -- Multiculturalism : not one but many things -- Retreat of multiculturalism and civic integration -- Why multiculturalism is necessary : liberal law and the empowerment of gays and Muslims -- Multiculturalism v. antidiscrimination -- Conclusion -- What remains : a multicultur
